On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:09, John Carter wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Craig FALCONER wrote: > > Better service == costs more. > > > > It's a basic rule of economics. > > Ah. So why is it I could get a bug fixed in gcc within a day? For free. > > In ruby also. Half a day. > > Try get that written into your MS Visual C++ service contract.
Which is why I use MinGW whenever I need to write something in Win32. MS VS C++'s nice to have, but at times is kinda like a rabid cousin, always wanting to bite someone. ;^0 and then there's AT&T's U/WIN - which I haven't tried; Cygwin, which I've looked at and thrown my hands up at - if it's supposed to be MS Windows, the let it _be_ MS Windows; and then you've got the DJGPP+RXNT combo - I've only ever fooled around with DJGPP. > > Personally I think the "Rules of Economics" are pretty dodgy things. > > There was a guy way back when who argued that since natural resources were > limited, the supply would be going down as the world demand went up. Thus > by the "Rule of Economics" natural resources commodity prices should have > been rising steeply for the last many years. He bet that the Law of Supply > and Demand was going to get clobbered on that one. > > He _heavily_ won his bet, they have been dropping year on year for many > years. > > Only now as we near "peak oil" has this changed. Massive governmental intervention always screws things up. > > You see, the rules of economics are very short sighted and subject to many > iff's and but's. It's an ecosystem, like everything else, and rats in a cage with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of food does as well. Wesley Parish > > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > New Zealand > > Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. > > "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong > later." > > From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
