8 Dec
2008
8 Dec
'08
1:04 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I feel there's a business oportunity for someone
to set up a company that
will print a document from the web (at a certain cost per page) and post
it out. I don't know of any such organisation in the UK, the local
internet cafe charges, IIRC, \pounds 1.00 per page printing, which is
hardly useful for large documents.
For sure. Various places will let you upload documents for printing, but I'm
not sure if I've seen one that will then mail the result out to you - they
offer the upload as a data transfer convenience, but still expect you to
collect the printed material in person.
(Although I always used to use the Copy Centre in Milton near Cambridge - now
called Labute it seems - and they were always very flexible with customer
needs, so may well be happy to do this if asked)
Well, I am not going to write a C compiler from
scratch. But certainly
for some of the simpler tools I've found it quicker in the past to write
my own versions.
I've done that, too - sometimes it's quicker to write your own than find an
equivalent tool, understand the documentation, verify that it does what you
need etc.
cheers
Jules