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From: -hh on 28 Mar 2010 22:19 On Mar 28, 10:14 pm, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarna...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > -hh wrote: > > On Mar 24, 9:21 am, chrisv <chr...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > >> nospam wrote: > >> >In article <lv9qn.6898$Ek4.1...(a)newsfe24.iad>, Mocassin joe > >> ><joemocasa...(a)aol.com> wrote: > > >> >> But you didn't answer my question; what if the built-in space is exceeded? > > >> >what if the external storage is exceeded? there's a limit to > >> >everything. > > >> Removable storage devices are *not* generally used to "add" storage, > >> you clueless fscking idiot. That's *not* what people use them for. > > > Well gosh then ... just EMAIL the damn file. > > Sounds good. I have a 300 Gb video file. Send me your email address, > I'll attach a copy to you. Yet another example of a "tail wagging the dog" fringe case. -hh
From: -hh on 28 Mar 2010 22:22 nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > -hh <recscuba_goo...(a)huntzinger.com> wrote: > > I had been vaguely aware of these seemingly-slight differences, but > > became painfully aware of the issue earlier this year, while I got > > dragged through a half dozen electronic stores in Paris on what had > > been a free afternoon off. The reason was because my traveling > > companion had forgotten to bring their allegedly standard, but > > sufficiently obscure USB permutation for which no one else's cable was > > able to fit. > > how can that be? > > i read here that usb is bog standard. Utter silence from the USB peanut gallery...gosh, what a surprise. And the next thing you know, they'll try to deny or downplay the law that IIRC was passed in the EU last year that made certain USB plug implementations illegal. -hh
From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 28 Mar 2010 22:27 Wes Groleau wrote: > chrisv wrote: >> Idiot. Have you no idea of the usefulness of removable storage? You >> are utterly without a clue. > > Your unnecessary repetition of "idiot" may be projection. It's not. Nospam and his cohort hh are about as stupid as people can be and not actually collapse in on themselves due to the immense gravitational pull of their own fundamental cluelessness. > Anyway, I find removeable storage VERY useful. No kidding. > It's > one of the ways I transfer things between non-portable > devices. > > Wouldn't add much value to a portable device. Depends on too many factors. For one, just how much storage is on the device itself - and how much of that is in use? If you have, say, a video file a hundred gigs or more in size, it ain't gonna fit no matter what, and even a considerably smaller one might not fit. As just an example, I've got a 16GB USB key here wihch I use for transferring files. It can readily handle, say, 4 or more DVD rips without consuming a byte of "on device" store - meaning I don't have to potentially rip several gigs' worth of stuff off the device just to watch a video. Or, for a different example... if one tends to lug said device about, it effectively becomes a portable storage medium (eg it _is_ a USB thumb drive, among other things). Which is great. That document you've been working on at home? Wireless shot over to the portable, head off to work, where you can give it to the boss. Oops. Your portable hasn't been authenticated on the network? No wireless access? No problem, just use my USB key to copy the file. Oops, sorry, no USB. Hmm. Maybe you can jack in a cat 5 cable, with a dinky home-class router you dig up? Surely there's a cat 5 connector on the device, right? So now you get to try to chase down the IT guy, if he's available and not busy with something else, and convince him to authorize your device. Which probably means talking to management to get authorization. Which means more delays. And more still while the IT guy does it. This process, depending on management and the IT load, can take anywhere from a couple of minutes to a couple of days.. and could have been entirely avoided if you'd just stuck your USB key in, pulled the data off and handed it over to the guy who needs it. 'Course, that said, you could have simply tossed the portable out the window in the first place, saved the document from your home machine to the USB key, and handed that over, thus avoiding all the hassles entirely. If not, then having the capacity to use external storage can be a significant benefit - and it only has to happen *once* in an important situation to show one just how beneficial it can be. Mind you, if you were using a netbook or laptop instead of an iTouch with a glandular condition, the problem wouldn't even exist, as connecting to your own (or his) USB key is simply a matter of plugging it in. As is connecting to a LAN port, or a router if you have one, or...
From: ToolPackinMama on 28 Mar 2010 22:32 On 3/28/2010 7:32 PM, Kelsey Bjarnason wrote: > > Making a small, compact, easily-ported device ten times the size is not > a benefit unless there's a concomitant increase in functionality. This is the iPod Granddad can use without having to hunt down his glasses.
From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 28 Mar 2010 22:30
Wintrolls Lie wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:10:50 -0400, OP wrote: > >> You need a Dock Connector-to-USB adapter . >> >> Buy one here for an additional $29 bucks. >> >> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/reviews/entry/apple-ipad-camera- > connection-kit/ >> >> More Apple "innovation! >> >> Remember, Jobs doesn't like USB either. > > I read this recently, forget where: > > iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art! ISTR it was originally "Mac is to..." What's really bizarre about all this is that whatever faults Apple may have, they tend to make good *quality* hardware. One can't generally fault how the machines are built, they tend to be solid, reliable, etc. You'd think that a company that can make good hardware would also be able to make hardware good, if you see what I mean. :) |