Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Xah Lee wrote:
> On Jul 11, 6:31 am, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote:
>>> my point is that this train of thought is bullshit, in particular
>>> always just to mention something about Microsoft Word, and like the
>>> way you did in a disrespectful way of writing Microsoft as M$.
>> I am disrespectful of their goals, tactics, philosophy, sociopathy but
>> not the people. Unlike the Supreme Court, I don't think corporations are
>> people, just legal fictions that have to be mercilessly regulated.

[...]


> you wrote:
>> just legal fictions that have to be mercilessly regulated.
> 
> You are ignorant of basic economics. I suggest reading Thomas Sowell's
> Basic Economics. I have some (lousy) notes here
> http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/jdini/basic_economics.html (if
> you are one of the free software proponent, who like to pirate things
> at night, i noticed that the audio version of Thomas's book is
> available free on the net thru bittorrent. Go grab it quickly before
> it got mercilessly regulated.)

I bought (for $30 or $40) it and read it a year or two ago. I agree that
it is must reading. Sowell has a hold of the elephant by one of its
larger appendages. I agree about that and some ergonomics issues that
you have broached, but about nothing in detail. The rest should be
passed over in silence....


> 
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> 
> ☄