On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:00:11PM +, Andy Wardley wrote:
>
> It doesn't have to be all bad. I'd rather pay 10p to listen to a CD once
> than pay 15 quid to buy it, find out it's shit, and then only ever listen
> to it once.
Except that I suspect it would be more like 100p - and even tho' I
On 1 Feb 2002, Mike Jarvis wrote:
> Moore will save us. We're at what, 2Ghz Intel chips now? When it hits
> 16Ghz many of today's apps will run properly. Of course MS will have
> built 5 more layers on top of everything by then, making sure
> application responsivness stays constant at best.
Do
From: "Mike Jarvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The scary thing is that the people who *pay* programmers like it when
> somebody tells them, "look! pointy clicky! no thinking!"
I actually remember when M$ marketed Windoze as an operating system for
managers, so that programmers could get on with the r
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:00, Andy Wardley wrote:
> uhm, 3 good reasons I can't rant about off the top of my head:
>
> * No-one really knows how to do the component thing properly.
> COM isn't it, DCOM isn't it, .NOT? .NOT! Talking about the
> fine granularity of software components
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:23:02AM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
> I will be dragged kicking and screaming towards any system that makes me pay
> per listen to a new CD.
It doesn't have to be all bad. I'd rather pay 10p to listen to a CD once
than pay 15 quid to buy it, find out it's shit, and the
