Timewarp
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So....you thought I was finished with my rants? Bwhaha. Well no. After a bit of time away, i'm fully recharged with hatred and ready to spew it on the unsuspecting...whoever reads this. Anyway....
So how many people have bought any electronic recently? Like a video game or appliance? You take it out of the packaging, throw away the trash and then place it where you need it. You fuddle with every function it has and take the joy of a new product. Let's skip ahead a few months or years later. Suddenly there seems to be problem with your electronic. You check it out, and can't figure out what's wrong. Suddenly you think, "I'll look at the manual". You search everywhere in the house but you just can't seem to find it. After some time you just give up. You go back to your machine and notice a piece of paper sticking out below it. You pull it out and realize it is the manual....but it's only the part you don't need.
Alright...longest situation i've done but it proves this rant's point. Manuals are completely useless and the first things you always loose. I have never used a manual to any electronic i've bought except in cases of new technology...which is very rare. I really hate them. Here's why.
1. Lost: So what's the first thing you always loose? The manual! It's never the warrant or the special offers or even the discount coupon. I tell you I have many packagings from the electronics I've bought. And just about every single one has everything in them. Those offers, the brown cardboard, even the packaging foam. Everything is there, except the damn manual. It normally doesn't matter to me really except when they are manuals to computer games. Why? Because recently access codes for activating games are printed on the manual. It used to be that it was a printed piece a paper in the box itself. But this simple normality is now gone. So if you erase your game from you hard drive and then later on you want to play it again, you need that access code. So pray to all heaven almighty that you didn't loose the manual or you're pretty much SoL.
2. Uselessness: How many people actually read an electronics manual? Oh I say I only read them while calling nature...Don't look into that. Anybody with a brain can pretty much figure out what an electronic's function after a few minutes of playing around with it...which is much more satisfying than reading some boring words that make no sense. Same with Video Game manuals. I mean pretty much the developers included in-game tutorials for every function. Manuals in that case serve as fillers to fill in details about certain functions. Nothing more. I can't remember the last time I took time out on a game to read in a manual to figure out what to do next...except if my chair had a hole in it...
3. unnecessary: Why do manuals come in so many different languages? How many people in the United states speak Spanish or French to constitute a longer manual? I mean if I have to learn different languages to go to another country and converse with people, people from other countries should do the same thing when they come here. I hate looking through a manual trying to find the English version part without page after page of sixteen different languages.
4. Support: The last thing that just irks me is that the manual doesn't cover every single possible problem. If something is not covered, it suggest to call Customer support. And i'm not going into that until I rant about it.
Alright. So if you have commits post them. Not that anyone cares, mind ya...
So how many people have bought any electronic recently? Like a video game or appliance? You take it out of the packaging, throw away the trash and then place it where you need it. You fuddle with every function it has and take the joy of a new product. Let's skip ahead a few months or years later. Suddenly there seems to be problem with your electronic. You check it out, and can't figure out what's wrong. Suddenly you think, "I'll look at the manual". You search everywhere in the house but you just can't seem to find it. After some time you just give up. You go back to your machine and notice a piece of paper sticking out below it. You pull it out and realize it is the manual....but it's only the part you don't need.
Alright...longest situation i've done but it proves this rant's point. Manuals are completely useless and the first things you always loose. I have never used a manual to any electronic i've bought except in cases of new technology...which is very rare. I really hate them. Here's why.
1. Lost: So what's the first thing you always loose? The manual! It's never the warrant or the special offers or even the discount coupon. I tell you I have many packagings from the electronics I've bought. And just about every single one has everything in them. Those offers, the brown cardboard, even the packaging foam. Everything is there, except the damn manual. It normally doesn't matter to me really except when they are manuals to computer games. Why? Because recently access codes for activating games are printed on the manual. It used to be that it was a printed piece a paper in the box itself. But this simple normality is now gone. So if you erase your game from you hard drive and then later on you want to play it again, you need that access code. So pray to all heaven almighty that you didn't loose the manual or you're pretty much SoL.
2. Uselessness: How many people actually read an electronics manual? Oh I say I only read them while calling nature...Don't look into that. Anybody with a brain can pretty much figure out what an electronic's function after a few minutes of playing around with it...which is much more satisfying than reading some boring words that make no sense. Same with Video Game manuals. I mean pretty much the developers included in-game tutorials for every function. Manuals in that case serve as fillers to fill in details about certain functions. Nothing more. I can't remember the last time I took time out on a game to read in a manual to figure out what to do next...except if my chair had a hole in it...
3. unnecessary: Why do manuals come in so many different languages? How many people in the United states speak Spanish or French to constitute a longer manual? I mean if I have to learn different languages to go to another country and converse with people, people from other countries should do the same thing when they come here. I hate looking through a manual trying to find the English version part without page after page of sixteen different languages.
4. Support: The last thing that just irks me is that the manual doesn't cover every single possible problem. If something is not covered, it suggest to call Customer support. And i'm not going into that until I rant about it.
Alright. So if you have commits post them. Not that anyone cares, mind ya...
