Re: Synching with two computers

[Tom Lamm <tom osageinc com>]

> 	I'm done, now you're wasting _my_ time.
>
> 	Good luck with your solution. Perhaps Palm and Microsoft would
>
> be interested in hearing all about it.


You chose to waste it on your little flame, I did not. You could have  
simply ignored my offer. I asked you for nothing at all. In return, I  
got flamed for it.

Feel better now, David? Get some help man!

Tom

On 04/14/05 08:11:04, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> > But beyond that David, your reply sucks.
>
> 	Yes, I tend to be very unhelpful to the many thousands of
> users I support every single day. You're right. If you go back and
> read the list archives here and on other lists, you'll see that too.
> </sarcasm>
>
> > I am not looking for the answer to the problem. I did not say
> > "Please help me with this", or anything close to it. I offered
> > information to an information forum, if anyone is interested.
>
> 	No, actually you didn't do either.
>
> 	You never said in your original message that you solved the
> problem and had a solution to present. Your original message sounded
> like a request for help, because Windows screwed up your data as
> represented in Evolution. Go re-read it and see what it says. I'm not
> the only one who interpreted it that way.
>
> 	In the future, consider formulating your email in a way that
> people can understand what you're saying. It might help a bit more
> towards providing a solution, or soliciting the kind of people who can
>
> best help you.
>
> > I was polite David. I offered to extend my time and effort to help
> > anybody that is working on, or is curious about, this bug. I hurled
> > no insults.
>
> 	Interesting, but no you didn't. And I quote:
>
> 	"If this leaves you scratching your head thinkingd "why the
> 	 heck would anybody want to do that" I will not waste
> 	 the bandwidth."
>
> 	This sounds like a "I'm doing something weird, and if you ask
> me why, you're wasting my time."
>
> > If nobody cares about this issue, I see no need to waste people's
> > time with the details.
>
> 	You won't know who cares, until you provide enough information
>
> to be useful. You're "Nyah-nyah" post didn't do much to encourage
> anyone to ask further... so how can they know the information would be
>
> useful to them?
>
> 	Provide the details, and let the rest of the list decide if
> they think it merits further inspection or review. Perhaps parts of it
>
> are useful to some, and not to others. You won't know until you post
> it.
>
> > A simple, polite, offer to any developer that is curious about this
> > should have received a, "Yes, I would like to see what you found",
> > or a "No, we are not interested", or simply been ignored.
>
> 	How can we not be interested, when there is no information?
>
> 	That's like saying
>
> 	"I've got something to sell you, but I can't tell you what it
> 	 is, and if you ask me what it is, you're wasting my time. Do
> 	 you want to buy it or not?"
>
> 	That being said, I did ask for greater detail, which you
> ignored, confirming my original assumption about the nature of your
> message.
>
> > Go back under your rock David. When you're squatting down there, ask
>
> > yourself, "Why is it so hard to recruit quality programmers to
> > projects like this? Why would somebody with 20 years C/C++
> > experience not feel welcome here?"
>
> 	I don't ask myself that at all, actually. Everybody is treated
>
> equally, with the same level of respect, until they prove otherwise
> (in most cases). I don't make assumptions about the skills of someone
> posting a message to a public mailing list, and certainly not after
> only a 2-sentence message.
>
> 	You could have 20 years of experience programming in LISP, but
>
> you still might not understand how the GNOME classes and objects work.
>
> Everyone, including you, has areas of skill that they can learn more
> on.
>
> 	If you wanted to help, you would have provided some useful
> information that could help the other developers here (many with much
> more experience than you) to solve the problem.
>
> 	A patch, details, versions of components, all of the things I
> asked for in my reply... if you truly were a programmer with 20 years
> of C/C++ experience, you wouldn't be so ignorant to the kind of things
>
> that help _other programmers_ solve these kinds of problems.
>
> 	I'm done, now you're wasting _my_ time.
>
> 	Good luck with your solution. Perhaps Palm and Microsoft would
>
> be interested in hearing all about it.
>
>
> David A. Desrosiers
> desrod gnu-designs com
> http://gnu-designs.com
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