Tim Hollebeek wrote: > Let's keep this discussion civil. I know everyone has > their own personal agendas, but trashing other bright > people's work isn't necessary.
I have no idea of the merits of the work in dispute, but in general trashing other bright people's work *is* necessary. There is much too much garbage, and not nearly enough ridicule. We need ridicule, and we need cracks. We need a considerably more hostile environment. What made science scientific was that Hobbes had to flee the country, and Blondlot had to take "early retirement" With a bit more nastiness in the air, we might not have seen the Wifi debacle where the committee issued a broken spec, then fixed it with an equally broken spec, then abandoned compatibility to issue a spec which is *still* broken in that offline dictionary attack is possible and usually succeeds. _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list FDE@www.xml-dev.com http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
