OT: Clockwise or anti CW

Here is a good one, if you are left-handed do you still like a volume control (or some sort of control knob) to be CW for up and ACW for down? It just struck me after seeing some students wire pots the wrong way round that we just accept CW as forwards.

On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 1:39:40 PM UTC-4, gyans...@gmail.com wrote:
> Here is a good one, if you are left-handed do you still like a volume control (or some sort of control knob) to be CW for up and ACW for down? It just struck me after seeing some students wire pots the wrong way round that we just accept CW as forwards.

Yes,  clockwise should __always__ increase the quantity.

some major appliance makers got this wrong on their stoves.
   
and they compounded the error by  labeling the knobs with small print that is hard to see and......

 for "low"  they wrote "lo"     which can easily be mistaken for 10 which one would think was high.

rant off

Mark

 

On 10/7/2015 2:39 PM, makolber@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 1:39:40 PM UTC-4, gyans...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Here is a good one, if you are left-handed do you still like a volume control (or some sort of control knob) to be CW for up and ACW for down? It just struck me after seeing some students wire pots the wrong way round that we just accept CW as forwards.
>
> Yes,  clockwise should __always__ increase the quantity.
>
> some major appliance makers got this wrong on their stoves.
>
> and they compounded the error by  labeling the knobs with small print that is hard to see and......

Or *below* the know where tall people can't see it at all!


>   for "low"  they wrote "lo"     which can easily be mistaken for 10 which one would think was high.
>
> rant off

Plumbing faucets often turn one way for hot and the other way for cold, 
but also they often don't.  Inconsistently inconsistent... go figure.

-- 

Rick

Den onsdag den 7. oktober 2015 kl. 22.06.48 UTC+2 skrev rickman:
> On 10/7/2015 2:39 PM, makolber@yahoo.com wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 1:39:40 PM UTC-4, gyans...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Here is a good one, if you are left-handed do you still like a volume control (or some sort of control knob) to be CW for up and ACW for down? It just struck me after seeing some students wire pots the wrong way round that we just accept CW as forwards.
> >
> > Yes,  clockwise should __always__ increase the quantity.
> >
> > some major appliance makers got this wrong on their stoves.
> >
> > and they compounded the error by  labeling the knobs with small print that is hard to see and......
> 
> Or *below* the know where tall people can't see it at all!
> 
> 
> >   for "low"  they wrote "lo"     which can easily be mistaken for 10 which one would think was high.
> >
> > rant off
> 
> Plumbing faucets often turn one way for hot and the other way for cold, 
> but also they often don't.  Inconsistently inconsistent... go figure.
> 

I believe there a rules here on how it must be, to prevent anyone from 
getting scolded thinking they had turned on the cold water but it was 
hot instead

-Lasse

On 10/7/2015 4:49 PM, lasselangwadtchristensen@gmail.com wrote:
> Den onsdag den 7. oktober 2015 kl. 22.06.48 UTC+2 skrev rickman:
>> On 10/7/2015 2:39 PM, makolber@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 1:39:40 PM UTC-4, gyans...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Here is a good one, if you are left-handed do you still like a volume control (or some sort of control knob) to be CW for up and ACW for down? It just struck me after seeing some students wire pots the wrong way round that we just accept CW as forwards.
>>>
>>> Yes,  clockwise should __always__ increase the quantity.
>>>
>>> some major appliance makers got this wrong on their stoves.
>>>
>>> and they compounded the error by  labeling the knobs with small print that is hard to see and......
>>
>> Or *below* the know where tall people can't see it at all!
>>
>>
>>>    for "low"  they wrote "lo"     which can easily be mistaken for 10 which one would think was high.
>>>
>>> rant off
>>
>> Plumbing faucets often turn one way for hot and the other way for cold,
>> but also they often don't.  Inconsistently inconsistent... go figure.
>>
>
> I believe there a rules here on how it must be, to prevent anyone from
> getting scolded thinking they had turned on the cold water but it was
> hot instead

Rules are made to be broken.

-- 

Rick

>Here is a good one, if you are left-handed do you still like a volume
>control (or some sort of control knob) to be CW for up and ACW for down?
It
>just struck me after seeing some students wire pots the wrong way round
that
>we just accept CW as forwards.

I was asked in an interview some 16 years ago "why do we need standards".
It was so obvious to me that I went dumb.

I am still unable to phrase a good answer. Any help appreciated.

We certainly need standards for "everything" even for this forum replies
otherwise we are quickly diving in a mess.

should we read upside down or the opposite, or should we read unrelated
replies, or a reply that follows a good reply and buries it alive, or a
heated argument between the bosses of forum on trivial terminology or a
dsp guy reply to rtl question or vice versa....etc.

Kaz
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kaz <37480@dsprelated> wrote:

(snip)

> I was asked in an interview some 16 years ago "why do we need standards".
> It was so obvious to me that I went dumb.

Reminds me of an Andrew Tanenbaum quote:
  

  "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose
  from."

that should get you in the right diretion.

-- glen

On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:11:23 -0500, kaz wrote:

>>Here is a good one, if you are left-handed do you still like a volume
>>control (or some sort of control knob) to be CW for up and ACW for down?
> It
>>just struck me after seeing some students wire pots the wrong way round
> that
>>we just accept CW as forwards.
> 
> I was asked in an interview some 16 years ago "why do we need
> standards".
> It was so obvious to me that I went dumb.
> 
> I am still unable to phrase a good answer. Any help appreciated.

In the unlikely event that you really want an answer to that, mine is:
  to avoid thinking.
Because we (as a species) really aren't that good at thinking, especially 
thinking fast or while other things are going on or if there are other 
interacting things.

[snip]

On 07/10/15 23:11, kaz wrote:
>> Here is a good one, if you are left-handed do you still like a volume
>> control (or some sort of control knob) to be CW for up and ACW for down?
> It
>> just struck me after seeing some students wire pots the wrong way round
> that
>> we just accept CW as forwards.
>
> I was asked in an interview some 16 years ago "why do we need standards".
> It was so obvious to me that I went dumb.

To allow us to concentrate on new things where we can add value.

>On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:11:23 -0500, kaz wrote:
>> 
>> I was asked in an interview some 16 years ago "why do we need
>> standards".
>> It was so obvious to me that I went dumb.
>> 
>> I am still unable to phrase a good answer. Any help appreciated.
>
>In the unlikely event that you really want an answer to that, mine is:
>  to avoid thinking.
>Because we (as a species) really aren't that good at thinking, especially

>thinking fast or while other things are going on or if there are other 
>interacting things.
>
yes I do want an answer, here are some of my superficial thoughts:
we need standards for the sake of team work and interfacing across globe
and time.
we need standards to impose the experience of experts on others and stop
others thinking.

Kaz



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