Re: [9fans] 8c "out of fixed registers"

[dave.l@mac.com]

> may I suppose you use a web browser?

You may.

> if yes, is this complexity needed or not?

No it is not, because the browser is not "needed".
Neither is OS X or the MacBook upon which they run.

AFAIK the only things we _need_ are:
air, food, water, shelter and reproduction (have I missed any?):
all the rest is choice.

Just because someone choses to use some piece of unnecessarily  
complex technology
does not make it a "need", it makes it a "want".

We don't need web browsers, video players etc.:
we just like having them.

If you then say "I need it to do my job",
then I say that the job is your choice (as is mine using linux etc.),
and so ad infinitum.

If the government mandates use of a web browser,
well, we voted for them, right?
If you don't fight tooth and nail against them then it's your choice.

In other words, I use the shit, reluctantly,
I don't increase the size of the pile.
While I'm not happy with the situation,
as least I'm not exacerbating it.

Plan9 with a usable web browser would be a fine idea.
Unfortunately, the pain and complexity that goes
with making that fine idea into a reality would drive people away  
from plan9.

D.