Re: display adpter

'Malke' wrote:
| I know Phil, and I really don't like to be harsh and in Andrew E.'s case
| it is probably useless anyway. He's been giving terrible advice in
| broken English for a long time now. He doesn't respond to anyone, just
| goes right along breaking things. The only reason I bother to reply to
| his posts is that in many cases if the OP followed his advice they
| would trash their machine. That's not right.
|
| BTW, your last paragraph is a true gem.
_____

Yeah, I went thru some of his other posts, and you are exactly right. One
of the things I really like about newsgroups, at least the more technical
ones, is the 'peer review' effect. If bad advice is given, it usually gets
labeled as such.

As for the Hemingway pastiche, I had fun with that. I seem to remember an
article in 'Scientific American' from about 20 years ago that described and
gave the code for a simple program that could collect statistics from
samples of writing, then generate pastiches. The generated text contained
no meaning, of course, but the feel and rhythm evoked the original writers
style. The text generated from samples of Hemingway were the clearest
match. I'd sure like to find that program again. Unfortunately the on-line
archives of 'Scientific American' don't go back that far.

Phil Weldon


"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23JkY2rbSGHA.4960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Phil Weldon wrote:
|
| > 'Malke' wrote:
| > | Andrew, if anyone is a waste of time it's you. You consistently give
| > | the worst advice I've read in many years and you can't write a
| > | decent declarative sentence to save your soul.
| > _____
| >
| > Harsh. But a conclusion supported by his failure to read the original
| > post and realize the upgrade was a new operating system and not a new
| > display adapter.
| >
| > 'Andrew E.' stared at the post. He had a sharp stick. He poked the
| > question. It shimmered in the sun. He missed the point. His hunt for
| > 'one true sentence' would go on.
| >
| I know Phil, and I really don't like to be harsh and in Andrew E.'s case
| it is probably useless anyway. He's been giving terrible advice in
| broken English for a long time now. He doesn't respond to anyone, just
| goes right along breaking things. The only reason I bother to reply to
| his posts is that in many cases if the OP followed his advice they
| would trash their machine. That's not right.
|
| BTW, your last paragraph is a true gem.
|
| Malke
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| www.elephantboycomputers.com
| "Don't Panic!"
| MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


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