Re: The Results of everyones help.

From: Roger Johansson (no-email_at_no.invalid)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: 16 Mar 2005 13:32:07 +0100

Chris W <1qazse4@cox.net> wrote:

>>Maybe this explanation is simple enough to understand for beginners:
 
> A little condescending don't you think?

No. I don't have that kind of personality. I never feel offended by too
simple explanations. I like such explanations which let me work as
little as possible to understand something. And if I already understand
that issue I just jump to the next chapter.

If you are not a beginner, why do you read an article which starts with
the line above? And if you do, why complain when you find that it is
exactly that, an explanation for beginners?

> Just because I don't have any
> real education or experience in electronics, doesn't mean I'm an idiot.

I have no idea who you are or what education you have. I don't know if
you are the person who started this thread or somebody else. I reply to
questions in a newsgroup called sci.electronics.basics, intended for
beginners and hobbyists, and try to develop ways to explain things for
people with very little knowledge.

If you don't like explanations for beginners you can use a newsgroup
where you are expected to know the basics already, like
sci.electronics.design.

The most common question in sci.electronics.basics is "how do I use
an LED?" We see it seven times a week. So we try to find out how to reply
to that question in the most enlightening way possible, to people who
don't know anything about electronics, or about Google.

And especially to all the people with little knowledge who try to feed a
voltage instead of a current to a LED.

I don't talk to just one person when I write, there are other readers,
and people who search the usenet archives in the future, and I talk to
all of them. This is not email or a chatroom, it is usenet and I write
articles for all the readers, in the present and in the future.

I assume that other writers in the field of electronics read my
articles as well as I read their articles, and we learn new teacher
tricks and explanations from each other all the time. It is like an
experimental workshop in technical writing, and the person who started a
thread, usually referred to as "the other person" or the OP, because we
are too lazy to remember the names of all people who pass by, is maybe
less important than he thinks. 

-- 
Roger J.

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