Ward Oldham wrote: > Hi Tony, > > I've been biting my lip for a long time on this one as Jerry well knows. > > This list serve functions both as an educational tool as well as a > problem solving tool for the members who participate. I don't believe > any one person pretends to know it all (other than Lee and Schoun who > do know it all). I will be the first to admit (willingly) that I > gained the bulk of my technical expertise over the years through > solving customer's problems. I learned from their experiences. There > is no formal training out there that can replace this kind of > experience. And one can never learn enough. I continue to learn new > things on a daily basis and I'm thankful for it. > > It may serve you well in the future to be more open-minded about > member feedback and not engage in shear rhetoric when there is no > basis for your arguments. As you have finally admitted, it may have > been best to admit up front that you were "in the dark on this one" > without the senseless arguments that were based on emotion and poor logic. > > There were no tech writers that got snowed on this one. Unbeknownst > to you, Jerry is one of the most technically knowledgeable > contributors on this list serve and he went out of his way not to > flaunt it in your face and embarrass you. It was a senseless waste of > time debated without knowing the facts. > > We do, however, wish to thank you for challenging Jerry about every > aspect of cartridge technology as this forced him to divulge in detail > many aspects of this technology previously unknown to the members who > regularly participate, thus educating us all. Who could ask for more. > > Now Marta knows that HP stands for Hewlett-Packard and I think we all > learned that sensing ink levels is not time based. > > Ward Oldham, MacDude > MacTown > 1041 Bardstown Road > Louisville, KY 40204 > 502-485-1243 > ward at mactown.us > > Sorry about that Ward. I hope your lip didn't bleed on my account. I want to congratulate you for standing by your fellow members the way you did. As you probably know, I'm not a member of your group. If I was, I'd probably call an emergency meeting just to keep this debate going. But I'm a guest on your list, and am thankful for the privilege to be a part of it. That's why I wanted to drop the subject. I saw neither side was giving in, and didn't think it was fair to the others on the list to have to be subjected to it.
For some reason, I feel the need to provide you and the group with a summary of my background. For more than 35 years I've repaired, maintained and overhauled a variety of electronic, electrical and mechanical systems and devices. Ive been exposed to more types of operating systems than the average technician. And, just about everything I worked on was computer controlled. I even worked for a computer company once, but that was way before the desktop came to be. So when I was insisting the printer wasn't relaying accurate information on ink levels, I wasn't just beating my gums. Nothing technical was stated to support Jerry's claims, and electrostatic charges aren't going to cut it. If I'm still allowed to be a part of the list, I'll try my best to keep responses down to one e-mail, but I can't make any guarantees. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout & Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
