On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 10:38, Jason Clinton wrote:
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
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Ok, I may be a bit out of place here, maybe not, but after months of seeing people's questions, and your 'answers', Jesus Christ, Jason!!!
I took a glance a that link, and NCSA did a decent job of covering BASIC HTML for Dummies. Don't see how that will help Jonathan figure out this streaming audio scripting problem.
Besides that, this is a *discussion* list, somewhere that people of a similar mind and intrest can come and *discuss* problems, and situaitons, to get answers or possibilites that may help them.
You always seem to be some sort of pompus 'super-professor' sitting behind a big bare desk, that when a question is asked, you reach back behind you to your wall-to-wall library and throw a book at their head instead of answering the question. That's just plain insulting.
You've probably read a lot of books, websites, and other resources I haven't read, and the same can be said about me and just about everyone else here on this list. *BUT*, if I've read something relevant to a discussion in a 900 page book, I'm not going to tell the person to
**go read the 900 page book yourself; you can find it on the 5th shelf to the right, 3rd shelf down in the computer books seciton at the Borders on 95th & Metcalf**
like you would -- I'll tell them the things I gathered from the book that's relevant to them, and if that possibly helps, then great! (And, of course, site the book/website, so if I can't go into the depth the book/website goes into, they can find it, and read the relevant secitons themselves.)
That's sharing knowledge. Most of the time, links *do help*, so they can go somewhere that goes much farther in depth than a simple email reply could or should, but if you've come across it in your endeavours, then, SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF IT, dont' just send a link to some obscure website.
If it's something you may have just come across and said 'oh, that's interesting' as in an article on some website, then mention it as such, not a statement of fact, otherwise, give some info about it, explain it in your own words as best you can, and THEN provide a link to where they can learn more.
This list should be like a better Google of real experience. If you had a question ('How could people possibly fly??' or 'How can I get from point A to point B faster??'), which would you rather do, ask if someone else already knows, or has done it before?
Or are you going to go, hit the books, do your math and try and build a primitive Wright Flyer while seeing everyone else fly overhead at 35,000 in a 747, or try to contemplate pi and invent the wheel, while other people in cars are wizzing by at 65Mph because you'd like to do the same??
Next time you have a question, I've a whole book case of books (including a full set of encyclopedia), and a full folder of website bookmarks I'm just going to start throwing at your head, one at a time, tell you to read them (since I have already) and tell you it's somewhere in these books, figure it out yourself.
And if you do continue to just send nothing but links, at least send relevant ones.
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Disclaimer: I have *not* read my entire set of encyclopedia...
-Lucas