fishybawb posted on Oct 28 2005 at 01:56 PM said:
Sorry,
I'll just give these last statements, and I'll try not to be emo about the whole damn thing but here goes. It took me about 6 months to learn how to simply use linux effectively when I was using it for the first time. Any time I ever asked for help of any sort, I was told to 'RTFM' or called a 'noob' or other bullshit. I had bought books, I had read man pages, many times I still didn't get the information I needed. Eventually someone took to helping me out, giving me the information I needed to understand how it worked.
Many people still learn this way, and even then a percentage of them seem to get off on calling other people noobs and treating them like shit. They seem to love the fact they know something the other person does not. They pass this off as 'well that person was annoying they shouldn't be asking for help, I had to learn the hard way so why can't they!' the problem is many of these people DIDN'T learn the hard way. They took classes, or they had someone who could ease them into it as well.
To this day, sometimes I still go to linux IRC channels and help out if I can, provided the person genuinely needs the help and is asking a reasonable question. I consider it paying the favor forward.
Granted, there are those who can and do teach themselves everything they need to know. I actually have met one of these people, he's not a prick at all, he's one of the nicest guys I know. He's also one of the most intelligent, having gotten a perfect score on his SAT in his Junior year of high school.
It seems no matter where I go I can't seem to avoid people that get off on elevating themselves above me by putting me down. I'm sure reaper is an excellent coder, and I respect that, I find learning to code to be very difficult. But I have great doubt that he learned how to do everything he did by reading those free sites he linked me to. So on the other hand, he's a fucking hypocrite.
I know I'm probably speaking to deaf ears here, but I find it troubling that politely asking about the feasibility of a project, and bringing attention to another possible port is seen as a mortal sin here. I thought I would bring attention to a game that is now open source that might have been overlooked. I perfectly understand trying to cut the bullshit, that I may be wasting someones time. I think that people who ignorantly post that they'd like to see this or that on the system, without doing ANY research whatsoever, is wasting time. I have done what research I can without doing a year long learning project to do it myself. I know the specs of the unit, I know that the project I propose is already open source, and I just wanted to discuss whether it was possible.
I apologize I'm not good enough for the rest of you.