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| From | owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Gotta' Love Linux |
| Date | 2017-04-20 17:17 +0000 |
| Organization | O.W.L. |
| Message-ID | <shzub0338.3h@rooftop.invalid> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <od7vka$cld$2@dont-email.me> <od82ei$oet$1@deskrabbit.motzarella.org> <mg4ffclu701falfkipg0qf582gng07uhi6@4ax.com> <oda2bq$ffv$1@dont-email.me> <73109d30-138e-4ff0-88ef-578529885a7d@googlegroups.com> |
-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote: > On Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 6:29:18 AM UTC-4, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >> chrisv wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: >> > Dunce Rabbit wrote: >> > >> >> RonB wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I guess all the time spent experimenting with computers by those who >> >>> became founders of great IT companies was also a "waste of time" in the >> >>> short-sighted vision of these idiot trolls. >> >> >> >> Name one, I'll bet they were getting paid to do the work. >> > >> > Fool. The great programmer or computer architect who did not >> > start-out as a "hobbiest" is a rare animal. >> >> And many of them, *including* Bill Gates, got started by using the >> computer resources of the college they were attending. > > Except that the logical structure of this point is fatally flawed: sure, > we can point to the likes of Bill Gates, but he's a statistical anomaly, > not the typical & expected path for the average growing-up-geek. > > >> Heh, reminds me of grad school, where I was composing my Ph.D. dissertation >> using a mark-up language called DPS that was roughly similar to TeX. > > An undergraduate student group that I'm still in occasional contact with > had a project where they were using TeX for an annual publication. > If memory serves, the pub was around 200 pages (single spaced), but with > changing times, it has since been moved off of TeX. Believe that it is now > on MS-Word, as it makes soft & hard prints via Adobe PDF ... and quite > reliably so: last month they were able to make some 11th hour revisions > and then send 100 copies of it off to the printers for a <8 hour turnaround > on an update. > If only someone could figure out how to generate pdf documents from latex...
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Re: Gotta' Love Linux chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-19 13:02 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 18:08 +0000
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 11:38 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 11:39 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 11:39 -0700
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Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 09:00 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-20 06:21 -0400
Re: Gotta' Love Linux William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2017-04-20 11:47 +0100
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-20 07:55 -0400
Re: Gotta' Love Linux chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-20 07:22 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2017-04-20 13:29 +0100
Re: Gotta' Love Linux chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-20 07:49 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-21 10:32 -0400
Re: Gotta' Love Linux William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2017-04-20 13:28 +0100
Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-20 05:15 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-20 17:17 +0000
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-20 12:22 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 10:51 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-20 12:55 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2017-04-20 18:06 +0000
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-20 11:19 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-20 13:56 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-20 12:00 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 12:32 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-21 08:49 -0400
Re: Gotta' Love Linux chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-21 08:02 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2017-04-21 13:17 +0000
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-21 10:13 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-21 11:20 -0400
Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-21 08:38 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-21 08:32 -0400
Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-21 15:30 +0000
Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-21 08:55 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-21 18:19 +0000
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 10:41 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Silver Slimer <sl@im.er> - 2017-04-20 08:26 -0400
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 09:08 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-20 09:27 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2017-04-20 12:20 +0100
Re: Gotta' Love Linux chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-20 07:40 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2017-04-20 16:30 +0100
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 09:44 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 10:00 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-19 12:47 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 11:16 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-19 13:44 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 11:58 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-20 10:19 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-19 14:23 -0400
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 11:46 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-19 14:14 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 12:23 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <"Steve Carroll"@noSPAM.none> - 2017-04-19 19:51 +0000
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-19 15:05 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 13:41 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 14:01 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-19 16:12 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 14:26 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 14:50 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 11:32 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2017-04-20 18:58 +0000
Re: Gotta' Love Linux chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-19 11:48 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-19 11:56 -0500
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 10:05 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 08:42 -0700
Re: Gotta' Love Linux Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2017-04-19 17:19 +0100
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