Why is it called plug and play??
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Because we like 3 letter-wide stuff, regardless of senses. Plug and Play gives you "PnP", which is cool. where else, according to your version, "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play" gives you "Pittttr", which is not only non-cool, but also hard to pronounce.
Mmmm. Pitta - lovely. Goes well with Not an actual number of Naan.
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
It's all relative. Sure, it ain't nearly as easy as what it purports to be, especially the cheap stuff. But... it's been almost a decade since i last had to worry about IRQs, or choose between a working sound card and a CPU-intensive parallel port driver. So by comparison, it's almost fun... :rolleyes:
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CataclysmicQuantums wrote:
ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!
If I had a dime for every sexual innuendo involved in the computer industry, I would be rich. Honestly, it is there, everywhere you look. Mostly because computer geeks notoriously got very "little" action, so they settled for embedding sexual innuendo. Do you really want an honest and complete assessment for what USB plug-n-play really is? and what it means?
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El Corazon wrote:
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So they get lots of action now? I doubt it.
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Hence why we have floppy and hard disks, motherboards, male and female adapters. It's not just the computer industry - it's wherever you have a bunch of undersexed overhormoned males. It always reminds me of the refute to the men can't multitask argument - "I can multitask, I can fantasise about a beautiful woman and not drool - both at the same time."
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Because of its sexual connotations. Nothing succeeds better marketing wise than something with sexual connotations.
No it is not you pervert. Its not funny.
CataclysmicQuantums wrote:
No it is not you pervert. Its not funny.
Did I say something funny? I was being dead serious. If you disagree, well, that's fantastic. You're the model Waldorf[^] parent then, as you obviously haven't been exposed to any form of advertisement what-so-ever! And even more importantly, your soul hasn't been influenced by Ahrimanic[^] forces and you should find your period of kamaloka[^] significantly reduced and your journey to the Sun being much easier. Marc
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CataclysmicQuantums wrote:
No it is not you pervert. Its not funny.
Did I say something funny? I was being dead serious. If you disagree, well, that's fantastic. You're the model Waldorf[^] parent then, as you obviously haven't been exposed to any form of advertisement what-so-ever! And even more importantly, your soul hasn't been influenced by Ahrimanic[^] forces and you should find your period of kamaloka[^] significantly reduced and your journey to the Sun being much easier. Marc
Wow, If I was high on DXM that would be an amazing story.
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CataclysmicQuantums wrote:
No it is not you pervert. Its not funny.
Did I say something funny? I was being dead serious. If you disagree, well, that's fantastic. You're the model Waldorf[^] parent then, as you obviously haven't been exposed to any form of advertisement what-so-ever! And even more importantly, your soul hasn't been influenced by Ahrimanic[^] forces and you should find your period of kamaloka[^] significantly reduced and your journey to the Sun being much easier. Marc
He's one of our resident trolls, Marc. Captain See Sharp reincarnated. Ignore him..
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Wow, If I was high on DXM that would be an amazing story.
"That's an amazing story!"
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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He's one of our resident trolls, Marc. Captain See Sharp reincarnated. Ignore him..
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." - Frank Herbert
Patrick Sears wrote:
He's one of our resident trolls, Marc. Captain See Sharp reincarnated. Ignore him..
Ahhhh. :) Marc
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It's all relative. Sure, it ain't nearly as easy as what it purports to be, especially the cheap stuff. But... it's been almost a decade since i last had to worry about IRQs, or choose between a working sound card and a CPU-intensive parallel port driver. So by comparison, it's almost fun... :rolleyes:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
Ah, the goodbad ol' days of jumpers and ISA cards.
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
I thought it was called "Plug & Pray".:laugh:
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norm .net wrote:
Plug and piss about for an hour
What the hell is that? Do you call that humor? I find it appalling.
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ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!
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I thought it was called "Plug & Pray".:laugh:
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
Yeah, but marketing couldn't remember that slogan, they always forgot the reboot. And you know what happens then... so "install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play" became shortened to "play".
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It's all relative. Sure, it ain't nearly as easy as what it purports to be, especially the cheap stuff. But... it's been almost a decade since i last had to worry about IRQs, or choose between a working sound card and a CPU-intensive parallel port driver. So by comparison, it's almost fun... :rolleyes:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
You are not bullshitting me with your technobabble, old man. And learn to spell "ICQ"!
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Then feel free to go away forever.
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"That's an amazing story!"
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
But in DMX language "Dude!!! That's the shit!!111"
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
From the plug and play hardware I use it seems pretty straight forward. Webcam Keyboard Mouse Speakers Just plug them in, install drivers and then it works, never had to reboot after installing drivers. And wasn't it originally called that for mice and keyboards because you didn't have to shut down then plug your mouse/keyboard into the serial port and then boot up, you could just attach it once the OS had loaded up? I may be completely wrong by the way.
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
Have you ever written a driver installation app? It's practically impossible to do it correctly, and you certainly can't do it based solely on the help in the Windows Driver Kit. Since I've had to write several, I've had a lot more sympathy. You get the feeling the programmers in the Microsoft Drivers group are all reavers[^].
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