keith said:
Sorry, BB I think You did not due Walter and Andrew justice. They did not attack anyone and just stated their views. You could have just have just mention the advantages of eucalyptus. But, why be so sarcastic here.
hey, back off, keith, now. i didn't "attack" anyone, not by any stretch of the imagination. i just disagreed with something walter said. or, more specifically, i asked for clarification, and registered a few counter-thoughts... and i don't appreciate it when people mistake my motives and then mischaracterize them as if they had some handle on them. you've made a mistake here, keith, a bad mistake, and if i were the whining kind, i'd probably demand some kind of apology, but as it is, i'm just warning you to stop making that mistake...
You could have just have just mention the advantages of eucalyptus. But, why be so sarcastic here.
i _did_ mention the "advantage" of eucalyptus, nice formatting. but that just introduces the same question i asked about stanza, namely, "what is it that _constitutes_ nice and proper formatting?" this is a good question, one that really _needs_ to be asked, so that we can then go on and ask more sophisticated questions, such as "how do we apply that formatting?", and "what kind of rule-set is eucalyptus following in order to apply its formatting?", and so on. as it is, though, as evidenced by the mess of formats coming out of d.p., there is a wide range of "formatting" that _could_ be considered "proper", so it's rather meaningless when someone refers to "proper formatting", and it's good to know that. it doesn't mean they are "wrong", but it _does_ mean that we are justified in asking them precisely what _they_ mean by the term... and further, there is no "sarcasm" here. i'm plenty capable of being sarcastic it, it's something i do often, and fairly well, although there probably isn't much "honor" in that performance in most eyes, but there's no reason to think that everything that i do is "sarcastic"... if you pay any attention at all, it should be quite easy to see when i am being sarcastic and when i'm not. so keith, _pay_attention_, at least if you're going to make commentary. also, i'm not sure if eucalyptus uses the utf8 version of files or not. plain-text doesn't rule out an encoding -- or even utf8 -- you know. -bowerbird
Hi BB, I feelt you were unnessarily hard with some of your typical comments. My comments were meant to hit the nerve they hit. I did not mean to get on your back. Just a demonstration of being on the other side of certain comments. Far as the problem of formating we do live on the same planet. Though often enough in different cultures. Take care. regards Keith. Am 29.01.2010 um 18:33 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:
keith said:
Sorry, BB I think You did not due Walter and Andrew justice. They did not attack anyone and just stated their views. You could have just have just mention the advantages of eucalyptus. But, why be so sarcastic here.
hey, back off, keith, now.
i didn't "attack" anyone, not by any stretch of the imagination.
i just disagreed with something walter said. or, more specifically, i asked for clarification, and registered a few counter-thoughts...
and i don't appreciate it when people mistake my motives and then mischaracterize them as if they had some handle on them.
you've made a mistake here, keith, a bad mistake, and if i were the whining kind, i'd probably demand some kind of apology, but as it is, i'm just warning you to stop making that mistake...
You could have just have just mention the advantages of eucalyptus. But, why be so sarcastic here.
i _did_ mention the "advantage" of eucalyptus, nice formatting.
but that just introduces the same question i asked about stanza, namely, "what is it that _constitutes_ nice and proper formatting?"
this is a good question, one that really _needs_ to be asked, so that we can then go on and ask more sophisticated questions, such as "how do we apply that formatting?", and "what kind of rule-set is eucalyptus following in order to apply its formatting?", and so on. as it is, though, as evidenced by the mess of formats coming out of d.p., there is a wide range of "formatting" that _could_ be considered "proper", so it's rather meaningless when someone refers to "proper formatting", and it's good to know that. it doesn't mean they are "wrong", but it _does_ mean that we are justified in asking them precisely what _they_ mean by the term...
and further, there is no "sarcasm" here. i'm plenty capable of being sarcastic it, it's something i do often, and fairly well, although there probably isn't much "honor" in that performance in most eyes, but there's no reason to think that everything that i do is "sarcastic"... if you pay any attention at all, it should be quite easy to see when i am being sarcastic and when i'm not. so keith, _pay_attention_, at least if you're going to make commentary.
also, i'm not sure if eucalyptus uses the utf8 version of files or not. plain-text doesn't rule out an encoding -- or even utf8 -- you know.
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