Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: thinbluernime Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:36:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <04c1fe18-b023-4f45-8fa3-3c2f78cba69e@googlegroups.com> <53ba5a2c$0$2846$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <53ba6e3e$0$2967$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <53bbc619$0$2933$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <53bbd269$0$2960$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 2hKcJ5qAHS72ws6CdPskkQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.10 (MacIntel) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29006 On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:28:45 +0200, Joerg Meier wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:27:19 +0000 (UTC), thinbluernime wrote: > >> On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:13:45 +0200, Silvio wrote: >>> You started with the WTF wording which hardly qualifies as a request >>> to rephrase. >> In what way is "what ... is IoT?" NOT a request to rephrase?! > > In the "the fuck" part you cut out there. Non sequitur. It does not alter the declarative content of the question, so it can't change what it's asking for. So ... you're both knee-jerk refreshing and responding inside of 1 minute AND nymshifting now? Interesting. >>> Never heard of Google? >> I don't see the relevance of Google to this discussion. > > That really says more about you than anyone else, as the answer to your > question here is the first result on Google, so if you actually wanted > to know instead of bickering, you easily could by now. The first result for what? There's no Google-friendly query apparent to me here, just a short (so appears incidentally in ten zillion unrelated things) sequence of three letters. Not that that matters. You should have just spelled out whatever it was you meant, rather than expecting everyone else in the world to have to go around looking stuff up just to understand what you write. Indeed, you've spilled more electrons flailing at me and kicking up a whiny fuss in an effort to get *out* of doing so than you'd have spilled just bloody doing it in the first place! So you've failed to communicate effectively to your audience (the ostensible reason for your post mentioning "IoT"); you've failed to save time and effort (the ostensible reason for your cryptically abbreviating whatever "IoT" stands for); in short, you've failed. Spectacularly. Perhaps if you'd just written whatever you were thinking without overthinking how to save a handful of keystrokes you'd have succeeded at both things instead. And perhaps you'll remember this lesson next time you think "Hey, I can save five or six keystrokes here by using an abbreviation nobody knows instead of just spelling something out!"