From help-request at octave dot org Sat Jan 14 15:41:04 2006
Subject: Re: imagesc doesn't work
From: "Robert A. Macy" <macy at california dot com>
To: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:35:59 -0800

At least the flurry of responses let people know a general
population's understanding of how the programs are used and
the problems encountered. etc.

Therefore the next time programs are written, with all
those decisions that get made but aren't specified, the
impact all those little decisions will have on using the
program will be taken into account, a bit.  


...motivational speaker?

ok as long as you don't "...live in a van down by the
river."

            - Robert -

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:29:10 +0200
 Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:14:03AM +0100, Martin Seebach
> wrote:
> > fre, 13 01 2006 kl. 18:22 +0200, skrev Stefan van der
> Walt:
> > > You need to have 'display' installed (comes with
> ImageMagick).
> > 
> > That was it, thanks! Shouldn't it be considered a bug
> that Octave lets
> > this fail silently?
> > 
> > OT: I got like five answers to this off-list .. doesn't
> people use the
> > mailing list?
> 
> There are many reasons why people prefer not to use the
> mailing list, including
> 
> a) They think they'll look like idiots.
> b) They think that they are wasting the time of the other
> people on the list.
> c) They are not sure that their advice is technically
> correct.
> d) Their e-mail client by default responds to the sender.
> 
> and probably a bunch of others I can't think of right
> now.
> 
> Personally, I know I am sometimes guilty of (a) and
> probably (c) --
> but I think it is more important to get a conversation
> going, rather
> than being too shy to send in your opinion/questions.
>  Someone may
> actually benefit from your advice -- accurate or
> otherwise!
> 
> We are here to help each other use octave, not to
> ridicule each
> other, so I would like to encourage people to make their
> replies on
> the list, so that we may all learn.
> 
> Do I sound too much like a motivational speaker? :)
> 
> Cheers
> Stéfan
> 
> 
> 
>
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