| Oscar, Well, for one thing it hurts the American manufacturer.
I have noticed that the Chinese are willing to make even the tiniest profit and make it up in quantity. It is amazing the number of things you can buy from china, and many of then with free shipping. I don't fully understand all of this because there is so much I don't know about life in China, or other places I have never been. Now I don't understand what is up with the USBEE folks. They want way too much money for their hardware, and I don't believe their software is valuable enough to raise the market value of the product to that extent. But nonetheless they don't deserve to have their hardware design stolen and counterfeited. There a better product to buy that Yoda was telling me about which has open source software and costs less than seventy dollars outfitted with the extras board that makes channels 17-32 5v tolerant. 32 Channels for $70 is great. I look forward to owning one of those when finances permit. Douglas On Feb 21, 2013, at 5:20 AM, oscarv <vermeul...@gmail.com> wrote: Douglas, --- Douglas Goodall, http://goodall.com Note: I don't use messenger, or skype, or facebook, chat programs in general. Having always-on open communication links through massive public servers I don't have control over seems like too much of an invitation to be infected by a virus or bot. It is bad enough that my Mac wants to stay in periodic contact with Apple's cloud. Skype was tempting before Microsoft bought them. There have been too many examples of remote session links being abused by vendor employees. Even "back to my mac" makes me nervous. There was a recent episode where Apple cooperated with a social engineer and compromised someone's entire electronic persona. If you want to speak with me, calling me on the phone works well, and you don't have to wonder if the electronic mail got through or not. When I say "Hello, this is Doug", you know who you are talking to. Just in case you were curious. |