[time-nuts] Chinese Scopes

[J. Forster]

You may be onto something w/ the cultural thing.

In the US, we buy a toy and just expect it to work right out of the package.

In asia, they might actually read the instructions before unpacking the
hardware.

Have you ever read the user's manual for your SW? I certainly have not,
beyond looking up 'how to ....'

-John

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> Ah but a UI is as much a cultural thing as technical we all learned
> systems which valued a interface which visually displayed all parameters
> both set and ranges on individual controls.
>
>  In Asia where rote memorization and Obedience is valued uses overloaded
> controls with deep menus.  If you are a photographer as I am as well you
> will find modern high end cameras with the same design on their menu
> systems
>
> Ie ISO values will be buried in a shooting menu 2 levels down instead of
> being assigned to a dial or you will be expected to trust the cameras auto
> iso feature ie obiedience to authority
>
> Scott
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 16, 2012, at 8:04 PM, "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>
>> IMO, a good UI should be entirely obvious. I learnt to use a Tek 503 in
>> about 1963. Everything after that has been obvious, until the
>> 'puter'scopes.
>>
>> The problem with nested menus is knowing where the dang thing you want
>> is,
>> or worse, that some setting or other even exists.
>>
>> Have you explored all the pull-down menus in your browser or Word, or,
>> worse, Excel or AutoCAD? I know I havn't. An Adventure game is far less
>> opaque, IMO, and the game is designed to decieve.
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ================
>>
>>
>>> That simply is not the case with the Rigol scope. I was able to use it
>>> without opening the manual.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/16/2012 4:33 PM, Scott McGrath wrote:
>>>> Chinese scopes and menus
>>>>
>>>> In modern asian culture it's a highly valued skill to be able to
>>>> memorize menu selections which are deeply nested And many asian
>>>> designs
>>>> actually increase the number of menus to cater to this
>>>>
>>>
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