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September 01, 2005
Cheepnis
We got the printer this afternoon. They've gone so far to save money it comes without a cable. Hey, you get what you pay for.
I have an extra USB cable lying around, but of course USB has multiple connectors. This was one of those underpublicized features of the standard. As described on the web, the USB committee members learned from the past:
The connectors which the USB committee specified were designed to support a number of USB's underlying goals, and to reflect lessons learned from the varied menagerie of connectors then in service.
One of the lessons no doubt learned by USB committee member companies, such as "Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Microsoft, Intel, and Agere," was that people reuse cables if they're too universal, so it's important to cable manufacturers to have lots of standard plugs and sockets that require the consumer purchase extra cables.
Posted by Mark at September 1, 2005 08:59 PM
Comments
Do you mean cheapness not "cheapnis"? Or is that the cheap was of spelling it so you save money on ink or is that a proprietary way of spelling it?
Just curious
Posted by: Teena at September 1, 2005 09:27 PM
Cheepnis is from Roxy & Elsewhere. Zappa was writing about cheap monster movies.
Posted by: Mark at September 2, 2005 08:43 AM