| Title: | All about Scandinavia |
| Moderator: | TLE::SAVAGE |
| Created: | Wed Dec 11 1985 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 603 |
| Total number of notes: | 4325 |
Associated Press Sun 31-MAY-1987 15:55 BRF--Sweden-Book
Author Struggles to Piece Together His Manuscript
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A Swedish business consultant has decided to
try to piece together his 250-page book manuscript that was
accidentally ripped into 50,000 strips of paper, a newspaper reported
Sunday.
Ulf af Trolle worked for 13 years on the book about ways to solve
economic troubles in Swedish companies, the Aftonbladet daily said. He
finished his work in April.
An employee at a firm that was to copy the manuscript confused a copy
machine with a shredder, and af Trolle was informed a few weeks ago
that the work had been sliced into thousands of thin strips of paper.
Aftonbladet said af Trolle has hired an undisclosed number of
youngsters to try to piece together the paper strips. Mathematicians
quoted by the newspaper said the re-creation could take years.
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| 211.1 | SWSNOD::RPGDOC | Dennis (the Menace) Ahern 223-5882 | Wed Jun 03 1987 14:40 | 14 | |
Maybe he should hire some Iranian "students".
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| 211.2 | Lessons for icon design | CADSYS::INSINGA | Aron K. Insinga | Wed Aug 19 1987 18:52 | 14 |
On reading this, my first thought was that perhaps Lt. Col. Oliver North was trying to HELP the FBI by making copies of documents for the FBI, and confused the copier with the shredder... :-) My second thought was that there is an important lesson about interface design here. I remember reading somewhere of an iconographic airport "arrivals/landing" sign being interpreted as "crashing airplane," due to the steep descent rate of the airplane in the drawing. A icon of a box with 1 piece of paper going in and several coming out could be either a copier or a shredder! Do trash cans (the Macintosh icon for deleting a file, I believe) look the same worldwide? | |||||
| 211.3 | Icon:s on MacIntosh | STKEIS::BYSTAM | Stefan Bystam, IS/Software Support @SOO | Mon Aug 24 1987 20:09 | 6 |
> Do trash cans (the Macintosh icon for deleting a file, I believe) look the
> same worldwide?
I quit certain they do, but of course you are able to design your
own trashcan icon if you are equipped with the right type of editor
on your MacIntosh.
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