I'm sorry, but I'm desperet

[Chris]

W'w'w'w'wo!

hear he, hear he!


LOL!

ROFL!


Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Ervin at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: I'm sorry, but I'm desperet


> Hello Greg,
> Some people learn better by trial and error, as opposed to reading a
manual.
> You mentioned "laziness or impatient".
> I must admit that I am sometimes too impatient to read a manual, but there
I
> must just consider this a learning style.
> Where I can spend hours figuring out a program or O S, and not be
> frustrated, I sometimes find it difficult to read a manual, and read
through
> 80% of material covering common sense, and 10% of stuff I will never need,
> only  to get to a small portion of help that I really need.
> So when someone asks me if I read the manual, I want to ask them something
> rude in return, but I don't.
> I think this is one of the reasons a list like this exists.
> If I am wrong, I'll be glad to leave.
> Glenn.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:26 PM
> Subject: Re: I'm sorry, but I'm desperet
>
>
> By asking if Chris had read the docs, I was simply attempting to
> determine which parts of the configuration he was specifically having
> trouble with. Configuring alsa can be an involved process, and I
> didn't want to give an unnecessarily long explanation, when I could
> have spent the same amount of time addressing a particular issue in
> more detail.
>
> Also, I am finding that I need to ask people if they have read the
> documentation, as unfortunate as that may be. The sad fact is that
> most people expect someone else to do everything for them, while they
> expect to learn nothing about it, and take advantage of the other
> person's work on their behalf at the same time. I don't mind teaching
> and explaining whatever I can. However I do mind if someone just
> expects me to do all the work for them because they're to
> lazy/impatient to read up on the procedure themselves. Note that
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup