Trouble is these days, the printer drivers seem to read the serial number, so you can’t just drop a new printer in and expect it to automatically start printing queued jobs…
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HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
Re: Retarded, or What?
>” and no OEM ink cartridge has ever cost $4.”
But the ink in the cartridge?
What you have highlighted is the cost of cartridges.
Compatible ink for an HP-971 can be had for £62+vat per litre, ie. 6.2p per ml. Difficult to do a comparison as HP only rate their cartridges by number of pages.
Whilst this specific bag of ink is compatible with the OctoInkjet BagCIS, decanting this into 8ml cartridges (at scale) and distributing said cartridges is going to cost. I doubt a cartridge is as cheap as a plastic zipper bag (100 for £1.50).
Re: "to make printing a subscription"
My point was, if you want it to be a restrictive subscription the. Don’t mislead people by selling the printer.
Remember whilst many cheap mobile phones are locked to a network, there is a reasonable expectation they can be unlocked, via completion of contract or payment of a fee.
Yes, I’m aware of the HP paper add-on Service, currently the printer does not perform any paper detection, hence you are free to use third-party papers. Following the logic of the ink subscription, we can expect a future HP printer to scan every sheet of paper to confirm it was supplied by HP…
Personally, it is looking increasingly likely my next aid/printer will be a Konica Minolta/DEVELOP device…
IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security
Re: Summarised perfectly
> If you understand how courts work you know that judges are required to ask these kinds of questions to make sure the jury understand what is going on.
That caveat makes it even more amusing!
The topic of discussion is the presentation of three receipts, the judge totally fails to seek clarification as to what a “receipt” is, but seeks irrelevant details of what was purchased.
In a real court case if the shop says Wile E. Coyote stole a case of “acme explosive tennis balls” and the receipt states it is for a case of “acme explosive tennis balls”, then it doesn’t actually matter what exactly an “explosive tennis ball” is.
IBM Consulting is done playing around, orders immediate return to office
Re: I thing it is OK
>” Synchronous communication is a massive drag on productivity”
Something a consultant feels greatly, the normal hours being needed for meetings, fact finding etc. with the clients staff and other team members. “Hotel time” is when you least likely to be interrupted and so can progress the project ie. Do the value add bit, so the following morning you can have further meetings etc. …
As a consultant…
IBM Consulting must have an interesting business model… its office overheads must be significant…
My experience of the SI’s and consultancies is that they tend to minimised their office footprint, so having a hundreds based at an office with only sufficient space for a few dozen desks.
UK public sector could save £20B by swerving mega-projects and more, claims chief auditor
Re: Erm
>” If its avowed intent were to be subverted by some unscrupulous entity in order to avoid paying employer contributions on national insurance or to manipulate income tax boundaries, that would be tax avoidance.”
Nothing wrong with this.
However, focusing on the grey line between illegal tax evasion and legal tax avoidance, HMRC themselves are guilty of muddying the waters.
Currently, employee pension contributions are only free of PAYE, not NI with both employers and employees NI being due. However, if you take a salary sacrifice and switch to a more tax efficient arrangement, namely an employer only contributory scheme, there is no NI due. HMRC want this type of switch to be perceived as tax evasion, but noncontributory is okay if that was the arrangement on the day an employee joined a company…
Similar attitudes in HMRC have driven their push against contractors, who they likewise want the public to regard their ability to use the legal tax avoidances the Ltd wrapper permits as illegal ie. Tax evasion.
Re: Erm
> People can legally choose to give money to the gov and almost nobody does.
Depends…
> Not working to earn more pushing you into a higher tax band is tax avoidance.
Lack of imagination…
I’ve known people who have donated their entire (HRT) net income to charity, the charity got the base rate tax (25%) and HMRC returned the additional higher rate tax paid (15%).
Similar arrangements could be made with respect to pension contributions, another instance where HMRC returned the HRT delta to the taxpayer…
So in some respects (and yes I agree it’s a little distorted) if you aren’t arranging your affairs in a tax efficient way you are choosing to give money to the gov….
Re: The phrase is "bacon slicing"
>It's coming up to 50 years since Fred Brooks wrote TMMM and we haven't learned a damned thing.
Based on the post-war reconstruction of Japan - they read the western business text books and applied what they learnt...
I suspect the Chinese and others have read and are applying TMMM...
Re: Erm
There is a difference between (international) corporate tax avoidance and the level of tax avoidance you and I can get up to on our "serfs" income... Even someone like Rees-Mogg, is probably quite limited to the level of tax avoidance he can avail himself of.
I suspect what many are reacting to is the "taking the p*ss" use of tax avoidances, mainly by international companies to proactively avoid paying taxes and avoiding investing in the business, whilst holding the begging bowl out to government.
>Exploiting the law by not breaking it is generally considered a good thing.
Many tax laws can be bent, how far is a matter of opinion...
Will AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right now
> Hence GDP is too often being pushed up by having more economic activity because more people
A while back I did some rough calculations: 600,000 immigrants a year is roughly 1% increase in GDP, however look at the per capita GDP figure it has hardly moved.
I note global GDP has mirrored population growth, circa 2% pa.
The problem is (small c) conservative British management are obsessed with not investing in people and paying the minimum.
