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You're not wrong, but, you let him get to you.
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Your technical points are well taken, but I'd omit the reference to "Dear". I think you let that get to you.
Many Indians (for whom English is not their native tongue) use "Dear" as a sign of respect, and not sarcasm or an indication of being overly familiar. You probably weren't aware of that. I think it stems from exposure to commercial correspondence, where a letter typically starts with "Dear Sir/Madam:".
/ravi
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Ok point taken. It just seemed condescending, and well... red rag meets bull. I didn't understand the cultural context
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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Mel Padden wrote: I didn't understand the cultural context
Soon after I moved to the US (about 35 years ago), I told a lady acquaintance I'd give her a tinkle tomorrow. Of course I meant "telephone call". What was she thinking!? True story. 
/ravi
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Good thing you didn't say you'd "knock her up" (I believe I have heard that phrase used somewhere in the ancient history of this forum)!
Dave.
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More embarrassing Indian-English faux pas's:
- Can I borrow a rubber? [rubber == eraser]
- Gonna get me some fags. [fag = cigarette]
- Sorry, can't join you guys tonight - I'm busy mugging. [mugging = cramming]
/ravi
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You were correct but your approach was a little over the top. It's usually enough to let the author know that the article/blog/tip is of poor quality for x. y or z reasons and leave it at that.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I agree that the article is poor quality, due mainly to being written by a non-English speaker. "Dear" is quite commonly used as a salutation to show respect by many non-English speakers. It's a sign of respect and you took offense - not very nice at all. Then stick to the technical issues and don't make it personal.
Instead of attacking and openly criticizing, you could have offered to help correct the grammar and syntax errors. When reading articles written by non-English speakers, here and elsewhere, I always try to ask myself how it would have turned out if I tried to write an article in their language.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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In general I agree, and I made reference to the fact that it wasn't just about his English, but the whole article was pretty much pointless. I mean if I were to post every little thing I've discovered over the years... its at best a tip/trick.
I will say that my initial reply was hot-headed and over the top. I attempted to correct that in my second reply.
But it seems that the overall feeling is that I went too far. For which I apologize.
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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Well, Mel, you get Person-Points (for what that's worth) from me for having the awareness, and humility, to examine your acts, and seek advice, and listen to it !
cheers, Bill
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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Anyone use something basic and cheap for visualising architecture ? - I want to have a good idea of what my house extension might look like before meeting the sharkitect.
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I'm not sure if the TurboCad[^] package offers what you want but I believe it does some architectural visualizing and you can get an older version quite resonable.
You might try a trial version[^] if the older versions don't offer what you want, although don't know how limited they are.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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For quite easy to use stuff I used Home Sweet home 3d[^]
It was easy enough to use to spend v little time, and gave a good enough view to give some idea of what we were doing (we were actually designing a shop interior in a railway carriage)
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SketchUp[^] might also be an option. I've never used it like that, but heard lots of people talk about its power. But that Sweet Home 3D looks pretty darn cool, and what I did try SketchUp for long ago made me gun shy of the difficulty of drawing in it (I have lots of AutoCad experience, and precision in SketchUp was hard to achieve compared to that).
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SketchUp seems OK to begin with but you soon realise it actually lacks in a lot of areas.
For example, there seems to be no way to make an object of a specific size. You have to spend 5 minutes moving your mouse pixel at a time to get it accurate, and even then it never really gets where you want it to be. Sometimes you have a choice of 9.39" or 9.41" but never .40
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There is an obscure keyboard shortcut that allows you to type in the exact measurements. I don't remember it (I haven't used SketchUp in quite some time), but I do remember that I found it by using Bing(!) to search for 'SketchUp Exact Measurement Entry' (I think that was what I searched for). Google came up with no real useful information (sadly).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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A former NYPD officer, who was arrested in 2012 for conspiring to kidnap, murder, cook and eat women, has gotten a job working as a chef at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan in order to "kill time."
... According to his mother, Elizabeth Valle, the pizza he makes is so good that even the guards eat it. "He has mastered making pizza," she told the Daily News. [^].
Antidote: visualize the words "And I say to myself, what a wonderful world" surrounded by the blue of Cerenkov radiation while listening to the immortal Louis Armstrong: [^].
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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Would you eat that man's Pad Gra Pow? 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Avoid the "long pork roast" and the rump steak...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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BillWoodruff wrote: the immortal Louis Armstrong
I hate to tell you this, but he died.
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No, he just stopped blowing his own trumpet.
And man, could he blow a trumpet! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yes he could, but too bad I can't listen to Jazz, too much sax and violin (Will Farrell)
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I have a love-hate relationship with Jazz - particularly recorded Jazz - sometimes I can listen to it, others I just can't stand it. But live jazz...oh that can be good, oh yes.
It can also be be worse than amateur local-pub-punk-bands, which is saying something... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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