> take it easy on the porn and get some real sex, eris. you're way too > angry. Sir, yessir! The Marines don't do Japanese, sir! --On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:31 PM -0300 Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo <at> gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Eris Discordia > <eris.discordia <at> gmail.com> wrote: >>> Wrong on so many levels. >> >> Go read the responses 9people gave the original poster. You'll see why >> it's _right_ on so many levels. >> >>> Plan 9 obeys the UNIX way: tools that make jobs simpler. >> >> A UNIX better than UNIX? I thought that was just the thing 9people >> claimed to be past. Didn't I hear someone saying, "Plan 9 is not UNIX?" >> Ahem... GNU's Not UNIX, too, nah? >> >>> "Everything is a UTF-8 [...]" >> >> Do me a favor. Fire up your beloved upas, use mail, and relay one email >> through upas/smtpd to smtp.gmail.com:587 with the words "שָׁלוֹם >> עֲלֵיכֶם" (Hebrew, Shalom aleichem) or "سلام علیکم" >> (Arabic, Salam-on alaikom) to my address. Let's see if "the mail goes >> through." >> >>> "Everything is a UTF-8 text file or a mountable filesystem, even devices >>> and severs" encourages transparency of modules: you can copy a file from >>> a Gopher network in Tokyo to a mobile phone from Mexico or have the >>> filesystem report how much free space is left without running a million >>> commands or typing a thousand lines of code. >> >> The path from Gopher to your PC--or it was a Mac that you had?--was paved >> years ago on UNIX. Then the path from Tokyo to Mexico was built on UNIX, >> and today it _runs_ on UNIX. Now, the real problem begins when you want >> to get your cell phone to talk 9P-over-IP. >> >> Do you have a 9P client for your cell phone? You "wrote" it already? >> Does it run on Java? Or Symbian? Or Vendor X's proprietary embedded OS? >> Did you do it on Plan 9? Or did you snatch an SDK written for some other >> livelier OS? >> >> Go fool someone else with your empty rhetoric, buddy. >> >>> If you are not like that, leave. >> >> No, I _am_ not like that. I also _don't_ like that. And I've left. The >> post was not for you to chew on, it was for the benefit of the thread's >> originator. > > take it easy on the porn and get some real sex, eris. you're way too > angry. > > iru