18 Oct
2011
18 Oct
'11
8:16 p.m.
On 19 October 2011 01:51, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
?Hope you're wearing your asbestos skivvies.
Flame away if you like, but bear in mind that it makes you look stupid
and seem immature.
?You've misidentified the causality graph here. ?I
don't say Microsoft sucks because I dislike it, I dislike it because it sucks. ?When
they create a viable product, I will use it, recommend it, and sell it. ?In the past, when
they did, I did. ?I am getting a little tired of having to explain that to people who snap
and snarl without listening first.
*I* dislike it because it sucks, too. Our opinions have little bearing
on the continents-full of people using it, though.
?You also seem to think that I am somehow fantasizing
and/or imagining how things work in this industry, rather than actually working here and
getting paid for my expertise. ?While there are plenty of people on this list for whom
that's true, as this list is a community of hobbyists, I assure you that's not the
case here.
I work in the field every day and have watched the rise of MICROS~1
since my getting into the industry in 1988; before that, I watched
from the sidelines from around the time of the
introduction of the IBM
PC, which is, coincidentally, about the time I got
interested in
computers and computing.
?I mean, shit, you act like you think I've never
seen the inside of an office before, any office, least of all a technical one. ?That's
ironic, because while it's rather far from the truth, it sure is how YOU come off.
[Shrug] No skin off my nose, but I'm working in the business computing
world still and I know what it's like. You don't seem to.
?When someone so completely jumps to a conclusion
about what motivates my statements, then tries to "correct" me based on those
incorrect assumptions with amateurish fanboy assertions and "I will sound respectable
if I say what is expected of me from squarely inside the box as an obedient passenger of
the industry" logic, it's killfile time. ?You join the ranks of the scrapper who
thinks he knows everything about how the data processing world works, the starry-eyed
Microsoft apologist who worships at Gates' feet, and the newbie who thinks his
magazine-ad-based knowledge trumps having actually been there.
Great way to grow and learn, that. Block out anyone who corrects you.
Let us know how you get on with that, won't you?
?And of course you know I can't let this part go.
?You assert that my attitude is "unprofessional" because I don't simply obey
the magazine ads or the nontechnical people making technical decisions, and instead get
paid to make technical recommendations for technical things based on real technical
observations and technical experience? ?That's just absurd.
No, not at all. I assert that it's unprofessional to go around calling
people arseholes and liars and idiots. Or swearing all the time. Or
claiming that tools used by more people than live in your entire
country are useless rubbish. Or claiming that the former richest
corporation in the world, owned and run by the former richest man in
the world, are incompetents.
?In fact, that's the very ESSENCE of
professionalism. ?Anything less is fanboy ass-kissing. ?I've been a good plumber for
as long as you've been breathing, and you're trying to tell me what kind of pipes
the world uses. ?Ha! ?*plonk*
So tell me, top-quoting boy, how do you feel this enhances your
reputation for professionalism, skill and knowledge? :?)
I'm not offended and it doesn't really matter to me if you read this
or don't, but man, you really need to "take a chill pill" and calm
down and learn to accept what you can't change.
You change people's minds by showing them that you understand them and
then gradually leading them in the direction of better tools, methods
and practices, not by shouting at them and calling them idiots.
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