Gentlemen: That was already done, to no avail. Has anyone actually looked at that paragraph on SIZE and thought about what it means?
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote: > abdallah clark wrote: >> Thank you for your suggestions, but not only are you not realizing >> what it means to be a newbie, you have also missed the point of my >> communication. Not only patience but also the consideration of others >> new to Linux ought to be in play. >> ... >> It is not my job to do more than report bugs or other problems, as >> the man pages indicate. > > I am compelled by this to write that you are also failing to realize > what is is like to share work on a community project. This is not a > job or any of us. We gather together in a shared hope of improving > the world by the shared effort of producing free software. The result > is donated to the community. > > Think of it this way. There are several people working in the kitchen > preparing meals. These meals are set out on the table for people to > eat. Someone eats the meal. They think, there isn't enough spice in > this dish. They complain to the volunteers cooking, "Hey, there isn't > enough spice." The cooks say, there are thousands of people eating > the food and some of them need a low spice content. If you like more > spice please feel free to add some. Or feel free to come into the > kitchen and help us prepare a good tasting meal that will be good for > everyone. But please remember that some people can't tolerate a lot > of spice. But then you say, it is not my job to cook. It is only my > job to submit feedback. As cooks you should consider that people want > more spice. > > Think about that and think about how you will react if you are one of > the cooks in the kitchen? What would you do in that case. You are > volunteering your time to cook. You are providing this service free > and donating the result. Would you think, "No one is helping. Why am > I doing this? Why am I donating time and effort and resources? I > should stop cooking." > >> If you cannot clarify something that is already written and cannot >> refer me to any material, anywhere that will clarify what the SIZE >> paragraph is saying, then please do not attempt to assign to me the >> task of rewriting the SIZE paragraph or any other part of the <man ls> >> material. That is a task for an intermediate or advanced user, not a >> newbie. > > Do you ride a bicycle? If so did you learn from a book? Or did > someone teach you? There are some tasks that can be learned from > written documentation. But there are some things that are much better > learned from a teacher. Riding a bicycle is one of those tasks that > is better learned from a teacher than from a book. Operating a > bicycle would be really scary to try to do if you could only learn > from a book. It just isn't possible to sufficiently cover everything > that you need to know all in one place. No matter how much someone > were to complain about it. > > Operating a computer operating system is not completely different. > Some things can be learned from a book. Perhaps most of it. But > different people learn things in different ways. Sometimes people > will learn better from a human teacher than from a written document. > > Perhaps you could find a computer users group from which you could get > face to face help and instruction? I think you would really get the > most benefit from someone who could immediately spot what you needed > and then could react with the right words to help make the points > clear. > > Bob >
