On 6/10/05, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:46:20PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > > >Just out of curiosity: you do realize that "LCD" is an insult, right? > > > > > > > > What is LCD? > > Least Common Denominator.
_Lowest_ Common Denominator where I grew up, and, whether it's an insult or not, _accommodating_ the LCD is not only polite but necessary. Actually, I was rather pissed off when I posted that (people get too damned righteous about bottom vs top) and so, yes, I _intended_ it as an insult. So, if anyone was insulted, my apologies. There's nothing "lower" about processing information linearly. Those of us who do _not_ require information to be presented in linear order in order to process it are in a rather small minority, it seems, and so it would be pretty absurd for a forum like this to accommodate _us_. But I'm still a bit surprised that tech folks are so linear - it's only in tech forums that I encounter this insistence on bottom posting - at least where I work, tech people are among the smartest I know, and so I would expect more lateral, reverse, circular, etc., and less vertical information processing. But I also code a good bit, and appreciate the need to do that in an orderly (essentially vertical) way. No offense intended to anyone. So if offense was taken, apologies. Patrick
