The most advanced of soundboards still use connectors developed before WWII. This is literally an ain't broke, don't fix it situation. 3.5mm was just a shrinking of the size of patch cords.
But why shrink when 6.35mm ain't broke? Why not demand 6.35mm connectors for everything?
There's reasons for change, just because you don't agree with those reason doesn't mean they don't exist. For me, unifying to a single connector for analog, digital, power and data is justified.
Requiring USB-C just adds unnecessary complexity to the simplest type of connection, basic stereo audio.
Same was said with parallel to serial, and RS232 to USB, records to CD to DVD to Blueray etc. and the same will be said with USB-C to the next thing.
There will be some bitching an moaning at first, and in ten years people will wonder what the fuss was about.
His is a perfectly valid response. Just because something's from the 1980's doesn't mean we need to ditch it.
I never said you have to ditch it. If you are happy with 1980's tech then by all means keep using it. But some of us like moving forward and am happy to upgrade to take advantages of new features. USB-C supports both Digital and Analog, so for me who has a bunch of analog and digital things, it's a step in the right direction of unifying to a single connector for everything (analog/digital/data/power).
What happens once you stop paying your Dropbox bill?
I don't have a Dropbox bill an if for whatever reason Dropbox went away I can replace it with the dozens of similar services that do the same thing.
I thought in such a case, files past 2 GB got deleted. And how well does Dropbox work when upstream is $5 to $10 per GB, such as satellite or LTE,
Maybe you live somewhere with exorbitant LTE prices, I pay $40/month for my SIM 8GB and never use half of it.
or when upstream isn't available at all, such as between a laptop and tablet on a city bus?
As above, maybe LTE is expensive where you live. Where I live it's cheap so I take advantage of it to avoid clumsy things like physical media swapping.
I use it in my car to connect to my oem head unit. I use to connect to some old powered PC speakers in the bathroom. I use it to connect to aux in on a few other devices. In other words, DEAL BREAKER.
New technology not suitable for person with 1980's technology. News at 11...
I don't want to carry a stupid adapter that also is expensive, easy to lose, sucks more power, is likely to break, makes the phone weak and awkward while using it, and prevents charging while using it.
it's a lot easier to transfer files from one device to another with a SD card as opposed to a USB cable or via a cloud storage service.
Really? Maybe for large files that you can't wait a few minutes for, but I have Keep and Dropbox on multiple devices and never have to think about transferring files as it's all done for me automatically. How does it get easier than that?
It's almost as if there's some money being paid to write slam articles about certain companies who are either disruptive or successful,
It's a pattern I've noticed about pretty much anything these days. Even in here you'll always come across a deliberately inflammatory post trying to derail the conversation, and it's almost always an AC.
When you read enough of them you start to form the opinion that it's not just random trolling, but a coordinated response done by design to divide and disrupt.
There's only two possibilities for such co-ordination, corporate or government. I think it's time the AC and verification of identities is improved to prevent such activity.
People like ranchers and miners use drones to survey large areas of land. They can map their property in a couple days and locate every herd. I guess one solution is to get rid of the big open ranches and just cram all the animals into warehouses, that would be better right?
Or:
Not use a drone as farmers (we call them farms, not ranches) have done for millenia, or:
Come up with a way to use the drone that prevents the Eagles attacking them (most likely)
I find it odd that the first option you jumped to was remove all the 'ranches' and put all the cows in a warehouse. That is a very peculiar thought process...
This is what is confusing the debate. I don't think anyone is seriously considering a universal ban on all guns, except the NRA that uses it as a FUD device.
Even here in Australia where we are the world's leading example of effective gun control, I can still get a gun license and go buy a gun. I even have a pistol range up the road from my house that I can go to if I want. But we have very little gun violence because now it's only gun enthusiasts and hunters/farmers who go to the trouble of trying to get one.
"The only type of person capable of taking out that shooter from the crowd at the critical moment would be a fully trained and equipped sniper with combat experience"
Wrong. Hunters regularly pull off 300+ yard shots all the time with a piddly.30-06.
So let's play out this scenario. Gun shots fired into a crowded area, thousands of armed hunters pull out their rifles that they brought to a concert for rapid response. How do you identify the shooter rather than another hunter now that everyone is waving a gun around? Is the furry hat?
