Silly Product Instructions?

canfirman asks: "Not exactly a serious question, but maybe good for a laugh: Our company is bringing in new printers into the office, and I noticed that the on-screen instructions state, 'Do not pull pages until after the printer has finished its job'. I thought this would be a redundant instruction (kinda like, 'Don't run with scissors'), but it got me thinking - what are some of the dumbest instructions you have ever seen on a piece of software, hardware, or appliance?"

Comments

Not redundant

[Loosewire]

I see people ripping the pages out of laser printers before the printer has pushed it all the way out. Probly does them no end of damage but since the page is already completely pritned by the point the person has enough grip on the page to pull it all out people keep doing it :-(

Re:Not redundant

[Blkdeath]

I see people ripping the pages out of laser printers before the printer has pushed it all the way out. Probly does them no end of damage but since the page is already completely pritned by the point the person has enough grip on the page to pull it all out people keep doing it :-(

I see it all the time. Not only from students (read: people who aren't expected to learn better) but from teachers (read: people who are supposed to impart said knowledge). The fact that the printer emits a mechanical grinding noise when this happens appears to bear little significance for people. I used to explain to the teachers that it wasn't in our IT budget to replace these units, and that it would instead come from their departmental budget. Sometimes they stopped doing it. Mostly they stopped doing it while I was around.

Now that I think about it, though, it does sound similar to the noise a typical typewriter made when the page was removed, and that didn't seem terribly offensive to people either. Hmm. I'm thinking the solution is for laser printer manufacturers (though it would affect their bottom line wrt replacement gears and rollers) to install a rough, uneven pair of metal gears. G'head; pull it out now. Hear that sound? That's the sound of IMPENDING DOOM!

You're probably one of the brainwashed.

[TheLink]

It's still not stealing.

And copying entire songs is only illegal if the applicable laws say so.

I'm not sure how things are in the Land of the Free and the Home of the DMCA, but in my country it's not illegal if you copy it for private or domestic use. In NZ they're thinking of making it legal if you're copying it for your own use, amidst protests by the corporates.

"It's taking away people's rights to earn a living, and that's horrendous," Sony NZ managing director Michael Glading is quoted as saying.

Let's cut the BS: If I make a copy the owners of the original copy still have FULL ACCESS to the original. So it's unlike stealing which deprives the owners of access.

In contrast: The corporates have lobbyed (successfully in many countries) to remove and reduce the public's access to copyrighted material AND copyrighted material that would have entered PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Now you tell me who are the real thieves? Who are the real thieves?

Don't be deceived by the lies - the brainwashing and bullshit terms like "Intellectual Property" and "Piracy".