I agree with Ray completely—my sentiments precisely! I wait it out and try to figure out things for myself. Always I appreciate it when someone admits to being wrong or to making a mistake; and, go on from there. Heavens I surely do make a lot of mistakes, admit it, and tell what work-a-rounds or other solutions I've found that do work.
JG > On Apr 15, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Ray Foret jr wrote: > > > >> > >> While I don't blame people here for criticizing the NFB for its > initially bad review of Apple's Voice OVer, (a criticism with which I myself > agree), I must say quite frankly that I do not appreciate continued > criticism of the NFB after they've made a good effort in the December 2009 > "Braille, monitor" to correct many of their initially incorrect statements. > Besides, that's not why I joined this list. It appears that some of you > want to criticize the NFB for an initially bad review of Voice Over; but, > not acknowledge when they admit they made quite a few substantial mistakes > and openly apologized for them in the Monitor. IF you make a mistake, > you've got to be willing to own up that you've made it and try to make good > what corrections you need to. No. The NFB is not perfect; but then again, > who is? Apple? No. Microsoft? No. Me? No. You? no. Look y'all, they > made a very big set of mistakes in their June review. Only a fool would > deny that. but, let me remind all of y'all here that in the December > update, they did correct many of their earlier statements. Okay. Maybe not > all of them, but, enough of them so that I think they deserve credit for > having owned up to when they were wrong. But, seems to me like some of > y'all can't stand to acknowledge that they did make an effort to clean up > the mess they made. If that's what this list is going to turn in to, I'm > out o' here!!! But, I'd rather think, (at least for the moment), that most > of the people on this list are better than that. I'm not saying y'all all > have to become fans of the NFB. All I'm saying is lay off. They did wrong, > and, they apologized for and made an effort to correct that wrong. To me, > when you commit a wrong very publicly, (as in the June "Braille Monitor"), > and then you just as publicly apologize for it and make efforts to correct > it, (as in the December "Braille Monitor"), you've got to frankly > acknowledge that fact; and, whether you like it or not, they did!!! Let's > remember that shall we? > >> > >> Sincerely, > >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!!! > >> > >> Now A Proud Mac User!!! > >> > >> E-Mail: > >> rforetjr at comcast dot net > >> > >> -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
