LCD conductive tape

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

William Sommerwerck wrote:

I've been trying "forever" to get several companies, native and
foreign -- including National Semiconductor -- to pay me to edit
their docuementation. THEY WILL NOT. It is of less than zero
concern to them. As long as they make money, the quality of
their user manuals, etc, does not matter.

Probably they'd find it embarassing to admit that their
"docuementation" was in any way lacking. Maybe with a bit of guangxi...

I've long felt it's largely a matter of "face".

You'd think that they'd hire a native English speaking tech writer before
publishing the first edition. 'Face' has already been lost once the Engrish
version hits the market and then every time a savvy user refers to it.

--
Paul Hovnanian paul@hovnanian.com
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Have gnu, will travel.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote:

William Sommerwerck wrote:

I've been trying "forever" to get several companies, native and
foreign -- including National Semiconductor -- to pay me to edit
their docuementation. THEY WILL NOT. It is of less than zero
concern to them. As long as they make money, the quality of
their user manuals, etc, does not matter.

Probably they'd find it embarassing to admit that their
"docuementation" was in any way lacking. Maybe with a bit of guangxi...

I've long felt it's largely a matter of "face".

You'd think that they'd hire a native English speaking tech writer before
publishing the first edition.

What? And ruin a perfect score on poor documentation?


--
Politicians should only get paid if the budget is balanced, and there is
enough left over to pay them.

 

[William Sommerwerck]

What? And ruin a perfect score on poor documentation?

Some Japanese companies have very good English manuals -- because they're
written by Americans. Plextor is one, Standard Vertex (Yaesu) is another.

I have a Yamaha DSP-3000 dating back 20 years, and the manual appears to
have been written by a native-English speaker. I don't know about current
Yamaha products.

The second-worst user manuals I've ever seen are for my Olympus and Canon
DSLRs. THE worst is for my Pioneer plasma TV. It tells you ABSOLUTELY
NOTHING about what the controls actually do, and how one should adjust them.
And it's over 100 pages long!

 

[Art Todesco]

On 11/11/2010 1:56 PM, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:

William Sommerwerck wrote:

I've been trying "forever" to get several companies, native and
foreign -- including National Semiconductor -- to pay me to edit
their docuementation. THEY WILL NOT. It is of less than zero
concern to them. As long as they make money, the quality of
their user manuals, etc, does not matter.

Probably they'd find it embarassing to admit that their
"docuementation" was in any way lacking. Maybe with a bit of guangxi...

I've long felt it's largely a matter of "face".

You'd think that they'd hire a native English speaking tech writer before
publishing the first edition. 'Face' has already been lost once the Engrish
version hits the market and then every time a savvy user refers to it.

Ya but, you'd loose the fun in trying to read and figure out the

manual. A friend once bought a Japanese manufactured (long ago)
camera and the manual talked about pushing the shutter release
button and hearing the sound of a "crick". I also had a German
built camera flash that talked about "mains operating flashing",
whatever that is. It took me a long time to figure out that they
meant you could run the flash from an outlet (the mains) if the
battery was dead.