[off-topic] Re: Bit of a pseudo-rant about trying to explain something to a sighted person - graphical dimensions/pixelation
- From: "RobH." <the1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <off-topic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:29:36 +0100
Sigh!... used to get this when I did tech support. Got a right reputation
for talking in technobabble, yet the things I tried to explain, they should
know if they were going to use a computer. The best one I was called to was
when the finance office assured me a computer was making a funny noise when
it was absolutely off. I checked it, it was definitely off, and couldn't
hear the noise; so she said like a HeeAwhhwwhwhHeeeHawhwhwh or something.
So I rummaged on the desk, found the phone under a pile of files and put the
handset back on the rest. They thought I was wonderful for fixing the
computer so quick.
Rh.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <off-topic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:16 PM
Subject: [off-topic] Bit of a pseudo-rant about trying to explain something
to a sighted person - graphical dimensions/pixelation
Busy working on website code where the admin person needs to define layout
areas on a form of template image to then allow users to insert
text/uploaded images onto it, and the problem is the sort of client tells me
that the text/images are being inserted into the wrong places, etc., but,
when I then go run something like a test/output image through some other
code of mine that sort of translates it into a table of pixelated colours on
a webpage to allow me to review what's happened/taken place, it honestly
seems to be working fine.
Now I even tried to explain to this sighted person that they should try
comparing an image's dimensions/coordinates to the blocks on a chessboard,
and that they then need to understand that, for example each column/row
would equate to an eighth of the image's full dimensions, and that
therefore, if the image is like 800 pixels wide/high, then second block on
second row would effectively equate to an area 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels
high, starting at top-left coordinates of roundabout 101 by 101 pixels, but,
they seem to have trouble grasping what I'm talking about, although they
seem to understand in general how the overall pixels size seems to get
rendered in terms of number of pixels, etc., and they seem to grasp concept
of screen resolution in terms of windows desktop dimensions, but, then seem
to get confused/misunderstand when I try explain to them why something would
not be rendering correctly working on what they've now tried to pass on to
my code as arguments/parameters, etc.
Maybe it's, again, just the issue of a blindie trying to explain something
to a sightie that they seem to refuse to believe we can understand, etc.?
LOL!/LAM! (lateish Sunday night, and trying to figure out/decide how to
proceed with this)
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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