Only you know, and it’s within your power to see it happen.
]]>I’m a big fan of Barenaked Ladies. (No, Mom, it’s not what you think. They’re a band.) One Week is a great song with the kind of machine-gun lyrics that you have to listen to about ten times before you finally get most of them.
This is one of those really, really good literal videos, and it’s a parody of One Week. If you don’t know the real song, it won’t be quite as good, but it’s still pretty impressive.
]]>(Thanks, Daring Fireball.)
]]>They say they want affordable healthcare and then demand insurance regulation.
But until the cost of healthcare is reduced, then there’s no way to reduce the cost of insurance. The insurance companies won’t operate at a loss, that’s guaranteed. And if the government picks up the slack, then it’s you and me who will suck up the difference. That will only go so far and last so long before the country collapses.
Simply: if you want lower priced insurance, you’ll have to find ways to reduce the cost of healthcare.
Congress should take the “retreat” as an opportunity to do what I said a long time ago: fix the root cause of the problem, and not the symptoms. Examine why healthcare is so expensive and fix that. Then insurance costs can be reduced, or if necessary, regulated.
]]>Unfortunately, he won’t be sticking around to see the changes made that he’d like to have made. Maybe you should ask your Senator why he or she isn’t taking up Senator Bayh’s torch?
(Thanks, Dad!)
]]>]]>That’s also one reason (among many) that Windows sucks. It’s always there, getting in your way, pretending to be helpful but really just pissing you off, like that waiter who keeps stopping by your table asking you if you need anything else, and is everything okay, and how do you like your dinner. When it’s not doing that, WIndows just keeps making you do things in ways that aren’t intuitive, that aren’t natural. It keeps jarring you, getting in between you and whatever it is you’re trying to do. There’s too much there there, if you know what I mean.
Here’s what we came up with, and instead of publishing a new article, I just amended the old one.
]]>I had one minor problem when installing 5.2.12 on my 10.5.8 box, and that is because of a gripe caused by multiple conflicting values in some header files which are both pulled in for the build. If you have this problem, it’ll look like this:
In file included from /usr/include/arpa/nameser.h:59,
from /Users/admin/Installed/php-5.2.12/ext/standard/dns.c:62:
/usr/include/arpa/nameser8_compat.h:304: error: conflicting types for 'HEADER'
/usr/include/arpa/nameser_compat.h:99: error: previous declaration of 'HEADER' was here
In file included from /usr/include/arpa/nameser.h:59,
from /Users/admin/Installed/php-5.2.12/ext/standard/dns.c:62:
/usr/include/arpa/nameser8_compat.h:304: error: conflicting types for 'HEADER'
/usr/include/arpa/nameser_compat.h:99: error: previous declaration of 'HEADER' was here
In file included from /usr/include/arpa/nameser.h:59,
from /Users/admin/Installed/php-5.2.12/ext/standard/dns.c:62:
/usr/include/arpa/nameser8_compat.h:304: error: conflicting types for 'HEADER'
/usr/include/arpa/nameser_compat.h:99: error: previous declaration of 'HEADER' was here
In file included from /usr/include/arpa/nameser.h:59,
from /Users/admin/Installed/php-5.2.12/ext/standard/dns.c:62:
/usr/include/arpa/nameser8_compat.h:304: error: conflicting types for 'HEADER'
/usr/include/arpa/nameser_compat.h:99: error: previous declaration of 'HEADER' was here
lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//ccqI3ov4.out (No such file or directory)
make: *** [ext/standard/dns.lo] Error 1
To rectify that problem, create a file called patchfile and paste the following text into it.
*** ext/standard/dns.c 2009-10-16 18:09:49.000000000 +0200
--- ext/standard/dns.c 2009-12-17 18:10:55.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 56,63 ****
--- 56,65 ----
#undef T_UNSPEC
#endif
#if HAVE_ARPA_NAMESER_COMPAT_H
+ #ifndef HAVE_ARPA_NAMESER_H
#include <arpa/nameser_compat.h>
#endif
+ #endif
#if HAVE_ARPA_NAMESER_H
#include <arpa/nameser.h>
#endif
(I got the code above from this bug filed on php.net.)
Then do patch <patchfile followed by the usual configure/make/make install cycle described in this post (for example). You should be back in business.
While interesting, I think that’s not a really great comparison. While Google may want to be everything Apple is (and seems to be headed that way), Apple doesn’t want to be everything Google is. Furthermore, Steve Jobs doesn’t want to be Eric Schmidt/Sergey Brin/Larry Page/whoever. They might want to be him, but not the other way around.
So, if I had to pick someone that Steve Jobs might aspire to achieve parity with (if he doesn’t already think of himself as being at the top of the heap), it would be Sir Richard Branson.
Interestingly, Virgin is a $9.6 billion company, and Apple is a $50+ billion company.
I’m not exactly sure why I think this. Perhaps it’s because much of what Virgin does, Apple does: entertainment and mobile services. Maybe it’s because Steve is rich enough to begin investing in other enterprises that are closely tied to his interests. Goodness knows, an Apple airline would be an interesting item. Of course, he would never do that because he couldn’t control the whole widget, which includes TSA, in order to make the entire flight experience a Jobsian one.
Anyway. Just thinkin’ out loud.
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