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Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:28:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Joshua Delahunty writes:
> Lar said:
> > We're in agreement. My bone is with Joshua, an extremely clever fellow in
> > most every respect, except when he's wrong. :-)
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> ad hominem, Lar. Tsk, tsk.
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> It's a subtle version, though. Props for that.
"We're in agreement. My bone is with Joshua, an extremely clever fellow in
> > most every respect, although he happens to be wrong about this. :-)" :-)
Better? :-)
> > > And parts authors are encouraged to make extensive use of KEYWORDS
> > > entries, to help people when they are searching for parts.
> >
> > Yes please.
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> Doesn't work in every package.
Fix or discard those that don't. Standards evolve and packages need to
evolve too.
> Of course, it doesn't concern me QUITE as much, since any decent package
> will allow user notes or even full renaming anyway. And then each user can
> have everything to his own specifications.
This is a terrible idea. Get the names right instead and get them adopted.
Unless you were opposed to the tower of Babel and thought imposing multiple
languages was a GOOD idea. I don't WANT to call things by my own names that
no one else understands.
> > See also the brickbay discussion groups where we are wrangling over
> > nomenclature as well. There is a significant faction that does not want to
> > use LDraw names because they are too confusing and too slow to get
> > corrected. I would use them even if they are confusing because consistency
> > is good. If Brickbay ends up with a different nomenclature (even if it's
> > better) that's bad.
> There already are competing nomenclatures. Heck, several names that I got
> used to (standardized on) from James' work have now faded away, so I can't
> find things I already knew...
> I happen to like Mr. Hughes names a lot too (he tends to tread close to
> "official" TLG usage when he can, of course.
Trust me, if Brickbay goes with a competing nomenclature from Peeron which
is different from LDraw this is going to be very bad. The Brickbay
categorization/attributification scheme is profoundly revolutionary. It has
the prospect of breaking the tyranny of hierarchy.
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| (...) Wrong number, BTW. (...) "Double Curved Handle, Bottom Hinge, 3M", FWIW (...) ad hominem, Lar. Tsk, tsk. It's a subtle version, though. Props for that. (...) Doesn't work in every package. Of course, it doesn't concern me QUITE as much, since (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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