Choosing a CPU cooler

[T_Yamamoto]

Why don't you just be honest and say that you don't care?

And would that be 95.49% of people or just 94.51%.

Why should it ever be any more than just yourself that you are speaking for?

You didn't like it, so OK - it's not like I could, or would, go back and delete it.

Wow. You really are mad. Haha.

I read parts of it and I honestly don't care. And I added that the AVERAGE JOE (aka people with little to no technological skill [if that makes sense]) will not read or they'll read and won't be able to compute.

Also, you sound mad. Calm down little man.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I could have made it a damned sight easier by not posting it in the first place

Do you have any substantive dispute with what I wrote or do you just want me to send you a piece of cheese?

Yeah you're mad.

He was just trying to be helpful by offering a suggestion. Shesh.

 

[lehtv]

Did I get anything substantively wrong in your opinion?

I'm not sure what kind of an answer you're hoping for. My critique is already laid out in the post you quoted, I'm pretty sure I don't have to repeat myself =)

is the forum here worse off for my having posted what I did?

No, why are you asking? I did not imply, even in the slightest, that that might be the case.

 

[Nec_V20]

I'm not sure what kind of an answer you're hoping for.

I'm 54 so there really isn't much chance of my style of writing changing any time soon. This old dog is not going to learn any new tricks in that department.

So far your focus has been exclusively on how it was written and nothing with regard to actually what was written.

For instance I wanted to write something where I tried to eliminate my own personal bias. This meant that I wrote the original draft of the post, then I just left it for a couple of days and re-read it.

I was pretty much amazed that although I originally thought I was being unbiased when I wrote the original draft, if I had posted that then I would have been a hypocrite.

Unbiased my sainted aunt.

So I did a lot of rewriting and deleting before posting the final result (which I originally did on a UK forum).

When I posted it here the thread started off very promisingly with dma0991 commenting on and criticising the post and, to my mind, adding value.

Your comments are basically summarised by tl:dr. It doesn't really add much of anything.

Perhaps I am not seeing something because of my autism (I have what is known as Asperger's Syndrome), which should be as plain as the nose on my face.

 

[Nec_V20]

Yeah you're mad.

He was just trying to be helpful by offering a suggestion. Shesh.

Actually I am not mad, just autistic.

 

[Nec_V20]

Wow. You really are mad. Haha.

I read parts of it and I honestly don't care. And I added that the AVERAGE JOE (aka people with little to no technological skill [if that makes sense]) will not read or they'll read and won't be able to compute.

Also, you sound mad. Calm down little man.

Look I am not going to write something with the thought in mind that the overwhelming majority of people who might read it are morons. To my mind there is far too much dumbing-down going on, and I am not going to pander to that phenomenon.

Your comments smack too much of the Faux News "Some say" when actually what they mean is, "I just pulled this idea out of my backside but I want to imbue it with some authority".

I haven't had a TV for about 34 years now. Some years ago I was at my friend's house and he went out shopping so I flicked through the channels on his satellite TV and I got to one channel and in watching it I almost split my sides laughing. When my friend got back from shopping about an hour and a half later and he heard me howling with laughter with tears streaming down my face he asked what I was watching.

I didn't believe him when he said that it was meant to be a serious news program and it was only when I got home and looked it up on the Internet that I discovered he was actually right. That was the first time I had heard of or seen Fox News. Literally I though that "Fair and Balanced" was a recurring punchline.

If something like that is your standard for serious discourse, then I am sorry, my repertoire just doesn't extend that far down.

 

[lehtv]

I'm 54 so there really isn't much chance of my style of writing changing any time soon. This old dog is not going to learn any new tricks in that department.

I'm afraid that's a common misconception. Middle aged people learn new things all the time, in my experience. It's a matter of choice, willingness, motivation or whatever you want to call it.

Your comments are basically summarised by tl:dr. It doesn't really add much of anything.

Perhaps I am not seeing something because of my autism (I have what is known as Asperger's Syndrome), which should be as plain as the nose on my face.

I've never met anyone with Asperger's, so I can't comment on that... I was just giving you my view on what would make this thread better, not trying to argue or cause an upset. =)

 

[Nec_V20]

I'm afraid that's a common misconception. Middle aged people learn new things all the time, in my experience. It's a matter of choice, willingness, motivation or whatever you want to call it.

I worked as part of the Bonn Gerontologic Longitudinal Study when I was doing my Psychology degree at Bonn University. This study did a lot of mythbusting with regard to the normal notions regarding ageing.

One of the biggest myths to be disposed of was the until then accepted notion that intellectual ability automatically declined with age. It was a study that went over 20 years.

With regard to computers I have pretty much lived with the fact over the past 30 years that I regularly have to dump what I know and relearn. Although with some things it is very much a case of, "The more things change the more they stay the same".

I type on my completely blank "DasKeyboard Ultimate", it only has the raised notches on it for the "F" and the "J" keys. So when I am writing it is basically as if I were talking to you rather than actually going through a writing process.

You probably know some people with Asperger's but don't realise it, just as with gay people. I know that I remained in my own closet until about six years ago because of the stigma attached to autism.

When I came out and revealed the fact that I was autistic it went about the way that I thought it would with some people shying away and others saying they weren't bothered (but until this day still don't react to me the way they did) and a few who really aren't bothered by it.

Cats, dogs and computers tend to love me, humans not so much. Three out of four isn't bad though.

 

[lehtv]

You probably know some people with Asperger's but don't realise it, just as with gay people.

Homosexuality is a lot more common than autism, and on top of that, gays on average have more friends and a more active social life than autists. It is entirely plausible that I don't know anyone with Asperger's, it is even possible that I have never met anyone who is diagnosed with it. And I would say it is very likely that there is not a single autist in my social network of people who I actually interact regularly enough to be able mirror to your behavior.