>Some friends and I were discussing what might be the worst job for someone who is colour-blind, Nah. Sorting resistors by color code is the worst job for the color blind. I can hardly tell the colors apart anymore because of the muddy printing quality and tiny resistors, but I handed a big pile of them to a new tech who was embarrased to tell me about his colorblindness one time. What a mistake. \ -- Lawrence Lile Howard Winter Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 11/07/2003 07:49 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [OT:]The Code,The Client and The PicList Edward, > >\* Philosophical Rant ON: > > >**About 15% of the male population is Red/Green color blind. Be careful > what you do with bi-color leds. > > > >Rant OFF*\ > > >Edward Gisske, P.E. Yes, I don't know whicj idiot decided that green and red were the right colours to use for safe and danger (a railway person, I assume) but they really messed it up! Nature's "danger" signal is yellow (ask any bee or wasp!) and it would have made a lot more sense to use green and yellow as the two signal colours. Too late to change it now, though :-( Some friends and I were discussing what might be the worst job for someone who is colour-blind, and we reckoned it was bomb-disposal. "I'm about to cut the sort-of greeny-reddy-browny wire..." :-) Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.