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From: Roedy Green on 8 Jun 2010 08:38
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:14:53 -0400, Lew <noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Your site makes interfaces sound so weak and useless, and provides some
>misinformation regarding them.

When you overstate your case, and turn it into a personal attack, you
set a barrier to having your ideas entertained and acted on.

You want me to prostrate myself and say I have sinned and an utter
idiot, unworthy to fetch you coffee, not just correct the entry.
Being a human, I will try very hard to find ways of avoiding doing
that.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

Have you ever noticed that any computer search in the movies, is always linear, with, for example, candidate fingerprints flashing up on the screen one after another? The public is still under the delusion that electronic files are microscopic filing cabinets made out of tiny wires or magnetic patches inside the computer. Most lay people are surprised that it is easy for a computer to file things simultaneously by a dozen different schemes, and that they can have any report printed in any number of different sorted orders. With physical files, they are limited to one ordering/access.
From: Roedy Green on 8 Jun 2010 08:49
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:14:53 -0400, Lew <noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Your site makes interfaces sound so weak and useless, and provides some
>misinformation regarding them.

When you overstate your case, and turn it into a personal attack, you
set a barrier to having your ideas entertained and acted on.

I exaggerate a little to say you want me to prostrate myself and
confess I have sinned and an am an utter idiot, unworthy to fetch you
coffee, not merely correct the entry. Being a human, I will try very
hard to find ways of avoiding doing that. You are not trying to
correct information so much as establish dominance. Get stuffed.

--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

Have you ever noticed that any computer search in the movies, is always linear, with, for example, candidate fingerprints flashing up on the screen one after another? The public is still under the delusion that electronic files are microscopic filing cabinets made out of tiny wires or magnetic patches inside the computer. Most lay people are surprised that it is easy for a computer to file things simultaneously by a dozen different schemes, and that they can have any report printed in any number of different sorted orders. With physical files, they are limited to one ordering/access.
From: Mike Amling on 8 Jun 2010 10:20
Roedy Green wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:14:53 -0400, Lew <noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote,
> quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>> Your site makes interfaces sound so weak and useless, and provides some
>> misinformation regarding them.
>
> When you overstate your case, and turn it into a personal attack, you
> set a barrier to having your ideas entertained and acted on.

In this case, I'm with Lew. We've all seen him make needless personal
attacks, but this was not one of them.

>
> You want me to prostrate myself and say I have sinned and an utter
> idiot, unworthy to fetch you coffee, not just correct the entry.
> Being a human, I will try very hard to find ways of avoiding doing
> that.

If you're deliberately trying to write an example how overstating your
case leads to loss of credibility, you've succeeded.

--Mike Amling
From: Arne Vajhøj on 8 Jun 2010 20:13
On 08-06-2010 08:38, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:14:53 -0400, Lew<noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote,
> quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>> Your site makes interfaces sound so weak and useless, and provides some
>> misinformation regarding them.
>
> When you overstate your case, and turn it into a personal attack, you
> set a barrier to having your ideas entertained and acted on.
>
> You want me to prostrate myself and say I have sinned and an utter
> idiot, unworthy to fetch you coffee, not just correct the entry.
> Being a human, I will try very hard to find ways of avoiding doing
> that.

You have a very unprofessional approach to criticism.

Arne

From: Arne Vajhøj on 8 Jun 2010 20:15
On 08-06-2010 08:49, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:14:53 -0400, Lew<noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote,
> quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>> Your site makes interfaces sound so weak and useless, and provides some
>> misinformation regarding them.
>
> When you overstate your case, and turn it into a personal attack, you
> set a barrier to having your ideas entertained and acted on.
>
> I exaggerate a little to say you want me to prostrate myself and
> confess I have sinned and an am an utter idiot, unworthy to fetch you
> coffee, not merely correct the entry. Being a human, I will try very
> hard to find ways of avoiding doing that. You are not trying to
> correct information so much as establish dominance. Get stuffed.

He told you what the problems were.

You fix them - after all it is your pages.

Arne



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