First, I have a techie / hardware question.
Now you
could say I shouldn't have assumed that my
Mobilepro's PC Card Slot would allow a USB adapter when I went ahead and bought that
Lexar LDP-600, which can
only be recharged by USB connection. You
could say it's my own fault. You
could say I should just slow down and think things out. You
could say that I should wait until I have ALL the information before I jump in.
You could.
I wouldn't, obviously,
like you anymore. But, that's your choice.
I'm keeping the Mobilepro so just drop that suggestion.
Now, I
could test my theory by making that nice young man at the computer store open a new box of something I'm not going to buy (it must be the phone voice), or I could assume (yet again) that I'm right and open the Lexar (thereby rendering it to a lower resale value) and buy a gadget that may not be useable in the context I need it to be OR
you could just save my ass by telling me you have the ability to TEST my theory or that you have seen it in action.
Pwease.
OKAY, here it is. I need to buy a memory card reader because my Mobilepro uses CF for storage, the camera has it's little funky cards and I can also use the card slot for another kind of storage as well so it only makes sense to be able to read/write and swap info about on the cards, yes? So, THEN does it follow that a card reader that *includes* a
USB hub could
theoretically be used to recharge my Lexar if it came
WITH an adapter that supplied extra power.
What I'm saying here, is that even if I couldn't plug the USB hub INTO a USB port at the time, isn't it still feasible that it would supply power enough through the USB connections to recharge my Lexar if it were just plugged into a power source?
Did anyone get that? Am I making sense? Or am I just so desperate that I've taken the 'think outside the box' thing a little too far out da box?
Second. A little
John Keats for this fine fall evening.
sonnet: "When I Have Fears. . . "
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charactry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love; -then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
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