From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting References: <200410240533.i9O5XPJ24186@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:53:28 +0300 From: "Tiit Lankots" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200410240533.i9O5XPJ24186@augusta.math.psu.edu> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Win32, build 3865) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: f545da28-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > System emulation layers like plan9ports, cygwin, etc are sort of like > masturbation. Sure, it's fine when you've got nothing else going on, > but it'll never beat the real thing. taking her to the movies - $20 and 2h -"- restaurant - $50 2h -"- night club - $20 4h various beverages - $50=09 (your face after her third 'no' to your "ok, then let's do it this way") = - =20 priceless TOTAL: money spent - $140, time spent - a full day's worth of work vs a box of tissue - $2 a quick download (after all, that's what the internot was invented for, =20 right) - $0 TOTAL: money spent - negligent, time spent - about 2 minutes Pragmatically taken, the wetware shoud be extinct. Gladly, it's different with software. P.S. To amortize the accumulative costs of the first situtation, human =20 race invented the marriage. Sometimes it even works.