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Ben de Groot posted on Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:47:58 +0800 as excerpted: |
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> On 19 January 2013 18:26, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> People who do have printers can always enable [USE=cups] themselves. |
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>> Unless we plan on adding yet another profile for "normal" users I think |
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>> this is really pushing it. |
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>> Yes, I'm sure some people don't own printers. However, that figure has |
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>> to be fairly low. |
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> I'm not so sure about that. The majority of my friends and colleagues |
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> don't own a printer. When we do need to print something, it would be for |
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> work, so we have it printed at work. |
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I recently heard someone /else/ recommend no printer, pointing out that |
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it was an additional expense without a lot of practical benefit for many, |
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since ink is expensive, the cheap printers are fiddly and often break, |
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and if you /really/ want something printed, it's easy enough to load it |
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on a thumb-drive and take it to kinkos or the library (or as Ben |
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suggests, work). |
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I had come to that conclusion for myself some time ago and haven't had a |
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printer in years... I won't do inkjet and I always seem to have something |
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better to do with the money that'd buy a decent laser. But it was still |
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rather surprising to me, as like Rich, I'm from the generation where it |
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was just assumed that if you had a computer, you had, and needed, a |
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printer. So to hear (it was a meatspace conversation, with "average |
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folks", not geeks) someone ELSE say "take it to kinko's if you want to |
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print something" was /indeed/ quite surprising/enlightening. |
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So yes, I suppose it really is a generational/cultural thing. "The |
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tablet generation" and "the smartphone generation" are rather more likely |
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to find the idea of simply assuming that everyone with a computer/tablet/ |
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smartphone also has a bulky/balky printer... rather quaint. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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