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RTFM = Read the Funny Manual?

Posted by timothy on from the to-slap-knee-see-page-92iii dept.

coronaride writes: "This article over on Wired discusses the issue near and dear to every sysadmin and support tech's heart. I, myself, never read any manuals that accompany the products I buy (but when does cheese-whiz really need instructions anyways?) unless something majorly goes wrong! The article talks about how some countries, including Japan, try to spice up their product manuals in order to entice the users to read them. Is this just too much work for our lazy American manufacturers to do?"

12 of 408 comments (clear)

  1. Jiste zatje... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ... kaffie ?


    lees ne keer de manual van de kaffie mesinne ! t is eens iets anders.

    1. Re:Jiste zatje... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Anata wa baka desu.

    2. Re:Jiste zatje... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You stole L0rdkariya's FP, you jerk. Even though he wasn't going for it, I would think that people would have more respect than to steal his rightful post. Unless they're Jon Barrett, but that's a completely different story.

    3. Re:Jiste zatje... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      koniciwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ^-^

  2. O' Reilly by NewOrder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My O'Reilly books, mainly the perl ones have sime good humor and some really bad humor.. They are some of the best book around tho.

    --
    -- Jason...
  3. Mwuahahah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you only knew the power of the kaffie side

  4. Re:Funny Japanese Manuals... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *COUGH* or a bad speller.

  5. What the hell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    33 posts and nobody has said All your manual are belong to us ?

  6. p0rn!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That is the answer! As long as they make the pages out of some material so they don't stick together....

  7. O'Reilly by interiot · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    O'Reilly books are written in a more informal tone, and many people like them because of this.

    However, I like the informal tone for a different reason altogher. It leads to "unique" quotes, which can be used in Robust Hyperlinks (re: the recent Google programming contest).

    Here are some examples, from O'Reilly's "Programming Perl".

    Besides being useful in the longer run, hopefully these also get around the precedent set by the 2600 ruling, that links can be illegal.

    For a more complete set of examples, see this page.

  8. nihongo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ittekomashitaroka!

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