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"Shenan Stanley" wrote in message
... "You'll never learn any younger than you are right now." and "When I can no longer learn, I am dead." are two things someone told me long ago and I find to be sage advice that keeps me sane. Thanks for reminding me of what I forgot. Know that your memory experience may or may not apply to me or anybody else. I learn every day. I've done memory exercises every day for years, but as Dirty Harry said, "A man's gotta know his limitations." I would add to that, "A man's gotta know his strengths." My memory was taken abruptly 23 years ago and I've had plenty of time to know my limitations and my stengths. Your insistence that I must be able to do what you do is still calling me lazy. I am not and saying so is not out of order. -- For most of us the most danger is most politicians. JimL |
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"Shenan Stanley" wrote in message
... "You'll never learn any younger than you are right now." and "When I can no longer learn, I am dead." are two things someone told me long ago and I find to be sage advice that keeps me sane. Thanks for reminding me of what I forgot. Know that your memory experience may or may not apply to me or anybody else. I learn every day. I've done memory exercises every day for years, but as Dirty Harry said, "A man's gotta know his limitations." I would add to that, "A man's gotta know his strengths." My memory was taken abruptly 23 years ago and I've had plenty of time to know my limitations and my stengths. Your insistence that I must be able to do what you do is still calling me lazy. I am not and saying so is not out of order. -- For most of us the most danger is most politicians. JimL |
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Olórin typed: "JimL" wrote in message ... "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... JimL wrote: Essentially - if you don't want people to assume - don't leave the opening. You are free to assume that I've spent at least an hour and maybe several trying to find an answer before I ask people who already know and have probably known for years but don't want to tell. You are also free to assume that I'm very bad at guessing how to Google something I know nothing about. Some people seem to have the knack. And you may assume that "go to Google and figure it out for yourself" is actually beyond some people for reasons brilliant people with normal to excellent memories and normal to excelllent inate multitasking abilities seem never, ever to comprehend. (Some people just can't put together or remember page after page of written technicallities. But smart people aren't smart enough to figure that out.) And that rather than comprehend not being a genius they would rather chew on a questioner every time they ask a question that doesn't suit them. Frankly, I don't understand why so many people who know things and who populate information disemmination media would apparently rather be boiled in oil than make it easy for someone who is struggling. In essence they say, "If you aren't as smart as me you're lazy," one of the most arrogant (and prevalent) mindsets on the internet. If they don't like explaining things nobody is forcing them to come here and complain about explaining things. Since I lost so much of my abilities so suddenly I've learned a lot about the geniuses who were smarter than me to start with. -- For most of us the most danger is most politicians. JimL You asked a question and didn't bother stating up front what you'd already looked for and tried. Shenan stepped in with nothing but courteous and spot-on answers, going beyond that and also helping you "how to fish" (better). Why the rant? And in all that, you haven't even had the courtesy yourself to thank him as far as I can see. It's beyond me. Nice snippage there (NOT)! You and a few others here need to stop being so condescending and grow some interpersonal skills and be more accepting of those who are as yet inexperienced on the newsgroups. It's not that hard to ask a few questions about their situations and explain very briefly why you're asking them. It's not helping anyone when you take on the tone of a parent talking to a kid they consider stupid. There is always time to be polite and agreeable, especially to the inexperienced. Twayne` -- -- Live in the moment; be open to the possibilities that life has to offer. |
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In , Olórin typed: "JimL" wrote in message ... "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... JimL wrote: Essentially - if you don't want people to assume - don't leave the opening. You are free to assume that I've spent at least an hour and maybe several trying to find an answer before I ask people who already know and have probably known for years but don't want to tell. You are also free to assume that I'm very bad at guessing how to Google something I know nothing about. Some people seem to have the knack. And you may assume that "go to Google and figure it out for yourself" is actually beyond some people for reasons brilliant people with normal to excellent memories and normal to excelllent inate multitasking abilities seem never, ever to comprehend. (Some people just can't put together or remember page after page of written technicallities. But smart people aren't smart enough to figure that out.) And that rather than comprehend not being a genius they would rather chew on a questioner