I make my ringtones myself from sid tunes of games I used to play when I was a kid. That way my ringtone has a special meaning to me. It is pretty loud and annoying, so it has special a meaning to my co-workers too.
Why switch? I use both, XP for gaming and Linux for all the other things at home. At work, we use XP on the desktop (reason being office, obviously) and Linux on some of our servers.
I agree with you on every account. I was merely trying to point out that producing quality software is a team effort. I have no problem with making a software company accountable for the bugs in their product.
Because bridges are not as complex as software. I was not trying to defend the right of software to contain faults, but rather point out that humans (programmers in this case) make mistakes and it is the job of quality assurance to weed out the bugs through code review and systematical testing. A program does not contain a bug only if you can show that is doesn't. So instead of blaming people we should demand better quality assurance.
Blaming people will not solve the problem. Humans are flawed (in the sense that they are not perfect) and hence everything a human does is inherently flawed (again, as in not perfect). Programs contain bugs because they are made by humans. It is impossible to show that a program is free of bugs. One can only show that a program is free of the types of bugs the applied test cases would have found. Since complete test coverage is not possible without (practically) unlimited resources, perfect (as in bug free) programs are a matter of chance.
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The covering up -part was unethical.
I make my ringtones myself from sid tunes of games I used to play when I was a kid. That way my ringtone has a special meaning to me. It is pretty loud and annoying, so it has special a meaning to my co-workers too.
My bet is on the phrase 'x patents y'.
This was even posted on slashdot five years ago:1 1&tid=109
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/02/08332
The links in the summary are broken though.
Why switch? I use both, XP for gaming and Linux for all the other things at home. At work, we use XP on the desktop (reason being office, obviously) and Linux on some of our servers.
I agree with you on every account. I was merely trying to point out that producing quality software is a team effort. I have no problem with making a software company accountable for the bugs in their product.
Because bridges are not as complex as software. I was not trying to defend the right of software to contain faults, but rather point out that humans (programmers in this case) make mistakes and it is the job of quality assurance to weed out the bugs through code review and systematical testing. A program does not contain a bug only if you can show that is doesn't. So instead of blaming people we should demand better quality assurance.
Blaming people will not solve the problem. Humans are flawed (in the sense that they are not perfect) and hence everything a human does is inherently flawed (again, as in not perfect). Programs contain bugs because they are made by humans. It is impossible to show that a program is free of bugs. One can only show that a program is free of the types of bugs the applied test cases would have found. Since complete test coverage is not possible without (practically) unlimited resources, perfect (as in bug free) programs are a matter of chance.
Certifications usually cost money. No money == no certification.
Would you call murder the "theft" of ones life?
On the other hand, murder is also called 'taking ones life', isn't it? *duck*