[Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested?(Userspaceaccelerometerviewer)

Carlos Maldonado linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:23:48 -0400


Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:55, Carlos Maldonado wrote:
> 
> 
>>this was quite innecessary and rude, a link to one of those scripts,
> 
> 
> Sorry, I thought it was quite funny.  First, he asks people to take the time 
> to do something he wants, that could be done in a heartbeat by his own 
> computer, then I point it out nicely, then he doesn't read what I wrote,  and 
> justifies something entirely unrelated.  It's pretty clueless, and I decided 
> to laugh at it.

your choice

> If I worked with him, and sat down to talk to him about it like that, he'd be 
> laughing too.  Well, he joined a community here, as you and I have.  If he's 
> going to tell people what to do, he can accept people telling him what they 
> think of what he tells us to do.

I'm part of some other communities as well, so I'm used to differences 
among people, it's free speech all over the place and that's why I 
differed as well

> You could read this as lighthearted, and it's your choice.  I don't think it's 
> rude, I think it's casual, and familiar - and that's appropriate, 'cause this 
> is a community.

you are right, I just expressed my dissent anyway

> What's rude, if you want to get into that, is telling people to do his work 
> for him, when there is absolutely no need for it.  Maybe he doesn't 
> understand what computers are actually capable of?

your view not his, overstressing the point proves it, but most probably 
doesn't change it in his head

> With people from around the world, from different backgrounds and cultures, 
> each of us may have different ways of talking.  I was quite polite - he 
> ignored it.  I told him what I thought of it.
> 
> Read what I wrote in the first place, then read his reply.
> 

I've been reading the whole thread for a while, thank you very much

> Cheers,
> Bret

to you as well, I'm off to get a rest, maybe that's why I took it so 
seriously, I'm some what tired at the moment

regards

Carlos