Subj : Re: I'm still waiting for somebody to offer constructive criticism To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : Bob Day Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 02:10 am "Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t" wrote in message news:REM-2005aug17-001@Yahoo.Com... >> From: "Phlip" >> The first few sentences should "hook" the readers, and make them >> "care" about the story. > > I have no skill in this area, and there's no available source of free > help in this area. Accordingly I'll have to skip over this suggestion. > > Linkname: Why WAP inactive? > URL: http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/WAP/WhyInactive.html > >> In your case, you start with negative complaints about yourself, like >> this post. "In the first place" and "briefly" are complaintful. > > OK, I've changed that now. See if it looks better. > >> and "stopped work soon after beginning" & "cruddy" are negative and >> self-abasing. > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=self-abasing&db=* > Lowering or humbling one's self. > > Saying that I stopped work on that project because I lacked the > resources necessary to continue, is factual, not what you say. > > Saying that AT&T services is cruddy is my person opinion based on > suffering beeping from incoming text-message spam about once every two > or three minutes and spending several hours per day for several days on > customer support trying to get them to shut down the incessant beeping, > all to no avail. I hope somebody sues AT&T for all the spam they've > sent out, at $1000 per spam, hundreds of billions of dollars per day > they owe, and puts AT&T out of business, because I hate that fucking > company for multiple reasons. > > Do you honstly consider my hatred of AT&T to be "humble"? Howso? > >> Then, readers have trouble getting started without at least >> expository verbiage about what WAP is. > > I turned my first mention of WAP into a link to suitable WAP-p.r. > >> I used to think that Free Software emulators for WAP were available. > > I don't have any net access such that it'd be possible to correctly > emulate a small cellphone screen. Piping small-screen Web pages through > a VT100 (fixed-pitch single-font test) would not give a proper idea > what a WebPage would look like rendered properly on a cellphone screen, > and IMO would not be worth even trying. > >> you seem to complain that without a cell phone with good "service" >> (signal? tech support?) you can't continue to experiment with WAP. > > Without any cellphone whatsoever, nor any other way to render WAP > output to look as it would on a cellphone, indeed I can't do any > meaningful experiments in that medium. > >> And the reason you didn't whip out your computer science credentials >> and _write_ a WAP emulator are..? > > Because I don't have access to any system on which it would be possible > to render Web output in any way similar to how it'd appear on a cellphone. > "person opinion" should read "personal opinion" I could give you some suggestions, but you'd probably just figure out reasons you "can't" do them. So I won't waste my time. Go find something you can do. -- Bob Day http://bobday.vze.com .