On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:32 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Oh, don't getme started! :)
1. The tendency for humans to stand at the very edge of a baggage
carousel so you can't see your bag, you need to excuse yourself into
the circle when you do see it, then run the risk of injuring someone
getting the bag off the conveyor. If they'd stand back 3 feet...
...then you would be standing there instead? <grin>
2. Those little metal "skewers" onto which order tickets in a
restaurant are "stabbed" (along with, presumably, a large number of
fingers, hands, the occasional wrist, and who knows what else.)
Are those still prevalent? I can't recall seeing them in years.
Maybe they got discontinued for just this reason?
3. Devices that "beep" for everything. My microwave beeps when I
press the buttons, beeps when it starts cooking, and beeps when it's
done. I've been wanting to "de-beep" it for years.
That's what happens when you remove the buttons and leave controls
with negligible haptic feedback, so it's got to be replaced by
something (I guess).
Of course, the first thought is "Why can't it be replaced by just
watching the display change?" Then again, the display on my microwave
burned out three weeks ago, so I've been using it from memory. Haven't
torched the cat yet, so I must have a good memory.
I just bought a new one tonight. Fortunately Fry's puts a copy of the
instruction manual inside the shelf models, so I could get some sense
of the UI, since they can't plug them in for you to try out due to
fire issues. May I never have to suffer another microwave which makes
me press Power-0-Time-1:00 to cooke something for 1 minute on Hi! I
noticed that some of the mid-range models had a dial rather than a
keypad. Of course, I couldn't try one out to see it it would beep-
beep-beep constantly as I twisted the dial. Probably would have,
though.
-- Jim
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