Patrick Turner wrote, On 27/08/2014 00:35:
Paul B. Gallagher
Aug 26
Chris Ilias is apparently too distracted by his other work to read
carefully and understand that this is not a personal attack, so I'm
reposting it without the word he's misconstruing. I hope he reads it
correctly this time and lets it though.
Patrick Turner wrote:
Ed Mullen
Aug 24
Ray_Net pounded out :
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Because the OP is ill-informed and/or clueless about the Web and how it
works.
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Above we have the breathtakingly helpful reply by someone unable to
make any contribution to better use of SeaMonkey, AFAIAC. We surely
all enjoy helpful advice to make us all understand the Web better,
and expressed in simple language without needing a university degree.
SeaMonkey NERDS are sort of like the brave professorial types who
might stand up to give a lecture for 1/2 an hour without any member
of his audience having any idea what he is saying. I'm sure you've
been at colleges and schools where teachers put you off to sleep.
Actually, Ray_Net has made many contributions to better use of SeaMonkey
over the years, but he is clearly unwilling to help with your specific
issue within the specific terms and conditions that you have established.
Its all OK, and I wasn't here to witness the varying levels of skills with SM
which others possess. I think I solved my own problem when I found out myself
how to insert images at custom size I want, and finding Arial set at 13 is most
easily read by most other ppl, etc.
If I may be permitted an analogy...
I never hold grudges long despite having full license to be a Grumm Pee Olde
Bar Stud.
Some users like to use radios, but they are unconcerned with the
innards. They just want to turn them on, fiddle with the tuner and
volume, and listen, end of story. A few hobbyists want to know more, to
design and build their own radios, but that's not you.
Maybe you don't know me, because I have build very fine AM and FM radios using vacuum
tubes which produce lower IMD/THD noise, and better music than anything else designed by
accountants of companies. I like listening to radio more than I like putting up with ppl
who know not much. That's a hard nasty thing to say, but while alive I tried to inform or
make ppl laugh, and with shielas there was further you could go without saying a word,
except "Gee, that felt good" etc, etc, etc.
You've come here to a room full of geeks who understand what's going on
"under the hood," some who have built their own radios by hand, and
asked technical questions that must be answered in technical terms, but
refused to accept any of the several helpful answers because they were
couched in technical terms.
Hmm, me, refused accept? Shock horror, why? too much bullshit instead of real
world talk? Maybe not much point analyzing who said what to who because apart
from trifling page color issues, i solved my own complaints about SM.
Most of us have smiled or chuckled but kept our mouths shut, knowing
your problems are unsolvable on these terms, but a few have tried vainly
to help and a few have expressed their frustration. Now you complain
that a geek is frustrated, and post yet another long question that can
only be answered in technical terms but must not be.
It's time for you to choose. You're entitled to be a hobbyist, and
you're entitled to be a user, but you can't demand user answers to
hobbyist questions. This isn't Ray_Net's fault.
But I digress. ...
Oh well.
OK, it wasn't Ray's fault. Lets get over it. If I had a dollar for each time I
was misquoted or burned to a crisp at rec.audio.tubes between 2001 and now, I'd
be stoinkingly rich. I wrote more than everyone else put together, and to
answer most questions I put up a 55MB website. I find I can make mistakes, and
if a man makes none, then he usually doesn't make much of anything.
I'm now about happy with SM which I cannot expect to be perfect.
The instructions about how to SM should be as easy as turning on the radio,
tuning a station, adjusting volume and maybe tone, and enjoying the
composition, especially if Mozart was involved.
Patrick Turner.
Could you quote text correctly ... there is no differences between the
text Paul B. Gallagher wrote and your reply.
It's completely unreadable ....
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