Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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