Posted on 01/05/2016 9:03:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Try reading the cr*p that comes from any of our so-called lib arts academic types.
At least the engineers make things that work (software engineers excepted).
Too many companies ignore the “human engineering” aspect of the products that they sell. This wasn’t the case at all when ‘Boomers were growing up.
To turn on my phone, I hit the ‘off’ button. To turn off my computer, I click the ‘on’ button. These things can’t reflect stupidity - they are the manufacturers showing contempt for their customers.
As for the article - they don’t put writing on the buttons because they want to use the same design world wide, and want to pretend that most of the world can’t understand English.
We have been going downhill ever since they replaced ‘On and Off’ with 1 and 0......................
Eschew obfuscation!
I prefer it over Hindi or Mexican.
With sufficient synergy this sort of paradigm shift will be available real soon now. Configurations of grammatical constructs and identification of proper vocabulistic choices should be well within tolerances for engineers.
— an engineer
Luddite.
I love Sowell, but perhaps he protesteth too much this time.
Even paper editions of newspapers shuffle stuff around and change names (Editorial sections are often re-named to Opinion and such).
And your car ignition switch isn’t labelled, either. But even if you only drive once a year, you should have an idea what to look for.
He might have a point about the fuel release lever, though.
He says, sending his message through a computer operating system (designed and written by software engineers), where it gets chopped up into packets in multiple layers of network protocols (designed and written by software engineers), transmitted over networks both wired and wireless using firmware (designed and written by software engineers), received by another computer using more layers of network protocols (designed and written by software engineers), delivered to another computer operating system (designed and written by software engineers), transferred to the Free Republic application (designed and written by software engineers), and displayed to the rest of us by more of the same (designed and written by software engineers).
And IT WORKS.
But this is impossible, because software engineers don't make things that work.
It’s not the “on” button or the “off” button, it’s the power switch.
Just like the light switch on the wall ....
One good example he cited was the remote trunk opener. This was originally designed with rental cars in mind ... so a traveler with a lot of luggage could open the trunk without putting all the bags down and fumbling for the trunk key.
I’m in whole-hearted agreement with Sowell on this.
Half of 'em put it on the right side of the car. The other half put it on the left. Convenient, actually, at the gas station.
You should have a lawyer re-write that. You’ll need more bandwidth, though.
Haha!
It’s not the engineers that decide how to label buttons.
Besides, what is the problem with ‘power’ to label a button that is dual purpose on/off?
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