On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Eric Manning <eric.mann...@engr.uvic.ca> wrote:
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> The conservative spirit is alive and well. USB seen as a dangerous and
> radical innovation, forsooth.
Demonizing the other side with a label (or two) is cheap.
It is SO easy (and tempting) to concoct self-serving responsibilities
and heap them elsewhere for expenditure of *their* resources.
Frankly, as seen with the Windows 7-Prolific-FTDI driver wars, anyone
who depends on USB is at the mercy of chip makers and OS coders, who
frankly could give a rat's *ss about whether or not hams blinking an
RTS signal into a virtual com port will be able to see it on the far
end of a USB/serial converter, and who are going blame it on the other
guy until they get clubbed to death by the problem. Hear about people
being unable to update podcasts on their IPOD's? Go google that one
and see how well everybody cooperates. See how quickly and accurately
the various tech support staffs picked up on it.
AND, as seen on this reflector, it's the K3's fault ("my K3 has a
problem") until someone else can construct a federal case why it is
not.
Why, on God's green earth would any sane manufacturer build such a
troublesome device as USB into a rig just to sit there and get blamed
for whatever the latest Windows release or driver screws up in USB
communication.
If Wayne didn't have a com port on the back, there would be no way for
him to prove that the d*mn USB drivers have gone batty again, and he
would have to spend all that tech support time telling people that
there will be no solution for them using Windows 13.9 eighth edition
fix pack 4 until XYZ chip company recodes their drivers to abide by
new KB293429865023787 USB anti-hacking protocol which prevents foreign
agents from using USB hubs as spam email proxies on Windows 13
systems.
USB may be ubiquitous, but it is implemented in a non-standard way
both hardware and software, drivers are more or less sh*t and probably
responsible for more indecipherable screwball problems than any other
single device in the world of PC's.
73, Guy.
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