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Subject: [Leica] OT: Sony Sucks, big time
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:05:12 +0530
References: <3B37FEB4-3FAC-411F-A550-A20037C3B760@frozenlight.eu> <6613B562-AB26-45C3-B69A-CBE875A17038@acm.org> <A7DB6DB8-0F15-4176-805A-582C7887D5A5@gmail.com>

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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Replies: Reply from chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford) ([Leica] OT: Sony Sucks, big time)
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