Sometimes my kids are smarter than me.
About ten years ago we got a new tv. (I hate tvs but there are four others in this house who don't share my hatred.) It was black, as was the fashion in those days, with controls molded so closely to the body that they were indistinguishable as controls.
Just glancing at it, we couldn't figure out how to turn it on. My daughter, who was probably 4 or 5 at the time, reached out and pushed the power button. At the time, she was short enough to be close to eye level with the buttons. Since then, I've seen one or two tvs with their controls ON TOP of the unit. Why aren't don't all tvs do that?
Ten years later, she solved another puzzle. I bought an 8-in-1 memory card reader that runs at USB2 speeds. Got it cheap at the local Zellers discount department store. Works great.
But what puzzles me is that when it is plugged in, Windows 2000 shows FOUR external drives, not just one. I was mentioning that to my daughter last week, when she pointed out the reader has four slots (one for each memory card profile). Of course! Each slot is treated as its own drive.
That's different from my HP printer, which has two memory slots. Both are treated as a single drive. I never use the printer's slots, because (1) the USBv1 connection is too slow; and (2) they are located on the side of the printer, which butts up against my laser printer, so there's no way I can acces the slots. Even if I wanted to.
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