Why can't companies make standards based equipment for the consumer?

I have a nice Kodak v570 dual lens digital camera and was sick of Easy Share and wanted to use Google's Picasa 2. Well, Picasa doesn't "see" the camera, heck windows doesn't see the camera, only easy share does.

My old sony works fine, so does my old canon. Why can't the kodak one work?

And on that note, why can't these camera makers use standard usb or mini usb connectors? Kodak, Sony, Canon, almost everyone seems to have a different sync cable. I hope this gets fixed soon. What a great 3rd party fix, a usb cable with a ton of different ends to attach to any device.

My rant for the day... Hopefully someone has some creative way to make Picasa 2 see the Kodak camera so I don't have to import into easy share first.

Frankly, nothing against easy share, just don't need all the extras it offers and eye candy. Just need a simple image manager like iphoto on the mac.

Down at your local arcade there's always some kid who spends more money playing DDR then you do on rent each month. Prepare to meet that guys idol.

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This site should bring back some fond memories for those of you who grew up playing Mike Tyson's Punch-Out on the Nintendo. The site allows you to play the game on-line in your browser using the NESCafe NES emulator and automatically tracks visitors fight scores in a Hall of Fame! Should be fun for anyone who played the original classic!

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