On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You ended up with
Lots of accusations :-( Have you successfully negotiated with hw vendors over innovative gear at very low cost in the past? We do make mistakes, and in some cases there are tradeoffs. It's part of doing R&D and bring that to market. Grandstanding about the mistakes made cheap, with the advantage that most people aren't familiar with the issues at hand. Yes, we could have alternatives for every bit of the device - if we had infinite time. Everything else is a tradeoff. > How can I show you that something is a bad idea? Showing us a better one. And explaining things carefully, in measured terms definitely helps. If you do have an important point to make, and someone doesn't seem to understand it, a bit pf patience and extra explanation might help. If it's not worth a 2nd attempt at explaining it, it's probably not that important. IOWs, there's so much trolling 'round here that just being considerate earns lots of attention points. m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
