18 Jul
2007
18 Jul
'07
3:46 p.m.
"Oh, so
*that's* what it's supposed to look like"
(I'm never too bothered if my tools are a little battered, providing I keep
the raw function in good shape)
My tools haven't much over the years.
I was thinking a little more of that "household appliances" - blenders,
waffle irons, toasters, etc.
I never had any trouble with toasters with fold down sides, not even the
new-fangled electric ones. But ever since I replaced mine with ones with
slots that "pop-up", I've never had good control of toasting, nor
At one times toasters had elements wound with a non-constnnt pitch, the
turns further apart at the top. The idea was that since hot air rises,
doing that would give a more even heat distribution and more even
toasting. Alas, since they were more expensive to make, they don't do
that any more :-(
Yes, I was VERY unimpressed with the early Macintosh
credo
of "a computer should be as easy to use as a toaster".
(and the first day that I had one, I put a "panic" button on a piece of
drill stock for disk ejection)
I objected to the entire Macintosh philosopy. Any company that thinks it
knows what I want, and has the arogoance to tell me I don't need to (and
can't) do things any other way is plain WRONG!
Nearly always when I buy someting it is with the intention of modifying
it. Companies I like to deal with appreciate this and design their
products to be modified, to have bits added on, and so on...
Sometimes I think that modern product engineering just
doesn't have
somebody like me in mind.
Nor me... They stopped having me in mind when they stopped putting
schematics in the user manual, when cars stopped coming with _useful_
handbooks (at the very least I expect a wiring diagram and torque
settings for the important engine bolts) and so on.
-tony