Hardware Horrors that Firmware Upgrades Would've Fixed?

Anonymous Coward writes "I just started working for a startup that is developing a new product, which is going to have software bundled with hardware. Our company outsourced the hardware and firmware development. I reviewed the hardware product requirements and I noticed that the hardware will not support firmware upgrades from the PC. I am concerned that once we ship the product, bugs or interoperability issues will appear in the field and we won't have anyway to fix the problem short of a product recall. I have some of the management team convinced we need to change this requirement but not the person who has the authority to make the change. I'm looking for examples of past companies that got bit by a similar mistake and any other items that will help me convince the decision maker." Nobody is perfect, so why do we assume that we can design hardware that is? If it's one thing that our current experiences with software have shown it's that sometimes, an applications may take more than one version before it is perfect. Before, our ability to change hardware coding made getting perfect products out the door important, because recalls were expensive. Today, we have smarter hardware, which can be relatively simple to update. The cost of recalls, however, have not changed. So for what reason would a hardware company balk at making the need for a recall a thing of the past?

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Linux for Fags

[Serial Troller]

Let's examine this "Linux" thing very carefully. An OS made by a man who likes to rape people with his MONOLITHIC KERNEL, and other such sick devices such as his MODPROBE. Linus Torvalds should be lynched. And don't forget his partners, of course -- ANAL COX, a man whose very name obviates his deviant sexuallity! Then, there's Eric S. Raymond, a man who has a GUN FETISH to make up for his LACK OF COCK, who goes around shoving guns up people's asses for fun and profit. Finally, there's old Richard M. Stallman himself, who's been known to rape Windows users in truck stops for not submitting to his GNU/Fellatio. Then Slashdot reports on this as if it's news! Fucking SLOP is what it is!!

Disgusting bunch of LINUX FAGS is what they are!