Had a dot matrix printer that used continuous paper. Notorious for jamming. Usually something getting stuck on the little holes, or the perforated sides tearing mid-print.
The worst was when it lost traction, shredded the holes, usually in a tangle of paper.
There'd also be cases where it kept pulling on the holes but those separated and got gummed up really badly.
When you try and tug the pages out they're all perforated so you get, at best, a single page. It can be a lot of work to clear a jam.
Most people think of dot matrix printers as slow, lumbering things that would take measurable time to print a single line. The industrial ones, enterprise grade, made by companies like IBM were dizzyingly fast, pages per minute, so if a jam happened it was usually severe. Most had multiple print heads to speed up printing.
These also used much wider paper than normal for things like accounting reports. When they jammed, they jammed.
One of my first "tech" jobs was refurbing dot matrix printers after we had them in the field for a while. The amount of little bits of that perforated paper that would get stuck in every moving part in one of those was kind of staggering.
People were also really rough on those things. Yanking at the paper to tear it as the printer was just finishing it up.
I had several dot matrix printers and can't remember any jams. And I did manage to accidentally dump the whole database to the one at work, the stack was at least 5 cm thick by the time we managed to stop it. It had it's own room though because of the sound so not your normal home printer...
Only Zuck knows the real answer. But my guess is he's buying into his own hype. Look at the way he travels the world and poses with the needy for photos. I suspect he thinks of himself as a visionary, with visionary ideas to match. His stance on authenticity is a perfect way to spin his platform's antisocial design into something noble.
>We're tackling the most minor of symptoms.
>Of course, none of this will actually happen.
Nobody is saying that things would be perfect if more employers made voting day a holiday. But certainly it would be better than what we have now. And we don't need to wait for it to happen. Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
The parties aren't a bad thing, but the article also mentions teens hang out with friends less. Good relationships are important to our health and life satisfaction, and it's a shame kids are missing out on learning the social skills that encourage good relationships.
