I went to scan a photo tonight. Slapped it on the scanner and pressed ‘Scan’ on my desktop computer…
And got a warning message “No scanner found”. Huh?
I looked at the scanner. It was powered on. I looked at the cables. They were plugged in.
Well, stuff happens. I cycled power on the scanner and tried again…
And got a warning message “No scanner found”. Huh?
Well, pshaw. I cycled power on the desktop, logged in as me, and…
The desktop locked up, ignored all keyboard and mouse inputs.
Rrrrrr, I mashed the power button on the desktop until it shut down. I waited a bit and powered the desktop on again.
I logged in as me, held my breath, and pressed ‘Scan’…
And lo and behold it worked.
The moral of this story is if you really believe Google or Tesla or Ford is going to bring you a driverless car in the foreseeable future, just remember, these are the same people who can’t make a scanner reliably talk to a desktop computer.
Icarus, call your office.
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