The Thirsty Robot

 Here's some of what you missed at The Thirsty Robot: Technical Musings Technology Topic - Printers The discussion started with printers: ink-jets versus laser printers , ink cartridges versus toner cartridges (especially for colour printing), and capacities of paper trays. The main consideration seems to be the number of pages that will be printed in a given time period. Ink-jets for lower quantities, lasers for higher quantities. After that, then there are several ways to buy ink cartridges or toner cartridges: including various subscription methods that mean that you automatically receive replacements in the post without any effort. Maybe paper too, eventually? Photo by  Bank Phrom  on  Unsplash Of course, for really big quantities of printing, then you would go to a specialist printer . It was pointed out that modern printing can be so automated that the first time a human being has ever touched the paper is when you open the envelope and take the magazine or bo...

Here's some of what you missed at The Thirsty Robot: Technical Musings Technology Topics The discussion turned to enumerating technology topics, in a rare almost (but not quite) Shakespearian foray: " How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." As you may know, as with many famous (mis-)quotes, this is from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43, and not from Romeo & Juliet, or any other Shakespeare play or sonnet. But it does highlight both the ways that technology is often misunderstood, mis-quoted, and where counting the ways can be awkward when you have overlapping terms like Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and others, that may cover all or some of a topic. In a library, you might start by looking at the books in the 'Technology' section: which starts with the number 600 in the Dewey Decimal Classification system. You would find that the topic of 'technology' is further sub-divided into: 610      Medicine and Health ...