From: Rowland McDonnell on
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > As so often happens, you became abusive.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > See?
> >
> > <sigh>
> >
> > What can I do?
>
> Learn to behave like a decent human being without being absusive for no
> reason? No, thought not.

<puzzled>

But Woody, I'm never been gratutiously abusive ib my life.

Your suggestion is therefore very insulting - abusive, no end.

So you're a hypocritical bullying abusive type, you are.

When will you stop it?

Rowland.

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From: D.M. Procida on
Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote:

> A software vendor who write a piece of software which plays a very big
> role in our business has just released an extensibility framework called
> `Flex'. Seriously...

Why is that to be marvelled at?

Daniele
From: Ben Shimmin on
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>:
> Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote:
>> A software vendor who write a piece of software which plays a very big
>> role in our business has just released an extensibility framework called
>> `Flex'. Seriously...
>
> Why is that to be marvelled at?

<URL:http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/>

It's also a framework. There's even overlap in functionality.

b.

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From: Woody on
Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote:

> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>:
> > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > All I wish is that they hadn't named javascript a name 'to sound like it
> >> > had something to do with java', as people assume it does when there is
> >> > no connection at all.
>
> It was a truly ridiculous choice.
>
> >> True enough. To be fair, they do call it 'Javascript' in the Firefox
> >> prefs, and as a plonking user although I did know the distinction, it
> >> never made any difference to me anyway.
> >>
> >> Using the Mac always had that wonderful advantage; it preserved me from
> >> knowledge.
> >
> > In this case yes, but the amount of times people have asked me about a
> > problem they had where they were telling me that there was a problem
> > with java, so I have gone down a blind alley of trying to figure out
> > what the java issue is on the phone for 5 minutes before it turns out it
> > is a javascript error.
> >
> > Still, better than this months bugbear. I have just had the 10th person
> > this month tell me they had a problem with an adobe pro file.
>
> A software vendor who write a piece of software which plays a very big
> role in our business has just released an extensibility framework called
> `Flex'. Seriously...

Were they called adobe?!

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From: Woody on
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:

> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > As so often happens, you became abusive.
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > See?
> > >
> > > <sigh>
> > >
> > > What can I do?
> >
> > Learn to behave like a decent human being without being absusive for no
> > reason? No, thought not.
>
> <puzzled>
>
> But Woody, I'm never been gratutiously abusive ib my life.

ok, I did actually LOL!


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