Steve, as usual you've missed the point of my original post. I find all viewpoints interesting. I have yet to read one that rings completely true... nor completely false. Nothing in the known solar system is that black and white.
Just like seat time doesn't make you always right. Do you use the program more than the author of the post you despise? You have no way of knowing... just like you have no way of knowing whether you use it more than anyone else that posts on the forum. But what difference would it make anyway? This forum is full of people that use things a lot and are still wrong in what they post. The connection between those two things is not an absolute.
As I said I find all viewpoints worth considering... even yours. Though I will say that I find some of your more objective posts like the one in this thread a bit more helpful:
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/6636#6636
In the end it isn't about you... it isn't about me... it's not about good or bad, it's about the pursuit of what it actually is...
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." - Winston Churchill