Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, But Liberal Arts majors are incapable of designing TVs or manufacturing them in the first place! (-: So what is your point? Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Jim Gmail <jplaurel at gmail.com> wrote: > That's what happens when the liberal arts are discarded in favor of more > "practical" majors. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Apr 13, 2014, at 20:19, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > > > > Nathan, > > > > You may just have been a victim of the fact that most engineers cannot > write, whether it's in English or Japanese. > > > > Here's how I achieved fame in my department at Apple. A couple of guys > "invented" a piece of software that gets independently invented at just > about every company that writes software. The system controlled editing so > that two or more people couldn't simultaneously make changes and step on > each other's work. So, if one person "checks the software out" for editing, > all others can get it on a read-only basis until the first person checks it > back in. > > > > I had to use this simple thing, and the write-up by it's authors was so > damn unintelligible that I had to figure out how to work it by trial and > error. After then using it, I just decided, on my own to write a manual. My > boss was so impressed that I got an imaginative reward: three bottles of > wine a month for a year. > > > > Subsequently, I was picked to edit our release notes, which ultimately > grew to about 350 pages. I had a great experience editing the writings of > people, with a few exceptions, couldn't write. > > > > Herbert Kanner > > kanner at acm.org > > 650-326-8204 > > > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > > > > > >> On Apr 13, 2014, at 1:44 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >> > >> I have never owned a Sony camera, and now I know for sure that I never > will. > >> > >> We just bought a 65-inch Sony Bravia TV, one of the latest models, not > cheap to put it mildly. Great picture, but we have struggling for 2 days > with the simple task (or should be simple) to connect a garden variety > laptop to the TV using its wifi interface so that the TV in effect acts as > a computer monitor, but without the clutter of HDMI cables and all that. > The menus and instructions for Sony products were apparently originally > written in Klingon, then translated into Japanese and then to English. And > it appears that unless your computer is a Sony Vaio, you have to perform > various unnatural acts. Everything Sony seems to be proprietary. > >> > >> I think the TV is going back to the store (fortunately, we bought > locally), to be replace by a Samsung or LG. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Nathan > >> > >> Nathan Wajsman > >> Alicante, Spain > >> http://www.frozenlight.eu > >> http://www.greatpix.eu > >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > >> > >> YNWA > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information