On Field Guides and Odd Practices
Is it still a field guide if you're doing a text about Dinosaurs? Or anything extinct, for that matter? You're not going to see them in the field, they do not saunter about with tyrannical tails waving about. Granted, I suppose the set up being similar to a guide of living animals would be enough to carry over the name.
Today I was given a printer slash "all-in-one solution" for work, and it was packaged bright and shiny in it's bright and shiny red HP box. I opened it up, took out the required connecting elements, ie power, and then rummaged about for another minute or so. Where was the USB cable? It is a USB printer, so it should come with one, shouldn't it?
No... no it shouldn't. Right there on the box, it listed contents without mention of a USB cable. There's no other way to connect this thing, why wouldn't it come with the thing you need to make it work? Do people just theorize that we have spare USB cables lying around the house? I thought products were supposed to be... self-sufficient. It's like getting a model kit without glue, or playing chess for the first time without any rules.
Something important is missing.
Is it odd that I use my PSP as an eReader more than anything these days? I mean, that's practically all I do with it, now. I go online, buy me some ebooks, convert 'em to text files, then sit down reading with a flick of my thumb and or forefinger. Wasn't the thing supposed to have games of some sort on it? It's like Sony just doesn't really care if you even play games anymore, for any of its systems. The PS2 was the last gaming system, now they just make multimedia systems. In some ways it's the smart way to go, broadens their userbase, but still. Until they come out with a cheap (50 bucks) eReader that has a roll out screen and folds to the size of a pen I'll probably stick with it.
Solid state memory is getting better now, so gimme my standard-sized twenty gig thumbdrive already. And gimme transfer rates that don't suck, like hard drive rates. That's more of a USB problem, I know, so hopefully USB 3 will solve that. I can't wait until I just plug my USB drive into any computer and use a personal OS without restrictions and software I can't use. I mean, it's practically what I do anyway, now, but slow transfer rates kill me.
Someone kick me a couple of times until I post up my RPG on Megatokyo.
I've found a sporadic past-time in reading through conspiracy-theory threads these days. That is some of the best damned entertainment I've ever read, might I even say Edutainment? Whether it's the WTC theorists, the we-didn't-moon-land theorists, bigfoot, or whatever, I get some good stuff out of those threads. Some of the sites are fun to browse, too. Try it out, some of the stuff you learn, and some of the stuff you learn about people, is almost too much.
Today I was given a printer slash "all-in-one solution" for work, and it was packaged bright and shiny in it's bright and shiny red HP box. I opened it up, took out the required connecting elements, ie power, and then rummaged about for another minute or so. Where was the USB cable? It is a USB printer, so it should come with one, shouldn't it?
No... no it shouldn't. Right there on the box, it listed contents without mention of a USB cable. There's no other way to connect this thing, why wouldn't it come with the thing you need to make it work? Do people just theorize that we have spare USB cables lying around the house? I thought products were supposed to be... self-sufficient. It's like getting a model kit without glue, or playing chess for the first time without any rules.
Something important is missing.
Is it odd that I use my PSP as an eReader more than anything these days? I mean, that's practically all I do with it, now. I go online, buy me some ebooks, convert 'em to text files, then sit down reading with a flick of my thumb and or forefinger. Wasn't the thing supposed to have games of some sort on it? It's like Sony just doesn't really care if you even play games anymore, for any of its systems. The PS2 was the last gaming system, now they just make multimedia systems. In some ways it's the smart way to go, broadens their userbase, but still. Until they come out with a cheap (50 bucks) eReader that has a roll out screen and folds to the size of a pen I'll probably stick with it.
Solid state memory is getting better now, so gimme my standard-sized twenty gig thumbdrive already. And gimme transfer rates that don't suck, like hard drive rates. That's more of a USB problem, I know, so hopefully USB 3 will solve that. I can't wait until I just plug my USB drive into any computer and use a personal OS without restrictions and software I can't use. I mean, it's practically what I do anyway, now, but slow transfer rates kill me.
Someone kick me a couple of times until I post up my RPG on Megatokyo.
I've found a sporadic past-time in reading through conspiracy-theory threads these days. That is some of the best damned entertainment I've ever read, might I even say Edutainment? Whether it's the WTC theorists, the we-didn't-moon-land theorists, bigfoot, or whatever, I get some good stuff out of those threads. Some of the sites are fun to browse, too. Try it out, some of the stuff you learn, and some of the stuff you learn about people, is almost too much.