Point and laugh at the half-wit

Blitzkrieger · 17-02-2001 11:47pm #1

From this month's PC Plus :

INSERT AND PLAY

I have read and enjoyed your magazines since the 1980s. I enjoy the articles and the software.

...up to here I was wondering if he sent his Playboy letter to the wrong address.....

I think you have most of the US magazines beat by a mile. (I live in Dallas, Texas.)

....later on you'll be wondering : "How is this guy so stupid". This is how.....

I have used desktop computers and now have two laptops

....the whole point of portable computers seems to have passed him by then.....

Why don't the PC manufacturers consider making updating easier by using more 'insert and play' devices like interchangeable hard drives and adding places for PCMCIA cards?

....presumably he wants the interchangeable hard drives to swap data between his office laptop and home laptop

Has this guy never heard of USB? I first heard about USB in this magazine which he claims to have been reading since the '80s....

It is much easier to use PCMCIA devices.

....as easy as USB perhaps?....

You don't have to take the case apart to install them and

........USBUSBUSB......

it would be easier to add modems, hard drives and super drives, [\QUOTE]

........USBUSBUSB......

CD-RW drives and DVD drives, and if you have hot swappable drives, again you don't have to take the case appart to add them - [\QUOTE]

.........like an external hard drive?......

maybe you could get by with a mini case instead of a fully sized one.

.....whoa! Steady on there! We can see by the super-long sentence that you're getting excited but we don't want to go there! Apple lies that way........

It is just a thought but it would revolutionize the PC market and make it more user-friendly.

....'just a thought but would revolutionize', eh? He's so modest. And we are so lucky that americans are around to come up with these ideas. Every time I see and american I think : "He's going to say something really clever. Cleary since he's american he knows better than the rest of us. We are so lucky to have them around to think up ideas for us. How else would the PC market be revolutionised?".....

Make a desktop with three or four PCMCIA slots where you could add sound cards and other updates.

..........USBUSBUSB........

It is just another revolutionary idea.

.......Brilliant! Not only is there a subtle reminder of his fantastic idea, but he tantalises us by hinting that he might have more!......

Steve Turner

.....well, Stephen - can I call you Stephen? Or would that be too informal? Please let us know more of your visionary ideas.

Fidelis · 18-02-2001 1:13am

LOL, that must have taken you an age to type out

Nil Desperandum

Keeks · 18-02-2001 8:36pm

Originally posted by Fidelis:
LOL, that must have taken you an age to type out

Makes u wonder who the half-wit is

Homer: Bart, a woman is like a beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! (chugs beer)

Blitzkrieger · 19-02-2001 12:59pm

I was running install programs on the other #puter so I had nothing better to do

Lord Khan · 19-02-2001 6:22pm

Originally posted by Blitzkrieger:
I was running install programs on the other #puter so I had nothing better to do

let me guess your other laptop :-)

for the benefit of our sanity don't install anything again :-) hehe

President, CEO, Revolutionary
But also just a boy looking for the love of a beautiful woman

[This message has been edited by Lord Khan (edited 19-02-2001).]

Hobbes · 19-02-2001 6:45pm

USB isn't recommended to be used as a network type connection between machines.

But the guy is right though, some form of easy High density, tiny storage device would help. About the only thing I have is Zip disks in that area.

CDR's are too slow to burn.

Blitzkrieger · 20-02-2001 6:14pm

There's usb memory card thingies coming out now. They hold 100MB - 250MB of data and you can just slot them into whatever machine has the drivers installed.

Point and laugh at the half-wit

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