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[Swordmaker]

Does it include cowardly neglecting to mention said poster's name and I doubt you were talking about, "PreciousLiberty"

Of course I wasn't referring to PreciousLiberty. And Lx, it was not "cowardly neglecting to mention." I was deliberately omitting your name as someone beneath recognition.

[zeugma]

Yeah, we'll have to disagree on this. It may well be the law, but you know, it's against the law for me to carry a concealed weapon in certain places. I pretty much ignore the hell out of those immoral "laws" as well. If I don't commit at least 3 felonies a day, I feel like I'm slacking off.

Your friend who got screwed over by the schools is a different case IMO, those school districts were just being typical liberals, and stealing what they could get away with. I think I'm the only person I know who had an actual legitimate, licensed copy of pkzip back in the day. These days, there is little reason for me to purchase any software, though I would if there was something compelling that I wanted to support (kinda like FR in that way). For instance, I gave money to 'YouVersion" because I really liked their Bible software and their mission.

I just really dislike the entire concept of licensed software in the way that Apple means it. Guess that's why I'm a Linux guy rather than a Mac guy. WifeofZeugma really likes her Macs, but I'm more hands on.

Even with Linux, I'm not opposed to paying for perceived value. Hell, years back, I used to subscribe to a fellow who produced and mailed out RedHat disks with all updates on a monthly subscription model. He wasn't making much, if anything, and I could have easily spent the time necessary to download the ISOs myself, but I really liked the convenience of it.

[Lx]

VI, I loved it, back around the '90s, my co-workers thought I was crazy using it while they used edlin (seriously, comparing edlin to VI is nuts). Besides the funky h,j,l,k keyboard cursor movers, VI was awesome and then they changed to the cursor keys. You could get some serious work done in minimal time if you knew what you were doing.

Sadly, I fell prey to the Siren's song of GUI editors.

And Novell's was atrocious. It helps when you start with a gui as the base instead of grafting it onto a basically text based O/S.

[Lx]

Ah, there goes my self esteem.
I guess common courtesy goes out the windows when you lack, shall we say, class?

[Lx]

This has been validated by the courts numerous times. You are simply wrong. And no, the principle of "first purchase" does not hold in this case because you bought a license, not the software itself, and you are permitted to sell the license to another party so long as the restricted terms of the license are followed. That has also been tested in the courts.

If you had cared to read, I only mentioned what I found in the FAQs, and as predicted, you show up to set me straight.

I'm glad you posted that as I was going to build a Mac, now it appears I have to buy one, since my numerous PCs do exactly what I need, I guess I shall not build (or buy) a Mac, too bad.

All'Yall remind me of the South Park Episide where Kyle's dad Gerald buys a hybrid.

[Lx]

Of course I wasn't referring to PreciousLiberty. And Lx, it was not "cowardly neglecting to mention." I was deliberately omitting your name as someone beneath recognition

And I'm the one who uses ad hominems?

OK for me but not for thee.

Clever you are not; but you can't help it, you suffer from Dunning Kruger although there are treatments, but first you have to admit you have a problem. Can you do that?

[Lx]

Look familiar to a certain poster's tactics?

Must be rough looking in the mirror in the morning (or anytime).

[Lx]

Nothing cowardly about it. I am just damn tired of your invective you've directed at me and everyone who's disagreed with the Gospel of Lx. You are the coward, hiding behind a screen name to attack people with your nastiness. You knew who I was talking about. You are the un-christian acting person. You want to steal software, ignoring the owners specific license. Sorry, you are the loser.

How Christian of you.

[Lx]

I missed this, did I hit a nerve? Man are you thin skinned or what?

Nice graph, one maker, Apple against six others, tsk tsk, a might bit dishonest.

You might want to read your screed, again, numerous ad hominems and you don't hear me whine, why, because I'm a man baby!

[MHGinTN]

I seriously doubt that you will ever become a conscious enough individual to ever know one way or the other.

[Lx]

Anti-virus/Anti-spyware programs, defraggers, registry cleaners, etc., are time suckers and waste money. I bought them, kept them updated, used them, but still somehow Windows computers would get infected, corrupted or in some other fashion taken offline.

Never had a virus in over twenty years, never have problems with any of my machines (I'm talking home machines, not the servers I support and most of the time it's because a drive died but since it's RAID 5 or 10 plus hot spare, I never see the problem except when the management software goes red and announces a dead drive, within four hours, I get a replacement. While the hot spare had already rebuilt itself and is running just fine).

Drive arrives, take 45 seconds to hot swap it and the drive rebuilds we go on, no problems. We also keep some spare hard drives just in case.

I've never bought a registry cleaner, let me guess, you get a pop up and it says you may have problems with your registry, your run their tool (scam) and low and behold, there numerous registry problems so you buy their 'tool' and it 'fixes' your registry, social engineering at its finest.

[Swordmaker]

Ah, there goes my self esteem.
I guess common courtesy goes out the windows when you lack, shall we say, class?

I wouldn't worry too much about your self-esteem. . . you got gobs of that. It's class that you're lacking.

[Lx]

One more thing Windows 7 defrags automatically once a week though you could change the schedule. I just looked at my four partitions and everyone show zero percent fragmentation.
Windows is coming up with a new file system called. “Resilient file system”. It’s got great features but I would wait a while before changing from NTFS. It’s trying to be like ZFS but ZFS itself took a while to be reliable.

[Lx]

It's class that you're lacking.

Look in the mirror.

[Lx]

Lx:

Ah, there goes my self esteem. I guess common courtesy goes out the windows when you lack, shall we say, class?

