If you've never had this problem, then clearly you've never worked at a medium-to-large company with more complex requirements than the need to do a bit of word processing and maybe use a spreadsheet.
Your take on static vs dynamic linking is quite reasonable in the Windows world (because of dll hell), but makes very little sense on unix systems. Generally (although perhaps not always), the different releases of dynamically-linked libraries are _guaranteed_ to have the same interface - that is, a function which exists in several versions is always going to take the same parameters, in the same order.
If you have an earlier version than the software was compiled against, you _may_ have some issues with bugs, but it's unlikely.
> it wasn't in any way related to Tolkien's world.
What? I thought it was an extremely faithful adaption, given the limitations imposed by trying to compress three fat books into a mere 9 hours (or whatever) of movie. And before you ask, I've read LoTR so many times since my mum bought it for my birthday in 1962 that my original copy has just about fallen apart. Btw, I've never felt that Tolkien's characterisation was all that strong - most of the characters are little better than cardboard cutouts.
Part of the reason for the aisles full of keyboards and mouses is because the damn things (especially the new ones) are so poorly made, they fuck up within 6 months and need replacing. The keyboard I use (by choice) is about 15 years old and weighs about 2kg (you could beat someone to death with it) and will probably not need replacing in my lifetime, but until my son scored several of them out of a rubbish skip, I'd been replacing the things on a regular basis.
Actually, legalese (and a lot of the stuff economists say, for that matter) has _exactly_ this efect on me. It's not that I think I couldn't understand it, it's just that it would take a couple of hours I'd never get back.
In Adelaide, we are blessed with the Unseen Theatre Company, who mostly do plays based on Pratchett's books. (I think they did "Mort" fairly recently.)
My oldest son is a member of this theatre company. They mostly do the plays at the Bakehouse Theatre in Angas St. They've just finished a production of "Interesting Times". They'll probably do another one pretty soon. If you live in Adelaide, go and see them.
DNA discusses, at some length, the whole process of getting the movie off the ground in "The Salmon of Doubt", a posthumous degorgement of the contents of his hard drives. (It's worth the read.) I think he was happy with the way things were going, but I'd guess things got seriously fucked up once he'd died (and thus no longer had much in the way of creative control). A pity. If, unlike DNA, I believed in the supernatural, I'd hope he haunted the shit out of the fuckers. I guess you just can't count on Disney (TM) to do the right thing.
I'd recommend the Mandrake. I recently tried installing Fedora 3 on my machine, but it has trouble reecognising the sound card (among other things), so I reinstalled Mandrake 9.2 which works fine.
I call bullshit. The only package selection involved with any Linux distro is that you get to select stuff that would have to be installed separately (probably at considerable cost and with several reboots) on a Windows machine.
While I wouldn't claim that Linux is easier to install than Windows, it's certainly no more difficult these days, and you get a lot more functionality.
That's very interesting. (Just because someone has been involved in mass-market beer doesn't, of course mean that they're not a good brewer. In fact they're likely to be excellent, simply because, despite variability in ingredients, they still have to produce _exactly_ the same beer, day in, day out.)
He also, before Malt Shovel, had a bunch of beers under his own name, which are still made by the company who bought him out. They're pretty good, too, although very much in the mould of your standard pilsner-style beer.
They're heaps cheaper now, because of ICs, but 40 or 50 years ago, they were much more expensive. Analogue computers were probably as common as digital ones, originally.
Continuing with the car analogy - it's nice to know that you can, if you want, change the oil and plugs in that shitbox in the drive whose resale value is somewhat less than it would cost to have someone else service it.
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It sounds like we pretty much agree on this.
If you've never had this problem, then clearly you've never worked at a medium-to-large company with more complex requirements than the need to do a bit of word processing and maybe use a spreadsheet.
Your take on static vs dynamic linking is quite reasonable in the Windows world (because of dll hell), but makes very little sense on unix systems. Generally (although perhaps not always), the different releases of dynamically-linked libraries are _guaranteed_ to have the same interface - that is, a function which exists in several versions is always going to take the same parameters, in the same order.
If you have an earlier version than the software was compiled against, you _may_ have some issues with bugs, but it's unlikely.
