Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:24:32 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jlm@caamora.com.au> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Cc: fbsd_chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: on content versus presentation [ was: Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing ] Message-ID: <20080315212432.45787@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <47DB7009.1020606@highperformance.net>; from Jason C. Wells on Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:43:21PM -0700 References: <478556AD.6090400@bsdforen.de> <20080110154737.GA20976@soaustin.net><47864933.6010203@gmail.com> <20080110170010.GA16567@volatile.engineering.cwru.edu> <20080111115804.T2095@klein.bigpond.com> <47DAF203.40106@emailrob.com> <47DB7009.1020606@highperformance.net>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:43:21PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > spellberg_robert wrote: > > > when your content is sound, > > the presentation will take care of itself. > > /me hands Rob a paragraph and some upper case letters. > > I'm sorry. I found it far too difficult to read your content. The poor > presentation required more effort than I was willing to invest. well, perhaps, now you might know how i feel about trying to may my way throught the way you all write and present you posts. i struggel to read the majority of posts .. not everybody read writes presents american english in teh way "some" americans read write and present thier version of english. perhaps, if we all spent less time worrying about how politically correct, how american sensabilities offending word/content .. this world is made up of people whole read, write and understand/comprehend at various and different levels of competence for whatever levels of comptance are available in these days of politically corrected school marking systems. we all use the 'lingua franca' at different levels of usability for all and different levels of competance for all and various differnt levels of the 'human' condition. my bodies uniqunesses help me see thes 'different levels' i write the way that i write because this is how best that i can see (as in visual acuity, as well as frontal cortex issues both learning) and understanding. at any rate this is how i see it and perhaps if we all (me included) spent more time understanding why people write the way that they might write rather than HOW they might write .. content is far, far more important than the presentation of that content. disabled, people, with english as a sencond language and a whole lot of stuff that is people in between ... sitting at our keyboards we can foreget that teh stuff out there is another person, a person not a machine providing content for our own consumption for our benefit. if this is how we treat people then it dosen't matter how good freebsd, is. going to be .. it dosent matter if when they come here to get help support and or information we treat tehm like grist for the mill, anotehr machine for teh provision off our content, our content, my content, is it worth it .. i ask this question every time i see this "you didn't provide _my_content_ " in the way that I want it to be provided, in teh way that it mkes it easy for me to use in teh way that i want to use it. put another way, "dr suess" has a lot to answer for in teh creation of .. this the "me" generation don't ya think ?? sorry for the out burst .. kind regards, sincere appreciations jonathan -- ================================================================ powered by .. QNX, OS9 and freeBSD -- http://caamora com au/operating system ==== === appropriate solution in an inappropriate world === ====
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