From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 12 3:36:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C74E37B405 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:36:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0012.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.12] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16E7gw-000421-00; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:36:51 -0800 Message-ID: <3C174159.5C46290E@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:36:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michel Oosterhof Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EzBSD aint for me! Was: A breath of fresh air.. References: <9v788v$jc3$1@xs4.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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