The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Well I don't have much of an issue with figuring out what's in the packages but I do wish there were a standard location for the instructions on boxes. Sometimes the cooking instructions are on the back. Sometimes the left side. Sometimes the right. All I know is, of the six sides the box has, the instructions tend to be on the fifth or sixth side I check, regardless of what order I choose. I think if I had a way to look at the front, back, left, right, and top at the same time then the instructions would be on the bottom.
And I too have a new printer. It's part of an ongoing saga that started when one of our cats knocked my old printer off of a dresser. It was a true "how much do you love your cat" moment. The printer was big enough that the end of the printer extended off the end of the dresser. I thought it was so heavy it would never tip over, but I didn't factor in a very determined cat putting all 15 of its pounds on one end of the printer. After sorting out what happened, I could only think about how happy I was that the cat didn't get hurt. I guess that's how much I love the cat.
My brother's son somehow had an unopened printer that he offered to me. I don't know where he got it from but the Amazon label had some random female's name on it. I was fine with the way the new HP printed but it had one of those ink tanks that have all the colors together, instead of separate ink tanks. So I ran out of yellow and had to replace the whole thing even though I still had red and blue. The Canon had separate ink tanks for each color. More importantly, my old Canon had bootleg ink tanks available and I could get all six of them for $11, as opposed to the $120 OEM Canon ink tanks. The HP printer used $50 ink tanks, and you had to create an account with HP and log in to use the scanner. Anyway I don't want to pay 14 million dollars for ink. So I got another Canon printer with readily available non-OEM ink. The days of $11 ink are gone but they do have $40 "black market" ink, and I print mostly Black people so that's fine. Over the years, saving $10 on ink tanks will eventually make up the cost of the printer, assuming a cat doesn't find a way to destroy it. That's the end of the story so I guess it isn't actually an ongoing saga.
Another sleepless night. Fie on sleepless nights!
Complaint: Again, Decaf Coffee prices.
What is going on with the price of Folgers decaffienated instant coffee? At Amazon, that product in the standard 8oz jars is about $11 each, at the cheapest, when bought in bulk lots of six. But single jars of the corresponding regular (not decaf) coffee is half the price, and even less if bought in bulk.
Yet, my local grocery store, and Walmart on-line, has the individual jars of decaf for $7 and the regular for $6 That price differential I can understand, but not the nearly twice the price at Amazon.
Yeah, yeah, I could order my favorite decaf coffee from Walmart and be happy, but that's another place I'd have to create an account and dump my personal and credit information into yet another fragile bag of secrets managed by yet another clown car of security bozos. I've grown to trust Amazon. But learning to trust notoriously low-balling Walmart is a hurdle I'm not yet willing to jump.
Guess I'll have to make another toddle up to the local grocery store. Unfortunately, that's getting harder and harder. Last time I went (couple days ago, when I forgot to get decaf coffee) it was a real struggle and I had stop and rest twice going to the store. And still I had to rest twice on the way back, and set my two bags of groceries onto my porch when I got back and sit on the steps for a few minutes to get my breath back and let my legs stop wobbling. It's only two & a half f'n blocks.
Aware of my deterioration, I've been considering getting the modern equivalent of a little red wagon (from Amazon) for hauling my groceries home. That solves the carrying problem, but doesn't address the walking problem It takes me at least two days for my legs to stop aching.
. I have people who will give me automobile rides, but I'm trying to stop relying on them before I wear out my welcome. And I'm not yet ready for the old folks home. If anything, I'd rather go like Dr. Zhivago. (look it up, watch the excellent movie)
Ah, "Dr. Zhivago", one of the last best real movies(no cgi), with real men on real horses, massive story, love story, war story, culture story, magnificent scenery, great acting, a glimpse into the Russian psyche before and during their 1917 revolution. Even now almost 60 years later I still tear up when just watching the trailer. A long, but magnificent movie from the great age of movie making. Scenes from burned out towns, are quite evocative of the current war in Ukraine.
(And in the movie, I of course, particularly enjoyed the scene where Rachmaninoff is playing piano at a gathering of elites.)
I thought I "bought" a free item from the store but it is still in the shopping cart. Maybe I forgot to complete the checkout process.
Do they appear in your Product Library? It is not completely unknown for the cart to fail to clear, though pretty rare.
