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. _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglinemarch07 moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
