OK, I'll admit that's a good one. It does not easily translate to a digital domain though.
Where I work, there is a long underground corridor connecting two of the buildings. In the corridor there is a room with a huge evil-looking metal locker that has a single 3-way switch on the outside. Its the same rotary switch you mention. It has one position for "peace", and one position for "war". Thankfully, its switched to "peace". I wouldn't want to think what happened if someone went down there and switched it to "war". But its really the third position labeled "off" that troubles me the most :-) Morten On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:04 AM, pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Morten, I would have to disagree with the thinking that the typical > rocker switch > clearly indicates which state is active based on the physical position > of the 1 or 0. I've worked with these switches where the bulb has > failed, > in those circumstances its not clear whether the raised/prominent > position is the active state or not (it isnt). My vote for the king > of switches has to be the Siemens isolator rotary, in a word: > foolproof. A solution designed for critical industrial > applications... > http://img-europe.electrocomponents.com/largeimages/RD518666-01.jpg > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Morten Hjerde http://sender11.typepad.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
