[FFmpeg-cvslog] r14484 - in trunk/libavcodec: audioconvert.c audioconvert.h

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 03:29:31PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 07:14:48AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
> >> What you apparently interpret as "arguing for the sake of it" is,
> >> at least in this case, a manifestation of the way I approach
> >> figuring out (or otherwise trying to arrive at) answers on
> >> complicated issues, of which this almost unquestionably is one.
> > 
> > You have said it yourself:
> > 
> >   Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with
> >   any side of it.
> 
> For the record, since omitting to mention it feels dishonest: what this
> originally referred to is the fact that I would sometimes see a
> discussion (or an argument) taking place, in which one or more positions
> which I felt were important were not being advocated by any side, and so
> would enter the discussion and argue one or more of those positions -
> whether or not I agreed with them - simply because I felt that the
> discussion could not be fully and comprehensively resolved without
> taking those positions into consideration.
> 
> Admittedly these tended to be philosophical and/or theological
> arguments, and the same principle does not so easily apply to more
> technical discussions; that may well be part of why, as I said, this
> warning is no longer so applicable as once it was. I do, however, still
> do much the same thing from time to time.

I just wanted to say that your arguments are very appreciated (at least by
me, even if others disagree). And it would be sad if diego would scare you
off the lists, your arguments did certainly sometimes point to interresting
aspects that where not obvious (to me at least). An example of this surely
where your arguments in the uoti flames.

And arguments opposing ones own, are rarely "welcome" by that person. If
he calls that person a troll, distracting or worse is more an indicator
of that persons politeness than anyting else.

Besides one cannot find a consensus if a significant portion of the
people involved are prevented from participating in the discussions or
scared away. That way one just finds his own oppinion, alone in an
empty room ...


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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
-- Heraclitus
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