11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
6:44 a.m.
On 11/09/2007, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
Oh, FFS!
Hint: the word "you" in colloquial English usage does not always refer
directly to an individual or to the person being addressed.
For example: "If you want to learn to fly a plane, you have to
demonstrate good vision and a degree of numeracy". This would be a
perfectly reasonable statement in a magazine or newspaper article,
without any implication that every reader of that journal is an
aspiring pilot.
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To know a
printer socket from a SCSI socket, you need to memorise
what, half a dozen? Maybe a dozen?
If you can't do that, you shouldn't be
playing with computers, they're
too hard for you.
I wasn't being nasty, there was no need for you to start. Be aware that while
you may have intended that insult for me, you actually hit all those who had
earlier expressed confusion over many of the 'few' symbols.
It's also doubly cheap in that you yourself set up the conditions (relative
quantity of symbols - irrelevant to the point being made) from which to derive it.
You're responses to my points were all misdirections from the issue, except
for the one in which you further undermine your own position (printer symbols).
You failed to address the argument.
(And wikipedia isn't exactly anything to rely on for precise definitions.)
This is OT as I tried to point in my earlier message, and considering your
approach to debating, I'm not interested in dragging it out further.