--- On Tue, 5/14/13, Kent A. Reed <kentallanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I was still at NIST, the standing joke was "the > wonderful thing about standards is there are so many of them."
USB, remember when it was one connector that would work for all devices? How many different and incompatible USB connectors are there now? I don't see how micro USB is any better than mini USB. Micro isn't that much thinner than mini. Almost every device I've seen with the micro connector has been plenty thick enough for the mini connector. I've never had a mini B connector with problems but the micro B on my less than 2 year old phone is getting iffy on its power connection. I've run into quite a few programs in 30 years of computer use that couldn't open file formats they could save to. It's a special kind of "genius" to code a program like that. :P Opening formats it can't save to isn't near as bad, as long as the software can do a decent job of saving to a different format it can open. > Occasionally, a new activity gets underway, often with great fanfare, to > forge the "one ring to bind them all" but no one has succeeded yet and I > don't expect success to come in my lifetime. E-books could be that way. I'd love a multi-platform reader program that could open LIT, Plucker, Mobi/Kindle, TealDoc, PalmDoc, Epub, Rocket and Sony formats, plus being extendible via plugins or format description files (which could be user-editable/creatable text files) for other formats. It's absolutely possible but won't happen because people are too damn apathetic and keep bending over and taking it in the end whenever the publishing industry comes up with yet another format. Instead of creating One Ultimate Reader there's many conversion utilities such as Calibre. I'd much rather have OUR (as in our software, not theirs) and never ever have to convert an e-book from one format to another. I have a very large collection of books in PalmDoc. The Kindle app for Android used to support that format but Amazon decided to break that in a half-arsed way. So if I want to read those on my phone I have to convert them, or dig out one of my old Palm PDAs. If I has the big $$$$$$ I'd do a software bounty to bribe some programmers to create OUR, then put the code into public domain with a GPL. Why? For my own convenience and as a poke in the eye to the industry that keeps creating all those incompatible file formats to try and tie readers down to their device or their software. One Ultimate Reader, OUR software, not theirs! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
