Clueless Museums (was: Final Xerox Star demo)

From: Max Eskin <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon Jun 8 19:10:50 1998

>Having creative thoughts is not something (IMHO) that can be taught.
Some
>people just suddenly think 'Wouldn't it be neat if...' or 'We can do it
>like this...'. Of course having a good understanding of the subject,
and
>know what's been done before help a lot here. And that's were classic
>computers come in (to bring this back on topic!)
I thought this was on topic anyway...

>> <faultfinding/repair can be done by almost anybody. Well, having done
>> <both, I personally find them equally difficult. Perhaps that means
I'm
>> <no good at it, but...
>>
>> Troubleshooting is a very complex process that I've never been able
to
>> teach to anyone but those that naturally could. For me
troubleshooting
>
>The point is, in the UK at least, designers tend to get much better
pay,
>and are more highly regarded than repairmen. This I think is wrong, but
this
>list is not the place for that rant.
In general, I've found that things like TVs are almost never repaired,
at least in the US. Back in the USSR, we repaired everything,
including alarm clocks destroyed by trashy batteries that leaked.
>I'm not good at troubleshooting, and I could never (for example) repair
>TV sets for money. But I've never yet let a fault beat me. It may take
me
>weeks to solve it, but I'll spend those weeks to sort out a machine.
Do you mean you've never left a problem unsolved or never left a
machine broken?
>> But working with field circus underscored that thinking is not
something
>> you can mandate.
Isn't there some kind of qualification these guys have to pass? Still,
I can imagine a 20-year old pizza-eating moron who takes a job like
this just to tell his girlfriend, "Hey! I'm a COMPUTER SERVICE
TECHNICIAN!"...
>
>-tony
>
>

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