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USB BSU
Opposite orientations for adjacent ports. | |
For those fiddly ones at the back. Guessed wrong? Try the port next door, instead of having to change the orientation of your cable one handed.
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http://www.bsu.edu/...11770-49168,00.html
Nothing to do with Indiana's #1 party school. [RayfordSteele, Aug 21 2009]
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I'll never understand why they made those silly things rectangular to begin with. |
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Yeah, an obvious right-way orientation would be true engineering instead of just making stuff. |
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they are probably trying to save manufacturing costs. |
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Probably designed by some Ivy Tech CAD flunkie and not focused on by the rest of the team. |
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//an obvious right-way orientation// |
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Nah, just make them round, like guitar plugs. |
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There should be no guessing. They are always the same way up - the slot in the cable's connector is towards the top. Making some ports the other way would just confuse things. |
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True, but is there a rule for the upright ones? |
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How about an auto-rotate USB plug/socket - on registering a certain level of pressure, it spins 180° ready for another insertion. |
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//Probably designed by some Ivy Tech CAD flunkie and not focused on by the rest of the team// |
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Actually, you're not far off the mark. Ajay Bhatt, widely recognized as co-inventor of the USB, is an indian computer architect who, after completing his graduation in India, received a Masters Degree from the City University of New York. Works at Intel. |
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