every time they ask a question that doesn't suit them. Frankly, I don't understand why so many people who know things and who populate information disemmination media would apparently rather be boiled in oil than make it easy for someone who is struggling. In essence they say, "If you aren't as smart as me you're lazy," one of the most arrogant (and prevalent) mindsets on the internet. If they don't like explaining things nobody is forcing them to come here and complain about explaining things. Since I lost so much of my abilities so suddenly I've learned a lot about the geniuses who were smarter than me to start with. -- For most of us the most danger is most politicians. JimL You asked a question and didn't bother stating up front what you'd already looked for and tried. Shenan stepped in with nothing but courteous and spot-on answers, going beyond that and also helping you "how to fish" (better). Why the rant? And in all that, you haven't even had the courtesy yourself to thank him as far as I can see. It's beyond me. Nice snippage there (NOT)! You and a few others here need to stop being so condescending and grow some interpersonal skills and be more accepting of those who are as yet inexperienced on the newsgroups. It's not that hard to ask a few questions about their situations and explain very briefly why you're asking them. It's not helping anyone when you take on the tone of a parent talking to a kid they consider stupid. There is always time to be polite and agreeable, especially to the inexperienced. Twayne` -- -- Live in the moment; be open to the possibilities that life has to offer. |
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JimL typed: "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... "You'll never learn any younger than you are right now." and "When I can no longer learn, I am dead." are two things someone told me long ago and I find to be sage advice that keeps me sane. Thanks for reminding me of what I forgot. Know that your memory experience may or may not apply to me or anybody else. I learn every day. I've done memory exercises every day for years, but as Dirty Harry said, "A man's gotta know his limitations." I would add to that, "A man's gotta know his strengths." My memory was taken abruptly 23 years ago and I've had plenty of time to know my limitations and my stengths. Your insistence that I must be able to do what you do is still calling me lazy. I am not and saying so is not out of order. Good call, Jim. In my case it was ten years ago last April 15 and I guess I've recovered about as far as I'm going to. I managed to get past being learning-disabled but the memory retrieval issues are permanent, it seems. What I knew I still knew, but new things came really hard for quite awhile those first 5 years. The computer was instrumental in my retraining. Some of these guys just have big egoes and fit the mold for egotist very well. Actually I tend to excuse them unless they start using words that would make the originator feel stupid or were put-downs as so many do. There's at least one other here who once said he was so busy keeping up with answering queries that he had no time to be polite or wordy in any way. Well, no one is forcing anyone to answer any questions here and if they have to be that way, perhaps they're burned out and need to go on holiday or cut it down to just a few responses a day. Personally, IFF their post contains a useful response, egoes aside, I'm pretty much satisfied, too. After all, that's what we're all here for. But when, as is going on right now, their "need" is simply to increase their number of responses so their MVP status will be renewed or whatever other reason there might be, and there isn't even a hint of a response and no interpersonal skills of any kind, I usually write them off. Further, everyone has a bad day now and then; the "walk a mile ... " thing. With your problems you should easily understand that, as I do. Often, people having a bad day shouldn't be bothering to post yet but human nature doesn't always point that out to a person and they go ahead and do it anyway. You often never know what's behind a person's attitude that makes them seem the way they are. I applaud you for your stand and agree with you. Shenan isn't one of the worst by far and often does provide informative responses. He/she does often seem to have that "rush" syndrome though, and a diregard for interpersonal skills at times when it's needed but I still read his posts when the subject interests me. And finally IMO you have people like me: I say what I mean and mean what I say, but it very seldom includes Shenan but some others here. Women don't ask me is a piece of clothing makes their butt look big because they're going to get an honest answerg. But I don't volunteer a response if they haven't asked for it. Tact is always necessary for good relationships. In the end, what it all means is, put on a thicker skin on the usenet groups because they're not moderated and pretty much, anyone can say anything they want to. I'd tend to answer the questions that were asked, just in case it got me anything useful, but not converse much after that unless some useful information was coming forth. That's because I know from experience that Shenan is a prolific responder and obviously knows about the issue, most of the time. It's easy enough to cover off the condescension, if you feel you must, with a short comment or two about how wrong the assumptions were. But that can cause other people to jump in and suddenly you've started a flame war. There are some who will pose purposely vague questions for the specific purpose of initiating flame wars; I call them trolls. Although poorly phrased, I think Shenan's questions were good ones and some were questions I'd have asked myself. It's handy to know what you've already done so time doesn't get wasted to post a suggestion and get back and "I already did that" series of mails. The OS and version numbers of course are always important to know. And so on. Regards, Twayne -- -- Live in the moment; be open to the possibilities that life has to offer. |
