My top three favorite items in this article:

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SD cards are by far the industry standard on memory, and I will be the first to sign a petition outlawing every other memory format (yes, including Compact Flash). But wait! There are multiple varieties of SD cards, too, so we really are not winning any battles here.

2.

CDMA may be disliked (especially by those who have GSM phones), but do not forget that the world has hardly selected one standard for phone carriers. While GSM might be the majority player, like SD cards, it still has multiple varieties. And while the SIM card idea sounds great on paper, we have had a lot of difficulties getting them to work. (GCI in Alaska is our latest example where we have to swap SIM cards because they are moving to a different GSM network. So much for GSM being ubiquitous.)

3.

The sound quality improvement of AAC and WMA is really at very small bit rates, which is stupid in the age of 4gb shuffles. PC Magazine did a study and found that MP3 actually sounds better than both of these formats when using any bit rate above 160K. That leaves only one reason to use a format other than MP3: Because no one wants to pay the small royalties to use it. I am a cheapskate, but that seems absurd to me.

Still, the one thing I have come to accept is that the gadget community will continue to create new standards and formats that will ultimately make all of our lives ridiculously complicated. Consider it job security, folks.

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Kodak Disk Cameras.

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worst idea they ever had. I mean.. 35mm was plentiful and easy to get and use.. so they create that??

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Apple's Mini-DVI, Micro-DVI, Mini-VGA...whatever other video ports they have. Those are just evil.

All the consoles having different video plugs and power cords.

There has to be more...just can't think of them right now.

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Example.

So if you already have a DVI to VGA converter and you want to use either DVI or VGA though your Display Port. You have to buy both adapters.

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