Swordmaker:

I wouldn't worry too much about your self-esteem. . . you got gobs of that. It's class that you're lacking.

Pretty sad that your vocabulary is so small you use my words. I give lessons you know...

In your case I would assign, See Spot Run.

I know, I know, it'll be like reading, Atlas Shrugged for you but you work though it and in a month or two, you'll succeed and we'll see if your ready for, Charlotte's Web. It's a big step up but it'll be worth it.

[MHGinTN]

Notice how the steps from Rules For Radicals ooze out as the dishonest get more emboldened?

[Lx]

Notice how the steps from Rules For Radicals ooze out as the dishonest get more emboldened?

Saying a thing doesn't make it true and using Alinsky, must be on your mind because it sure isn't on mine, I had to look up how to spell his name.

You're a bank robber. Does that make it true?

[zeugma]

Frankly I think the best feature of vi these days is the macro recording function. I have been able to use that to do astounding thing with large text files.It's something I pretty much use every day.

back in the day I used a DOS-based editor called "Brief", by a company called Underware. It had insanely extensive macro support that I used heavily at the time. To this day, I think Brief (which was bought, then abandoned by the idiots at Borland) is the best editor I ever used. You could write macros that were practically programs themselves. It had features for manipulating text that I haven't seen replicated in any other editor to this very day. I've actually tried to run it in Dosbox recently, but it's just not the same. I'd pay cash money for Brief for Unix.

The best thing about vi is that it is available on any unix box.

I wonder if we have any other Brief fans here at FR. Maybe someday I'll post a vanity to find out.

[Swordmaker]

Nice graph, one maker, Apple against six others, tsk tsk, a might bit dishonest.

ROTFLMAO. Again. You like the graph? It's dishonest? Thank you for getting my blood moving. I needed a good laugh today. You demonstrated once again your desperate need for a clue!

Apple at 45% against Six (!) others, you say? REALLY?!?!?! Jump to conclusions much? Well, we already know that's true. You sure? Care to look again?

Are you graph challenged too? Can't you decipher a pie chart? Maybe it's just laziness? Let's look at this "nice graph" again, since you seem to be incapable of understanding it.

This pie chart represents 100% of the worldwide (before tax) operating profits in the PC manufacturing and assembly industry in the last quarter 2012. The wedges represent the share division of profits in the industry.

Starting with Apple's 45%, we have Dell with 13%, HP reporting 11%, Lenovo and ASUS both at 6%, and Acer with just 1%, leaving that famous computer maker OTHER at a whopping 21%. You have interpreted that as Apple against six,other computer makers. Right, Lx?

You FLUNK!

How do YOU interpret the wedge that says "Other 21%”, Lx?

Exactly what PC manufacturer is "Other?" Tell us, Lx, what models of PCs does "Other" make?

Let me help you further decipher the chart.

"Other" means any PC maker not specifically named in the chart, Lx.

Therefore, Lx, that "Other" wedge on the chart represents the profits of ALL OF the approximately 105 of the major and minor name brand companies that manufacture/assemble PCs (and also includes the profits of thousands of white-box no-name PC assemblers) with profit shares of less than 1%! All of them Combined accounted for a total of 21% of the world wide profits.

So, no, Lx, it's one maker, Apple, taking home 45% of profits in the world compared to thousands of other PC makers combined taking home only 55% in 2012.

In 2013, those percentages reversed, with Apple taking home 55%! These data are based on standard industry reports.

These data are not even a little bit dishonest.

Do you see now why I don't give you much gravitas in this industry? Either your level of knowledge or your attention to detail, one or the other, is abysmal. Perhaps it's both.

Obviously, I am not left speechless, but I am stunned.

You're notorious for telling other Freepers to go get educated, when they have far more education than you demonstrate. Take your own advice, Lx.

What you fail to recognize, Lx, is that network flunkies like you are literally a dime a dozen. You guys are there to support the economic engines of the business. You are not the engine. If you get in the way of doing that, you're hindering the economic survival of the business. When I was a CEO I fired IT grunts for demonstrating the kind of arrogant, short-sighted ignorance and unwillingness to learn you've displayed on here. . . and had them replaced in less than a day.

By the way, when I use your own words back to you, it's not a lack of vocabulary, it a form of satire intelligent people easily grasp. Here's some more:

. . . why, because I'm a man baby!

LOL! Hey, Lx, we knew that! Everyone! Come hear the "man baby" whine as he's lifted on his own petard again! Twice!

[Swordmaker]

Notice how the steps from Rules For Radicals ooze out as the dishonest get more emboldened?

I'm laughing uproariously. He thinks he's funny. I would bet I read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead before he was out of diapers. . . Safe bet. His conduct shows he's not out of them yet. LOL! He even admitted it above in some of his trademark poor grammar. ;^)

He claims he doesn't know Alinsky. . . Maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt? Perhaps he's just a natural at dishonest Liberal tactics?

He certainly knows nothing about economics (my field of expertise by education), he's no psychologist as every one who disagrees with him (multiple threads) is suffering from just one malady, Dunning Kruger, and he shows very little breadth of knowledge in the field he claims. . . Satirist? Don't make me laugh. He doesn't recognize it when he encounters it. Butt of jokes? Hmmmm. Might have a career there, but I hope he grows out of it.

Democrat Congress critter? Good possibility. Seems he might have a future there. He has the debating style down pat. Maybe RINO . . . even he couldn't stomach the first.

He really needs to take a Dale Carnegie course. REALLY.