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JimL typed: "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... "You'll never learn any younger than you are right now." and "When I can no longer learn, I am dead." are two things someone told me long ago and I find to be sage advice that keeps me sane. Thanks for reminding me of what I forgot. Know that your memory experience may or may not apply to me or anybody else. I learn every day. I've done memory exercises every day for years, but as Dirty Harry said, "A man's gotta know his limitations." I would add to that, "A man's gotta know his strengths." My memory was taken abruptly 23 years ago and I've had plenty of time to know my limitations and my stengths. Your insistence that I must be able to do what you do is still calling me lazy. I am not and saying so is not out of order. Good call, Jim. In my case it was ten years ago last April 15 and I guess I've recovered about as far as I'm going to. I managed to get past being learning-disabled but the memory retrieval issues are permanent, it seems. What I knew I still knew, but new things came really hard for quite awhile those first 5 years. The computer was instrumental in my retraining. Some of these guys just have big egoes and fit the mold for egotist very well. Actually I tend to excuse them unless they start using words that would make the originator feel stupid or were put-downs as so many do. There's at least one other here who once said he was so busy keeping up with answering queries that he had no time to be polite or wordy in any way. Well, no one is forcing anyone to answer any questions here and if they have to be that way, perhaps they're burned out and need to go on holiday or cut it down to just a few responses a day. Personally, IFF their post contains a useful response, egoes aside, I'm pretty much satisfied, too. After all, that's what we're all here for. But when, as is going on right now, their "need" is simply to increase their number of responses so their MVP status will be renewed or whatever other reason there might be, and there isn't even a hint of a response and no interpersonal skills of any kind, I usually write them off. Further, everyone has a bad day now and then; the "walk a mile ... " thing. With your problems you should easily understand that, as I do. Often, people having a bad day shouldn't be bothering to post yet but human nature doesn't always point that out to a person and they go ahead and do it anyway. You often never know what's behind a person's attitude that makes them seem the way they are. I applaud you for your stand and agree with you. Shenan isn't one of the worst by far and often does provide informative responses. He/she does often seem to have that "rush" syndrome though, and a diregard for interpersonal skills at times when it's needed but I still read his posts when the subject interests me. And finally IMO you have people like me: I say what I mean and mean what I say, but it very seldom includes Shenan but some others here. Women don't ask me is a piece of clothing makes their butt look big because they're going to get an honest answerg. But I don't volunteer a response if they haven't asked for it. Tact is always necessary for good relationships. In the end, what it all means is, put on a thicker skin on the usenet groups because they're not moderated and pretty much, anyone can say anything they want to. I'd tend to answer the questions that were asked, just in case it got me anything useful, but not converse much after that unless some useful information was coming forth. That's because I know from experience that Shenan is a prolific responder and obviously knows about the issue, most of the time. It's easy enough to cover off the condescension, if you feel you must, with a short comment or two about how wrong the assumptions were. But that can cause other people to jump in and suddenly you've started a flame war. There are some who will pose purposely vague questions for the specific purpose of initiating flame wars; I call them trolls. Although poorly phrased, I think Shenan's questions were good ones and some were questions I'd have asked myself. It's handy to know what you've already done so time doesn't get wasted to post a suggestion and get back and "I already did that" series of mails. The OS and version numbers of course are always important to know. And so on. Regards, Twayne -- -- Live in the moment; be open to the possibilities that life has to offer. |
