see below, please. regards,
Richard Erlacher ----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 4:18 AM Subject: Re: [Sdcc-user] documentation & open source generally > Richard Erlacher wrote: >> see below, please. >> No, but they do learn the basics by reading the instructions, and no sane >> person would attempt to fly without fully understanding the basics, going >> through months of simulator training, etc, before getting into the >> cockpit >> and attempting to take off. Then they are attended by expert >> instructors. > > Hogwash!! As a former combat rotary wing (chopper) pilot I can tell you > that your ideas there are in the Dreamland class. > > We learned the basics, we had a short introductory course to the actual > aircraft, we had a few hours with an instructor, then we got out there > and flew the bloody things. But then we were expected to actually use > them as killing machines, not be pretty boys all dressed up in blue. > That's probably why the defense budget has grown so much. Aircraft aren't cheap, you know. Perhaps I'll share my own experience with that with you, off-list. > > Get in there, try things and if they don't work then you've learned > something. > Yes ... I'll have learned that they don't work. > > Learning from others is a good way of getting started but is no > substitute for original thought (or action for that matter). > Perhaps you're right, but there's a significant share of the would-be user community that would have an easier time if the doc's were, in fact, complete, correct, and germane to the matter of performing useful work using SDCC. > > Art C > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
