Chris,
I couldn't agree more. So many new products, particularly
electronics, are so obsessed with providing all conceivable features for
any possible situation they suffer from such badly designed feature
bloat that renders then barely usable. For example, when we moved into
our most recent home it came pre-wired with a 5 channel audio/video
system. On a friend's advice I purchased a Denon 5.1 channel receiver to
run the system. The manual for this system runs to 300+ pages (and
that's just one language!) and the remote has about 75 buttons. Good
grief.
And another thing, if General Motors starts making food I'll
switch to Toyota turnips. ;^)
Charlie
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Barker
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 1:23 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: you brits are pathetic...
Hmm, I don't believe that "petulant" describes my, errm, surprise at
the authority some give "facts" on the www, or in the press.
Gadgets should have instructions only to back up well-designed
functionality. I have just bought 2 digital immersion heater timers
to get rid of the noise that the analogue 24hr gizmos made. I have
read the instructions and set the times, but I keep having to go back
to the instructions because the system is so badly designed. The same
goes for setting the time on our cooker: the functionality is just not
intuitive. I save worrying about it on our microwave by switching it
off at the plug when it's not in use -- saves energy as well ...
That's one reason that I don't trust GM food: if engineers can't get
electronic gadgets right, why should I trust other engineers to modify
the genes at minimum risk?
Chris
On 10 Aug 2008, at 12:45, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> That's a bit petulant - clearly Reevoo.com are a respected academic
> source and I'm sure that their interviewers were well trained, their
> interview schedules free of any possibility of generating minor
> invalidities and inaccuracies and their sample of 2000 respondents
> was properly randomised and structured (no, not contradictory).
> Beyond that, it has the grim ring of plausibility to it.
> Andrew Fildes (former market research interviewer - hey, we can't all
> put ourselves through university by more legitimate work like table
> top dancing).
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