And I remember when car owner's manuals were 1/4" thick at the most, and
large (readable) print. My 2008 Toyota Prius owner's manual is 3/4"
thick, small print, and spattered with dire paragraphs about everything
causing injury or death! Made me want to turn in my license! It is not
a good read and, like your experience, information is not easy to find
in it. Oh, and the owner's maintenance manual is a separate manual -
equally obtuse and with more dire warnings. Usually, when I get a new
car, I go to the dealer's parts counter and order the factory shop
manual for correct maintenance and understanding of what is "under the
hood". When I did so for the Prius, the parts counter guy recommended
not, saying the shop manual is intricately tied to the shop diagnostic
computer system ($$$$$) and by itself, is not very helpful. So, i saved
$100+ for the first time in my shadetree-mechanic career and, also for
the first time in my decades of car-ownership, take it to the dealer for
maintenance.
Girvin Herr
anne-ology wrote:
ah, yes, a good book ... a readable manual ... ... ...
I've tried at various times to read these supposed helpful
manuals only to discover more confusion ... it's like reading a
foreign language yet there's no dictionary to use for help;
and if they happen to have sketches ... well, these tend
not to correspond with the written document.
Automobiles, since becoming computerized, supposedly have these
helpful manuals - but reading them for something as simple as changing
the clock [an inane idea anyway] is next to impossible ... the trained
mechanics even have trouble with this one - it took 3 of them about
1/2 hour to finally figure out that one vehicle's settings were tied
into the radio dials but only if the engine was running and the gear
was in park ;-)
"crazy is as crazy does"
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Girvin R. Herr
<girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net <mailto:girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
Ahh! The Gimp. Great program and I do have some use for it.
However, learning it has a _steep_ learning curve for me and,
frankly, sitting at the screen and reading the online manual is
not what I would prefer using my limited time for. There are
several "learning" books out there, but which one is the best one
I need to learn The Gimp? That is my problem with it. Once or
twice I fiddled with it and got it to do somewhat what I wanted,
but it wasn't very intuitive and I feel it could do so much more
for me. If I could just get a good book on it and sit down and
play with it...
Girvin Herr
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