[MD] Quality computing

[david buchanan]

ian glendinning said:
"Pulling oneself up by the bootstraps." Lifting yourself off the ground, by 
yourself - seemingly impossible ...A program you need before you can run any 
(other) programs.

dmb says:
Okay, then "boot" is an even better example than I thought. I don't get it. 
How is defying gravity LIKE starting the first program? And even if that 
made sense, at what point would the computer user ever notice that such a 
thing occurs? Does making reference to these layers of programs relate to 
the user's needs in any way? Isn't that something a programmer would find 
meaningful but hardly anybody else would? That event is quite invisible and 
irrelevant to the user, no? Yep, this one is even more confusing and 
misleading than I thought. The dude who came up with that one obviously 
loves machines more than the people who use them.

Artless bastard.

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