On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Richard Burmeister wrote:
> Insulting everyone on this group is not a very good way to try to get help.
> It is certainly not any better than saying "RTFM".
"yeah, didn't you get that memo?" (office space, 20th century fox, 1999)
> Note, however, that this is an extremely helpful developer forum. More than
> 90% of all the messages posted here are questions or responses to those
> questions. (Sometimes people waste some bandwidth letting off a little bit
> of steam, as you apparently are doing.)
i agree with this,.. there is some good traffic here.. loads of answers
if your willing to find em. it most definately is the most comprehensive
archive of knowledge for the palmos :)
> Furthermore, your complaint about responses that say "read the manual" or
> "look in the KB" is totally off base. Why do you think Palm publishes the
> manuals and maintains the KB? If an answer can be easily located in one of
> these valuable resources, it is perfectly reasonable to tell the person who
> asked that the answer is there.
there are manuals? :P *grin*
i think the problem here is a mentality thing. how many of us actually
bother to read the manuals for our VCR? :) heck, just push a few buttons
and you'll figure it out eventually.
most of the newbies are not doing it professionally - hence, they take
the same attitude (try it out, complain, complain, complain - oh.. thats
how it works)? :) its also a very common thing to do by males :)
heck, i admit.. i did it myself! :) a few posts back in early 1999 where
i also bitched and bashed about things.. :P *phew* at least they are
out of the eScribe archives now :P
point is, we all start somewhere - i would have loved it if people
pointed me to the knowledge base that exists today, but, palm was so
infant when i started.. the knowledge base didn't exist (or was empty) :)
// az
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