If only we transmitted messages by voice. It's much easier to
understand the sarcastic nature. (And you need to get me in a good
mood.)
On Jul 1, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
(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.
