So have we bombed China to teach them a lesson or did we just write hand wringing articles?
Last I checked, Bloomberg, Apple and Amazon don't own B52s.
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So have we bombed China to teach them a lesson or did we just write hand wringing articles?
I ain't sharing that publicly, or even privately beyond a select few people. You'll need to read up on the fundamentals on how computers actually function and take it from there.
As for USB, in a nutshell:
1: It's only good for about six feet before you have to get clever.
2: This is changing somewhat, but the connectors suck. For twenty fucking years or so we've all had to attempt to plug them in three times before we get it right.
3: Despite promises, even to this day it doesn't function overly well without a modern operating environment.
4: It's highly bandwidth limited. There have been better ways to handle this stuff. Now, that's improving as well, but when it takes this long, you've got a bad innovation.
5: The "universal" aspect isn't always so "universal".
6: I don't care how much technology they squeeze in there, you just need more copper than that for a reliable connection. The tiny connectors, while acceptable for phones and things of that nature, do not allow for fat enough wire.
It basically sucks for the same reasons HDMI sucks.
Cheers,
Kennith
Understandable concerns. It was a hell of an improvement over earlier PC interface connectors and became an outdated victim of its own success. Consumers don't like change and tech companies can't agree on standards. For distances up to 50ft, we've had success using active cables. For longer distance we've used fiber, UTP, and network based bridges. Hard to expect consumer tech to go those lengths without extra work.
I've got some active cables, but they do hiccup on occasion,[snip]
HDMI fucked everyone. [snip]
Hell, that video is delivered to hundreds of houses on their street via coaxial cable; audio and all. [snip]
An example would be your converters for longer runs. [snip]
I loved DVI, though. [snip]
Cheers,
Kennith
active cables.
fuck me.
1-directional hdmi. fuck you. non-latching connectors.
what the fuck.
SDI. now THAT'S a fucking system, boy-o.
DVI, I could take or leave. not that hot above 50 feet.
it still has all the hdcp horseshit.
15-pin d-sub (i just call it VGA) works in the 100' range, for fucks sake.
and it's ANALOG.
when all the digital shit craps out, i fall back to vga or 5-wire (5 separate coax cables in a single outer jacket: red, green, blue, horizontal and vertical sync) analog.
anything over CAT6, fuck it.
coax.
it was good enough for your grandfather's cable tv, it's good enough for you.
most of my big source devices (switches and whatnot) are HD-SDI output.
run a couple hundred feet of that, convert to whatever the projector or monitor wants to see.
that's a bit of a pita, since now i need damned converters on every fucking cable.
1 more potential point of failure, which makes me less than happy.
active cables.
fuck me.
1-directional hdmi. fuck you. non-latching connectors.
what the fuck.
SDI. now THAT'S a fucking system, boy-o.
DVI, I could take or leave. not that hot above 50 feet.
it still has all the hdcp horseshit.
15-pin d-sub (i just call it VGA) works in the 100' range, for fucks sake.
and it's ANALOG.
when all the digital shit craps out, i fall back to vga or 5-wire (5 separate coax cables in a single outer jacket: red, green, blue, horizontal and vertical sync) analog.
anything over CAT6, fuck it.
coax.
it was good enough for your grandfather's cable tv, it's good enough for you.
most of my big source devices (switches and whatnot) are HD-SDI output.
run a couple hundred feet of that, convert to whatever the projector or monitor wants to see.
that's a bit of a pita, since now i need damned converters on every fucking cable.
1 more potential point of failure, which makes me less than happy.
...
anything over CAT6, fuck it.
coworker called me yesterday to help troubleshoot hdmi over cat6 baluns. AGPTEK brand devices, single (new) cat6 runs to conference rooms. It works on specific shorter runs, and for some reason it works when connecting to some locations from the coworker's desk to that conf room (patched through the wiring closet), but it doesn't work reliably from teh wiring closet to the conf room.
If we 'jump start' the connection by going between PC and TV A, we can move to TV B and it works. until you unplug the devices. It has to be a handshake problem, maybe RF in the wiring closet (switches, transformers and CCTV equipment in there)
I told him to try a different brand of devices, see if it fixes the problem.