For chuckles, manuals gone wrong...
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So I'm reading through a printed manual for a new piece of equipment for the lab, and I come across this brilliant suggestion: "... and Android support. Learn more about new features here." Yes, it's a hyperlink in a printed book. Cannot understand why it doesn't take me to the new features. :doh:
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Some years ago I worked for a US Corporation, although I was based in the UK. Marketing at US HQ periodically sent out a bulletin to everyone in the world about stuff they thought would be of interest. The document was usually about 20 pages or so, and every page comprised printed URLs (each usually in excess of 200+ characters), together with a single sentence describing them. When I suggested it would save money and make more sense to put this information on our intranet I got the reply: "Thank you for your suggestion, we will take it under advisement". It took them nearly a year to change.
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Some years ago I worked for a US Corporation, although I was based in the UK. Marketing at US HQ periodically sent out a bulletin to everyone in the world about stuff they thought would be of interest. The document was usually about 20 pages or so, and every page comprised printed URLs (each usually in excess of 200+ characters), together with a single sentence describing them. When I suggested it would save money and make more sense to put this information on our intranet I got the reply: "Thank you for your suggestion, we will take it under advisement". It took them nearly a year to change.
Yeah, well, if it worked, why change it??? ;)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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So I'm reading through a printed manual for a new piece of equipment for the lab, and I come across this brilliant suggestion: "... and Android support. Learn more about new features here." Yes, it's a hyperlink in a printed book. Cannot understand why it doesn't take me to the new features. :doh:
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
For the same reason the <blink> tag doesn't work! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah, well, if it worked, why change it??? ;)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time -
I always wondered if anyone actually tried typing all those characters into a browser. :confused:
Remember the computer magazines from the '80s with programs in them? Type all of the code in, hope it works.. when it doesn't, work to find the error... Good old days...
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Remember the computer magazines from the '80s with programs in them? Type all of the code in, hope it works.. when it doesn't, work to find the error... Good old days...
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For the same reason the <blink> tag doesn't work! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
lol :thumbsup:
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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So I'm reading through a printed manual for a new piece of equipment for the lab, and I come across this brilliant suggestion: "... and Android support. Learn more about new features here." Yes, it's a hyperlink in a printed book. Cannot understand why it doesn't take me to the new features. :doh:
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
As engineers, we possess the unique skill to decide when to RTFM and when not to.
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So I'm reading through a printed manual for a new piece of equipment for the lab, and I come across this brilliant suggestion: "... and Android support. Learn more about new features here." Yes, it's a hyperlink in a printed book. Cannot understand why it doesn't take me to the new features. :doh:
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Typical user doesn't understand how the tech works. That feature is only available to individuals with supported hardware. Try upgrading to Book 2.0 or, as a workaround, you can use outdated technology such as the Hololens or other supported VR headset. Click here for a list of supported VR headsets.
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I always wondered if anyone actually tried typing all those characters into a browser. :confused:
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Remember the computer magazines from the '80s with programs in them? Type all of the code in, hope it works.. when it doesn't, work to find the error... Good old days...
Boy do I remember those days. Just trying to GET SOMEONE to read the numbers back to you so you could verify them without "context switching" between screen and paper. Could you imagine a PRINTED magazine today with full source code of ALL of jQuery? And a little article on how the guy felt it might be useful? :-))))
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As engineers, we possess the unique skill to decide when to RTFM and when not to.
And to know when the FM is FWrong?
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Remember the computer magazines from the '80s with programs in them? Type all of the code in, hope it works.. when it doesn't, work to find the error... Good old days...
Ah... memories of a chess program. I think it was for Radio Shack's Color Computer. The program listing was hex code, with a short BASIC program that read the hex code and created the runtime (I think the BASIC program validated the hex code). Fortunately, this could be saved to the external cassette tape drive....
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charlieg wrote:
Cannot understand why it doesn't take me to the new features
You don't click it hard enough! :doh:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeFor a hard copy, you probably need a real mouse to click it. Be careful, the mouse may byte. And if you click too hard, it may leave droppings.
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And to know when the FM is FWrong?
That falls under "and when not".