This printer has refillable built-in ink tanks... not cartridges, these are reservoirs that use bottles of ink that are keyed to the tank color to prevent mix up... the ink is a lot cheap for these kind of printers... At Costco you get a set four bottles of (Epson) ink for $50...one each of 70 ml/2.36 Oz of Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow and one 127 ml/ 4.29 Oz bottle of Black... Costco is generally a little cheaper than Staples or Best Buy, but it all more or less the same price for the bottles... my old Cannon used separate ink cartridges for each color (technically there were three color (CYM) and two Black type cartridges, one "regular" and one "Extra Capacity")...
A complete set would cost around $80 and the stinking cartridges were tiny, add to that the fact that for whatever reason, even if it was told to print grayscale or b&w, the printer always used color to print black... well, apparently for everyone else in this house but me... whenever I printed, it did what I told it to, because I think I took to time to make sure everything was correctly selected... I think everyone else just printed without checking, assuming that whatever the program said it was doing was the final work (it's the printer's options that usually make it do what you need)...
So that got pretty expensive... especially recently with my kids having a lot of papers due and one of my daughters starting a Women's Empowerment club at school... she's been printing tons of stuff for meeting and whatnot and recently Costco stopped carrying the Cannon cartridges, so that printer became extremely uneconomical...
But even though the Epson is cheaper to operate, I still hate it... Unfortunately, the printer I really wanted (a Cannon, and also ink tank/reservoir type printer) which was $100 more is never in stock anywhere affordable... for $160 more I could have gotten the model below the one I wanted, but then I'd have had to pay shipping too... I just gave up and got the one I did (the Epson) because Costco had it on sale for $70 less than regular price.
Now I just feel like I cheaped out instead of holding out a little longer and getting the better one.
Megh.
The Epson Eco Tank seems like a good idea, but I think the photo quality is sub-par for me. I have one with Magenta, Light Magenta, Cyan, Light Cyan, Yellow, and Black. The Epson printer that this one replaced had two blacks, a regular and a super duper (can't remember what they called it) and it did 13" x 19" prints. Only used it for that size once. Then it died a couple years ago and I had to replace it. This one can only do up to legal size prints. The other one could use roll paper to make banners, too. Never got the adapter. I don't think the Eco Tank models come with the extra ink colors.
Dana
..I just go to Kinko's to print stuff. For the few times I have to do so it's rather economical.
Ah glorious day. A good night's sleep and a good cup of coffee. Life is good.
Complaint: March madness is over for me. Duke lost in the second round so no more interest in the tournament (the real March maddness).
The sale also may be largely over for me. My tokens will all expire tonight and I have way overspent my March budget so I can't buy much more.
I forgot my password. I know it isn't P4$$W0rd!?!
Admin1Login
Where'd you get my P4$$W0rd!?
Hang on to that moment.
I have not overspent because I haven't spent anything here since they announced what Victoria 9 costs. The newest product in my library is Genesis 9 Starter Essentials.
Note that, when I say I haven't overspent on DAZ3D, that doesn't mean I haven't overspent on everything else in my life.
How did you get that face to be part of your password?
I don't have Victoria 9 either.
$@%#@#$ double post
Regarding printer preferences: I was a die hard HP person for years. It probably had something to do with being exposed to HP professional electronic test equipment at the Space Center, and at The Mitre Corp, and as an HP mainframe distributed network management consultant in later years. I'm sort of biased by my top-of-the-line experiences with HP. My early home computers and printers were all HP, until I started trying to print high quality photos and graphic output. The HP printers weren't bad, but not great. And as the older ink cartridges became harder to find(more expensive), I'd get a newer, presumably better HP printer, but over 20 years (1990-2010) had 3 or 4 home printers until I won the lottery. Literally, I won 2nd place in the NY State LOTTO for a payout of about $850. Wheee..., not enough to buy my island, but it did get me a trip to the dentist for a molar crown, and with the leftover cash, I walked into an OfficeMax store looking for a new, high quality, printer and the best one on the shelf was fortuitously marked 50% off, and I also had a coupon of some sort that gave me another major discount, so I got my new spiffy printer for a song.
It was an EPSON WF-7520, first manufactured around 2010. I still have it. It prints 13x19, has two trays, a scanner/FAX, automatic document reader, 2-sided printing, 4 ink cartridges (CYMB). And yeah, the ink is expensive. Although, I am very pleased with the print quality, but only when I use EPSON paper. I tried using some of my HP photo paper and the print head left streaks/scratches in the output. When I switched to official EPSON photo paper, it made marvelous images without streaks/scratches. I guess the HP paper was slightly too thick. But with the right paper and ink It has made some wonderful large images I've framed and hung on my wall.