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JimL wrote: Your insistence that I must be able to do what you do is still calling me lazy. I am not and saying so is not out of order. Incorrect - I did not assume laziness. I gave you a method to improve your skills, one that could be referred to at any point of time, linked to so memory was not necessary. It was not a 'use google' response - it was a 'perhaps in the future you can use google and utilize the tips and tricks here' response. I would say my insistence that you could learn should be a compliment - not any sort of disrespect. I guess it's a glass half empty/glass half full thing. ;-) So be it. /end -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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JimL wrote: Your insistence that I must be able to do what you do is still calling me lazy. I am not and saying so is not out of order. Incorrect - I did not assume laziness. I gave you a method to improve your skills, one that could be referred to at any point of time, linked to so memory was not necessary. It was not a 'use google' response - it was a 'perhaps in the future you can use google and utilize the tips and tricks here' response. I would say my insistence that you could learn should be a compliment - not any sort of disrespect. I guess it's a glass half empty/glass half full thing. ;-) So be it. /end -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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snip I find your replies to be informative and helpful. I've learned a lot from you about my operating system and related problems I've had with it. Thank you! -- JD.. |
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snip I find your replies to be informative and helpful. I've learned a lot from you about my operating system and related problems I've had with it. Thank you! -- JD.. |
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Shenan Stanley wrote: snip I find your replies to be informative and helpful. I've learned a lot from you about my operating system and related problems I've had with it. Thank you! *grin* You are welcome/Thank you! I know I can be long-winded at times (some would say all the time) and perhaps it is because of that some people believe (mistakenly) I am speaking down to them. Perhaps I offer too much in the way of 'assistance' - some of which they may not have asked for - in the form of, "By the way - this is how I have come by the information I am giving you. Perhaps you too can come by such information in the future in this way or a similar way..." expanded answers. Some take it as I am telling them, "See how easy this was?" - I suppose. I am not. I am just offering my experience and knowledge to anyone and everyone. In fact - I try to garner my responses to everyone. Many of them *do* get repeated over and over and while I could have a web page I just link to - I would rather repeat them over and over in hopes they get replicated over and over in hopes they get crawled/noted by search engines, reviewed by peers, corrected by people wiser than myself and help people other than just the original person/people I was responding to. I try to word things in ways I have seen others understand in the past, change things as I go along due to suggestions I have gotten or specific questions to my responses - so I learn how to better my response and form it to be accessible to a broader audience. But yes, in any case... long-winded. ;-) *shrug* -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Shenan Stanley wrote: snip I find your replies to be informative and helpful. I've learned a lot from you about my operating system and related problems I've had with it. Thank you! *grin* You are welcome/Thank you! I know I can be long-winded at times (some would say all the time) and perhaps it is because of that some people believe (mistakenly) I am speaking down to them. Perhaps I offer too much in the way of 'assistance' - some of which they may not have asked for - in the form of, "By the way - this is how I have come by the information I am giving you. Perhaps you too can come by such information in the future in this way or a similar way..." expanded answers. Some take it as I am telling them, "See how easy this was?" - I suppose. I am not. I am just offering my experience and knowledge to anyone and everyone. In fact - I try to garner my responses to everyone. Many of them *do* get repeated over and over and while I could have a web page I just link to - I would rather repeat them over and over in hopes they get replicated over and over in hopes they get crawled/noted by search engines, reviewed by peers, corrected by people wiser than myself and help people other than just the original person/people I was responding to. I try to word things in ways I have seen others understand in the past, change things as I go along due to suggestions I have gotten or specific questions to my responses - so I learn how to better my response and form it to be accessible to a broader audience. But yes, in any case... long-winded. ;-) *shrug* -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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JD wrote: Shenan Stanley wrote: snip I find your replies to be informative and helpful. I've learned a lot from you about my operating system and related problems I've had with it. Thank you! *grin* You are welcome/Thank you! I know I can be long-winded at times (some would say all the time) and perhaps it is because of that some people believe (mistakenly) I am speaking down to them. Perhaps I offer too much in the way of 'assistance' - some of which they may not have asked for - in the form of, "By the way - this is how I have come by the information I am giving you. Perhaps you too can come by such information in the future in this way or a similar way..." expanded