Dual firmware announcement - Page 47

Idoine · 10-27-2009, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by MichaelGade

... (Only non-french people need reply, I don't trust anything a Frenchman (or woman) says anymore

)

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Originally Posted by MichaelGade

Offensive to who, You?
You cant say /poo/ without offending somebody, somewhere.

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell”
Oscar Wilde.

These terms are offensive, for me, as you're implying I'm a liar.
Now, we could see it as a lack of logic :
1. A french society said lies (to be proved...)
2. The employees of this society are french
3. Hence : All frenchs are liars...

PS : I put

because I refuse to

MichaelGade · 10-27-2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Idoine

These terms are offensive, for me, as you're implying I'm a liar.

Please look up trust in your dictionary, and compare with lie.
I challenge you to find a post by me that has the word liar in it. Mr. "Pants-on-fire".

Quote:

Now, we could see it as a lack of logic :
1. A french society said lies (to be proved...)
2. The employees of this society are french
3. Hence : All frenchs are liars...

1 is not a sentence.

2 what "society" are we talking about here. (According to google a society is : "an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization."

3: What the "intercourse" are you talking about, how do you make that work???

MichaelGade · 10-27-2009, 02:01 PM

All this ruckus, because of the word "***".
Amazing.

EowynCarter · 10-27-2009, 02:25 PM

Woooo !
Take a deep breath everyone.

There is no need to stat a war over a firmware !

MichaelGade · 10-27-2009, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Woooo !
Take a deep breath everyone.

There is no need to stat a war over a firmware !

Agreed. Deep Breath taken.

But remember that history DOES repeat itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Paris_(885-886)

K-Thom · 10-27-2009, 02:47 PM

@ MichaelGade: My, 16 posts of ranting and panting, and we're really feeling at home here, aren't we?

Learn some manners, watch you language and style, and we'd even approach you as a grownup.

GeoffC · 10-27-2009, 02:54 PM

It's getting a mite heated in here - can we take some cold showers .....

delphidb96 · 10-27-2009, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Yeah. I've learned about the "ignore user" feature. And the igore list is getting longer and longer.

Everyone! Do your part! We must *ALL* get on Eowyn's "ignore user" list! Only then can she win a new Bookeen Gen3 and Opus stuffed with the very latest (and now bug-free) firmware updates!

Derek

Idoine · 10-27-2009, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelGade

Please look up trust in your dictionary, and compare with lie.
I challenge you to find a post by me that has the word liar in it. Mr. "Pants-on-fire".

1 is not a sentence.

2 what "society" are we talking about here. (According to google a society is : "an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization."

3: What the "intercourse" are you talking about, how do you make that work???

I should have used Firm, or Company, then...

Very sorry if my english isn't as good as yours.

Eowyn, you know I'm not for the war, I just wanted to say to MichaelGade he was offensive with his generalization, as generalizations often are.

delphidb96 · 10-27-2009, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by EowynCarter

And it's not like the gen3 will never read ePub.

Oh now THAT is going too far! Prove it! PROVE that our Gen 3s will read ePub!

(You can't because you can't guarantee that Bookeen will *ever* deliver a working ePub version of the firmware to any but a select few. Yes, yes, we know that is what they've promised, and I will allow there is a chance this *may*, sometime in the future, happen. But we don't know! Neither do you!)

Derek

MichaelGade · 10-27-2009, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by K-Thom

@ MichaelGade: My, 16 posts of ranting and panting, and we're really feeling at home here, aren't we?

Learn some manners, watch you language and style, and we'd even approach you as a grownup.

Give me a list of words that you find offensive, and I will consider your request.
I don't understand how you manage on the internet, when you cant handle the word "****".

"These people are our first line of defence against the terrorist threat, and the word "***" makes them cry?"
Lewis Black (perhaps not the greatest literary of our time, but a literary none the less).

There is no such thing as "bad" words.

EowynCarter · 10-27-2009, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by delphidb96

Oh now THAT is going too far! Prove it! PROVE that our Gen 3s will read ePub!

(You can't because you can't guarantee that Bookeen will *ever* deliver a working ePub version of the firmware to any but a select few. Yes, yes, we know that is what they've promised, and I will allow there is a chance this *may*, sometime in the future, happen. But we don't know! Neither do you!)

Derek

You're right. I can't prove anything. But I'm confidant. i use a version of the ePub firmware everyday on my opus. Buggy, but ePub nonetheless.
I have prof everyday that the firmware do exist, and I don't think bookeen stupid enough not to publish it.

rireed3 · 10-27-2009, 03:38 PM

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I have prof everyday that the firmware do exist, and I don't think bookeen stupid enough not to publish it.

I think 'buggy' might be a clue, but stupid is not so easy to prove or disprove.

I believe Bookeen is in some kind of bind, financial (forced to understaff, maybe) or legal, and management practice in such cases is often to 'stall' revealing the problem.

They are still trying to sell Opus, and appear to have abandoned Gen3. Neither machine will keep up with the market for another year. Opus needs fixes at least, and will begin to look mediocre compared to newer machines, if it fails to get more features.

They are not publishing or talking because they can't publish and can't admit why. We are out of luck.

Richard

Godzil · 10-27-2009, 03:42 PM

May they prepare some unexpected changes? Who knows...

MichaelGade · 10-27-2009, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Idoine

I just wanted to say to MichaelGade he was offensive with his generalization, as generalizations often are.

I'm gonna need a list of words from you too.

What generalisation. The fact that I don't trust french people?? How is that offensive, how is it even a generalisation? Thats not a generalization, any more than your claim that the words "***" and "***" are offensive and/or bad.
(Had I said "all French are stupid" now THAT would have been a generalization).

Can I say "balls", what about "cock".

One is a childs plaything the other is male chicken. How is that offensive.

Stop being so afraid of your own body. People *** and *** all the time, some even do it AT the same time. (disgusting true, offensive.... HELL NO).

I simply refuse to censor myself just because you cant handle certain words. There is a word for what you are, its called "political correct" (correct for the sake of correctness). And that pisses me off (can I say pis? Is that on your list of "baaaad" words. And if it is I will gladly replace it with the word "urinate").

Its just words, they cant hurt you.

10-27-2009, 02:01 PM	#693
MichaelGade Banned Posts: 19 Karma: 262 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Device: CyBook Gen3	All this ruckus, because of the word "**". Amazing. Last edited by pshrynk; 10-27-2009 at 03:52 PM. Reason: Even though it's amazing, please don't use the word.*

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