[MD] Quality computing

[ian glendinning]

DMB, assuming your question genuine ...

"How is defying gravity LIKE starting the first program?"

Consider this
How does an object subject to gravity defy gravity by it's own will ?
How does a device that needs a programe to run other programs run the
first program ?

You see the metaphor ?
Artless bastard ;-)

Ian

On 3/21/07, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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