kinda like calling an audible in football...
Posted on 12/15/2013 8:24:55 PM PST by Utilizer
"The Feminist Software Foundation intends to write a whole OS (complete with an editor, an interpreter, coreutils, a desktop environment, a raster graphics manipulator, and maybe, if we have the time, a microkernel, but maybe that will never be completed, and we'll just use another person's kernel instead, who knows).
This isn’t your fault, but should be...
We also use antimony (which was used for eye liner) phosphorus and sometimes aluminum, gallium and indium...
So far I haven’t heard of any arsenic free semiconductor devices, though. When fabricating integrated circuits, the apparatus uses arsine gas, AsH3, which is quite toxic to humans. It is used for P-type semiconductor regions, IIRC. Its outer orbital lacks one of the four electrons that Si has. But when locked into an Si lattice, it accommodates holes nicely. You could even say modern electronics all depend on As holes (duck’n & runn’n!)
Idunno. Considering how many IDE's I have utilized over the years, I think a feminist programmer could sort of make this work.
With lots of lattitude for errors, of course. (ducks again!)
Besides, OS designs can be implemented in several different ways, and who knows who might be tempted to play with this just to see how far it goes?
Not to mention, I think I can recall at least one OS that was created from some very uncertain origins (no, not OS/2) that was rather fun to work on contributing to.
Oh my, the transitive inequalities!
*snicker* I am rather reminded of an old telly series SitCom where one of the characters is a ventriloquist with a wooden dummy (Bob, I think its name was) who acted as if it was alive during each skit. Another character "Bill"(played by Billy Crystal) was portrayed as a homosexual and was constantly being belittled by Bob, the puppet.
In one episode, the ventriloquist (Peter?, I think?) comes down the stairs and asks, with shaking hands: "Has anyone seen Bob? He wasn't there when I woke up this morning!"
No one admits to having seen "Bob" that morning, and then abruptly "Peter" grabs an orange off of the fruit bowl on the counter, whips out a penknife, and quickly carves out a pair of eyes and a smiley mouth on the orange and turns it to look at (Billy Crystal) and in a high falsetto voice pipes:
"Hi! I'm Billy the fruit -like you!"
Some people just need to keep doing things...
That summation is precisely (with interpreter subbed for compiler) the story of the GNU crew. Linus provided the kernel, and the name nearly everyone uses for the result.
Except for how to properly pronounce it, of course. (he says, tongue in cheek)
LIHN-uks
LYE-nuks
Or as Linus himself pronounces it: "LEAN-uks"
Quite the conundrum! *grin*
But totally comprehensible to the female mind, as evinced by another post on this thread. *grin*
"Note: This is a programming language written by and for FEMINISTS, not WOMEN. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE, YOU MISOGYNIST!"
srbfl
Ping
It’s amusing, but someone definitely has too much free time.
That’s nothing. Back in my sysadmin days I was a regular reader (and infrequent poster) on alt.sysadmin.recovery — a black hole of time-suck.
kinda like calling an audible in football...
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