[TheForge] Recuperative Wall furnace sketch.

[Darrell]

The random date just MIGHT be the date that you took the picture.

Darrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <frosty at customcpu.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Recuperative Wall furnace sketch.


> It is giving directions, literally and while it may make sense to them . . 
> . <grin>
>
> I agree, some of the worst directions come from folk who've done IT for a 
> long time. This is why I learned so much more from my students than more 
> advanced smiths.
>
> I think there's another factor at work too, competition. Seems like the 
> meat of directions gets lost in the add pitch for the newest greatest 
> whateveritis. In this case I simply did NOT want to download a software 
> package useful ONLY on Photoaccess. They offered a just upload it without 
> all our most marvelous bells and whistles option. I guess with the plain 
> option you get an album with a random date as a name?
>
> To be fair I didn't spend much time trying to figure it out.
>
> Remember how a scanner or printer used to work? Key in "ctrl p" and the 
> printer did it's thing, maybe highlight just what you wanted printed 
> first. Scanning used to be a matter of hitting "aquire image," "scan," 
> etc. and whatever program you aquired from would do it's thing.
>
> You aught to see the crap I have to go through now to print something and 
> scanning is a real pain. Even if I use one of my old OLD programs it seems 
> the scanner or printer has onboard programming to defeat simply doing what 
> it's told. Of course it's all in the name of convenience!
>
> End rant. <grin>
>
> Frosty
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>>
>> It may just be that for them it is totally intuitive.
>>
>> It is like giving directions. Often the worst directions are given by 
>> someone very familiar with the terrain.
>> The directions themselves are fine: Go on X and turn left on Y. They just 
>> neglect to tell you about the 45 miles and 32 intersections before you 
>> get to Y. They have driven it twice a day for thirty years, those details 
>> are just assumed.
>>
>> Mike Graf
>>
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