Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was a liberal arts major (Econ) and have designed products and services that you very likely have used. Back in the 90s when I was at MSFT, there were loads of music majors writing code and even art history majors running product groups. The group program manager for the native apps on the original iphone was an English major. Many tech startup founders have liberal arts backgrounds. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 13, 2014, at 22:35, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information