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Adobe demands 7000 years a day from humankind

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It's all in the fine print Feature I'm not a very good liar, I haven't got the memory for it, which is why it always pricks my conscience whenever I tick the yes box to the prompt "I have read and understood…" when installing software. I am, of course, fibbing. I never read a word. In fact, even though we all tick yes to these agreements every day, unless you're a legal bod, I doubt you could find anyone you know who could quote a single line from any of them.…

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This is proprietary s***, and I for one never use it.
If you do not care about this topic, why did you bother to invite us to read it?

Once again I didn't post it. It has my name beside it because it was one of many that I approved that were submitted by Bob. It seems that my name gets attached to any submission made by Bod, when i approve it. As a rule I don't bother reading submissions made by regular submitters, until after they have been approved.
Sorry, and d***! That screws up my filter for ignoring items of no interest based on the poster's name. There appears to be a random behaviour injector in the LXer software.

The theory was that filtering out self-promotional post from e.g. DarkDuck and Falko Timme, plus anything with "Ubuntu" in the title would leave mostly genuine recommendations that I might be interested in.

vagabondo,

[serious] question: I can understand your filtering choices and reasons with the exception of Falko Timme. While I have only rarely read his pieces they struck me as well researched and useful. However, I have wondered at the volume of his output, though I assumed the quality did not falter. Was I in error?

Some readers here question his title choice, which I just see as a template to avoid unnecessary effort when the technical aspects should be the primary concern. Maybe "Perfect" is overused, however, if his reasoning is as I presumed I think he made the better choice. Moreover, in no way can I imagine his site has slipped to the level of Duck-in-the-Dark*. I would be quite disappointed it it has, though I have seen guest writers not meeting his standards.

[/serious]

YBT

* Duck-in-the-Dark is supposedly a non-English speaker, however, viewing some of the composition of his/her headline summaries this individual's facility with the language exceeds mine. His articles and methods may be slap dash, but his proficiency with words puts him on the level of Joseph Conrad, whom I have read was unintelligible speaker of the language.
Quoting:* Duck-in-the-Dark is supposedly a non-English speaker, however, viewing some of the composition of his/her headline summaries this individual's facility with the language exceeds mine. His articles and methods may be slap dash, but his proficiency with words puts him on the level of Joseph Conrad, whom I have read was unintelligible speaker of the language.


There's a reason for that. For a while I was editing his posts before he published them. It wasn't easy. As I understand it, he has another "ghostwriter" who doesn't seek attribution for his edits.

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