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From: John Navas on 6 Jul 2010 20:17 On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:29:02 -0700, in <4c33bc33$0$22108$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net>, SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote: >On 06/07/10 4:14 PM, tony cooper wrote: > ><snip> > >> Amazing that someone would consider "cursory" to be a word special >> enough for someone to use only after seeing it in a newsgroup post. > >LOL, it's not amazing considering who it was that thought that it's a >special word! Our favorite trolls never fail to amuse! You do indeed. -- John "It is better to sit in silence and appear ignorant, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." -Mark Twain "A little learning is a dangerous thing." -Alexander Pope "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn." -Benjamin Franklin
From: Peter on 6 Jul 2010 20:47 "John Navas" <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote in message news:goq636t4mkf61nqt6oemeprtb7fn3896su(a)4ax.com... > On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:23:26 -0800, in <87630sttgx.fld(a)apaflo.com>, > floyd(a)apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote: > >>John Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: > >>>Documenting, releasing, and supporting specs *increases* costs. >> >>Manufacturing products increases costs too, in the same way! >> >>Use your head John. If you sell more product at a higher profit, >>it may "raise costs" but also increases profit too. > > Only if there is sufficient revenue to more than offset the costs. > Sit down John! I completely agree with you on that issue: Most of the other guys are just looking for something for nothing. -- Peter
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 6 Jul 2010 21:15 On 2010-07-06, krishnananda wrote: > In article <89gu75F852U27(a)mid.individual.net>, ray <ray(a)zianet.com> > wrote: .... >> No comment on your ignorance about number of Linux users. > > Oh, my mistake. The _6_ people who use Linux as a desktop etc. etc. I know hundreds of Linux desktop Linux users in one city alone. (And that's probably a small percentage of those who use it.) -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: ======================= Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
From: nospam on 6 Jul 2010 21:24 In article <89i2oqF8kiU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> No comment on your ignorance about number of Linux users. > > > > Oh, my mistake. The _6_ people who use Linux as a desktop etc. etc. > > I know hundreds of Linux desktop Linux users in one city alone. > (And that's probably a small percentage of those who use it.) hundreds! that many?? now go look at how many mac and windows users there are.
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 6 Jul 2010 21:57
On 2010-07-07, nospam wrote: > In article <89i2oqF8kiU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris F.A. Johnson ><cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> No comment on your ignorance about number of Linux users. >> > >> > Oh, my mistake. The _6_ people who use Linux as a desktop etc. etc. >> >> I know hundreds of Linux desktop Linux users in one city alone. >> (And that's probably a small percentage of those who use it.) > > hundreds! that many?? And that's only those I know personally. > now go look at how many mac and windows users there are. Who cares? -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: ======================= Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) |