Posts by MarkTheMorose 15 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Sep 2014
I was just reading the article about Elite on the BBC Micro. Apparently the very English co-creator of Elite, Ian Bell, said 'math' twice, and spelt optimisation with a 'z'. I fondly recall Reg's article headlines used to say 'bloke' instead of 'guy'.
"NASA extended the Voyager 1 and 2 missions to travel to Neptune and Uranus..."
No, only Voyager 2 made the trip to the ice giants; Voyager 1's observation of Titan ruled-out the possibility of further planetary encounters. From Wikipedia: "Because observations of Titan were considered vital, the trajectory chosen for Voyager 1 was designed around the optimum Titan flyby, which took it below the south pole of Saturn and out of the plane of the ecliptic, ending its planetary science mission.["
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
Same here with my Canon; just the other day I wanted to scan something, but because one of the two black ink cartridges had run out, the printer refused.
Instead of trying to take the shirt of Canon's back, I'd be happier if they - and all manufacturers of similar devices - were made to issue updated firmware so that you that you were notified that an ink cartridge needing replacing, but you could 'OK' it and carry on scanning.
And why, if I'm printing in black only, do I have to go out and buy cyan, magenta, or yellow?
Other than those two issues, the MP610 is otherwise a decent printer and scanner, and works fine in Linux Mint.
+1. I don't have a mobile phone, so I can't use online banking with one of my accounts for anything useful, like transferring to another account. All I can do is check the balance.
However, as with all things these days, it's not going to be changed by us moaning about this or that security scheme, it's just going to be forced on us no matter its shortcomings.
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