Alf wrote:
> HeloOo..
>
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Ng Kai Hoe Raymond wrote:
> > > As for Compaq, we will need someone to play with their DS-10 and DS-20 for 2 - 3
>weeks and then write a review on it. For a start that should give Compaq some
>publicity. Not forgetting Cyberway, we can boast of their views on supporting Linux
>and building gateways of portals and also supporting the open-source community not
>condoning to Linux.
> > Great.
> > I suggest this should be done by people with ample technical
> > experience and skilful in technical writing. Elvin seems to have
> > enough technical experience, perhaps he can help. If Elvin
> > has no time, I guess I will take over.
> > This review we better do a good job.
>
> I would do it only if it is going to be a REAL review. If you want
> to point out good points and leave out bad points, Raymond you can do it.
If I do it, most probably there will only be bad points.
I am rather notorious for giving bad points (read my
essay critiques and academic cross preview over the
years and you will know).
Come on, Elvin, you think I am the kind of person who
will do anything to lie? Look at my keyboard review and
see the bad points overflowing the good ones.
I hope you are not trying to insinuate anything by that
paragraph there. Accusing one of intellectual dishonesty
even in the court requires extensive proof and proper
consideration of the respective situational scenarios.
For example, you cannot accuse a doctor of malpractice
or negligence just because he acts differently in a given
situation from a doctor whom you think to have made the so called
correct reaction. The law gives a doctor a considerably
large legal penumbra, malpractice or negligence is
not a term which (even) a doctor can make on
another doctor lightly. Likewise, you cannot accuse another
of intellectual dishonesty just because you think a reviewer
has never given a bad opinion about something, not to mention
the reviewer did give lots of bad opinions (in fact, famous
for it) about a lot of things.
And I advice that you do not make such suggestive remarks like
that in the future. If you had made it clearer, you can be
sued for defamation.
And of course, I am happy that you finally intend to do a REAL
review, and I really hope that your review will be more REAL
than the rest of us. I also hope that it is also REAL in the sense
that you will finally deliver the review. Now it is your turn.
Thanks, and godspeed.
>
> It would be interesting to pit these machines up running NT and
> linux and see their performance for each...
> Moonshi: Do they want linux or NT testing?
>
> Elvin
> -
Oh please, NT? Why bother? NT on Alpha is a goner.
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Ng Kai Hoe Raymond
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Manager, R&D, Research and Development, Telford Solutions
Editor, Singapore Linux Portal, http://linux.com.sg
