RE: The coming predominance of user experience andtechnicalcommunications

["Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

New Jersey has some of the lowest gasoline prices in the country,
but that is due to a low state tax rate on motor vehicle fuels
rather than any market forces. Prices are on the low end of the
NJ range near my home and and premium is currently about $3.07
per gallon. (As a general rule, the price I pay for premium is usually
within 4 or 5 cents of the national average for regular as reported
by AAA and the news media.)

And although we're not allowed to pump our own gas in NJ (both
the customer and the station can get fined), it's hardly what I'd
call "full service" since it's virtually impossible to have anything
beyond refueling done at the pump.

Fred Ridder

>From: "Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>
>To: "'Al Geist'" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>,"'techwr-l'" 
><techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Subject: RE: The coming predominance of user experience 
>andtechnicalcommunications
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:04:12 -0700
>
> > Behalf Of Al Geist
><...>
> > John Posada wrote:
> >
> > "Here in NJ we're not allowed to touch the fuel pump. It's always full
> > service."
> >
><...>
> >
> > When I lived in Oregon it was the same way...you could not
> > pump your own
> > gas. In most other places where I've lived (Alaska, New
> > Mexico, Michigan,
> > Vermont....), you pumped your own gas.
>
>How much is a gallon of regular?  I pay $3.02 right now, more or less, for
>regular and I have to pump my own gas, clean my own windows, check all of 
>my
>own air and fluids in the vehicle.  I'm starting to think that this is
>wrong.  I should get full service.
>
> > In response to Lauren's worry about there not being a need
> > for technical
> > writers if everything becomes self-serve and GUIs are so user
> > friendly they
> > walk you through everything, someone has to write those GUIs
> > and document
> > the behind the scenes stuff. Death, taxes and technical
> > writers....you can't
> > get away from them.
>
>Hmmm.  Now TWs are starting to sound like cockroaches, you can't get rid of
>those either.  How pleasant...
>
>Lauren
>
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