Jonbouy
So your fun chart there might have been posted as light relief but I consider it to be hugely insulting to many of those here that are clearly having serious issues and yet are having trouble being heard among such things as the glibness you've just posted, not as harmful as some of the personal stuff that gets thrown at people because they dare mention can't get the software to do enough of what it is supposed to do I grant you but unhelpful just the same.
Oh, and someone really had to point out to you that an article that you'd written had actually been posted online?
Unbelievable.
Not only that the humour is pretty lame IMO, you want a good belly laugh I'd suggest spending half an hour in the Coffee House. It might be at your own expense mind you but if you ain't too prissy about that kind of thing I guarantee you'll have yourself a few laughs among some really gifted comedians...
That was written long before the Great Cakewalk Customer Blow-Up. Instead of assuming it was directed as mockery of Cakewalk users having issues, which is wasn't, you can assume it was all about poking fun at internet forums and people who are disconnected from reality, which it was. If you didn't catch the
reductio ad absurdum of the various examples, I'll try to make it more obvious next time. One person summarized Craig's List perfectly: "The whole point of Craig's List is to create something that's funny yet snarky, just to be a smart-ass."
Bingo! Craig's List has made fun of magazine reviewers, toxic Christmas music, marketing cliches, recording sessions, totally pointless internet forum arguments, politicians and how they relate to music, over the top self-promotion, and more. Sometimes it's snarky, sometimes it's dark, sometimes it's light. The next CL restores Balance in the Force by making fun of software manufacturers - I translate five examples of marketing-speak into English. (Of course, each manufacturer thinks I'm talking about
them, just as you projected what I said to be directed to the people on this forum having problems.)
For the record: I don't make fun of people who have problems; I make fun of people who are disconnected from reality. My posts have made it
extremely clear that I have nothing but sympathy for all those having problems with their hardware or software, regardless of manufacturer, because I've been there many times before. And given how much stuff I review, probably more times than any of them. I know how much it sucks.
But, I apologize for trying to add some levity into this currently negative ecosystem, and promise to be more serious in the future.
Watch for my next blockbuster thread, "The correlation between Monsanto's terminator seed and the suicide of farmers in India." Which is actually vastly more important than the quality or lack thereof of staff view in Sonar...but I digress.
As to not knowing when something's published online, it's not even remotely unbelievable (although that kind of comment, as well as some others from you, do provide useful insights into the lens through which you see the world). After I write something, especially if it was months ago, it's done.
Over. Down the memory hole. I don't think about it again unless other people bring it up. I was just at a NAMM show, and lots of people stopped me to say how much they enjoyed Craig's List, with the most common comment being "It's the first thing I read in the mag." So when I was told the one about forum DAW silliness was online, I thought y'all might find the humor in it. Apparently most people did.
Now, about Monsanto.