> * I knew someone who did 217 calculations as his job.  One of the things 
> he did was help design color TV picture tubes so that they would fail a 
> couple of months after the 1 year warranty ran out.

Situations are even worse.

I have good reasons to suspect that my printer has an algo to 
intentionally killing itself and the print head.  I shall be able to do 
more test when my stock of refill ink run down.  For the time being, I 
shall resist to swap "old" print head to another "old" printer.

It is quite a tough money to make in the consumer electronics areana 
when compare to the fashion industry when a pair of jean easily price 
higher than a MP3 player.  But...

Ling SM
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