You know what really grinds my gears?

[ghotiphry]

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

It always bugs the hell out of me when I see an ad for guitar stuff and you have some hot chick holding a guitar who obviously has no idea what to do with the instrument.  Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of attractive women.  But I'm not going to pick up a piece of gear just because some hottie with a nice figure is holding it.  Mostly I feel insulted by companies that choose to market their wares that way.  It underestimates my intelligence, and more importantly, it ignores that many women are consumers of musical gear (the sausage festival going on around this board notwithstanding).  Screw that noise.

The Dean "V" ad of 1980!

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

This where the Apple Lightning adapter is genius, no matter how you plug it in, it works!

 

[Cagey]

You think the "Lightning" connector is the whip? That's just a money grab by Apple. USB3.1-C is the new "standard" that's gonna replace absolutely everything, because it's faster than dammit, carries enough power to weld with, is retro-compatible and finally reversible. Now how much would you pay?

Of course, if you believe that, you clearly haven't been paying attention to the last 529,318 standard, one-size-fits-all final solutions to data/power connectivity.

Get ready to buy yet another grocery bag full of new cables and adaptors.

 

[swarfrat]

Universal connectors are not a good thing. Did we not learn anything from the quarter inch phone plug? I can't find one right now but I'm pretty sure I've seen a Household plug to 1/4" phone plug cable for camera flashes. Yep. Could plug your 54' strat into 124VAC with such a thing.

 

[Logrinn]

Yep. Could plug your 54' strat into 124VAC with such a thing.

:headbang1: :headbang1: :headbang1:

 

[Cagey]

Universal connectors are not a good thing.

You're right, of course, and that's one of the reasons there's no such thing. But, that's how they sell every new iteration of connection scheme that boils up out of some marketing weenie's fever dream of mo' money, mo' money, mo money! What's enough to piss off a saint is they often have all this stuff sussed out long before they spring it on an unsuspecting public. You know those engineers beavering away down in the dungeon thought up most of this stuff long ago, what with their having the ability to see more than 8 minutes into the future. SATA is a good example. SATA III was defined before SATA I was ever coded into and soldered onto job 1, but they couldn't sell the same drives/controllers over and over again if they'd have just given us the good stuff up front. Not that anything can talk at those speeds anyway, but it sounds good on paper.

 

[BigSteve22]

SATA is a good example. SATA III was defined before SATA I was ever coded into and soldered onto job 1, but they couldn't sell the same drives/controllers over and over again if they'd have just given us the good stuff up front. Not that anything can talk at those speeds anyway, but it sounds good on paper.

Change a word or two and you basically have Apple's buisness plan:
"SATA iPhone is a good example. SATA III iPhone 3was defined before SATA I iPhone 1was ever coded into and soldered onto job 1, but they couldn't sell the same drives/controllers iPhones over and over again if they'd have just given us the good stuff up front."

 

[amigarobbo]

 

[amigarobbo]

SATA is a good example. SATA III was defined before SATA I was ever coded into and soldered onto job 1, but they couldn't sell the same drives/controllers over and over again if they'd have just given us the good stuff up front. Not that anything can talk at those speeds anyway, but it sounds good on paper.

Change a word or two and you basically have Apple's buisness plan:
"SATA iPhone is a good example. SATA III iPhone 3was defined before SATA I iPhone 1was ever coded into and soldered onto job 1, but they couldn't sell the same drives/controllers iPhones over and over again if they'd have just given us the good stuff up front."

Just a small point, but SATA III backwards compatible with SATA I? Is it b*llocks, the hours I wasted with that flash SATA II drive freezing trying to speed up my mothers ancient Apple laptop.  :tard:

 

[Cagey]

It'll plug in and work, but you'll get the lower of the two specs. So, putting a SATA III drive on a SATA I controller will only get you SATA I transfer rates. Same rule applies for the other combinations.

Incidentally, the same rule applies for the various USB protocols as well. Everything is interchangeable, you only get the least common denominator in performance.

 

[amigarobbo]

It always bugs the hell out of me when I see an ad for guitar stuff and you have some hot chick holding a guitar who obviously has no idea what to do with the instrument.  Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of attractive women.  But I'm not going to pick up a piece of gear just because some hottie with a nice figure is holding it.  Mostly I feel insulted by companies that choose to market their wares that way.  It underestimates my intelligence, and more importantly, it ignores that many women are consumers of musical gear (the sausage festival going on around this board notwithstanding).  Screw that noise.

The Dean "V" ad of 1980!

 

[Cagey]

What, you don't think she looks like a typical bass player? I think she looks real talented. Maybe some different glasses or switch to contacts, but otherwise, yeah. Lotta talent.

 

[ghotiphry]

That's really a man.

 

[aarontunes]

The Dean "V" ad of 1980!

LOL at the pre-Photoshop Photoshop skills.  :toothy10: :toothy12:

 

[aarontunes]

My wife and I here in the Tukwilla, WA GC one time, and I kid you not, they had uniformed Hooters girls in there for some kind of promo they were doing. At some point I pulled a Tele® off the wall, and one of them walked briskly up to me, and in her most enthusiastic voice said "That's a nice one!"


My wife and I locked eyes for a heartbeat, and then burst out laughing. We both felt awful, but just couldn't hold it in.


I am smiling now, just recalling it.

 

[BigSteve22]

Happiness and an empty wallet. Maybe if a Hooters girl had helped him, he'd be really happy, but just as broke!

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

This is the ad that I was referring to.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/65/57/26/6557268c384183e378398a8bf31ec47b--dean-guitars-guitar-players.jpg

 

[Cagey]

Wow. She looks pretty talented, too!

 

[swarfrat]

My wife and I here in the Tukwilla, WA GC one time, and I kid you not, they had uniformed Hooters girls in there...

How is that different from their regular employees?
Oh never mind. UNIFORMED. I misread that.