Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?b?xLVlc3M=?= stone Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <04c1fe18-b023-4f45-8fa3-3c2f78cba69e@googlegroups.com> <5d237ee6-b5cf-4dc0-81a4-32177471183b@googlegroups.com> <53b978b3$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <53c14f85$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <53c1daf4$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <53f3afc0$0$296$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: CdIqXTNCxTvlv2RE3G+Drg.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: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29743 In article 53f3afc0$0$296$14726298@news.sunsite.dk, Arne Vajhøj said... > On 7/12/2014 9:24 PM, ĵess stone wrote: >> Once again, let me rattle off the reasons why you're wrong: >> >> 1. Google isn't a mind-reader. There are probably lots of things called >> "RIA". > > Absolutely. Well, there you go, then. >> 2. Why should I have to go to extra effort to understand a post, >> instead of the author going to extra effort to be easily understood? > > [implied insult deleted] No. None of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me are at all true. >> 3. Duplication of effort: the writer saves a few keystrokes and maybe >> ten seconds of his time. Meanwhile everyone else loses whole >> minutes, > > [calls me a liar] No! None of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me are at all true. > Well - that is a waste of time. But I will not blame the one using the > acronym for that. Of course you won't, since otherwise you would have to admit that you were wrong. >> 4. At the end of which, each reader has exactly that: a guess. While >> the poster knows FOR SURE what was meant and so would everyone else >> if he just said so. > > [calls me a liar] No! None of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me are at all true.