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From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 28 Mar 2010 00:49 -hh wrote: > Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarna...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Could you kindly point out where the cables are on my USB key? �I've >> never noticed them before. > > The problem with USB thumb drives is that they typically stick out ~2 > inches, as an unsupported cantilever off of your expensive device's > motherboard. > > If you've never seen damaged equipment as a consequence, you don't get > out enough. Maybe, maybe not. I do know that our laptops - complete with thumb drives and (at the time) "two inch" USB mouse dongles, went on a road trip across the country and back, often bouncing around on the passenger's lap, not to mention being jostled about as we snuggled in for the night, usually in a makeshift bed in the back of the van - all prime candidates for such damage - without a lick of a problem. Of course, one could extend your logic. After all, the screen is usually the most fragile part, so, because there is some risk of it being damaged, we should abolish the screen, rather than, oh, include it on the theory someone might actually want to *use* a bog-standard interface device. That *is* your argument, right? That because a USB dongle _might_ lead to damages, this explains the asinine decision not to incldue it, despite it being nigh-on necessary for devices such as this? Yes, well, one can see the Apple Fan Club is out in full swing tonight. Must be a full moon.
From: nospam on 28 Mar 2010 01:01 In article <4baedef5$0$9619$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > It is also quite possible that Apple started off with intentions to put > as much on the device as they could, including firewire, USB/master and > USB/slave, 3d HD camera, dolby 5.1 microphones, holographic 3d screen > display etc etc. how is anyone going to watch avatar on the ipad if there's no holographic 3d screen. nevermind usb, that was a big mistake right there. it's going to fail.
From: gl4317 on 28 Mar 2010 01:28 In article <l4p287-2bu.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > So, your response to "where the hell is the bog-standard USB support?" > is to either buy a completely pointless, easy-to-lose adapter whcih has > no reason for existing, or to replace perfectly good existing equipment > with new equipment, just to work around Apple's inability to provide > bog-standard USB support. > > Well, they have you trained well. "When in doubt, buy." > > Meanwhile, the wife's netbook costs less, does more So, why not have a 3.5 inch floppy drive built into the netbook? After all that is a standard method of moving data and who on earth would ever use a file larger than 1.44 megs, right? Not that Apple hasn't done stupid stuff, but somehow this whole discussion reminds me of the nonsense that was going on in this newsgroup when the iMac introduced to the world the concept of the computer with no floppy drive. "With all the software out there that comes on 3.5 inch floppy disks, how could anyone ever possibly function without one?" Well, you just buy one of the many Apple or non-Apple computers that came with a floppy drive, or buy the add on floppy drive. Which is what people did at first, and today we are to the point where very few people really need to use the 3.5 inch floppy. If you do, then you buy a 3.5 inch floppy drive with a USB connector. > USB mouse I take it your Netbook doesn't have a touch-screen like the iPad does? Really, I don't plan to buy an iPad any time soon, but I really like the idea of having a touch screen as standard equipment, and hope that such devices as the iPad lead us to operating systems that don't require pointing devices at all. -- -Glennl Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam, and most e-mail sent to this address are simply lost in the vast mess.
From: nospam on 28 Mar 2010 01:32 In article <gl4317-2703102228060001(a)69-30-9-122.pxd.easystreet.com>, <gl4317(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Really, I don't plan to buy an iPad any time soon, but I really like the > idea of having a touch screen as standard equipment, and hope that such > devices as the iPad lead us to operating systems that don't require > pointing devices at all. indeed.
From: nospam on 28 Mar 2010 01:49
In article <4k6387-cl7.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > One can extend this notion almost endlessly, of course. One could ask > "what's the most popular OS used by internet users?" One possible > mechanism for finding this out is to examine the logs of major servers, > see what OS is used to access them. Of course, if one does this with, > say, microsoft.com, guess what? Most people are likely to be running > Windows. Now try it at apple.com - what's that? Most folks are running > some version of MacOS? Imagine that. > > Whoops, two *completely* different results, defined solely by *where* > the research was done. which is why you don't look at *one* web site for that information. |