Let's say one hunter works out where the shooter is (400 yards away in the dark) and fires successfully, the other 999 hunters see that guy firing and someone shoots him thinking he was the original shooter (because he forgot to wear his furry shooter hat that announces that he is fact a hunter and not a criminal).
But of course these are hunters so they never get it wrong...
a good guy with a gun stops shit all the time in this country.
Citation?
I only ask because comparing American good guys with guns to other western Democracries' good guys without guns, seems to point toward less guns having a better net result overall.
Screw it up from what? I mean, what is Bitcoin now other than a pure speculative gambling instrument?
I'm struggling to think how you could get any less use out of than now?
Where I live you buy the phone outright paying full retail, then get a plan for voice/data, so you always know the full price upfront.
Here the Samsung Note 8 is $1500 and the iPhone X is $1580, and I get 2 years out of a device so it works out to just over $2/day. Peanuts when you consider the value you get out of it (for the millions of us that use our phones daily for work)
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You don't need to carry it, you plug it into your headphones and forget about it. It takes less effort than moaning about it on the Internet...
Let's see:
1) 1.8 star review
Because I let other people decide what's good for me.
2) Something else to remember
connect it to your headphones and it becomes part of it. No more remembering to be done
3) Something else to carry
connect it to your headphones and it becomes part of it. No more carrying to be done
3) still consumes battery
How, it's an analog adapter? Also you did three twice.
4) can't charge while using
If that's important to you, pay $2 more and get an adapter that does this.
5)can't use headset, only headphones
If that's important to you, pay $2 more and get an adapter that does this.
6) no option for inline controls
it's the same signal, only the connector is a different shape.
7) major compatibility issues
it's the same signal, only the connector is a different shape.
So yeah, I will keep whining.
Of course, because that's how luddites generally act when faced with something different...
The most advanced of soundboards still use connectors developed before WWII. This is literally an ain't broke, don't fix it situation. 3.5mm was just a shrinking of the size of patch cords.
But why shrink when 6.35mm ain't broke? Why not demand 6.35mm connectors for everything?
There's reasons for change, just because you don't agree with those reason doesn't mean they don't exist. For me, unifying to a single connector for analog, digital, power and data is justified.
Requiring USB-C just adds unnecessary complexity to the simplest type of connection, basic stereo audio.
Same was said with parallel to serial, and RS232 to USB, records to CD to DVD to Blueray etc. and the same will be said with USB-C to the next thing.
There will be some bitching an moaning at first, and in ten years people will wonder what the fuss was about.
His is a perfectly valid response. Just because something's from the 1980's doesn't mean we need to ditch it.
I never said you have to ditch it. If you are happy with 1980's tech then by all means keep using it. But some of us like moving forward and am happy to upgrade to take advantages of new features. USB-C supports both Digital and Analog, so for me who has a bunch of analog and digital things, it's a step in the right direction of unifying to a single connector for everything (analog/digital/data/power).
What happens once you stop paying your Dropbox bill?
I don't have a Dropbox bill an if for whatever reason Dropbox went away I can replace it with the dozens of similar services that do the same thing.
I thought in such a case, files past 2 GB got deleted. And how well does Dropbox work when upstream is $5 to $10 per GB, such as satellite or LTE,
Maybe you live somewhere with exorbitant LTE prices, I pay $40/month for my SIM 8GB and never use half of it.
or when upstream isn't available at all, such as between a laptop and tablet on a city bus?
As above, maybe LTE is expensive where you live. Where I live it's cheap so I take advantage of it to avoid clumsy things like physical media swapping.
What's with the removal of all these well established and standardized ports?? I want my IEEE 1284 port back!
This is a DEAL BREAKER! If they expect me to buy a new printer just so I can print then they've lost a customer. Parallel ports 4 lyf!!!!
I use it in my car to connect to my oem head unit. I use to connect to some old powered PC speakers in the bathroom. I use it to connect to aux in on a few other devices. In other words, DEAL BREAKER.
New technology not suitable for person with 1980's technology. News at 11...
I don't want to carry a stupid adapter that also is expensive, easy to lose, sucks more power, is likely to break, makes the phone weak and awkward while using it, and prevents charging while using it.
https://www.amazon.com/Headpho... For $6.90 your problem is solved. But keep whining if that makes you feel better...
it's a lot easier to transfer files from one device to another with a SD card as opposed to a USB cable or via a cloud storage service.
