Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:36:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Michel Oosterhof <micheloo@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EzBSD aint for me! Was: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <3C174159.5C46290E@mindspring.com> References: <9v788v$jc3$1@xs4.xs4all.nl>
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Michel Oosterhof wrote: > >It was, I think, the epitome of beauty and elegance in industrial > >design for human factors: its use was obvious and unambiguous... > >you walked up, put your head inside the "wings", and pressed the big > >yellow button. > It sounds very much like a dutch emergency telephone. They're placed > along the dutch highways every few kilometers. Was it yellow? > > Here's a picture: > http://www.anwb.nl/content/images/historie_ww_1994vraagpaal.JPG Yes, this is it exactly. I got in trouble for pushing the button on the display version; apparently it's very compelling to other people, as well, and they had a dosant whose job it was to make sure people didn't press the button. They really needed to rope the thing off (the "do not touch" sign was a tiny little thing on the base on which the pedestal sat). I wonder if there are a lot of false calls because of the compelling nature of the single "fulfill your purpose" button... 8^) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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