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From: Wes Groleau on 19 Mar 2010 23:56 nospam wrote: > pin 25 & 27 are usb data pins. no adapter required. If you have USB signals among 27+ pins, you need an adapter. To put it another way, any cord that has a USB connector on one end and 27 pins on the other IS an adapter. -- Wes Groleau Border Arrests Drop to 1970's Level http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1441
From: nospam on 20 Mar 2010 00:16 In article <ho1h1i$sff$3(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > > pin 25 & 27 are usb data pins. no adapter required. > > If you have USB signals among 27+ pins, you need an adapter. > > To put it another way, any cord that has a USB connector > on one end and 27 pins on the other IS an adapter. the dock connector is a multi-function connector. it carries power, usb, audio, video, remote control and previously, firewire. a cable that uses a particular set of pins is very different than something that plugs into the connector and has active electronics inside it.
From: Wes Groleau on 20 Mar 2010 01:53 Michelle Steiner wrote: > No, it is a cable. An adaptor is a device that goes between a device and a > cable. An adapter is something that adapts. That cable adapts the iPod connector to vanilla USB. -- Wes Groleau "To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you should prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
From: Wes Groleau on 20 Mar 2010 01:55 Michelle Steiner wrote: > It's no more of an adaptor than a USB A to USB B cable, or the USB cable > that comes with a digital camera. I would phrase it "It's just as much an adapter as a USB A to USB B adapter." -- Wes Groleau The man who says, "I can do it!" may sometimes fail. The man who says, "Impossible!" will never succeed.
From: Wes Groleau on 20 Mar 2010 02:27
Michelle Steiner wrote: > No, that cable connects, it doesn't adapt. It quite obviously does both. Hey, why don't we propose a new group to argue this in? Ought to be worth a couple of hundred posts. -- Wes Groleau Thinking It Through http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=476 |