This is effectively the problem facing the British construction industry. There has been little real skill increase since the 1980s, I remember the majors being scared s***less of the idea they could invest in factories to construct prefabs like they do in backward countries such as Germany <sarcasm>, so much cheaper (and profitable) to convince the Tories cheap imported labour was a better solution. Hence why today build regulations are decades behind and we are still building houses with poor carbon footprints and energy efficiency.
>” So in a perfect model where all companies in an economy have increased productivity by 10% in a year - wages could go up by 10% as well, and there'd be no effect on inflation.”
Trouble is “investors” and executives are so wedded to “growth”, they will still increase prices by x every year, just to give the illusion of growth.
>”Which means everyone could either take a month off work and the economy would stay the same size”
Zero growth! That’s stagnation, can’t have that. I am see many wedded to the belief that ever increasing GDP is the only thing that counts. Interestingly, in a perfect system increases in worker productivity will largely get lost in the calculation of per capita GDP (one of the reasons why UK per capita GDP is poor is because we keep importing people and so dilute the productivity improvement…)
Post Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely altered
Re: s/unable/unwilling/
The initial compensation should be a simple - show evidence you were fingered by the PO and get £2M which may be increased later but won’t be clawed back.
Why £2m? It could buy a pension of up to £100k Pa. But more likely some would be used to clear accumulated debts etc. plus at this level the receipt to will be able to pay for their own care costs, removing the need for further payments via the social care system.
And yes with potentially circa 3000 former postmasters fingered, that is a lot of money., but not an unreasonable amount of money per post master.
Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users
Microsoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagree
How 'sleeper agent' AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing
A potential use for this technique is to “watermark” your site and thus provide a means to prove your site and content has been used without your permission.
Another is just the threat of LLM malware might make developers more careful about their unauthorised use of other people’s content for LLM learning purposes…
Thousands of Juniper Networks devices vulnerable to critical RCE bug
Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs
Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs
Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms
Microsoft braces for automatic AI takeover with Copilot at Windows startup
Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get faulty Windows 10 update installed
NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane
Re: And fuel cost per passenger would be...?
A little googling gives Concorde ‘B’
“ This was the aircraft the airlines really needed and the aircraft the manufacturers wanted to build.”
https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b
However, I see this was a mid 1970s proposal, whereas my childhood memory was more about the earlier media discussions, when only the “prototypes” were flying , about producing a version for commercial operations and the decision was made to actually do a production run of 14 Concordes.
Re: And fuel cost per passenger would be...?
I seem to remember the 100 seater Concorde was due to the decision to effectively put the prototype into commercial service rather than go and design a larger aircraft; so as to salvage something from the rather expensive R&D project.
It will be interesting to see whether the X-59 can be scaled to a 100 seat plane…
Post Office Horizon Inquiry calls for compensation to be brought forward
Re: They want to delay as long as possible ...
>” Some Fujitsu employees apparently gave in to PO pressure to lie about what was going on, but they were in no way to blame for the scandal ”
They can clear their names, by disclosing to the inquiry the emails etc. that showed they “were obeying orders”, if they didn’t keep an envelope of evidence …
Re: They want to delay as long as possible ...
Which in turn would make all monies received after PO management became aware of problems and decided to pervert the course of justice, the proceeds of crime…
I seem to remember some idiot going on about “risk reward” to justify executive pay, this - the forfeiture of the proceeds of crime, seems a fitting reward for the risk they knowingly took.
Fujitsu wins flood contract extension despite starring in TV drama about its failures
US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws
Google to lay Asia-Pacific to South America undersea cable
eBay to cough up $3M after cyber-stalking couple who dared criticize the souk
Your pacemaker should be running open source software
Re: Sounds... unlikely
Agree faulty diagnostic and reasoning: The problem was firstly her lack of a reader to hand - remember this was a “life and death” situation.
Secondly, having got the data she would have to had the right application (*) to make sense of the data.
(*)Right application includes a spreadsheet with appropriate layouts, formulas and graphs capable of importing data set. But in todays world it’s a phone app.
>” One of the reasons why people get these devices is so they and their doctor can track their condition”
Clearly this was not the case here, otherwise her cardiologist would have selected a model that had a data export function they could use and the tools to read the data and given her the app for her phone so she could monitor it.
The open-closed source debate is a red herring in this instance; if I were an investor in the SFC, I would be raising questions about the competence of the executives…
UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims
Top LLMs struggle to make accurate legal arguments
GM, Komatsu partner to build hydrogen-powered monster mining truck
Re: why not burn hydrogen instead of diesel in almost same power unit?
“ a diesel ICE cannot run on hydrogen alone. Diesel ICEs operate on a compression-ignition cycle, and thus, feature no spark plugs. Whereas, hydrogen ICEs operate on a spark-ignition, and as such, require spark plugs to ignite fuel. ”
[ https://www.cummins.com/news/2023/06/09/can-engine-run-hydrogen#:~:text=No.,spark%20plugs%20to%20ignite%20fuel. ]
COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave
Re: "the only figure that really matters is hospitalisations"
Suggest reading:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sources-of-surveillance-data-for-influenza-covid-19-and-other-respiratory-viruses/sources-of-surveillance-data-for-influenza-covid-19-and-other-respiratory-viruses
It gives a better insight into the data monitoring, basically it seems there is no community ( general population) monitoring, only review of hospital and doctor data.
It is useful reading the scientific reports about the Chinese monitoring system, which was able to rapidly pick up the Wuhan outbreak of an unknown disease; even though the Chinese authorities might have been slow to communicate to the wider world.
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