I bet you didnt know that

Crea

Printer companies CEO "We would happily give away free personal printers if we could get away with it because we make so much money from the cartridges."

Chancer3001

Crea wrote: »

Printer companies CEO "We would happily give away free personal printers if we could get away with it because we make so much money from the cartridges."

I don't get it.

Why can't they sell them for a euro?

RiderOnTheStorm

Red Kev wrote:

Navajo was the best known of these and was used throughout WW2 and up to Korea and Vietnam. Nobody ever managed to crack the code. The victory at Iwo Jima was largely credited to the Navajo who transmitted messages.

I believe that part of the success of the Navajo code was the language was an entirely spoken one. The Navajo language had no written characters and so was never written down. So you could not look it up in a library or steal a book to help. You had to learn it from another Navajo.

RiderOnTheStorm

Chancer3001 wrote:

Why can't they sell them for a euro?

Below cost selling?

Digital Solitude

Chancer3001 wrote: »

I don't get it.

Why can't they sell them for a euro?

Printer cartridges? Because thats where the money is

Red Kev

They'll tell you that printer ink is one of the most expensive substances on the planet. Not so. A litre can be purchased for €20-30 and an awful lot less of you buy in bulk.

The big money is in the cartridge markup. The typical cartridge holds about 4-5ml of ink, whereas 10 years ago it held 6-10 times that. They could easily make cartridges refillable in a way Zippo lighters are, but they'd simply be making a lot less profit. The majority of space in an ink cartridge is empty; cut one open and have a look.


Example:
1l bottle of ink here:

https://www.amazon.com/Bulk-Ink-Liter-Black-88XL/dp/B007BQM554

Good article on the whole scam here:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/feb/23/printer-ink-cartridges-paying-more-getting-less

Chancer3001

Don't think below cost selling applies to the manufacturer.

ziggy

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eisenberg1

Charlie Chaplin wrote the music forthe song "Smile"

GrumpyMe

https://tinyurl.com/gt2zqws

That Sean Spicer gives a whole new meaning to rabbiting on...

Winterlong

The plastic pod on the inside of a kinder egg is yellow because it is meant to resemble the yoke.

cdeb

The yellow bit on the inside of an egg is called a "yolk"

jimbobaloobob

Over 100000 Kinder eggs were confiscated recently by us customs because it's not permitted to have toys in with food.
Yet they can pump their meats full of hormones

fiachr_a

And a yoke is the wooden collar a cow wears.

cdeb

It's also a uniquely Irish word for a thingymajig; don't think it's understood as such in any other English-speaking country.

New Home

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Over 100000 Kinder eggs were confiscated recently by us customs because it's not permitted to have toys in with food.
Yet they can pump their meats full of hormones

And don't forget the guns thing.

cdeb

cdeb wrote: »

It's also a uniquely Irish word for a thingymajig; don't think it's understood as such in any other English-speaking country.

Swingamajig was in the Simpsons, is a song and is also a music festival in the UK. Pretty sure that it's a pun on thingamajig.

EDIT: I misread your post, I'm an idiot.

DareGod

Any Bates Motel / Psycho fans here?

I was curious to know what age the actor who played the original Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) was during filming so I looked him up on Wikipedia and found out some interesting things about him...

"He had exclusively same-sex relationships until his late 30s, including with actors Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter; artist Christopher Makos; dancer Rudolf Nureyev; composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim; and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale. Perkins has been described as one of the two great men in the life of French author Patrick Loiseau.

Diagnosed with HIV during the filming of Psycho IV, Perkins died at his Los Angeles home on September 12, 1992, from AIDS-related pneumonia at age 60. His wife died nine years later in the September 11 attacks."

I just found this interesting.

bonzodog2

DareGod wrote: »

His wife died nine years later in the September 11 attacks."

I just found this interesting.

I find it interesting that you choose to bold this bit of text

twinytwo

- The "twitter" bird's name is larry

- The reason the taste of artificial banana flavouring and artificial banana flavoured products doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.