I recently bought a fabric cover for the printer when not being used. The printer is now over 10 years old, it still works, ink is still available and as "affordable" as ever, but I think dust has been settling on the innards and gumming things up. The cover may help ameliorate the problem. I'd like to take it apart and clean and re-lubricate things. I want it to last another few years. I wish I could find a place that would provide things like proper lubricants, new rubber belts, and instructions.
And yeah, the EPSON ink is expensive, but I really don't use a lot anymore, and I've found that the cheapest, most convenient place to buy official EPSON ink is directly from EPSON via their website or nag dialog. The dialog knows which ink you need, which cartridge it's in, and they ship it free, and the price is still competitive if not less than other online stores. Just click, click, click and your ink is in the mail.
Have you ever considered rolling the dice on something like this?
on printers.. my all time favourite printer was an IBM1403 line printer.. print chain - 1400 lines per minute max, paper carriage control tape, oil fed high-speed hydraulic motor that handles the paper feed (yes, you had to change the oil on this beast regularly...) our print operation had 4 of these beasts...
...same here, Marquette lost to Michigan State. Even when one of my home teams isn't in the Big Ten Sparty always seems to be that perennial nagging thorn in my side.
AH well, "opening day" (baseball) is two weeks away.
As to the Daz "Madness",
Haven't even collected a single token yet as the buy in element of this sale has become so discouraging. Hopefully the Spring Daz+ sale will be better than this..
I don't have the patience to experiment rolling my dice anymore. But I have played that game, it didn't turn out well for me. Other people's experiences may vary.
Ever break a chain? Ever try to fire all 120 (or was it 144) hammers at once?
Did you run them with the covers open? Did you have someone running around re-folding errant rapid paper slews? I worked in a computer room of that era, with airconditioning designed for Hell. The wind in that meatlocker-like computer room made fan-fold paper problematic, and sometimes decorative and amusing. Especially when the new guy was assigned to changing paper.
And we could watch through the hall window.
I never saw a chain break, but we diid have a fast fire proint job that we usedf with the chain cleaning paper.. Seen quite a few paper runaways when the carriage control tape broke, and massive paper stacker problems.. We only ran them covers open when setting up for a few seconds, the noise was far too bad when they were running full chat..
We never broke a chain, but after a few instences the experienced IBM technician advised against fireing all print hammers against the rapidly spinning horizontal type-chain simultaneously (because of current drain, and strain on the chain, exacerbated by slightly wonky timing of individual hammers).
But that didn't stop the students who learned of the possibility.
It's where I started using the expression, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." (*sigh*)
Another, slightly safer printer "trick" was to design your output to fire all 120(or was it 144?) hammers, individually, but sequentially down the row, to get a machine gun effect. (*Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt*) Wheee...
Another trick of that era was to use 029 keypunch machines to duplicate "lace cards". Every hole punched. Not designed for that level of abuse.
Never lost a keypunch, but the visiting technician, saw the clues and admonished against it.
So they started making lace cards using the IBM-1442 reader/punch connected to the IBM-1130 computer itself. Probably no less stressful on the punch mechanism, perhaps more so because it punched so much faster. But at least back then computers were made of real metal and screws, designed to be fixable, and designed for years of high level stress. But still threatened by self-deludedly clever students.
We workers in the college's computer room, could tell when the card punch was "lacing" a bunch of cards. "BRRRRRRRT,BRRRRRRRT,BRRRRRRRT,BRRRRRRRT,BRRRRRRRT,BRRRRRRRT,BRRRRRRRT,BRRRRRRRT,..."
yeah.. I remember lace cards.. and I had one of these handy.
as far as the 1442 - we had a whole reoom devoted to Unit Record equipment.. Programming was a bit more "manual" with those.. and then there were the card sorters controlled by vacuum tubes...
Never had an opportunity to learn punchboards. Never even saw a manual for one. Not even sure of their features and capabilities.
they were far more capable that you would expect - the ability to read in data from punch cards, do some operations to create new data and then punch that out onto new cards was pretty special back then. There is a manual for the 403 here:
http://ibm-1401.info/Plugboards.html