Word? Who said anything about Word? I don't use Word even as much as you do any more, now that my documentation at work has to done in XML and stupid internal websites. (Please don't get me started on InfoPath and SharePoint.) I was talking about Pages.
Nonetheless, as much as I'm missing your point, the reason I'm missing your point is that you're missing mine. (Or maybe it's the other way around.)
My point is: You could have said any combination of A and B, where A is "Steve, who fucking said word processor? Weren't me." and B is "I'm not talking about a per-program correction, and I'm not interested in it." That would have been a reasonable shut-down of any rant I had. And please note that I already picked up on and apologized for both of those mistakes on my part; I'd do so again if I didn't think it would be boring to the .68 people still reading this part of the thread.
But what you did was say "Customized dictonaries are nifty" _and_ "if I find the feature annoying, I doubt that repeated exposure to it is going to like it". Which set me off because you like this feature in programs you like, but won't give it a chance in programs you don't. Yes, I understand that you don't use Word (I wasn't talking about Word, but you were) often enough to come up with a comforting and useful custom dictionary. No reason you should. But that isn't the feature's fault! And you're giving it hate as if it sucks when you don't use it.
You consistently choose to heap hate on software because of who it's from, and it really diminshes my respect for your opinion. Someone as patently intelligent as you should hate _software_that_sucks_, not software from X Corp. You can end up with virtually the same set of things you hate, but at least you won't sound like a software bigot every time you trot out your opinions. For that matter, you'll actually get to hate even more stuff, because _lots_ of software sucks. Way more than comes from X Corp. (And yes, this time the variable _is_ Microsoft. What the fuck ever.)
As for coming across as very condescending. . . it was pretty much accidental, and yet I don't feel all that bad about it. If you persistently choose to act in a way I consider idiotic, eventually you get treated like you're an idiot, by me. And I'm heartily tired of your supercilious certainty that your opinions about software and hardware are Just Automatically Right, when you're only marginally more right than many of the rest of us. I give much credit to your schooling, the bare exposure I've had to your research, and your intelligence in how much credence I give to your opinions, but the fact is that you've been acting like you just know best for nigh on two decades, and it's really fucking tiresome in the cases where it's plain that you just don't.
I don't want to chill. I don't want to be handled. I don't even want to be here any more. I want you to grow the fuck up and stop being a moron. It's going to cost us the remains of our friendship, very probably at this point, but I don't care: you're too smart and have too much to contribute to continue acting like this. If it's bad enough that someone you've seen once this century can muster up this much emotion about it, imagine what the guy in the next office feels like, hmm?
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Date: 2008-11-08 01:43 am (UTC)Nonetheless, as much as I'm missing your point, the reason I'm missing your point is that you're missing mine. (Or maybe it's the other way around.)
My point is: You could have said any combination of A and B, where A is "Steve, who fucking said word processor? Weren't me." and B is "I'm not talking about a per-program correction, and I'm not interested in it." That would have been a reasonable shut-down of any rant I had. And please note that I already picked up on and apologized for both of those mistakes on my part; I'd do so again if I didn't think it would be boring to the .68 people still reading this part of the thread.
But what you did was say "Customized dictonaries are nifty" _and_ "if I find the feature annoying, I doubt that repeated exposure to it is going to like it". Which set me off because you like this feature in programs you like, but won't give it a chance in programs you don't. Yes, I understand that you don't use Word (I wasn't talking about Word, but you were) often enough to come up with a comforting and useful custom dictionary. No reason you should. But that isn't the feature's fault! And you're giving it hate as if it sucks when you don't use it.
You consistently choose to heap hate on software because of who it's from, and it really diminshes my respect for your opinion. Someone as patently intelligent as you should hate _software_that_sucks_, not software from X Corp. You can end up with virtually the same set of things you hate, but at least you won't sound like a software bigot every time you trot out your opinions. For that matter, you'll actually get to hate even more stuff, because _lots_ of software sucks. Way more than comes from X Corp. (And yes, this time the variable _is_ Microsoft. What the fuck ever.)
As for coming across as very condescending. . . it was pretty much accidental, and yet I don't feel all that bad about it. If you persistently choose to act in a way I consider idiotic, eventually you get treated like you're an idiot, by me. And I'm heartily tired of your supercilious certainty that your opinions about software and hardware are Just Automatically Right, when you're only marginally more right than many of the rest of us. I give much credit to your schooling, the bare exposure I've had to your research, and your intelligence in how much credence I give to your opinions, but the fact is that you've been acting like you just know best for nigh on two decades, and it's really fucking tiresome in the cases where it's plain that you just don't.
I don't want to chill. I don't want to be handled. I don't even want to be here any more. I want you to grow the fuck up and stop being a moron. It's going to cost us the remains of our friendship, very probably at this point, but I don't care: you're too smart and have too much to contribute to continue acting like this. If it's bad enough that someone you've seen once this century can muster up this much emotion about it, imagine what the guy in the next office feels like, hmm?
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Date: 2008-11-08 02:02 am (UTC)