From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:17:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0436AF01-873E-4A6E-B4EC-6C2D7D628FCC@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa7e41150807011453x756331d8w193c208d0ec3ec28@mail.gmail.com>
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 <pietro10@mac.com>
> wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:32 AM, john@csplan9.rit.edu 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-01 6:47 Eris Discordia
2008-07-01 7:42 ` John Stalker
2008-07-01 13:24 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-07-01 13:32 ` john
2008-07-01 21:35 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-07-01 21:53 ` Dan Cross
2008-07-01 22:17 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2008-07-01 21:55 ` john
2008-07-01 17:44 ` Russ Cox
[not found] <970551641B57BC6070158BA7@172.16.10.224>
2008-07-01 8:38 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-07-01 20:36 ` Iruata Souza
[not found] <6AB24A226A77E17024CF16B9@172.16.10.224>
2008-07-01 20:22 ` Iruata Souza
2008-07-01 20:30 ` Iruata Souza
[not found] <6653239E78712E5C0992CFE3@172.16.10.224>
2008-07-01 12:49 ` ron minnich
2008-07-01 20:40 ` Iruata Souza
2008-07-01 21:40 ` Charles Forsyth
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-01 8:42 Eris Discordia
2008-07-01 8:28 Eris Discordia
2008-07-01 8:25 Eris Discordia
2008-07-02 4:52 ` lucio
2008-07-02 5:21 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-07-02 6:09 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-02 18:58 ` Wes Kussmaul
2008-07-02 19:14 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-02 21:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-07-03 0:19 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-07-02 9:28 ` lucio
2008-07-02 17:55 ` David Leimbach
2008-07-02 12:04 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-03 0:13 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-07-03 0:17 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-07-03 2:16 ` Adrian Tritschler
2008-07-03 8:43 ` Robert Raschke
2008-07-03 10:25 ` Steve Simon
2008-07-03 12:27 ` dave.l
2008-07-03 18:12 ` Michaelian Ennis
2008-07-05 17:14 ` Wes Kussmaul
2008-07-05 17:43 ` Wes Kussmaul
2008-07-03 9:39 ` Rodolfo kix García
2008-07-04 11:26 ` matt
2008-07-04 10:58 ` matt
2008-07-01 7:47 Eris Discordia
2008-07-01 13:15 ` john
[not found] <A5F2B9F56DBEDAA4DDA2E579@172.16.10.224>
2008-07-01 7:23 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-01 8:45 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <E65EC37F521210B28673D390@172.16.10.224>
2008-07-01 9:41 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-07-01 10:40 ` Andrés Domínguez
2008-07-01 22:02 ` Eris Discordia
2008-07-01 22:40 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-01 23:43 ` a
2008-07-02 5:44 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-07-02 6:19 ` John Waters
2008-07-01 7:04 Eris Discordia
2008-07-01 14:06 ` cummij
2008-07-01 14:16 ` ron minnich
[not found] <B7A30661A94738A2B9BE1EA7@172.16.10.200>
2008-06-30 23:02 ` Uriel
2008-06-30 22:32 Eris Discordia
2008-06-30 22:13 Eris Discordia
2008-06-30 22:48 ` Rob Pike
2008-06-30 23:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-06-30 23:28 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-07-01 6:53 ` bblochl
2008-07-01 9:21 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-07-01 13:50 ` David Leimbach
2008-07-01 14:10 ` hiro
2008-07-01 15:20 ` Uriel
2008-07-01 19:21 ` bblochl
2008-07-01 22:55 ` Jack Johnson
2008-07-01 12:44 ` ron minnich
2008-07-01 13:35 ` David Leimbach
2008-07-01 13:47 ` john
2008-07-01 13:59 ` John Waters
2008-07-01 14:03 ` David Leimbach
2008-06-30 22:56 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-30 23:07 ` a
2008-06-30 23:11 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-07-01 8:01 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <EBDCEA43BFC1C5EE4070BC1E@172.16.10.224>
2008-07-01 20:33 ` Iruata Souza
2008-07-02 8:38 ` DaveL
2008-06-30 21:45 Eris Discordia
2008-07-01 15:40 ` michael block
2008-06-30 19:12 Eris Discordia
2008-06-30 20:01 ` ron minnich
2008-06-30 21:20 ` Eris Discordia
2008-06-30 23:23 ` Iruata Souza
2008-07-01 0:22 ` ron minnich
2008-07-01 10:52 ` John Waters
2008-07-01 11:19 ` hiro
2008-06-30 20:11 ` michael block
2008-06-30 20:42 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-06-30 20:55 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-06-30 23:06 ` Bakul Shah
2008-06-30 23:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-06-30 23:22 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-07-01 9:37 ` Stefan Groß
2008-06-30 14:55 erik quanstrom
2008-06-30 15:36 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-06-30 17:26 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-30 17:06 ` Steven D. Vormwald
2008-06-30 17:34 ` john
2008-06-30 18:33 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-06-30 18:47 ` Tom Lieber
2008-06-30 23:28 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-30 18:16 ` John Stalker
2008-06-30 18:27 ` a
2008-07-02 6:48 ` sqweek
2008-07-02 7:39 ` gdiaz
2008-07-02 12:17 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-02 12:35 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-22 14:16 ` sqweek
2008-07-22 14:47 ` Kernel Panic
2008-07-22 14:50 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-22 15:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-07-22 15:50 ` sqweek
2008-07-22 15:46 ` C H Forsyth
2008-06-30 21:19 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-30 2:21 erik quanstrom
2008-06-30 2:32 ` john
2008-06-30 3:10 ` Tim Wiess
2008-06-30 5:24 ` underspecified
2008-06-30 6:57 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-06-30 7:50 ` John Waters
2008-06-30 8:03 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-06-30 2:38 ` Uriel
2008-06-30 12:06 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-30 13:46 ` bblochl
2008-06-30 17:27 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-30 13:48 ` bblochl
2008-06-30 13:52 ` john
2008-06-30 14:00 ` bblochl
2008-06-30 14:07 ` john
2008-06-30 17:23 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-30 17:21 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-30 17:34 ` ron minnich
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