From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:55:50 -0500 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <25785e7145e900480bdff88ff6b6976c@9netics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <25785e7145e900480bdff88ff6b6976c@9netics.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: cfe28bc2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote: >> >> P.S. Heck, this "is" some sad commentary. > > what's sad is that unless there's a dummy's guide to > something, that something is not considered a success. > Its worse than that Skip -- I imagine many would rank Apple's time machine greater than venti just because it puts a pretty GUI on top of crap methodology versus doing something clever under the hood. You can't be a success unless you have an animated 3D GUI consuming most of your CPU resources and expending all sorts of power. We should have spent the last 20 years working on movie-OS versus actually trying to do systems research. -eric