On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:56:09 +0000, alister wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 09:29:29 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:
>
>> Alister,
>>
>>> you are the person who is asking for assistance assistance not me
>>
>> And you are the person who thought he should reply.   As such we *both*
>> have our responsibilities.
>>
>>> I am probably not the best person to provide that answer but was at
>>> least trying to steer you in the right direction for someone else to
>>> help
>>
>> No, you didn't .  You mentioned a "silly idea" - which felt as you
>> mocking me - urging me to provide specific information which, as I now
>> may understand, you had *zero* idea about if it would be helpfull to
>> the question in case, and in a direction which indicated you didn't
>> even understand the problem to begin with.
>>
>> So, I called you out and offered you my challenge.
>>
>>> no in the post I replied to there was no mention of the device
>>
>> The post which you replied to with "tell me the device you want to talk
>> to" (as quoted) certainly already contained the answer to that
>> question.
> that was an explanation as to why we wanted it & later in my reply I
> made the statement the data sheet seemed fairly straight forward, which
> would indicate not only had i seen the device but even taken the time to
> look it up
>
>
>>> & I may be able to tell you how to talk to it
>>
>> I could already communicate whith the device before I posted my
>> question. Its not *that* hard.
>>
>> The question was about *how to minimize transient memory usage*.
>> Nothing more, nothing less.
>>
>>> no it is the reply to my suggestion that you identified the device you
>>> cant even keep your trolling straight
>>
>> Yeah, sure.  See above.
>>
>>> I already know I was going to look at this as a mental challenge
>>> during the quiet Christmas week but now know it would be a waste of
>>> time
>>
>> :-)  I already mentioned that my challenge to you was to try to get you
>> to see where you erred.  That you now consider it to be "a waste of
>> time" is, as far as I can tell, you keeping your eyes shut and your
>> ears covered while yelling "la la la" -- a juviniles way of expressing
>> that they refuse to listen to anything thats being brought forward.
>>
>>
>> Lets face it kid, you asked for and I gave to you the device I am
>> working with in my first reply to you, and I still have to see your
>> first reference,
>> let alone anything specific in regard to using that device.
>>
>> You mentioned trolling ?   You could well be one yourself.   Telling
>> people you can probably help hem if they give you more information, but
>> than not even *trying* to actually do so.
>
> i tried to move things forward by geting you to provide the group with
> full information (i believe I even said WE not I may be able to help)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rudy Wieser
>
> you have a history of asking incomplete questions & then requiring more
> &
> more information untill it becomes apparent that you did not understand
> the basics which your original question implied, at which point it is
> the fault of this newsgroup because we did not give fUll instructions.

And by the way you have not even told us what language you are
programming in, no doubt you would get on your high horse about being
presented with a solution in scratch although for all we know you could
be using fortran or even assembler




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