KDE 4.0.3 has been released. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.3, the third bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.3 comes with an impressive amount of bugfixes and improvements. Most of them are recorded in the changelog. KDE continues to release updates for the 4.0 desktop on a monthly basis. KDE 4.1, which will bring large improvements to the KDE desktop and application will be released in July this year."
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Member since:2005-08-11
"BTW: "Look up arrogance". Someone who assumes their opinions should go uncontested. That's arrogance."
No, according to Merriam Websters, Arrogance is defined as:
an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions
I would say your initial statements were both overbearing and presumptuous. Presumptuous because you just assumed that people that agreed with the OP's assertions on the superiority of KDE4 were sycophants because they did not back up their opinions (doesn't make them invalid, just unprovable at the time) and overbearing because of your language and attitude.
"You have thrown around many more insults than me. Count them and grow up. "
I don't think I have insulted you at all. I called you a troll, but that is not always an insult, and it seems to me to fit your behavior. You however have called people names, told me to grow up, tried to claim that my feelings were hurt, and that you hurt my pride.
My pride and feelings were never in danger. I was arguing for other peoples' rights to state their opinions without being called names. It's that simple.
If you choose to continue this discussion, feel free to contact me at the email address in my profile, I would prefer to take this off the forum, so everyone else can get back to the topic at hand without our distractions.
Member since:2005-12-21
No, according to Merriam Websters, Arrogance is defined as:
an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions
There are other dictionaries than Merriam Webster, but that's irrelevant. I was giving an example, not a definition. Comprehension of the definition would validate my example.
Too bad you are more interested in being pedantic.
I never said they were invalid. I think that's the problem. What I wrote and what you infer are two different things. I used a single word, 'sycophant' and you are making a mountain out of a molehill, lecturing me about "language" and "attitude". It's kind of petty, the fact that you ignore the thrust of what I was asking and get hung up on that word. Tell you what, maybe it was too strong. I'll take it back.
I'm really sorry about the sycophant accusation. I humbly apologize for criticizing no individual in particular and will make my insults more focussed in the future, so the wrong people won't take offense.
Now you have no "language" and "attitude" to rant about. Am I allowed to ask people to back up their facts now?
Yes, you're totally innocent (rolls eyes). You never get in someone's face unless they're asking for it, I'm sure.
Not really. You took it all very seriously. The OP didn't take offense (and nor should he), but you clearly felt slighted. It's very noble of you to "argue for the rights" of anonymous modders, but really - all this drama is not necessary and let's not pretend that it's about anyone else but yourself.
No thanks, I feel distracted enough.
Edited 2008-04-04 04:07 UTC
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2005-12-21
My "language"? You have thrown around many more insults than me. Count them and grow up.
"Some zealot" Biased? And what exactly would be my cause? What is my bias? A zealot for justification? OK, I'm a zealot then.
It seems your pride was hurt because I apparently insulted your favorite platform (which of course I didn't). You're the only zealot I see here.
I did not have to state my Qt background, to ask why someone preferred KDE to other frameworks. I just chose to.
BTW: "Look up arrogance". Someone who assumes their opinions should go uncontested. That's arrogance.