My Swedish friend here is not asserting anything, he's merely quoting the original author's playlist.

Good fake videos aren't entirely false, putting some truth in there make people think "oh, I've heard about this before, it's probably true!". This is one of those.
Most modern ink cartridges do have a small circuit board to keep track of how much ink is left and they aren't very accurate. Some printers even refuse to print if they think they're out of ink even when there's ink left, but they don't start faking horizontal lines like they're running out of ink, they just stop printing and tell you to go buy more.
But they do not have a reset button! Why would they need that anyway?

The simplest way to make a small memory to keep track of how much you've printed is to have a small non-erasable ROM filled with zeroes. You can read the ROM and you can write ones to it, but you can't reset those ones back to zeroes. When it's full of ones you know it's "empty". A reset button means either SRAM with a battery or some kind of processor. Both options are overly complicated, expensive and unnecessary.
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>> ^chicchorea:

>> ^swedishfriend:
Fake Videos!
Video's that make a claim, but it's all FAKE! So don't get all bent out of shape.
is what the poster of this video calls the playlist within which you find this video.
-Karl

To your first assertion:
Excuse me, your opinion or do you a more substantial basis?
and
To your second:
Huh?

Idiot! You're supposed to put the cartridge under your shirt THEN blow, so you don't spit all over it.

I wasn't sure if I was going to upvote, but the Portal snowboarding was rad.

I don't pay attention to the automatic warnings and use the cartridge until the actual prints are lacking ink. However, it seems from the video that they are saying the prints will actually have missing ink even if there is still ink in the cartridge. If this is true then that sucks, otherwise it isn't a really a problem. I wish they were more clear.
-karl

ah, i love consuming.

i like to go out back behind the ink refill places, take all the discarded cartridges, and make home-made pen ink out of it.

uhhh shouldn't that cartridge be gold??? jeeze Nintendo...

One of my favorite scenes in video game history. I think I still have a save point on my cartridge right before this so I could watch it anytime I wanted to.

>> ^brycewi19:
Sorry to sound a bit of an idiot, but if (and only if) this expiriment were to be assumed in a vacuum, would it not be possible to fire a gun as the bullet would require oxygen for the gunpowder to ignite?
Just askin'.


Most modern "bullets" (cartridges to be precise, the bullet is just the projectile) have their oxidizer mixed in with the explosive. They can actually fire even underwater.

wow, i have so much to say on this subject, but i will try and be brief.

^NordlichReiter. A good, vintage style, double edge using razor and badger hair brush is where it's at. Everyone should get off the cartridge addiction.

this guy is right. if you got no chin, then guys can grow one and should be proud to do so.

However, if you can't grow a decent beard, then don't. no one will know if you shave. That's my suspicion for the debate between the two sides. There are many guys that can grow a mustache, but not a decent beard. instead of admitting their weakness, they make up silly rules about beards.

Not to get on a high horse about this, but at my company we have an annual beard and mustache contest and I am a the current and two time champion, so i feel i speak from a (odd and fake) position of some kind of beard authority.

finally, i do give credit to a big mustache. Beards just hang there, but a big mustache is like a pet. When you eat, it eats (and often, you accidentally eat it). It requires grooming and training like a pet. It can easily get smelly like a pet (and you can't avoid a pet that lives directly under your nose). Yeah, so if you like having a gerbil attached to your face, big mustache is the way to go. I speak from personal experience on this one.

I've had chin hair since highschool. When I look at dress codes I always check to see if they address that. If they do, I promptly tell them that "My Wife Likes it".

That usually shuts them up, and my wife likes it. Yea, so you know what? Fuck you and your cartridge razor shaving mustaches.

Don't even get me started on that bullshit 17 dollars for a razor blade replacement bullshit.

I support Wet Shaving!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaving

Hardcore!

Don't, erhm, like burn your fingers or anything.

In reply to this comment by Edeot:
If it makes you feel better, I'm in the 2800 field. I shall be armed to the teeth with wire cutters, soldering irons, and toner cartridges. Where there is a network in need, I'll be there.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Marine, eh? Don't go and get yourself killed... that's what they do in them thar marines.

If it makes you feel better, I'm in the 2800 field. I shall be armed to the teeth with wire cutters, soldering irons, and toner cartridges. Where there is a network in need, I'll be there.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Marine, eh? Don't go and get yourself killed... that's what they do in them thar marines.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
But try explaining that to an end-user who then complains when their inkjet doesn't start telling them to replace the ink cartridge, etc, etc (whine) because so-and-so's computer does it (/whine). You can't reason with someone who doesn't have the capacity to begin with. It's easier to just humor the sheep.

The last epson I installed I thought I'd be creative and see if there was a solution to that. Just google "inklevel" there's two different chunks of software out there, one for macs another for PC's that will do that across networks even. And weigh in at a hefty 1.3mb, and support HP, Epson and Cannon printers.

If you're using lexmark you need to be shot anyway.

>> ^Mashiki:
>> ^r10k:

325MB for a fucking printer driver?

Now that's funny... the old CD sized HP printer driver. I can't begin to imagine how they pulled that one off.

That's not the driver. It's the software with the driver which is all bloat. If you look at any printer driver, they're about 380k-3mb in size packed, including DLL's still. You can still install them without all the crap as well, you just need to know how.
Generally it's /drivers/printerX2000000000models/InsertOShere/
I have 3 computers here, all running different versions of windows(XP,XP64 and RC of Win7) they all work perfectly with just the basic driver install. And in Win7's case none of my printers needed a driver install at all, just locate on the network.



Oh trust me, I know you can download just the printer drivers sans bloat. But try explaining that to an end-user who then complains when their inkjet doesn't start telling them to replace the ink cartridge, etc, etc (whine) because so-and-so's computer does it (/whine). You can't reason with someone who doesn't have the capacity to begin with. It's easier to just humor the sheep.

How many times can you filter through before the cartridge gets used up? A Brita water filter pitcher is $15 according to Walmart.com, cheap vodka will run you around $15 (?), so that's $30. Doesn't a bottle of Stoli, Ketel One or whatever run about $20-30? Not sure how worthwhile it is to bother with all this.

And then of course when your friends come over, you'll get to explain why your serving Gordon's and how the whole "No-it-makes-it-like-Grey-Goose" process works. Which will make you look more white trash than if you had just served them the shitty vodka in the first place.

I have that exact model, Deskjet F380, and what that tells me is that this guy is an idiot who doesn't know how to use his printer.

He has the printing options set to use the colour cartridge, so of course it will complain if it's out of ink. If you choose "black cartridge" for plain text it doesn't care about the colour inks.

And the page that prints out is to align the print heads automatically. It prints only when you have opened the flap to swap cartridges, you then put it in the scanner and press scan, so the printer can check its own output and adjust itself. This does seem to work quite well.