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  • morbiuswilters

    @plural said:

    So, to me, a WTF is that people seem so sensitive to such trivial (or so I had thought) matters here.

    Is this your first time dealing with nerds?  Consider the gigabytes of text that have been generated over such important matters as vi vs. emacs, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, PC vs. Mac and FOSS vs. Microsoft.

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  • Heron

    Out of curiosity, I polled the online portion of my messenger contact list with the question "Does the time 4:20 mean anything in particular?"  Eight people commented on its reference to pot, and four people said "I don't think so, why?"  Those who knew seemed surprised that I hadn't known, even my close RL friends.  All of these people are in their twenties.  I would guess that older people (people in their 40s) would be less-aware, but that's supposition; it wouldn't surprise me, though, if the Synaptics devs were middle-aged people rather than youngsters.

    Anyway, two-thirds is a good chunk of people my age.  It'd be interesting to know the percentage for people in their 40s (and it would also be interesting to know the ages of the Synaptics devs).

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  • B

    @morbiuswilters said:

    @plural said:

    So, to me, a WTF is that people seem so sensitive to such trivial (or so I had thought) matters here.

    Is this your first time dealing with nerds?  Consider the gigabytes of text that have been generated over such important matters as vi vs. emacs, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, PC vs. Mac and FOSS vs. Microsoft.

    It gets even more interesting when you make it into a tournament:

     

    Sure, you may like Star Trek and vi, but who wins that matchup?

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  • belgariontheking

    @bstorer said:

    Sure, you may like Star Trek and vi, but who wins that matchup?
    More importantly, who wins in the eventual PC vs Microsoft battle.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (putting this way down here so noone notices that I'm answering my own question) 

    Final battle: Star Wars vs PC.  Eventual winner: Star Wars!

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  • morbiuswilters

    @bstorer said:

    Sure, you may like Star Trek and vi, but who wins that matchup?

    Star Trek, because the UI is less confounding.

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    @belgariontheking said:

    @bstorer said:

    Sure, you may like Star Trek and vi, but who wins that matchup?
    More importantly, who wins in the eventual PC vs Microsoft battle.


    @morbiuswilters said:

    @bstorer said:

    Sure, you may like Star Trek and vi, but who wins that matchup?

    Star Trek, because the UI is less confounding.

     

    You both fail; emacs wins the whole thing because emacs contains everything.

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  • morbiuswilters

    @bstorer said:

    You both fail; emacs wins the whole thing because emacs contains everything.

    But does it run on an NP-complete JVM?

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    @morbiuswilters said:

    @bstorer said:

    You both fail; emacs wins the whole thing because emacs contains everything.

    But does it run on an NP-complete JVM?

    Only if you do "M-x C-& M-N M-P JVM".  Make sure not to do "M-x C-& M-N M-p JVM" instead, because that destroys the universe.
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  • drachenstern

    @morbiuswilters said:

    Consider the gigabytes of text that have been generated over such important matters as vi vs. emacs, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, PC vs. Mac and FOSS vs. Microsoft.
    FTFY, but since I can see where you would make that mistake, I think we can let it pass ;) @bstorer said:

     

     I figured it played out like this:

    First Round:

    emacs, Star Wars, Mac, FOSS

    Second Round:

    tie (emacs may run everything, but I've not heard of a M-{force} setting. Granted, they may just assume it's a naturally understood choice, but even Luke had to be told to ignore the goggles.), FOSS

    Third Round:

    Didn't you hear me, emacs and the Force are still battling it out. This could go on for a while. But since they're both inherently FOSS, the FOSS takes a back seat.

    Besides, I think R2D2 runs emacs as his core O/S. He can do EVERYTHING.

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  • morbiuswilters

    @drachenstern said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    Consider the gigabytes of text that have been generated over such important matters as vi vs. emacs, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, PC vs. Mac and FOSS vs. Microsoft.
    FTFY, but since I can see where you would make that mistake, I think we can let it pass ;)

    What?  All you did was flip the order.  Am I missing something?

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  • drachenstern

    @morbiuswilters said:

    What?  All you did was flip the order.  Am I missing something?
    Everyone knows Star Wars comes before Star Trek. :-p

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