[Riocaz]

I was just going to leave this but as Ali decided to make yet another attack on me, I feel I have to respond. This is my final word on this thread though

Originally Posted by ali

Read your original review: You disagree with her opinion. Your response attacks the person, not the opinion.

You repeatedly make fun of her being "tech-savvy" (I'm sure she is, btw). You fail to show that what she writes is wrong, you just find mere minor inaccuracies, and hence you make fun of her. Bad style, dude. Rude.

No I poked fun at the fact she was described as tech-savvy when her review doesn't give that impression in the slightest.

You even wrote "Thought I should mention it here, as iRex may want/be able to take action about the inaccuracies in the review". Wow. You can't stand her opinion so you suggest to delete it. You even post it in the iRex forum just for the reason to have them take action against something. Sounds like (german word, sorry) Blockwartmentalität to me.

This was on the iRex forum btw, as Ali hasn't bothered to give a reference.

Again you are putting words in my mouth. The "action" I meant was to ask Teleread to post a rebuttal pointing out the glaring omissions and misleading information for what it was.

I did not state that it should be deleted. Nor would I presume to do so.

And all the things you write are really, really minor inaccuracies. Compare these things with the gross false advertisements and announcements from iRex, the guys you defend here.

Have you read my posts about iRex? I am quite happy to blast them when they screw up (e.g. their support). But when I believe they haven't I will defend them (e.g. someone not understanding how to read an international number formatted in a standard manner).

As I have stated repeatedly to you on this thread. I have no problems with a critical review. It's just that the review was, in my opinion, both inaccurate, and misleading.

And you were selling people your opinion as globally valid facts. You said documentation for the on/off switch wasn't needed (but people didn't find it). You said it's ridiculous to assume you could read A4 content (but lots of people assumed precisely that). You said it's people's fault to think it could read their PDFs, just because it doesn't explicitly state so in the shop (but lots of people have issues with that).

2 people didn't find it. Had they spent the tiem they took posting here looking at the machine, then they would have found it.

As I have said I find documentation on the obvious to be patronising and annoying.

I have stated nothing other than my opinion. I have stated that many times. If you feel her review was balanced and fair that is your opinion.

Opinion is your own viewpoint, nothing more nothing less. I could say that it's my opinion is that the sky is red not blue. It would be wrong, but it would still be my opinion.

I have the impression that you are completely unable to see that other people think different than you.

Not at all you are as enttled to your opinion as I am. And you have the equal right to air it here.

All I read in your posts is "they think different than me, so they must be false, because I'm superior".

Odd I get the same impression from your posts. That may have something to do with the personal insults, and the fact that you demand people do as you say.

(And I can figure what would happened if the Iliad wouldn't suit your personal needs. Say, it couldn't read documents longer than 50 pages because scientific papers are usually shorter, and hey, they didn't explicitly state that in the shop. You'd explode and go completely berserk. IMO.)

If I brought a device without checking it was suitable for my needs then the fault would be mine. If it was sold to me on the basis that it did a job it cannot do then that is the fault of the seller. 2 completely different things.

Her 3 complaints were:

A lack of documentation.
Which was shown to be largely incorrect. (Though not completely I admit)

PDF documents scaled to read right at A4 arn't comfortable to read on a screen smaller than A5.
This is common sense. It's blatantly obvious that an A4 document at font size 10 will be the equivilent of font size 5, or smaller, on a screen less than half the size.

The PDF viewer doesn't read DRM pdfs.
iRex never claimed that it did or that it would.

The final points:

1. The only person making personal insults was you.
2. The only person to put words in other people's mouths and then attack them for things they never said was you.
3. The only attacks at all on this thread are the ones you have made.