Re: hello

From: <shahid>
Date: Fri Jan 11 2008 - 15:04:00 EST

Mr. Wright,

   Dont compare questions like, "How to design pipe" with "where is light switch?" Answering each has different results.

"Remember like a sage" means

1. Respecting the person who is being asked.
2. Using the new acquired knowledge to the present problem and in future with such problem.

   A teacher or senior tells the solution of a problem in much less time which is why people turn to them. Studying, refering the library, search for the right source takes more time.

   And by the way you used your right not to like the saying.

   You spend too much of your precious time telling people that they should ask very advanced knowledge questions. You also tell group that do some research before posting question. Believe me the answer to all the questions are found somewhere no matter how advanced these are. If everything could be studied with the help of books and internet ONLY then nothing would be taught in schools and universities. No teacher would be hired in universities.

   Ok,
   I want to be kicked out of the group. Let me study, research, refer books and internet and then probably shall join your group again when I have learnt piping somewhere else by self study.

   Shahid

Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> wrote:

On Jan 11, 2008, at 1:56 AM, shahid Rafiq wrote:

> There is a saying (you have the right not to like this saying), ASK
> LIKE STUPID REMEMBER LIKE A SAGE.

Remember this: if you ask like stupid you'll come across as stupid and you'll be treated like stupid.

--Ask like someone who cares enough about the subject and willing to work at becoming informed.
--Take the advice you get seriously enough to ask yourself if it's correct and squares with what you know.
--Respect people who are willing to help and don't be a pain in the ass. --Read 'How to Ask Questions the Smart Way,' <http://www.catb.org/ ~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> and you'll learn how to come across as not stupid.

And try to remember that there really are stupid questions. Asking, 'Where's the light switch?' when you enter a room that smells of mercaptan is a very stupid question with a fatal answer. I bet the list could come up with a dozen more without half trying.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

1864)
http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/

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