(But sarcasm seems to escape you.... :-))
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Eric, I don't know what this "audio" thing you CS/CE type researchers
>> are using but us lowlifes just need Firefox and Excel before we can
>> use Plan 9. I'm afraid that until you can provide those, Joe Public
>> will never use Plan 9 and it will be forever doomed to run only on
>> supercomputers and storage systems and in research settings.
>
> -> WARNING: It's time to be brutally honest again. Take a deep breath. <-
>
> I'm 15. I run Plan 9 on a 20" iMac in the corner of my room at home. I
> hardly use Excel, and I don't usually browse the web on Plan 9 (or with
> Firefox - I use Safari on Mac). Yet I find myself using Plan 9 50% of my
> computing day. The commonest two things I do are coding and document
> typesetting. I like Plan 9's completeness of programming environment (I'd
> like to see Ruby beat lib*) and the authenticity of the typesetting tools
> (the original reason I started with Plan 9) was compelling.
>
> Yep. I'm a nerd. But I'm not in a CS/CR (at least not yet). And yes, I do
> normal stuff too. I browse the web. I listen to music. I watch movies. And
> unlike most people my age, I go to school and succeed. (I don't play sports
> because I have a vision disability.)
>
> Please reconsider your statement.
>
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