However, to wit:
That is a user-made extension, so only the author himself could help with it - Nikos bears no responsibility for its functionality, as is true with almost any of the sub-utilities found lying around the place here. You can't take slight from getting no response for something like that.dmattote wrote:...I asked for help once in using Menu++ enhancement...
That's wildly out of context - given that there is was no XP version of 7zNSE, obviously you could not test anything, and I don't fault anyone for that. I did not tie one's ability to actually test things with one's ability to make a contribution - some of the best contributions can come from the simplest of observations, no testing necessary.dmattote wrote:...with regard to Mr. Kilmatead's reference with me not offering to test versions of Xplorer², I am very willing to do so.
As should have been made clear from the "open form" of 7zNSE (it is in no way tied to x2 or any licences thereof - it's available for users of any file-manager, gratis). As it's not a dedicated x2 product, any expectation of 100% integration is not reasonable. As I stated earlier in this thread, Nikos does go out of his way to ensure and maintain XP (even Win2000) compatibility within x2 itself as far as possible, and no doubt there are people who rely upon that aspect of things. However, there's a big difference between maintaining x2 (professionally) and the little unpaid side-projects he writes up for fun.dmattote wrote:If there is any entitlement attitude it comes from the fact that I have paid for every Xplorer² incarnation, every update when they were charged for, and lifetime update contracts for each of those incarnations that offered such. I simply wanted these enhancements to work on my Xplorer² purchases on my machines.
All questions (from anyone) on this forum are treated (and have always been, for my part) with equal respect, insofar as they appear rational and are not repeated for the sake of repetition. A forum can only persist by little more than that kind of tacit agreement.dmattote wrote:I had hoped, and perhaps at my age expected, that any questions I asked in this forum, perhaps naively, would be responded to with the respect I have earned and am "entitled" to. For somebody, like Mr. Kilmatead, who knows me only by the words I used in this forum, I believe judging me as he did is ethically wrong.
As I have said repeatedly, I never had a problem with someone expecting or inquiring after XP compatibility. And, after Nikos answered that question himself (it's not one I was qualified to field), it should have been the end of the matter. No means no. Or, more specifically, "not at this time". That you asked again with no small implication that it should be given more credence other than "equity", is where I run out of patience, as I consider that to be irrational. And once I deduce from empirical evidence that someone is irrational, all bets are off. That you were affronted by that is unfortunate, but (and I hate to say this) no one is entitled to anything in this world. Not respect, not happiness, not anything. And the minute (the very millisecond itself) that someone entertains that notion, they are not thinking straight.
In the small confines of this forum you (and all else) are entitled to an open respect, and you've always been shown it in your interactions (as I review past posts). Indeed, even in this thread I merely presented you with an alternative that you dismissed out of hand. So, after that, there is nothing but obvious fun to be had as all's fair in love and war.
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As an afterthought...
Curiously, I have never once in my entire life felt entitled to any respect (or that anything I have was somehow "earned") - and why should I? That would be the height of hubris and conceit. I am merely human. And to be human is not something particularly worthy of any note. I know that the world is a dangerous violent place and most of us are consigned by fate to die painful violent and lonesome deaths. This is just reality. I expect nothing of the world, and can only fight against its indifference and suffering with a humour evident of God's spiteful revenge.
People seem to misunderstand that about me (even when I was a child) - they assume that I'm actually "a nice guy" and have somehow accepted the same social contract that they have, simply because I "act that way", and that we're somehow all in this world together. But appearances aside, that is simply not true. This is the purpose of philosophy, to carefully wrest a "valid" comprehension of the world as we encounter it, and to seek an understanding therein. And more importantly, to act upon it.
That we should "like" what we discover or come to understand is not actually important. The hard truths of life really are little more than Mongols, Huns, Cossacks, or just the children of your neighbourhood coming over the horizon to tear the world asunder. It's not nice, it's not pleasant, and it's not respectful. And most importantly, nor should it be, as that would only lead to madness and further expectation of relief.
Since (as stated) I have never felt "entitled" to any respect myself, I honestly find the notion that others do to be somewhat strange, irrational, and curious (given that the evidence of life always clearly states the contrary). However, as a vaguely open-minded person, I just shrug my shoulders and tolerate that irrational belief of others' as just being "their thing". I am, therefore, quite genuinely surprised when they fail to see themselves as being trapped in the thralls of madness and suffering and instead expose some delusioned "higher purpose" as to how the world should be (bereft of respect, pleasure, and reason) - that they exhibit something akin to "hope", which is to say, "expectation". I can but shake my head.
To me, it is only reasonable to respond to things the way I do. If you (or anyone) find those proclivities of mine offensive at times (or even humorous or informative in other contexts), then I could proffer an apology - but I wouldn't mean it. That would not be consistent with what I call sanity... insufferable as it is.
One should never apologise for being helpful, or informative, or entertaining, or rude, or awful, or neglectful of social grace. As the theologians of old have reposed, while the moral man knows what is right; the ethical man simply does what is right. Unfortunately for us, as the concatenated protoplasm that we are, none are qualified to judge what is actually one, or what is actually the other. And I would never presume to, for my sins.
This is the hopelessness of life.
And that's all it is.