It's funny, but I never see PC folks demanding special protection if an apple guy derides their machines..........
The following isn't a personal attack in your book?
My view of Swordmaker is a 35ish man-boy who lives with Mumsie - and she buys him the Kleenex tissues he most definitely needs...
Childish and stupid, but no doubt a personal attack...
On that subject, personally I rarely ever read “PC” posts. On the occasion that I do it is because the technology subject might interest me. On the other hand there appears to be a group of posters who swarm Apple posts simply to call people who purchase and use Apple products gay and cultists. Whatever it is that scares the crap out of you about Apple, you need to come to grips with it. I own Apple products and I am not gay, although my wife is making me think about it real hard. I like their product, it is top notch quality. I could care less who is the CEO. If Bill Gates produced a product as good or better than Apple, I would buy his stuff. Jobs did a remarkable transformation of a company that most wrote off as dead. I guess we need to admire mediocrity, or outright failure, a true success story needs to be discredited and the person who is largely responsible for it needs to be demonized. Is that the lesson here?
Tailgunner, I suggest you review the comments that Blue Highway and Leo Farnsworth were tossing around about me and think about loaded adjectives and implied ad hominems in phrases such as “precious toys” referring to an entire group of computer users on Freerepublic and those phrases invitation to starting flame wars before you start criticizing my efforts to head one off. I’m doing what Jim wants: stopping it before it starts. I just informed you of the source of the rule, the owner of the site.
Tailgunner, I suggest you review the comments that Blue Highway and Leo Farnsworth were tossing around about me and think about loaded adjectives and implied ad hominems in phrases such as “precious toys” referring to an entire group of computer users on Freerepublic and those phrases invitation to starting flame wars before you start criticizing my efforts to head one off. I’m doing what Jim wants: stopping it before it starts. I just informed you of the source of the rule, the owner of the site.
If you're worried that someone might hit the abuse button, I confess. I did it. Most reluctantly, but I did do it.
Because posts of this sort tend to degrade the readability of FR, and cannot enhance its attractiveness to its target audience. After all, we all hope that our posts will be read, or there wouldn't be much point to registering to post. So all heat, no light posts foul our own nest.
Those of us who look forward to Swordmaker's pings are enthusiasts for useful, easy-to-use personal digital devices. I myself own a Mac and, and my wife has an iPod to listen to Rush with. Swordmaker, so far as I can assess his qualifications and qualities, has a lot more knowledge about my system than I do, and so I learn from him. If he's wrong about something that causes me to have trouble, that is on me because of my own limitations. But he has responded to challenges before to my satisfaction, and to the extent that technical challenges have come from people who want to believe that cheaper computers are a better buy than Macs, that has had some utility.
But what serves no obvious useful purpose is challenges which are quite literally nothing but ad hominems, not even directly related to tech/human factors issues. And I wish that were more obvious to the Mods than it seems to be.
Be that as it may, this is JimRob's house, and he is actually the only one who has "freedom of speech" within it. The rest of us are guests, and what goes and does not go is, absolutely and without qualification, his call. As implemented by the mods.