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Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer?

From Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.debian
Subject Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer?
Date 2015-03-28 10:09 +0000
Organization JRE Trading Ltd
Message-ID <20150328100936.04441014@jresid.jretrading.com> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <mevhsv$vug$1@dont-email.me> <ql18ha5vfq607l4p14q2qdn62m62f36jcs@4ax.com> <mf11m8$vug$4@dont-email.me> <mf13jq$4g8$1@news.albasani.net> <pan.2015.03.28.09.33.31@gmail.com>

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On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:21:30 +0000 (UTC)
Unknown <dog@gmail.com> wrote:


> Obviously, many writers here are 'in the industry'.
> So for them: the more complex the better.
> But how/why do you USERS tolerate the absurdity: compared to printing
> a page of plain text 40 years ago?!
> 

The same way as any other kind of user. Cars are a couple of orders of
magnitude more complex than they were 100 years ago while being much
easier for users to drive.

Printers (the big office multifunction ones) do vastly more than my
9-pin dot-matrix device of 30 years ago would do, and even that was
much more versatile than the teletypes of 10-20 years earlier.

The users never see the complexity, they just click that 'print' icon.
Even the ones on their mobile phone screens. It all Just Works, for
users of mass-market operating systems, anyway.

-- 
Joe

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Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? noSpam@gmail.com - 2015-03-25 03:13 +0000
  Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-25 09:34 -0400
    Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-03-25 18:05 +0000
      Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-03-25 21:04 +0000
        Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 22:04 +0000
          Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-30 08:35 +0100
          Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-30 09:06 -0400
      Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2015-03-25 23:55 +0000
        Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-26 09:22 -0400
          Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2015-03-26 13:30 +0000
            Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-26 14:03 +0000
              Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-03-26 15:08 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 08:45 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-03-28 09:32 +0000
              Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 09:21 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-03-28 10:09 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 04:46 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-30 09:13 -0400
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-03-30 20:53 +0100
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-03-28 22:52 +0000
  Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-03-25 19:59 +0000
  Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? John Davis <wa8yxm@arrl.invalid.net> - 2015-03-25 19:39 -0400

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