I hate them almost as much as you do. I have about 4 different ones. And 1 of them is also different than the others. So, why can't you get pictures on your PC? Which cable did you lose? The one that goes to the camera with the different USB cord?

There are only two USB cables, A and B... unless you count USB 1.1(?) and USB 2.0.. and there are two more USB types.. uh.. yeah I guess there are alot.

But at least it's a standard. I would much rather have this than a bunch of proprietary cables that each require their own port/connector etc...

Aren't there converters or something?

Yeah I know what you mean.
I don't know what the deal is.

Yeah, that gets annoying sometimes. I'm sure there's a cheap, generic cable for your camera that you can buy.

get a sony instead
cybershots are pretty good
and the newer one are even better
good quality
i bet $50 the card reader has a cable to that too!

we need more wierless stuff

I hate darkies way more wait what

lolwut?

also, you realy need to get your things organized.

I hate wires too.

But in special cases for broadband for example, it's easier to have a long wired connection, rather than set up an annoying wireless connection.

could you tell me your PSN Name????

If Possible

USB's Are wonderful things

And are you coming to the NG meetup in Augustus?

y do you need 800 different cameras?

This sounds like a very similar rant my father had one day. Do we really need 600 different kinds of USB cables? Yes, my device oh so badly needs it's own obscure connector, fuck making shit convenient.

Wait.. are you saying that USB has too many connector types, or that you have too many cables?

I've had problem with the USB on my computer, not with the cables.

Here's what happened last year: I wanted to pass a few songs to my iPod. Cool... if it wasn't on my father's account with the fresh installed iTunes. I was begging to have a problem.

I had this habit of just connecting the iPod to the computer and then iTunes would show up. But something odd happened: iTunes was never used in that account, so all the songs had to be imported to it. Fine... not really. Somehow my iPod didn't "like" that attitude.

I decided to remove it, to put the iPod into the account I used it regularly. I removed it the way it should be done, but the moment I removed the cable, a message appeared on the screen. I didn't look at it and removed the iPod anyway.

Turns out the next time I tried to connect my iPod the computer didn't identify it anymore. Other things, such as my camera, still work, but my iPod doesn't.

Oh well, computers. Who knows what they can do.

they should make only 1 USB Drive that is compatable with all of your aquipment now if you have a Acer Q600 Intel Core 2Quad Processor it lets you put camera Cards in them The top has like 4 USB Plugs and the inside by this door you open has like 4 Card Readers and 1 little USB Plug for some sorta tiny plug

If You like I could Send You A Picture Of It Its A Pretty Good Computer But It costed me Like 11 Thousand But It was Worth It :D

my phone has some strange ass connection port.

it has an "adapter" it came with and on the adapter is a headphone picture (which doesn't actually fit my hands free device) and a USB picture...which doesnt fit any USB cord known to man.

You'd think it'd come with it if it goes on about keeping all your phone's shiz on the computer, but no I have to go find it and pay them money for it after the fact.

you look like a fag

I feel your pain, man. At school in my digital photography class, there are around 10 different camera brands being used. Each brand has it's own little cable. Eventually, it got the point of where none of the cables match the cameras, and most of the memory cards are non-standard. So now, I'm stuck with several high-end cameras that can't be used at all. And don't even get me started on the power cables. There really ought to be a movement to make all cables standardised.

I like generic cables, I can throw half of them away. The special cables, I keep track of.

oh yeah, i think pretty much everyone have been experiencing this... western-wrold problem? :D
still, it only gets worse when you buy something from country where the connections are different - you english have a different connection than what i belive is standard european (two round plugs), and the US have two flat things... I bought a small sampler/recorder-device when i was in the US, and i have to have an adapter to be able to charge it.
gotta go get one...

(but it's actually worth it, since i saved 100USD by not buying it in sweden. hurr hurr)

still: standards ftw!

Yeah I get what you're talking about. I have a PS3 which came with a Mini B USB cable to charge the controllers amongst other uses such as connecting a PSP.

But they have the nerve not to include a cable in a new controller pack. I'll be fucked if I lose the only one I have. Considering there's a lot of different USB cables out there it'll take a while trying to pick the right one. I know I've been to an electronics store with selves of different cables I don't know which are which.

At least I know it's called a Mini B, chances are I'll spend half an hour looking for all that rather than buying one USB then finding out it doesn't fit.

yeah i'm sorry I didnt mean to scare you or bug you man I just shared your interest in Music but I think ill just give you some space then

Why do you got to be such a fag Jim.WHY.

My room looks like I had killed 3 hookers and let them bleed onto the carpeting.

Which reminds me. Anyone know how to get blood stains out of carpeting?

its because hardware companies wont stick to a general spec. they want their own "unique" type so you have t go through them to get a inevitable replacement. at leasts its better than those huge plugs.

I know what you mean. I had to get a USB splitter with 4 extra ports just to hook everything up! On top of that the splitter has to be hooked up to a USB port so that takes away one of my slots!I have a wireless keyboard/mouse combo (which uses a UBS cable), a USB headset, a USB flash drive, and a USB cable for my PSP/Cell phone. It's pure USB madness I tell ya! MADNESS!

Then again.....the whole internet/computer/electronic era wouldn't be complete without it.

I am a memory stick fan. The only USB I use is A, B, and The square one. Maybe AOSS will eliminate USB cables.

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. I was amazed to learn in an intro circuits class that the usb cable only has 4 lines: data, sync, power and ground. Knowing this, my friends and i spliced various cords together to make new combinations of different shapes of ends. This was hit and miss.

My point is that you theoretically could make the USB actually universal with some creative splicing and a logic probe or voltmeter.

Oh come on, it's not really that bad. Let me explain;

You have a type a connector, a type b connected, a mini type a connector, and a mini type b connector, so some cables are type a to type b, or type a to type a, or type a to type mini b, or type a to type mini a, or type b to type b, or type b to type mini b.