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Date: Tue,  1 Jul 2008 17:55:22 -0400
From: john@csplan9.rit.edu
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary
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> 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.

Pietro, once again you've completely failed to see the intent of a
message.  I was pre-empting Eris' idiot complaints by pretending audio
was too research-y and complicated for the "Joe Public" he is always
referring to.  I wasn't asking for a "brutally honest" description of
your computing habits, although some of the information does explain
your previous patterns of posting.

You apparently succeed at school; didn't they teach you about sarcasm,
satire, irony, all the various methods people use to insult and mock
each other without actually coming out and saying, "I hate you and
hope you die"?


John