Surely this is just gap-filling?

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Do you think that Belkin were just trying to fill a gap with some of the product features listed for their "Firepath" firewire cable?

http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hardware/cablesconnectorsandadaptors/productView.htm?quicklinx=TCC

Plug and Play Technology;
HotPluggable;

Or do you think that they really felt a need to add them... kind of like having "This product contains nuts" on the back of a packet of peanuts?

Dan


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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Yes - it really does appear to be gap filling. This from their USB A/B cable description:

You've purchased the USB printer of your dreams, but faulty wiring keeps sending it error filled data. A Belkin Pro Series USB device cable will keep those dream machines error free.

I'm sure they could do something that sounds a lot better (and less cheesy) if they put their minds to it!

Dan


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[CrystalStart]

Last I've heard peanuts weren't nuts

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Mixed nuts then. Or just nuts.

 

[CajunCenturion]

I think there is some degree of market-speak, but these two phrases do imply, at least to me, a certain functionality.

Plug and Play Technology - This is supposed to mean that all you need to do is plug it in and it works. You shouldn't have to install this or that, or go through some configuration process, or reboot the machine in order to use the product.

HotPluggable - Is this a neologism, based on the hot swap technology with RAID drives? There are some devices that require them to be 'shut down' before they can be unplugged from the system. On my older PC at home, I have to execute a 'shut down' process before I can disconnect the USB cable to the external CD burner. I think there are some other USB devices that cannot be unplugged at will without some risk. To me, hot-pluggable implies that I can simply unplug, or plug in, the device as needed without going through any preparation steps.

I used 'hot-pluggable' rather than 'HotPluggable' for two reasons. Firstly, I know of no valid English word which uses camel-back capitalization. Secondly, hyphenation is normally the first step when combining two words for the purposes of building a single term.

Perhaps a good question for discussion is, "Is 'plug and play' and 'hot-pluggable' a tautology?"


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[Thadeus]

I'm reading this the same as you CC.
I'd even go a step further and say that my impression is of a piece of equipment that doesn't need to be plugged in during re-boot. So a printer that must be plugged in when the PC initially boots is not hot-pluggable. A joystick that can be plugged in when you decide you want to play a game, and requires no re-boot, is hot-pluggable...

Of course these are my impressions and not definitions. I'd be interested in getting an official nod (read as link) either way.

~Thadeus