Frederico @ RHAD writes: > I apologize to Raster if that newspaper > article implied offensive things. And I wish > him the best of luck in California, where you > can find nice civilized cities.
The 17 Jan 99 Raleigh News & Observer article "The Mad Hatters" ( read it here) gives the impression that Raster was not getting along well with the rest of the RHAD team. The author makes a note of Raster's fastidious attire and contrasts it to the more casual dress style of other team members. RHAD team member Jonathan Blandford refers to him as a "rock star." Jonathan and Federico criticize his code. RHAD team leader Michael Fulbright says that he and Raster "[are] kind of at opposite ends in some ways, which is okay..." Raster says of Fulbright "We tend to butt heads a lot. Thank God he's very smart, because he'll at least listen to me.", suggesting that Raster thinks that other team members are not smart and don't listen to him.
Granted, the reporter probably exaggerated, but even still this screams "personality conflict" to me.
I just now downloaded and installed Quikwrite.prc. As soon as the sync finished, the machine hung with a "Reset" dialog box. Soft reset brings up the "Palm Computing Platform" splash page and then hangs. Hopefully BackupBuddy will save me. I was running Hackmaster, that may have contribued to the problem.
Chill out, dude. Evil people may use guns to do evil things, but guns are not intrinsically evil. And U.S. statistics tend to suggest that far more often good people use guns for good purposes than evil people use them for evil purposes.
As far as "homicidal gun-toting maniac" goes: ESR is a gun-toter. So am I, on occassion. But I'm not homicidal, and I seriously doubt that he is either. As for being maniacs, well... I have a rubber chicken in flight taped to my office window. ESR has been known to dress as Obi-Wan Kenobi. This may make us somewhat wierd, but not maniacal.
About half the time Talbott is off in knee-jerk Luddite land, but the other half he's pretty on-target. Also has a penchant for stating the obvious, but at least he can state the obvious in a readable, cogent manner, unlike Thieme.
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> I apologize to Raster if that newspaper
> article implied offensive things. And I wish
> him the best of luck in California, where you
> can find nice civilized cities.
The 17 Jan 99 Raleigh News & Observer article "The Mad Hatters" ( read it here) gives the impression that Raster was not getting along well with the rest of the RHAD team. The author makes a note of Raster's fastidious attire and contrasts it to the more casual dress style of other team members. RHAD team member Jonathan Blandford refers to him as a "rock star." Jonathan and Federico criticize his code. RHAD team leader Michael Fulbright says that he and Raster "[are] kind of at opposite ends in some ways, which is okay..." Raster says of Fulbright "We tend to butt heads a lot. Thank God he's very smart, because he'll at least listen to me.", suggesting that Raster thinks that other team members are not smart and don't listen to him.
Granted, the reporter probably exaggerated, but even still this screams "personality conflict" to me.
I just now downloaded and installed Quikwrite.prc.
As soon as the sync finished, the machine hung with a "Reset" dialog box. Soft reset brings up the "Palm Computing Platform" splash page and then hangs. Hopefully BackupBuddy will save me. I was running Hackmaster, that may have contribued to the problem.
-Anthony Garcia
agarcia@neosoft.com
http://www.ee.umd.edu/~yag/
-Anthony
Chill out, dude. Evil people may use guns to do evil things, but guns are not intrinsically evil. And U.S. statistics tend to suggest that far more often good people use guns for good purposes than evil people use them for evil purposes.
As far as "homicidal gun-toting maniac" goes: ESR is a gun-toter. So am I, on occassion. But I'm not homicidal, and I seriously doubt that he is either. As for being maniacs, well... I have a rubber chicken in flight taped to my office window. ESR has been known to dress as Obi-Wan Kenobi. This may make us somewhat wierd, but not maniacal.
-Anthony
About half the time Talbott is off in knee-jerk Luddite land, but the other half he's pretty on-target. Also has a penchant for stating the obvious, but at least he can state the obvious in a readable, cogent manner, unlike Thieme.
-anthony
Fatuous, vapid, meaningless junk. Where do you find these people, the Talentless Agency?
-anthony