GET LAMP is here

On 8/11/10 3:12 PM, MikeS wrote: Oh, never once have I asserted that. Again the fanboys choose to twist my words in an effort to marginalize any statement disparaging Windows. This isn't about ME, it's about Microsoft fanboys who pipe up and deny the existence of the troubles that damn near everyone has with that product line. This doesn't make ME any better, either in reality or in my own mind. So, envision yourself as someone who has personally cared very much for cars and car technology all your life, has seen such fads come and go, and has a fiscal and professional responsibility to use and sell what works. Now, if you knew of a group of near-religious devotees to a particular brand of car that was widely known to regularly catch fire while driving down the street in nearly all situations, so blind in their devotion that they loudly assert that these failures don't exist when the whole world sees them, how would you react? I poke fun at the Microsoft-can-do-no-wrong crowd (which I was doing at the start of this thread, because Will Donzelli amusingly suggested that UNIX guys don't get laid) because they're very entertaining when they keep pointing at the blue sky screaming that it's red, over and over and over again, ad infinitum, ad nausem. So, no, this is not about me, and I'm sorry, I'm not going to allow you to label it as such. I'm trying to explain myself here, not justify my position...I have no need to do the latter, while doing the former seems necessary when people try to dismiss an argument by restating it incorrectly. In the interest of on-topicness (topicicity?) I will drop this thread if you guys will. I like and respect most everyone here, and I don't really enjoy pooping in my own yard. I regret that this has gone this far, but I could not let certain statements stand. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL