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Excellent musician.
He did music for another movie "Local Hero", recommended watch.
Very dry, very smooth, very well written.
Quote: "You can't eat the scenery"
Quote: "But he had a name"
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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jmaida wrote: Excellent musician.
One of the greats!
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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"These mist coloured mountains" seems to refer to the Falkland islands if I'm not mistaken ...
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Need to research on that, anyway, thanks for the hint.
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I always understood that Knopfler wrote 'Brothers in Arms' in honour of his father, who had served in the Israeli military.
But (as is increasingly common) I may be totally mistaken,
Cheers,
Peter (another rusted-on Dire Straits fan)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well, WikiPedia says:
Quote: It was written in 1982, the year of Britain's involvement in the Falklands War.
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Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind[^] Some 60 years on, and we're still searching.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I saw them on that tour in Connecticut, sixth row from the stage, right in the center. Awesome show.
Scott
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Record retentive lookers we hear (8)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Pretty sure this is wrong: ORGANISE / ORGANIZE?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Spot on wrong
You got half of it right
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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ANNALIZE - to record in annals.
I'm not going near the rest of it ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yay YAUT - it does mean to record something {evil grin }
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Usually competition is what make greedy capitalist bastards care for their customers. Competition between producers is usually good for consumers.
Although, it seems this simple equation have some nuance to it.... There is a thought that has been nagging me for a while already, it seems nothing short of a huge company (i.e. near monopoly) could produce something as successful (and loved by me, at least) that the .NET Framework... (although, arguably, it was brought alive thanks to the competitive pressure from Java)
Anyway, today I got another product where competition seems somewhat detrimental to the consumer. Video streaming service! Now everyone wants to make one! Existing one have less new good movies than they used to have, and I have to pay x number of subscription to get all I want!
This was prompted by seeing the trailer for "Luck", looks fun, only need to register to yet one more stream service (Apple TV)..
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That annoys me as well - Paramount+ for example. They show one episode of Halo for free on Channel 5 (without mentioning it's just the one) then you have to pay for the streaming service to get more. No thanks!
I suspect that what'll actually happen is it'll boost piracy rather than subscriptions.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Shh... I won't tell!
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OriginalGriff wrote: it'll boost piracy rather than subscriptions. Oh so true, the wife and I have such diverse tastes that it is not possible to get streaming services to meet them, cancelled them all, then Oz blocked the torrent sites, now I vpn to the US and download.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I'm more inclined to think that .NET was born as a copy of Java, if I'm not mistaken they even had to change the name so it did not resemble "Java" too much
(PS I'm not a Java programmer and not saying Java is better)
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Well....it's exactly what I said?!
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I meant to say that .NET wasn't that innovative IMHO
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I agree I compared the original java iText code to the c# port(iTextSharp) and it was largely a case of renaming method names e.g. getFile => GetFile
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Certainly competition plays a role, but with the masses all dropping cable and satellite TV services, channels like Paramount+, Peacock, History Channel, etc., were losing viewers because they had no other medium through which to broadcast.
It's still a better deal than cable/satellite. I subscribe to Prime, Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, AppleTV, and Paramount+ and I still pay less than half of what I used to pay for digital TV from my phone/internet provider (who actually encouraged me to drop it and upgrade to faster fiber).
My frustration is trying to remember which show is on which subscription, and some of the crappy UIs (I'm looking at you, Apple and HBO).
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Super Lloyd wrote: Anyway, today I got another product where competition seems somewhat detrimental to the consumer. Video streaming service! Now everyone wants to make one!
For years people have been clamoring for a la carte TV programming instead of cable/satellite's packages (which mostly consists of bundles you don't want except for the one or two channels you care about).
The way I see it, this isn't all that different. Thing is, if you want them all (even that was even possible), it gets as expensive, if not more-so, than cable/satellite.
Competition is good, fragmentation not so much.
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Last Friday and Saturday Canada experienced one of the downsides of capitalistic monopolies. The Rogers Communications network was upgraded early Friday morning and immediately crashed. It was not resored until Saturday.
Rogers is the sole provider of Interac service in Canada. All POS ATMs instantly became unusable. Customers had to use cash (who carries that anymore) or credit to make purchases. Or walk away leaving the goods on the counter.
Since the ATM network was down, you had to go to the bank in person to get cash. One pundit suggested that many Millennials (and later generations) would not realize that service was still available.
Pearson International airport, the largest in the country, uses Rogers exclusively. Staff and passengers lost their Internet connections. Incoming foreign passengers could not access their on-line documents. They were denied entry until they could find alternative means (remember fax?) of producing them. Some passengers were held on their planes to avoid overcrowding the airport.
No one has an estimate of the damage yet but it is expected to be extremely high.
I'm glad that I still had enough room on my credit card for my weekend groceries, beer and wine.
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Anyone travelling internationally who does not have paper copies of any relevant documents should be refused entry on the grounds of feeblemindedness.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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