[MPlayer-users] [OT] newbie questions

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 09 June 2002, Lethal Weapon wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> > I've never understood these kind of people. INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR!
> > So it's nothing with MPlayer but the compiler. I think it's very clear and
> > I don't know why it is so hard to realize that this is not problem of mplayer
> > but the compiler.
> So you don't remember being a newbie with linux...?

Sure, I remember.
 
> Maybe you were born with the knowledge?

Of course not, but I always tried not to be clueless. I did a lot
of RTFM first. Only when I tried out everything I knew and read
did I go to mailing list or newsgroup and ask. Most people are too lazy
to read and solve their problems on their own.

[...]
> You guys on mplayer are doing a great job and making a lot of people
> happy, but it's really a shame you keep on going like: "GO RTFM YOU
> D*CKHEAD", or now the new RTFB (yeah sure, newbies will directly
> understand what the B's for), common, no need to be rude to teach ppl
> something... 

Why don't *you* try answering all these clueless newbies' question
for a few years? Let's see how polite and understanding will you be
_then_.

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"The Universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy."
        -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows"
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)rangers.eu.org>