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From: Lew on 11 Jul 2010 14:23 Roedy Green wrote... >>>>> Oracle has been pulling documentation off the Sun website and giving >>>>> it strange new URLs to make it hard to find the new docs. Lew wrote: >>> Do you have *any* shred of evidence that that's the purpose? Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> I think that is what is generally known as a conspiracy theory. David Lamb wrote: > Sometime's it's just a cynical way of speaking, as in "X did Y with the > result Z" becoming "X did Y (in order) to Z. Which begs the question of whether X actually did Y. In this particular instance they did not, nor did Z result. -- Lew
From: Screamin Lord Byron on 12 Jul 2010 12:16 On 07/11/2010 06:37 PM, Lew wrote: > On 07/11/2010 10:19 AM, >> On 07/11/2010 05:02 AM, > > Roedy Green wrote: >>>> I was just teasing Oracle, giving them benefit of the doubt their >>>> incompetence had some purpose to it. Each nation has its own humour >>>> templates. This is a pretty common idiom in Canada. Use of the smiley >>>> is not. The whole point is to slip the humour in slyly so that only a >>>> few catch it. Then those that get it feel pleasure at their >>>> cleverness. It is supposed to be almost undetectable to everyone >>>> else. > > Lew wrote: >>> I guess I'm not clever. It doesn't help the joke that the premise is >>> false that the Java documentation on Oracle's site is hard to find. > > Screamin Lord Byron wrote: >> Oh, come on. Loosen up. It has nothing to do with cleverness. > > > Apparently you missed the dry humor (or humour) in my remark Oh, thank God, but I must admit I still don't get it. :) It's OK though, as long as no one feels offended. throw new InvalidHumourCultureException();
From: Arne Vajhøj on 12 Jul 2010 21:54 On 11-07-2010 13:53, David Lamb wrote: > On 10/07/2010 4:48 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 10-07-2010 13:13, Lew wrote: >>> Roedy Green wrote... >>>>> Oracle has been pulling documentation off the Sun website and giving >>>>> it strange new URLs to make it hard to find the new docs. >>> >>> Do you have *any* shred of evidence that that's the purpose? >> >> I think that is what is generally known as a conspiracy theory. > > Sometime's it's just a cynical way of speaking, as in "X did Y with the > result Z" becoming "X did Y (in order) to Z. Possible. But communication is often easier if people write what they mean instead of something that may make the reader guess what they mean. Arne
From: Lew on 13 Jul 2010 12:44
Screamin Lord Byron wrote ... > > I know quite a few very clever and intelligent people with the sense of > > humor comparable to that of your average Henny Youngman (which is to say > > none). > Mike Schilling wrote: > Take Java. Please. > Oracle actually announced the document move: <http://blogs.sun.com/thejavatutorials/entry/ new_release_of_java_tutorial> -- Lew |