Really? Maybe for large files that you can't wait a few minutes for, but I have Keep and Dropbox on multiple devices and never have to think about transferring files as it's all done for me automatically. How does it get easier than that?
The only people who are going to be buying in the immediate aftermath are impulse buyers.
True, but since most car buyers buy on impulse anyway it's no big deal.
What the heck is your connection to Tesla, BTW? You're all over any discussion of Tesla here on Slashdot like a fly on a lump of shit.
Flies like shit. What's more interesting is that you say don't like shit, yet here you are with all the flies. What's with that?
It's almost as if there's some money being paid to write slam articles about certain companies who are either disruptive or successful,
It's a pattern I've noticed about pretty much anything these days. Even in here you'll always come across a deliberately inflammatory post trying to derail the conversation, and it's almost always an AC. When you read enough of them you start to form the opinion that it's not just random trolling, but a coordinated response done by design to divide and disrupt.
There's only two possibilities for such co-ordination, corporate or government. I think it's time the AC and verification of identities is improved to prevent such activity.
Drone operators/owners are some of the most selfish, self-entitled assholes around,
All of them. Like all the Jews, or all the Blacks or all the Muslims. I got you brother, it's us vs them, whoever 'them' happens to be today...
People like ranchers and miners use drones to survey large areas of land. They can map their property in a couple days and locate every herd. I guess one solution is to get rid of the big open ranches and just cram all the animals into warehouses, that would be better right?
Or:
Not use a drone as farmers (we call them farms, not ranches) have done for millenia, or:
Come up with a way to use the drone that prevents the Eagles attacking them (most likely)
I find it odd that the first option you jumped to was remove all the 'ranches' and put all the cows in a warehouse. That is a very peculiar thought process...
Post of the day. Thanks.
Some Europeans have trouble understanding this same fact about the United STATES of America.
Because the USA is a single country, Europe isn't.
In other news, Americans are terrible at geography
And more importantly what's the answer. Ban guns?
This is what is confusing the debate. I don't think anyone is seriously considering a universal ban on all guns, except the NRA that uses it as a FUD device.
Even here in Australia where we are the world's leading example of effective gun control, I can still get a gun license and go buy a gun. I even have a pistol range up the road from my house that I can go to if I want. But we have very little gun violence because now it's only gun enthusiasts and hunters/farmers who go to the trouble of trying to get one.
"The only type of person capable of taking out that shooter from the crowd at the critical moment would be a fully trained and equipped sniper with combat experience"
Wrong. Hunters regularly pull off 300+ yard shots all the time with a piddly .30-06.
So let's play out this scenario. Gun shots fired into a crowded area, thousands of armed hunters pull out their rifles that they brought to a concert for rapid response. How do you identify the shooter rather than another hunter now that everyone is waving a gun around? Is the furry hat?
Let's say one hunter works out where the shooter is (400 yards away in the dark) and fires successfully, the other 999 hunters see that guy firing and someone shoots him thinking he was the original shooter (because he forgot to wear his furry shooter hat that announces that he is fact a hunter and not a criminal).
But of course these are hunters so they never get it wrong...
a good guy with a gun stops shit all the time in this country.
Citation?
I only ask because comparing American good guys with guns to other western Democracries' good guys without guns, seems to point toward less guns having a better net result overall.
Screw it up from what? I mean, what is Bitcoin now other than a pure speculative gambling instrument?
I'm struggling to think how you could get any less use out of than now?
How does that work during a power outage?
How does power work during a power outage? I mean you still use power even though it can stop working from time to time right?
incorrect. You cannot hop online and purchase real goods and services with 'speculation.'
Of course you can, that is how real estate works right now.
Why would anyone want to buy a Gucci handbag when a Walmart knockoff will carry your stuff for 1/10th the price?
I think 1/100th is closer to reality...
Yes, this. I've known a number of very wealthy people over the years, and there's one thing they all have in common: they're frugal.
That explains why there's no such things a private jets and gold cars...
Where I live you buy the phone outright paying full retail, then get a plan for voice/data, so you always know the full price upfront.
Here the Samsung Note 8 is $1500 and the iPhone X is $1580, and I get 2 years out of a device so it works out to just over $2/day. Peanuts when you consider the value you get out of it (for the millions of us that use our phones daily for work)