Linked by Alfonso Martinez on Tue 20th Oct 2009 22:51 UTC
Since I encountered BeOS 5 Personal Edition, my experience with BeOS PE led me to purchase the BeOS 5 Professional Edition, which I used for some years. I am not ashamed to say that I love using this OS. After the demise of Be Corp., I still used BeOS as my "main OS" since it would do everything that I needed to do, except for gaming and academic works. I closely followed all the developments of the BeOS contenders after Be's fall... Until Zeta OS became the leading standard for a short time. I purchased every Zeta OS release that YellowTab produced. It is currently my favorite BeOS version today.
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Eh, that battle was lost long ago - even professional writers seem to have forgotten that you cannot have degrees of an absolute (just this morning, I read a newspaper *headline* that included the phrase "very unique" and there's my personal favourite, "more/less free").
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Eh, that battle was lost long ago - even professional writers seem to have forgotten that you cannot have degrees of an absolute
This is nothing at all wrong with saying "everything except <list>". I'm not sure whether or not I would have put in the comma. And it might have been a problem if the comma had been a period. But the way it is written is perfectly fine, and a completely different situation than "very unique".
I think rockwell is just looking for another angle on bashing a non-MS OS, as per usual.
Edited 2009-10-21 19:44 UTC
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Maybe he wanted to say:
Haiku meats all of my needs excluding the list of items below:
1. Gaming
2. Academic works
(In other words "it would do everything that I needed to do, except for gaming and academic works").
Back on topic, I enjoyed both reviews of Haiku and will give the alpha a go.
Edited 2009-10-21 21:25 UTC
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// since it would do everything that I needed to do, except for gaming and academic works.//
So ... it didn't do everything you needed it to do.