> For them, design stability, consistency and suppport are way more important. Windows gives them that.
... the 1st of April finished a couple of weeks ago.
Err
> it wasn't in any way related to Tolkien's world.
What? I thought it was an extremely faithful adaption, given the limitations imposed by trying to compress three fat books into a mere 9 hours (or whatever) of movie. And before you ask, I've read LoTR so many times since my mum bought it for my birthday in 1962 that my original copy has just about fallen apart. Btw, I've never felt that Tolkien's characterisation was all that strong - most of the characters are little better than cardboard cutouts.
Of _course_ Jimi was on something.
Quite a lot of things, actually.
Part of the reason for the aisles full of keyboards and mouses is because the damn things (especially the new ones) are so poorly made, they fuck up within 6 months and need replacing. The keyboard I use (by choice) is about 15 years old and weighs about 2kg (you could beat someone to death with it) and will probably not need replacing in my lifetime, but until my son scored several of them out of a rubbish skip, I'd been replacing the things on a regular basis.
Is a moocular device some kind of exploding cow?
Actually, legalese (and a lot of the stuff economists say, for that matter) has _exactly_ this efect on me. It's not that I think I couldn't understand it, it's just that it would take a couple of hours I'd never get back.
Technical issues are another matter entirely.
In Adelaide, we are blessed with the Unseen Theatre Company, who mostly do plays based on Pratchett's books. (I think they did "Mort" fairly recently.)
My oldest son is a member of this theatre company. They mostly do the plays at the Bakehouse Theatre in Angas St. They've just finished a production of "Interesting Times". They'll probably do another one pretty soon. If you live in Adelaide, go and see them.
"Herbie Goes Bunta"? I'd pay good money to see _that_.
DNA discusses, at some length, the whole process of getting the movie off the ground in "The Salmon of Doubt", a posthumous degorgement of the contents of his hard drives. (It's worth the read.) I think he was happy with the way things were going, but I'd guess things got seriously fucked up once he'd died (and thus no longer had much in the way of creative control). A pity. If, unlike DNA, I believed in the supernatural, I'd hope he haunted the shit out of the fuckers. I guess you just can't count on Disney (TM) to do the right thing.
Outstanding!
I'd recommend the Mandrake. I recently tried installing Fedora 3 on my machine, but it has trouble reecognising the sound card (among other things), so I reinstalled Mandrake 9.2 which works fine.
I call bullshit. The only package selection involved with any Linux distro is that you get to select stuff that would have to be installed separately (probably at considerable cost and with several reboots) on a Windows machine.
While I wouldn't claim that Linux is easier to install than Windows, it's certainly no more difficult these days, and you get a lot more functionality.
He's wrong. It's brilliant. Maybe he just has the attention span of a gnat.
I first read it about 25 years ago, and had _no_ _trouble_ _at_ _all_ finishing it in record time. I've since re-read it a couple of times.
That's very interesting. (Just because someone has been involved in mass-market beer doesn't, of course mean that they're not a good brewer. In fact they're likely to be excellent, simply because, despite variability in ingredients, they still have to produce _exactly_ the same beer, day in, day out.)
He also, before Malt Shovel, had a bunch of beers under his own name, which are still made by the company who bought him out. They're pretty good, too, although very much in the mould of your standard pilsner-style beer.
They're heaps cheaper now, because of ICs, but 40 or 50 years ago, they were much more expensive. Analogue computers were probably as common as digital ones, originally.
Mmmm ... soylent green. The way the world is going, I'm expecting to get ground up for dogfood and fertiliser when I retire.
> ... flush the whole govt down the drain and put a new one in the next day.
That sounds like a good start.
Continuing with the car analogy - it's nice to know that you can, if you want, change the oil and plugs in that shitbox in the drive whose resale value is somewhat less than it would cost to have someone else service it.
Yeah - I haven't seen an Australian navel orange for years ...
Ah, yes, but at least we have a better climate. (I can wear shorts and a t-shirt most of the time in winter.)
_I_ didn't vote for the lying little fucker.
Now serps, you _know_ that none of our politicians _ever_ stand on their principles - because they don't have any (follow the money).