Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, employers hate art and humanities majors. They think too much, and make their brain-dead business-major bosses look like the idiots that most of them are. That's my belief based on years of doing photography and graphic design work for businesses. The managers and owners I work with often tell me that they won't hire art/humanities people because they think we're lazy and unambitious. That's a load of horse shit; those of us who have made a living in the arts have worked our asses off to make enough to survive. I don't doubt the businessmen/women I have talked to are telling me how they feel, but I suspect there's more to it than that. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 4/14/14 12:22 AM, "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote: >You may not know this, and most employers certainly don't, but Liberal >Arts >and Fine Arts majors make the best employees. They learn fast, and are >not >filled with useless ideas about how to get things done, and more easily >adapt to change. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jim Gmail >Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 10:13 PM >To: Leica Users Group >Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Sony Sucks, big time > >I was a liberal arts major (Econ) and have designed products and services >that you very likely have used. Back in the 90s when I was at MSFT, there >were loads of music majors writing code and even art history majors >running >product groups. The group program manager for the native apps on the >original iphone was an English major. Many tech startup founders have >liberal arts backgrounds. > >Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 13, 2014, at 22:35, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >>wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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