Eugenia is not English, and sometimes she sounds harsh.
Indeed, but I don't think that this can be entirely attributed to this (and, for what it's worth, I think she's good a very good grasp on english at least).
But she RIGHT ON TARGET here!
I did not necessarily say she wasn't (although I don't want to say she is, either), but either way, it would be neither explain nor excuse the rude tone of the article. She's free to either use SuSE (or YaST, for that matter) or not, and although I think that constructive criticism would be appreciated by the developers, mere bashing likely won't be. They're just people, too, after all (and probably people with at least reasonably good intentions).
"Eugenia's review seems unduly harsh to me, but you can look at the screenshots and judge for yourself. " If you _can_ judge a program solely by its screenshots, you probably don't even need to.
True, but by looking at the screenshots, you can form an initial opinion on the program - or, in this case, on the review, too.
I'm certainly no friend of either SuSE in general or YaST in particular, but after reading this article, I am left with the uneasy feeling that this was just not objective journalism, but in fact outright bashing, and I'm kinda saddened by this. is this really necessary? Debating things, even in a controversial way, is certainly a good thing, but let's try to not get personal - the last thing we need is this kind of mudslinging amongst ourselves.
Obviously. I mean hardly any American native speakers of English know how to use "neither/nor" properly. I am an American native English speaker and I almost never hear it.
It's almost refreshing.
Honestly, that sentence translated into modern American would be "Yeah, cuz, I'm not American or a native english speaker."
Not everyone is an American, you know. There are even some computer users in that place called TheRestOfTheWorld and believe it or not, they don't all speak English and use English language web searches. Shocking, innit?
Quite so, especially since I'm neither american nor a native english speaker myself.
Ok, did they know about the Yahoo, AOL, Netscape or CompuServe searches? If they used those, then they used Google, and it was duly recorded on Google's servers.
As far as I know, no, but does Google's Zeitgeist include these, anyway?
Of course this data is rounded, google is probably the best place to get this sort of data anyways - as google is the best search engine around right now.
True, but this does not mean it necessarily is reliable data. Many of the more clueless computer users I know didn't even know Google existed until I told them, so in reality, the number of Windows users is probably even higher than this.
I'm reading a Computer Networks textbook right now. The author frequently points out that the success of the TCP/IP stack can be largely attributed to the BSD license because companies had access to a well-engineered network staff for free. Otherwise, OSI protocols might have been chosen as they were the "hot" research/development topic of the 80's.
Out of curiosity, would that necessarily have been a bad thing? Granted, it would have meant that today's world would look quite different from the way it does now, but would it necessarily have been a change for the worse?
This kinda makes you wonder how today's security problems / vulnerabilities / exploits will be viewed in 30 years from now, and how these views will differ from today's.
Dropping support for Linux on their laptops is very strange decision for IBM to make IMO, considering their overall interest in and sponsoring of the development of Linux.
I don't think that this it is really justified to say this.
For one, this is originally an AP report, not something CNN came up with themselves; also, the people at CNN are first and foremost journalists, as well, so one'd expect them to be dedicated to objectivity even when reporting about issues relating to another unit of their parent company.
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Indeed, but I don't think that this can be entirely attributed to this (and, for what it's worth, I think she's good a very good grasp on english at least).
I did not necessarily say she wasn't (although I don't want to say she is, either), but either way, it would be neither explain nor excuse the rude tone of the article. She's free to either use SuSE (or YaST, for that matter) or not, and although I think that constructive criticism would be appreciated by the developers, mere bashing likely won't be. They're just people, too, after all (and probably people with at least reasonably good intentions).
True, but by looking at the screenshots, you can form an initial opinion on the program - or, in this case, on the review, too.
I'm certainly no friend of either SuSE in general or YaST in particular, but after reading this article, I am left with the uneasy feeling that this was just not objective journalism, but in fact outright bashing, and I'm kinda saddened by this. is this really necessary? Debating things, even in a controversial way, is certainly a good thing, but let's try to not get personal - the last thing we need is this kind of mudslinging amongst ourselves.
Thanks - I'll take that as a compliment. :)
Quite so, especially since I'm neither american nor a native english speaker myself.
As far as I know, no, but does Google's Zeitgeist include these, anyway?
True, but this does not mean it necessarily is reliable data. Many of the more clueless computer users I know didn't even know Google existed until I told them, so in reality, the number of Windows users is probably even higher than this.
Out of curiosity, would that necessarily have been a bad thing? Granted, it would have meant that today's world would look quite different from the way it does now, but would it necessarily have been a change for the worse?
A mixture of OpenBSD and AIX? :)
This kinda makes you wonder how today's security problems / vulnerabilities / exploits will be viewed in 30 years from now, and how these views will differ from today's.
I usually use a Xerox Phaser 1235DT, and am quite happy with it.
Dropping support for Linux on their laptops is very strange decision for IBM to make IMO, considering their overall interest in and sponsoring of the development of Linux.
I wonder how this goes together...
I don't think that this it is really justified to say this.
For one, this is originally an AP report, not something CNN came up with themselves; also, the people at CNN are first and foremost journalists, as well, so one'd expect them to be dedicated to objectivity even when reporting about issues relating to another unit of their parent company.