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From: mayayana on 2 Feb 2010 14:15 > A h . . . I ' m s t a r t i n g t o s e e t h e p a t t e r n e m e r g e . . . > I t ' s o k f o r v b . c l a s s i c g u y s > t o b e o f f t o p i c a n d s t a r t d i s c u s s i o n s a b o u t . n e t > ( a s l o n g a s t h e y a r e d e r i d i n g > i t ) - b u t , h e a v e n h e l p a n y o n e w h o u s e s . n e t w h o b r i n g s i t u p . . . . > Y o u s e e m t o s e e t h a t p a t t e r n e m e r g e a b o u t o n c e e v e r y o t h e r d a y . : ) T h e d i f f e r e n c e i s t h a t w e ' r e m a i n l y d i s c u s s i n g V B , w i t h o c c a s i o n a l d i g r e s s i o n s , g l i b n e s s , a n d b l o w i n g o f f o f s t e a m . Y o u , o n t h e o t h e r h a n d , a r e j u s t p l a i n i n t h e w r o n g g r o u p . U n l i k e m a n y o f t h e o t h e r s h e r e , I d o n ' t s e e a n y p r o b l e m w i t h c r i t i c i z i n g . N e t . M i c r o s o f t h a s f o r c e d o u r f a t e s t o g e t h e r w i t h t h e i r m a r k e t i n g s c a m , s o i t ' s h a r d t o a v o i d t h e t o p i c . A n d t h e r e a r e p e o p l e l i k e y o u h a n g i n g a r o u n d t r y i n g t o s e l l . N e t w h e n e v e r t h e r e ' s h a l f o f a c h a n c e . I n t o t h a t s c e n a r i o c o m e p e o p l e w h o e n d u p h e r e m i s t a k e n l y b e c a u s e o f t h e m i x - u p b e t w e e n " t h e 2 V B s " . T h e m o s t p o p u l a r a p p r o a c h i s t o j u s t r e d i r e c t t h o s e p e o p l e a n d " n o t s t i r t h i n g s u p " . B u t t h a t c r e a t e s a n e l e p h a n t i n t h e r o o m . P e o p l e a r e c o n f u s e d a n d n o b o d y w i l l t e l l t h e m w h a t ' s g o i n g o n . ( N o r w i l l N o b o d y , a c t u a l l y . : ) T h a t m a y s e e m l i k e a s l i g h t l y i n c e n d i a r y s t a t e m e n t , b u t t h e m o r e t h e f a c t s a r e o u t i n t h e o p e n , t h e l e s s p e o p l e w i l l a r r i v e h e r e b y a c c i d e n t , t h e l e s s n e w p e o p l e w i l l b e c o n f u s e d . . . . . . a n d t h e l e s s w e ' l l a l l h a v e o c c a s i o n t o d i s c u s s y o u - k n o w - w h a t i n t h i s g r o u p . A n d i f p e o p l e l i k e y o u w o u l d s t o p p r e t e n d i n g t h e r e ' s s o m e s o r t o f n a t u r a l c o n n e c t i o n b e t w e e n V B a n d V B . N e t , t h a t w o u l d o b v i o u s l y h e l p . I f t r o l l y o u m u s t , t h e n y o u r s a l e s e f f o r t s w o u l d r e a l l y b e m u c h m o r e a p p r o p r i a t e t o t h e J a v a g r o u p s , w h e r e p e o p l e m i g h t a c t u a l l y h a v e a r e a s o n t o s w i t c h .
From: Saga on 2 Feb 2010 14:26 Are you trying to beat the mysterious filter that kept one of the posts from showing up? (Can't rememeber if it was yours) Looks like it worked, but I had no idea how difficult it was to read the text with spaces between each letter <g> Regards, Saga "mayayana" <mayaXXyana(a)rcXXn.com> wrote in message news:ONhLXvDpKHA.1892(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> A h . . . I ' m s t a r t i n g t o s e e t h e p a t t e > r n e m e r g e . . . <snipped>
From: Bob O`Bob on 2 Feb 2010 15:17 > Looks like it worked, but I had no idea how difficult it was to > read the text with spaces between each letter <g> Regards, I for one certainly did not and will not bother. Bob --
From: Karl E. Peterson on 2 Feb 2010 16:05 Jeff Johnson expressed precisely : >> Ah... I'm starting to see the pattern emerge... It's ok for vb.classic >> guys to be off topic and start discussions about .net (as long as they are >> deriding it) - but, heaven help any one who uses .net who brings it up.... > > No, I don't think it's all right whatsoever. However, lots of folks responded > to kpg as if he were serious about porting to ASP.NET and I was just pointing > out that I didn't think he was. Yeah, I thought we were talking about trolls. Who knew we were talking about the abomination? <shrug> -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Tom Shelton on 2 Feb 2010 16:16
On 2010-02-02, Karl E Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: > Jeff Johnson expressed precisely : >>> Ah... I'm starting to see the pattern emerge... It's ok for vb.classic >>> guys to be off topic and start discussions about .net (as long as they are >>> deriding it) - but, heaven help any one who uses .net who brings it up.... >> >> No, I don't think it's all right whatsoever. However, lots of folks responded >> to kpg as if he were serious about porting to ASP.NET and I was just pointing >> out that I didn't think he was. > > Yeah, I thought we were talking about trolls. Who knew we were talking > about the abomination? <shrug> > Then I apologize. I thought you might be condoning a double standard... -- Tom Shelton |