-During the First World War, so many starving wolves had amassed together in a great pack that opposing German and Russian forces formed a temporary alliance in order to fight them off

DareGod

bonzodog2 wrote: »

I find it interesting that you choose to bold this bit of text

Just as well one of us was interesting then.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Only at the turn of the 20th century did French become the language spoken by the majority of French people.

Pluto can't be considered a full planet because our own Moon is bigger and has 6 times more mass than it.

Ireland has one of the highest amount of people living abroad as a percentage of population. (This map is for Europeans anyway, maybe if it was a map of the world we would be considerably further down the list?)

Skylinehead

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Pluto can't be considered a full planet because our own Moon is bigger and has 6 times more mass than it.

That's not why it's not a planet! We don't base planet definitions on how big the Moon is

Yourself isit

Because a digital photo is a collection of pixels and anything can be photographed and be represented by pixels it follows that if you were to run through all the potential pixels in a standard image (of whatever resolution) there is a photo representation for every event in your life, and everybody's lives, from any angle.. Whether you took it or not.


Also of course there are photos of people who never existed. Of planets never visited.

Or you with famous people. Like the time you went for drinks with Hitler. You and marlyn monroe getting it on. You and marlyn monroe and an alien in a threesome.

Anything that can be photographed (which is anything that can imagined) must have some representation digitally.

The number of pixel combinations is very very large but finite (and most will be noise. So the number of fully acceptable pictures from the images is much lower).

Interesting that it's a finite number.

Yourself isit

Skylinehead wrote: »

That's not why it's not a planet! We don't base planet definitions on how big the Moon is

It would be as good a criteria as the one they made up to downgrade pluto.

jimbobaloobob

Yourself isit wrote: »

Because a digital photo is a collection of pixels and anything can be photographed and be represented by pixels it follows that if you were to run through all the potential pixels in a standard image (of whatever resolution) there is a photo representation for every event in your life, and everybody's lives, from any angle.. Whether you took it or not.


Also of course there are photos of people who never existed. Of planets never visited.

Or you with famous people. Like the time you went for drinks with Hitler. You and marlyn monroe getting it on. You and marlyn monroe and an alien in a threesome.

Anything that can be photographed (which is anything that can imagined) must have some representation digitally.

The number of pixel combinations is very very large but finite (and most will be noise. So the number of fully acceptable pictures from the images is much lower).

Interesting that it's a finite number.

This made my head hurt to read.

August has the highest percentage of births

tacofries

Yourself isit wrote: »

Because a digital photo is a collection of pixels and anything can be photographed and be represented by pixels it follows that if you were to run through all the potential pixels in a standard image (of whatever resolution) there is a photo representation for every event in your life, and everybody's lives, from any angle.. Whether you took it or not.


Also of course there are photos of people who never existed. Of planets never visited.

Or you with famous people. Like the time you went for drinks with Hitler. You and marlyn monroe getting it on. You and marlyn monroe and an alien in a threesome.

Anything that can be photographed (which is anything that can imagined) must have some representation digitally.

The number of pixel combinations is very very large but finite (and most will be noise. So the number of fully acceptable pictures from the images is much lower).

Interesting that it's a finite number.

Pretty sure that makes no sense haha .... are you mixing it up with the theory that every possible image is represented by some segment of the number pi once the segment is put into .jpg form?

New Home

Skylinehead wrote: »

That's not why it's not a planet! We don't base planet definitions on how big the Moon is

Yeah, that's all well and good, but does that mean that it's small, or does it mean that it's far away?

Yourself isit

tacofries wrote: »

Pretty sure that makes no sense haha .... are you mixing it up with the theory that every possible image is represented by some segment of the number pi once the segment is put into .jpg form?

No. I'm taking about raw images. Not that it matters.

Simply put..

Because any picture than can be taken has a digital representation then every potential picture has a digital representation whether it was taken or not.

New Home

ls this like the Shroedinger's Cat of pixels?