28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
10:28 p.m.
[...] a
motorized USB "Aquarium" [...]
Whule I can see the point of taking power
from the computer for an
interface converter, keyboard, mouse, something like that, wouldn't
it be simpler if devices like the aquarium, light, etc had their own
mains adapters? Or is a computer now regarded as simpler than a 5V
PSU?
Not simpler, but in a lot of cases more portable.
You may not use laptops enough to think of them, but there are a lot of
people who border on attached at the hip to theirs. They may not have
a mains outlet handy, but they *always* have a powered USB port handy.
That doesn't describe you, I assume; it doesn't describe me either. We
aren't part of the target market for that thing....
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