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TextBladeDenied said:

WayTools_Support said on May 4th 2019:

Arkorott - we’ll post on our forum about the advances we’ve made to our firmware tech.  Look there for more details this month.  

So we’ll post all product news on our forum, and you’ll find it there.

  

WayTools_Support said on June 4th 2019 (post #25, https://forum.waytools.com/t/new-techtalk-update-coming/5618):

Just have to push hard, get it done, and then it sure feels nice when it’s behind us.

Goal was set as - around the end of the month, and have put in many hours this weekend to respect that. 

This sort of stuff does take gobs of work, as everything worth doing does. Good kind of work though.

Either the man’s intentionally dishonest, “we’ll post...this month” vs. [one month later] “goal was set as...around the end of the month”, or he’s accidentally dishonest. Neither is in any way defensible. I’d bet I could find many similar cases pertaining to the actual shipping dates of GR if I could be bothered or had the time to look.

Speaking of defensible, I do wonder whether the upcoming court case, as mentioned about a page ago, is a factor with the lack of communication... when is it? Later this month? Maybe MK should try to settle out of court for a “free gift”. Or a toque. 

So this bobble hat lark. I wonder whether all the fluff that Mark has posted about how great it all is etc comes from the bobble hat too? Is the bobble hat becoming less fluffy because he fills his forum with it? And what about this firmware he keeps talking about? Are they really making more room in the firmware, or are they just having to empty everything out of the textblade in order to try to find out where the smell’s coming from?

Only 6 hours until Mark will be a full week over his update deadline. It really is bizarre to think that there are people still funding this man.

What would the inside of a bobble hat smell like I wonder? At this time of year, probably alright, but generally not pleasant. At least if you live in the Northern hemisphere.

You know, now that I think about it, the creators and most significant fans of the textblade all live in places that don't really encounter bobble hats - California, Hawaii, etc. It's possible that they wouldn't know what the inside of a bobble smelt like, and so might think it was quite an exotic aroma. Wait until GR happens and the moaning about the funny musty smell starts.

I don't see that there's ever going to be a way to shut this man up, even completely ignoring him won't work although it might mitigate some of the worst of it.

I'd suggest you do as I have and ignore him completely. If we wish to comment on something he's posted on the WT forum, fine, but when the inevitable happens and he responds here, ignore it, pretend it wasn't posted. Likewise, when eventually in 2027 we get an update from WT, there will inevitably be some response from the apologist here. Ignore it - continue the conversation as if he wasn't here. It's the only way: you'll never get any sense out of him, and it's all about him "winning" (post 1505 above). I know it's tempting, because in the absence of WT there's nothing else to post about here, but maybe if we ignore him WT will feel duty bound to post himself, you never know.

Ignore the man with the balls. Let him win his own race, take his balls home, let him win whatever it is he needs to in order to shut up, please.

TextBladeDenied said:..... discuss metaphorically how it is acceptable for Mozart, Beethoven, and Da Vinci to miss the deadlines on their latest masterpiece. Well, Colin came up with that ridiculously embarrassing nonsense, but you have argued a similar point many times. 

I must say, as a professional musician (and knowing DBK to have been a musician also) I was appalled that that was allowed to stand. First, I can't promise that Beethoven or Mozart never missed a deadline. I'm sure they may have done, but certainly neither is known for it - they're known for delivering, in quite a big way. All of Mozart's significant output (600+ works including 41 symphonies and 27 piano concertos) was completed before he reached the age of 36 - he died aged 35. And Beethoven didn't even allow complete loss of hearing to stop his monumental output. As another example, JS Bach wrote an almost impossible amount of music (including for over two years a full 20-minute or so cantata for orchestra and choir every single week for the Sunday service).  The task is so impossible to conceive that Douglas Adams (who seems to have been referenced a number of times in this thread) explains in Dirk Gently's Detective Agency that Bach actually is a fictional character, and that his output is in fact the collected musical works of an entire alien civilisation downloaded to Earth and attributed to one man.

I know we have ridiculed before the idea that Mark Knighton equates himself to Jobs or Musk, but to have his name in the same sentence as Mozart's without a significant and very large negative is laughable. Indeed, forget the same sentence - the fact they might exist in the same universe beggars belief.