Geoffrey
> Actually Jörg, I tend to agree with Steve, but it could well be
> a cultural issue. You do come across rather blunt.
Although this is true, let me tell you some things:
* the difficulties to express such notions in a foreign language are
unknown to some (actually, too many) english native speakers who have
never tried to learn a foreign language seriously (scholar
french/german isn't exactly what I mean when saying 'seriously') and
thus prefer to feel insulted rather than just assuming a badly chosen
expression. It was really funny how long the Bush administration
needed to find out what the sentences "Nous sommes désolés que notre
président soit un idiot. Nous n'avons pas voté pour lui." on some
shirts made in Canada meant :)
* some people whose native language is not english *think* to be able
to express or understand such differences but aren't.
* some people refuse to change an opinion. I don't mean NEC who
reliably copies firmware bugs from one drive to the next (the speed
selection firmware bug is the same in 3500, 3520, 3540, 3550 and 4550
models), but forum trolls like fugitive/inertia/bob11879 (cdfreaks),
fraisouille (hardware.fr), or Odin of Fire (brennmeister) who rather
claim that pdflatex developers have special contracts with Adobe than
admitting that their boss was too greedy to send a negative reply to a
c&d-letter, who claim that a fiat is a knock-off of a BMW (because a
fiat also has 4 tyres) rather than admitting that their beloved
plextor is behaving extremely weirdly and so on.
* Eduard Bloch, who has been mentioned somewhere in a message above
is, IIRC, that guy who stated that
void* p = malloc(whatever);
unsigned char i = p[17];
was correct C code and that Sun should fix their compiler to accept
this Bloch-C...
When you have enough contact with people whose main activity is
trolling, you kinda react badly to people using weird arguments, even
if it doesn't qualify for trolling. You must admit that the idea to
add a workaround for a new linux kernel bug to software that is
supposed to work on more platforms than just linux is funny as long as
it is not guaranteed that this workaround won't cause new problems...
regards,
Alexander
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