answers. Some take it as I am telling them, "See how easy this was?" - I suppose. I am not. I am just offering my experience and knowledge to anyone and everyone. In fact - I try to garner my responses to everyone. Many of them *do* get repeated over and over and while I could have a web page I just link to - I would rather repeat them over and over in hopes they get replicated over and over in hopes they get crawled/noted by search engines, reviewed by peers, corrected by people wiser than myself and help people other than just the original person/people I was responding to. I try to word things in ways I have seen others understand in the past, change things as I go along due to suggestions I have gotten or specific questions to my responses - so I learn how to better my response and form it to be accessible to a broader audience. But yes, in any case... long-winded. ;-) *shrug* I already understood. And yeah, you're maybe a little long winded. ;-) The beauty of a newsgroup is nobody has to ask questions and nobody has to read replies. We're all here for a reason and you don't have to qualify yourself, your replies do that for you! -- JD.. |
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JD wrote: Shenan Stanley wrote: snip I find your replies to be informative and helpful. I've learned a lot from you about my operating system and related problems I've had with it. Thank you! *grin* You are welcome/Thank you! I know I can be long-winded at times (some would say all the time) and perhaps it is because of that some people believe (mistakenly) I am speaking down to them. Perhaps I offer too much in the way of 'assistance' - some of which they may not have asked for - in the form of, "By the way - this is how I have come by the information I am giving you. Perhaps you too can come by such information in the future in this way or a similar way..." expanded answers. Some take it as I am telling them, "See how easy this was?" - I suppose. I am not. I am just offering my experience and knowledge to anyone and everyone. In fact - I try to garner my responses to everyone. Many of them *do* get repeated over and over and while I could have a web page I just link to - I would rather repeat them over and over in hopes they get replicated over and over in hopes they get crawled/noted by search engines, reviewed by peers, corrected by people wiser than myself and help people other than just the original person/people I was responding to. I try to word things in ways I have seen others understand in the past, change things as I go along due to suggestions I have gotten or specific questions to my responses - so I learn how to better my response and form it to be accessible to a broader audience. But yes, in any case... long-winded. ;-) *shrug* I already understood. And yeah, you're maybe a little long winded. ;-) The beauty of a newsgroup is nobody has to ask questions and nobody has to read replies. We're all here for a reason and you don't have to qualify yourself, your replies do that for you! -- JD.. |
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"Twayne" wrote in message ... In , Olórin typed: snip - happy? You asked a question and didn't bother stating up front what you'd already looked for and tried. Shenan stepped in with nothing but courteous and spot-on answers, going beyond that and also helping you "how to fish" (better). Why the rant? And in all that, you haven't even had the courtesy yourself to thank him as far as I can see. It's beyond me. Nice snippage there (NOT)! You and a few others here need to stop being so condescending and grow some interpersonal skills and be more accepting of those who are as yet inexperienced on the newsgroups. It's not that hard to ask a few questions about their situations and explain very briefly why you're asking them. It's not helping anyone when you take on the tone of a parent talking to a kid they consider stupid. There is always time to be polite and agreeable, especially to the inexperienced. Twayne` -- -- Live in the moment; be open to the possibilities that life has to offer. Not that I need to defend myself to you, but in the face of such offensiveness (in both senses of the word): - I left in the "rant" as it was germane to my comments. I note that *you* didn't bother snipping it, though, for some reason... - I don't believe I was condescending, lacking in interpersonal skills, impolite or disagreeable. You, of course, can believe what you like, but I'm free to ignore your unsolicited comments - which would perhaps be easier to view with a straight face coming from someone who didn't use such a childish device as "Nice snippage there (NOT!)". I've found you to be far ruder, with less reason and more often in these groups than I ever have been. I hope I never have the memory problems referred to in this thread, and can only sympathise. But I similarly hope I never sink to the levels of rudeness and name-calling I've seen from you. - "More accepting of the inexperienced"? - I didn't reject the OP and wasn't commenting on his technical ability at all. I was expressing bafflement at his attitude and calling him out of line for his (ongoing) ingratitude. When asking "How do I do A?" to add, "I've already tried X, Y and Z," isn't a matter of being a genius, it's more like plain common sense. To take umbrage when it's then assumed that none of X nor Y nor Z has been tried and to think you're being called lazy is over-sensitivity. |
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