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OMG..what fucking pricks
jasonlane:
quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
Oh, I can write very well, believe me. You should have seen how I tore apart the first Harry Potter movie in one of my reviews! (The novels are great though.)
Anyway, in the mean time you can read some of my comments here:
http://forum.microsuck.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000670
I have lots of time on my hands, so I guess I could write a review. I never reviewed an operating system before, though, and I'm not sure where to start, so feel free to give suggestions.
[ July 24, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
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I guess you'd approach it kind of like a chemistry experiment, no? Setup, Procedure / methodology, conclusions???
Might be kind of analytical and dry, you have excellent writting skills though Laukev7, so I'm sure in the idiom of Mr Blair you could 'sex it up'.
:D
Love to see you do it ;)
Laukev7:
Your reference to Anthony Blair is quite appropriate, Zardoz, as my writing style is very inspired by british litterature. I really like the witty phrases and descriptions of some English authors!
To write that review I'll need to look at it again, as it's been a few weeks since I've used it. Which means that I'll have to reinstall that rubbish on my computer. Guess I'll have to download it again, then.
As for the analytical method, this applies for scientific experiments, but not reviews or essays. I learnt how to review and summarise a novel or a movie, but I'm not sure of which aspects of the OS to describe. I would try to read some reviews and attempt to make an outline, but I fear that I might miss some important details.
In the mean time, would you provide me some more teasers of Mac OS X? I'll sure need to rest my eyes once in a while; last time I got a migraine just by staring at LH for too long. I'm not kidding about the headache!
hai_ok:
quote: -would this perchance be the automatic Windoze updates? If not, I'll STFU.
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That's not very nice for Mac/BeOS/FreeBSD users.
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-Laukev7
I would never tell you to STFU. You did ask an honest question. I've seen packets go to them during updates and then there were other times when Windows would just randomly send them to M$.
The point is not when it is sent. After all I would send crap I didn't want you to know about, during a time when you thought it was ok for me to send crap. Like during an update.
The concern is what is being sent. It may not be legal for them to send, record and track specific things, and they may not admit to it... But they do it.
and for the record...
FreeBSD is Linux.
BeOS is great (so, sorry to those people. I'll go scoop up the poop)!
And Apple has abandoned developing their own OS in favor of writing their OSX shell for Darwin Linux.
So you're one out of three. ;)
Faust:
quote:
FreeBSD is Linux
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What? "Comparable" maybe, but FreeBSD uses the BSD kernel and GNU/Linux uses the Linux kernel. They're both similar in that they use a lot of GNU code for the actual OS and they both share a lot of applications but surely not "exact?"
Unless I'm missing something here...
Laukev7:
quote: I would never tell you to STFU. You did ask an honest question. I've seen packets go to them during updates and then there were other times when Windows would just randomly send them to M$.
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Oh, OK. I wanted to make sure that our concerns about Microsoft's breach of privacy were founded, and not the result of paranoia or misguided by our hatred for Microsoft. In that case... DOWN WITH MICROSOFT!
quote: Unless I'm missing something here...
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No, you're not. FreeBSD is derived from BSD 4.4, which was released under the BSD Licence. BSD was originally a distribution of UNIX by Berkeley, a famous university in California. Big parts of their distribution were replaced by their own code, and eventually only a few files from the original UNIX remained, so they rewrote them to free themselves from copyright issues and to be allowed to distribute it for free (as in free speech, but less restrictions than the GPL).
As for Darwin, it uses the FreeBSD system, but is based on the Mach kernel. Darwin has been modeled after OpenStep, a UNIX-like system conceived by NeXT, and also based on the Mach kernel. You may be interested to know that the CEO of NeXT was Steven P. Jobs, none other than the co-founder and current CEO of Apple Computer.
[ July 31, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
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