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Why Give Advice Here? evodawg 05-19-2008
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Posted by HeyBub on May 20, 2008, 10:44 pm
RLM wrote:
>>> Of course it works. Linux is a knock-off of a 40-year old operating
>>> system designed by a money-losing division of your local telephone
>>> company and enhanced by those who believe that the DOS command-line
>>> interface was not cryptic enough.
>>>
>>> At 0.86% of the desktop market, it's got nowhere to go but up.
>>>
>
> I've seen this before from you HeyBub and suspect that you possibly
> own some Windows stock.

Silly person. I do own a barrow-full of Microsoft stock, but that in no way
influences my position.

>
> In a past post here in this group, I brought up using a program
> called "Units" by using a command prompt (DOS Prompt to Windows
> users) in Linux to find how many teaspoons were in a pint to figure
> out how many teaspoons of oil would have to be added to a pint of gas
> for a 50/1 mixture for a weed eater question in this group.
>
> The answer was 96 teaspoons are in a pint. The tank only holds about
> a pint, so two heaping teaspoons of oil should be all that's required
> per tankful. I thought this was a good response to the question at
> the time.
>
> Your response was the same then, word for word attack on Linux.
>
> But no help from you with the original posters question.
>
>

But had you not inserted Linux into the discussion on teaspoons and motor
oil, I would not have responded. I don't object to Linux when the discussion
is about moles or tar paper or even how many dollops per pint. It may come
as a shock to some, but the number of teaspoons in a pint or rods in a
furlong can be divined without appealing to the Linux god.

In the words of some great worthy, "The only way for Linux to triumph is for
good men to do nothing."



AppliancePartsPros.com, Inc.
Posted by Cheri on May 20, 2008, 1:20 pm

evodawg wrote:

> Some of these people should be paying someone good money for info
that has
> taken me a lifetime to learn and their getting it for free. Tell me
why I
> should be giving this info out for free?
>
>
Very interesting replies. Wondering why so many got so defensive? I
was
merely asking a simple question that should have returned a simple
answer.
I have given away many secrets and knowledge on this newsgroup and
this is
the thanks I get. I should have expected this from some but not the
majority of posters. Attacks were uncalled for.
***********

Simple answer...you said it has taken you a lifetime to learn what you
know. Where did you learn it? Obviously, by asking questions of people
who knew more about it than you did at the time, it's called give and
take. You will never know all there is to know about everything in
your lifetime, so hopefully when you come up against a problem you
can't solve, you will ask, and someone will know the answer. You
should be willing to do the same IMO. :-)

Cheri



Posted by DerbyDad03 on May 20, 2008, 1:33 pm
> evodawg wrote:
> > Some of these people should be paying someone good money for info that h=
as
> > taken me a lifetime to learn and their getting it for free. Tell me why =
I
> > should be giving this info out for free?
>
> Very interesting replies. Wondering why so many got so defensive? I was
> merely asking a simple question that should have returned a simple answer.=

> I have given away many secrets and knowledge on this newsgroup and this is=

> the thanks I get. I should have expected this from some but not the
> majority of posters. Attacks were uncalled for.
>
> As far as linux goes, and that was not even brought up. I would rather use=

> an Operating System that actually works! I know for some pointing a
> clicking at a picture works for them. I on the other hand would like to us=
e
> an OS that takes some intelligence and a thought process. I don't use Linu=
x
> because it's free, although that is a good selling point. HAHAHA I use it
> because it works!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Have a NICE DAY! I need to go to work now and get paid for my KNOWLEDGE!!!=

>
> --
> "You can lead them to LINUX
> but you can't make them THINK"
> Running Mandriva release 2008.0 free-i586 using KDE on i586

re: Wondering why so many got so defensive?

Please go back and read your original post, paying close attention to
the tone. Make believe you didn't write it and imagine how it might
come across to others.

You state that "some of these people should be paying for the advice
that *I* (only you?) took years to learn." That comes across as pretty
arrogant, considering that you are not the only one giving away free
advice. (BTW - Which "some" should be paying? Do certain people
deserve free advice while others do not?)

re: I was merely asking a simple question that should have returned a
simple answer

You didn't ask a question, even though you put a question mark at the
end of a line - that was just an incorrect use of punctuation.

"Tell me why I should be giving this info out for free."

"Tell me why=94 is an order, not a question. Once again, it comes across
as arrogant when you order us to tell you something.

As others have said (please don't get defensive) if you don't want to
give your knowledge away for free, stop responding. No one will fault
you; no one will ask "Hey, what ever happened to evodawg?" Feel free
to open a pay-for-answers site and charge others for your expert
opinions. That is certainly an option and I wish you the best of luck.


Posted by L D'Bonnie on May 20, 2008, 6:05 pm
evodawg wrote:
> evodawg wrote:
>
>> Some of these people should be paying someone good money for info that has
>> taken me a lifetime to learn and their getting it for free. Tell me why I
>> should be giving this info out for free?
>>
>>
>
>
> Have a NICE DAY! I need to go to work now and get paid for my KNOWLEDGE!!!
>

There are people who are unable to deal with others on a social level.
Wallflowers, geeks, wierdos, I'm sure you are very well acquainted
with those terms and many others like them.

These people fail to understand the most basic concepts of human
relationships, and for the most part can only find companionship
with a pet rock or a computer.

Classic examples of Darwinian theory. They are unable to reproduce
as the only thing they can find to mate with are their own hands,
which ironically even hate them.

One thing I've found over the years is that truly knowledgeable people
are always willing to share there knowledge with others. It's the
ones who don't have a clue that attempt to impress others with
something that doesn't exist.

So tell us what is the correct way to ask a customer if they would
like fries with their order?

LdB



Posted by evodawg on May 20, 2008, 7:07 pm
L D'Bonnie wrote:


>
> So tell us what is the correct way to ask a customer if they would
> like fries with their order?
>
> LdB

Think you nailed it.

--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"
Running Mandriva release 2008.0 free-i586 using KDE on i586

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