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Right you are, I was bantering with Cynwoody and you jumped in with your own ad hominem: Ad hominem attacks. The last refuge of those without facts. . I missed the fact that you were the poster and not Cynwoody, forgive my inferior reading skill. Stating an opinion is not an ad hominem attack.

In your post 86, it seems intellectually dishonest of you to omit the "Platform Support" chart in the document that I referenced that shows HP-UX 64 bit and Solaris 64 bit are the only Unix platforms that are supported - no mention of Linux or Mac. They may run Pro/E but they are not supported.

And again I have to give you credit, I lumped all Mac users together when I offered my opinion regarding "their" need for reassurance when I meant to target people that (in my opinion) seem to be obsessed with Mac: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:swordmaker/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change

The last response is yours.

Right you are, I was bantering with Cynwoody and you jumped in with your own ad hominem. . . I missed the fact that you were the poster and not Cynwoody, forgive my inferior reading skill. Stating an opinion is not an ad hominem attack.

So stating your generalized opinion that your opponents in a debate are insecure and and unemployed to boot is not ad hominem? That is exactly the nature of a ad hominem... the use of personal attacks against your opponents in the debate or discussion in an attempt to belittle or denigrate them, their choices and their opinions.

My commentary about your original ad hominem reply to ROCKLOBSTER's—which was mild and probably referring to the MS "Lauren Find a Laptop" advertisement—was merely pointing out that you used ad hominem and that it is generally used because the user has run out of facts on the topic. It is a logical fallacy. . . calling the user on their use is never ad hominem.

My calling you on your use of ad hominem had nothing to do with your bantering with Cynwoody and everything to do with your reply to ROCKLOBSTER—which was pure insult to Mac users and their ability to earn a living. All your dancing around the facts is not going to change the fact you entered into this thread and immediately started tossing out ad hominem commentary as if it had anything to do with the relative merits of the platforms or even the article that started this thread.

Even in this reply you continue with ad hominem ("intellectually dishonest"). Being available and capable of running on a Mac which can run all three of the supported OSes that Pre/E runs on falsifies your irrelevant non sequitur claim of "Pro Engineer still isn't available for MAC." If the Mac can run it, it's available. Whether the company chooses to support particular hardware is irrelevant to whether it is available.