I give a big “Boo!” to Logitech who have committed the Internet cardinal sin: ceasing to provide downloadable drivers for their outdated products. I had a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000I donated to Dave-O, but had lost the CD. This ball-shaped videocam was common a few years back and is still widely used, as shown in today’s example photo. Logitech no longer provides the support, although the camera is still for sale in the $75 range. It is unconscionable for manufacturers to drop their own software, the more so because drivers are a cheap and easy customer service. Instead, all you get from Logitech is a crippled discussion forum although your search specified you wanted the driver. If you need on-going product support, Logitech is in the same category as Sony: “Bastard-Rat”.
[Author’s note: Nowhere on the camera itself are you told it is the QuickCam Pro 4000, for which Logitech deserves another slap in the head. You get this info by cross-referencing the model number V-UJ16 found on the USB cable tag (duh, Logitech) and some nimble Google searches. Logitech, that's a fail.]
[Author’s note: For those who need the Win XP workaround on the camera, go to the Logitech site and download the driver for the current QuickCam 5000. First, plug in your Pro 4000 and then attempt to install the driver for the 5000. You will, of course, get a message that the driver is incompatible with the device, so exit the install. But you will also notice your Win device manager now recognizes the Pro 4000 and you can continue. Who’s the whiz kid now?]
Dave-O gave me the history of Kelly’s Pub, I’ve never met or seen Kelly. Dave-O was in there several years ago when Kelly went on a rampage. Dave-O describes how Kelly threw a woman out of the place and proceeded to empty a pistol into the ceiling, which is roughly the size of the broad side of a barn. Gee, I thought those cavities were for concrete anchors, albeit to an odd extent, randomly spaced.
To me, that says more about single American women than about Kelly. These women want all the comfort in the world handed to them. Yet even the best I’ve met seem to show no interest whatsoever in intellectual pursuits. They don’t even spot the connection between being a loser and watching soap operas all day. Those who are incapable of anything except one simple-minded thought at a time shouldn’t wonder why other people own the world. Other people are probably using their brains to think instead of gab on the phone all day.
Ah yes, soap operas. They are on the decline. I’m not complaining, I’m not complaining. The cause is not increased sophistication of viewers, no sirree, but competition from an even worse creation: the talk show. Myself, I considered soaps to be so well-funded as to be permanent, considering their addiction rate among bored post-menopausal housewives. According to Time magazine, the soap episodes are too expensive even after resorting to fewer actors and cheaper outdoor scenery.
Oh, if anyone wants to be rich, I have an idea for a TV program that will garner 85% of the male viewing audience. I won’t say what it is, but I guarantee if we could produce and air just one program, the money will flow like Niagara. It will piss off the remaining viewers, but so what, the idea is perfectly legal and above board.
[Author's note 2015-07-28: The idea is simple, costs only a camera to produce, plus a little editing for content, recorded free in public, but the world is not ready for it. Although legal, it would create such an outrage that I dare not even say. But the largest moneyed class in America can probably guess. The show is not in any way pornography, but would air after midnight.]
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