CHEERS SCOT! -----Original Message----- From: Scot Mcphee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:30 AM To: JDJList Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Java on Linux ; was: jsp/html editor note
> > ||| Here's the killer argument; > ||| > ||| PLAIN TEXT IS BEST FOR REPRESENTING JAVA SOURCE CODE!!! > ||| > ||| How can you argue against that, especially as I shouted it > ||| so loud. ;) > > I really can't believe that someone working in the high-tech field as > yourself is so short sighted. > > Its attitudes like yours that scare me Do you mean because I ask questions like; does this technology benefit humans? What are it's deterimental effects? Because I can cracka joke about it? Because I'm not standing here screaming "more more more!!!" at every "new & improved" technological "advance" that gets stuffed in my inbox each day? And I'll note that I'm not the only one here that disagrees with HTML email. That's right, I am not an SMS-junkie, I stopped wasting my time with Usenet in 1995, my personal web-use-time plummetted around 1997, I rarely play computer games, and I never use chat programs. When I get home after work I like to discuss my wife's film theory PhD with her and I read Euridipes' plays to relax; we both enjoy watching going to our home team's Rugby League games, and we don't forget were we came from. But I am a highly paid and very effective OO programmer in the finance industry. Is this not an "tech-industry" enough attitude for you. Doesn't generate enough revenue? I think that possibly as an editor of a tech magazine and director of a tech company you spend your time talking technology too much. I don't like being so vertically integrated, it makes for narrow point solutions. Most people don't give a rat's arse about technology. Technology is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Maybe you're not asking the right questions. If you asked about the Mail-ML standard (whatever it's called) I would have replied quite differently, but the topic was about HTML, which is not the same thing. HTML was not even designed for email. It's the old question of, when you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Some years ago, in boom times long ago, I was at a java conference and this guy doing the presentation was going on about the tech-heaven of embedded java in the networked home, with that stuff about the intelligent net connected fridge and all that. So the questions went on for about ten minutes, finally this guy stood up and said all this talk about fridges that can spy on what I put in it makes me nervous, have you ever stopped to ask what it is you're building, and why? Half the room applauded the question, the other half just looked puzzled. I guess I'm in the half that applauded, and you're in the other half. But rather than just agreeing to disagree, you'd rather be perjorative about my 'vision'. regs scot. ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
