Tech Thread Flame War Cease Fire Declared (vanity)

(self) ^ | 2010-07-24 | Dayglored

[dayglored]

Jim Robinson has laid down the law with regard to tech thread flame wars.

I am motivated to make sure we tech-thread-heads are aware of this. This vanity is a heads-up with regard to Jim's comments last night, and I've added a few thoughts of my own as an observer.

Here's what Jim said:

To All: [That goes for everyone.] I don’t see any reason whatsoever to be having flamewars on FR over computer products. Those who have a problem with Apple should just not buy the product and that takes care of that. Don’t come to FR to flame those who like the product. That’s just dumb. Who cares what computer products people use.

Everyone on these threads need to lighten up! On all sides!!

I think Jim's declaration of a cease-fire is clear as a bell -- the disruption, flame wars, abusive comments, etc. that have characterized many tech threads, especially Apple threads, are to stop.

I'm sure we can all abide by this reminder of FR site policy, with no loss of meaningful content, and our enjoyment of the conversations in these threads will increase considerably. Arguments can be had civilly, and without rancor. We're adults, not 13-year-olds.

Personally, I think this applies by simple extension to the Windows threads, Linux threads, indeed any of the computer / high-tech threads. So I encourage ALL partisans, pro-Apple and anti-Apple, pro-Microsoft and anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux and anti-Linux, etc. to heed this reminder.

I am going to ping a handful of my FRiends of all tech persuasions, so that we can spread the word as widely as necessary, to ensure that nobody can claim they didn't know about it.

Here's to a saner, more enjoyable tech environment on FreeRepublic!

Thanks,
Dayglored

[La Lydia]

I wasn’t laughing. But I was thinking about buggy whips.

[JSteff]

Can we still make fun of Microsoft OS?

Of course, impossible not to. Mac OS too!

[Professional Engineer]

LMAO!

[driftdiver]

There’s 10 kinds of people, those that understand binary and those that don’t.

[eyedigress]

Thank God I’m only 8 times of people.

[HangnJudge]

C-64? Puhleeeeze! VIC-20 is where its at, brudder! Flame on! LOL!

Bunch of Weenies

You need an Altair,,,

[NerdDad]

It was a huge investment for a newly married SSgt but it was worth it. Took me 4 hours to setup and type the first Officer Effectiveness Report, but I made that back the first of the 4 times that OER had to be retyped because some Lt Col or Col wanted it redone to change some word or other.

Besides, I never had to stand another inspection. The inspectors would just sit, ask questions and watch me work. They thought I was a magician.

[meyer]

But I was thinking about buggy whips.

I always wondered why someone would whip a buggy. I mean, it's not like it can feel anything. You'd get much better results whipping the horse, though that can backfire as well.

[Jack Hydrazine]

So you invented the ‘1’ just like Al Gore invented the Internet in order to make it work. Right?

[dfwgator]

I also invented the question mark, and I accuse chestnuts of being lazy.

[OCC]

My box of cards went flying into the slush. I spent the next couple hours in the lab bathroom under the hand dryers. It felt like the end of the world.

Lucky for me, the next semester (1984), we had access to Apple II's with cool 3 1/4 floppy disks!

[OCC]

My box of cards went flying into the slush. I spent the next couple hours in the lab bathroom under the hand dryers. It felt like the end of the world.

Lucky for me, the next semester (1984), we had access to Apple II's with cool 5 1/4 floppy disks!

[My hearts in London - Everett]

I know, right? And here we thought techies were a boring, quiet, not easily riled lot!

[JRandomFreeper]

Until you do octal math in your head for simple tasks out of reflex, you still require discipline and training, grasshopper.

Seek the source, Luke.

/johnny

[MichiganMan]

Back in my day, we coded with 0’s and 1’s, and sometimes we didn’t even have the 1’s.

There are only 10 types of people in the world — those who understand binary, and those who don't.

heh, never gets old.  

[MichiganMan]

There’s 10 kinds of people, those that understand binary and those that don’t.

DOH!  

How about peole that beat me to stealing a classic joke... can I still call them names? 

[Gondring]

Written with Edlin.

Now I'm going to have nostalgic dreams...and nightmares.

...probably something about my first girlfriend whilst wearing steel gauntlets.

[Publius6961]

I got one in 83’, combined with a b/w tv and cassette deck. Wrote a basic program that saved the company I worked for $5000/yr. in manual calculations.

What sort of calculations?

[ThunderSleeps]

I'm with you on that. Valid technical and feature discussions are useful. Flame wars are not. I've been around online forums since the days of FIDOnet and 300 baud Hayes external modems, and later Usenet. I've never seen a useful flame war, never seen anyone win one.

I'm an un-abashed Linux fan. But I've been known to say nice things about Windows 7 (Yes, I bought a retail copy and installed it along side Ubuntu), and I have an iPod touch.

In the end, it comes down to this: use the right tool for the job. We all have to realize what we consider the right tool for a particular job may not be the right tool when evaluated by someone else's criteria and priorities.

[ThunderSleeps]

Assembly Language, baby!!!

Written with Edlin.

Hey, I have done that -- for an Intel 8085 CPU! :-)