> Subject: Re: intel gige
>
> >> WHY when i buy a device i cannot know how to use them.  IMHO it's
> >> breaking of basic consumer law.
> > Of course you know how to use them.  They all come with user manuals,
> > after all.
>
> That attitude - that the consumer doesn't need to know anything but
> some miniscule fraction of the interface to the thing, and that the
> jokes that pass for "user manuals" these days are enough to "know how

yes. todays "user manuals" are jokes. nothing more.