I mean that's what seems to be happening with these rapid production cycles; they concentrate so much on improving one aspect that the entire product suffers, or at least starts to suffer, from it.
Whatever happened to "Release early, release often"...?
They could easily bankrupt any company that was foolish enough to allow spam to be sent in their name.
Okay. How do you prove that a company allowed spam to be sent in their name? Of all the emails about "Super Viagra" being sent about, I doubt that a single one of the marketers behind them has permission from Pfizer to use their trademark.
Seems to me the first step should be to disable USB on machines which do not need it in the BIOS then lock the BIOS....
Sounds like a good idea. This should keep those crum-bums from stealing data from my workstation with their USB dri- hey, why did my mouse stop working???
Command-line interfaces have gone out of style in consumer operating systems for Very Sound Reasons.
Before anyone complains and tries to refute this statement (too late probably), note that he is not saying that command-line interfaces are totally obsolete -- just that for the average neophyte consumer, a graphical interface provides GREATER usability than a CLI.
Yes, I would never want to admin a Linux server farm without access to a text shell. But most users don't admin server farms -- they browse the web and type word processing documents, tasks for which a WYSIWYG-ish graphical interface is clearly more suitable.
alter table VEHICLES modify column VIN varchar(50);
Oops! The database crashed and we have to rebuild the tables from the original create scripts and restore data from back up.
Hey... how come every INSERT statement for data originating after a certain date is causing an error now?
The data layer supporting larger VIN strings doesn't do any good if the validation routines in the business layer and the form fields in the presentation layer aren't reviewed and possibly rewritten, anyway.
did we really really save that much money when we used 2 digit dates verses 4 digits
The answer to that is easy to come up with now, when RAM is $0.25/megabyte and hard disk space is $0.80/gigabyte.
Just 20 years ago (nevermind 30-35 years ago, when the roots of the Y2K problem ACTUALLY began) RAM cost $35,000/MB and hard drives were $170,000/GB -- as if there were any hardware with that much capacity. Go to your project manager in 1980 and tell him that you want to store dates in a way that will still work when his newborn son is in college, but it'll double the memory footprint of the product -- think he'll agree to it?
We're spoiled by our modern hardware that sits idle 99.9% of the time -- in the olden days, every tiny scrap of performance mattered.
Foreigners could simply obtain SPARC or MIPS specs and fab a multi-GHz version of those.
Yeah! No big deal for them! All second- and third-world countries have at least one world-class fabrication plant ready to crank out superpowerful chips at a moment's notice!
At the beginning of the century you could travel to almost anywhere you wanted to go in the US by rail.
At the beginning of the century there were no interstate highways or airports; not like there were any cars or airplanes around to utilize them yet, anyway.
Rail travel was state of the art then; now it is not, and the amount of capital needed to bring it into the 21st century is more than anyone is willing to invest.
Europe is 3,837,000 Sq. Miles and the US is 3,537,438 Sq. Miles.
Europe's population is more evenly distributed, though. Large cities like London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow are spread apart, because of the geopolitical history of the continent.
In the United States the population density is very high on the coasts, but drops quickly the further you move inland.
we don't have any of the long rail lines like they do in Germany or Japan.
You mean like, oh, AMTRAK?
The United States are simply too big to sustain long-distance rail service. It's too slow with the
Still, even without involving Amtrak, I can make regional commuter rail connections taking me all the way from Philadelphia to Lowell, Mass. I'd gesture to say that in the densest part of the country, the Northeast, there actually is some semblance of what you're thinking of.
The names "Vic" and "Pet" will resonate with former Commodore users, perhaps
I'd say "perhaps" is right.
The C64 is THE 8-bit nostalgia computer for people like me, now in their mid to late twenties. The VIC-20 and PET were old news by the time most of us started keying in BASIC programs twenty years ago; we may not have even known the models existed until years later looking at "classic computing" websites.
I'll just sit back and wait for the "Coleco xADAM" music carrier, thankyew.
We dare you to show us a better magazine Web site (Wired.com).
Wired.com isn't really Wired Magazine's web site, though. They're not even owned by the same people -- when Conde Nast bought the title a few years back, the deal included the magazine, but not the online aspects.
Sure they do... now. Regular unleaded is $2.20 a gallon while diesel is only $1.70. The bottleneck is that VW is the only manufacturer of diesel passenger cars in the US.
Of course you Canadians don't have to fear the CRIA coming after you.
They get money every time you buy a blank CD-R or MP3 player. They don't have to threaten you to get your pound of flesh... because they already have it.
However, with such non-volatile RAM, this is a thing of the past: even leaving the machine unpowered for an hour won't erase the crashed program state...
It'd be easy enough to make it so that it you hold down the power button for, say, 10 seconds, the MRAM will be flushed and the machine will go through its "long" boot process.
If it's in a data segment, your important manuscript may suddenly lose a paragraph or skip a couple pages as a linked list pointer jumps to the wrong spot, or you may find a bunch of junk replacing normal text.
Memory errors could also convert a NOP instruction into a HCF and burn down your house!
A lot of things COULD happen. But when was the last time any of your examples HAVE happened to anyone here? Show of hands? No one? Huh.
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I mean that's what seems to be happening with these rapid production cycles; they concentrate so much on improving one aspect that the entire product suffers, or at least starts to suffer, from it.
Whatever happened to "Release early, release often"...?
This bug only affects Windows 3.0-3.11
Which means it was broken in 1990 when Win3.0 was released, and still broken in 1994 when WFW3.11 was released...
No WONDER BeOS failed!
They could easily bankrupt any company that was foolish enough to allow spam to be sent in their name.
Okay. How do you prove that a company allowed spam to be sent in their name? Of all the emails about "Super Viagra" being sent about, I doubt that a single one of the marketers behind them has permission from Pfizer to use their trademark.
Seems to me the first step should be to disable USB on machines which do not need it in the BIOS then lock the BIOS....
Sounds like a good idea. This should keep those crum-bums from stealing data from my workstation with their USB dri- hey, why did my mouse stop working???
You negotiate and decide on a per job basis. In retail there is no such thing; the prices are set and you are welcome to buy the items (in general)
Hold on... are you trying to say that price negotiations do not exist in the retail industry?
Every try to buy a car from a dealership?
In one scene, Spiderman is leaping and twirling like he's a male gymnast. Then in the next, he has a heterosexual love interest.
Ha ha! This is funny because male gymnasts are all homosexuals!!!!1
Go to hell, bigot.
Command-line interfaces have gone out of style in consumer operating systems for Very Sound Reasons.
Before anyone complains and tries to refute this statement (too late probably), note that he is not saying that command-line interfaces are totally obsolete -- just that for the average neophyte consumer, a graphical interface provides GREATER usability than a CLI.
Yes, I would never want to admin a Linux server farm without access to a text shell. But most users don't admin server farms -- they browse the web and type word processing documents, tasks for which a WYSIWYG-ish graphical interface is clearly more suitable.
Of course, he just had to type "gconftool-2 -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser -s true"! How obvious!
I can't imagine why the reviewer didn't know that.
alter table VEHICLES modify column VIN varchar(50);
Oops! The database crashed and we have to rebuild the tables from the original create scripts and restore data from back up.
Hey... how come every INSERT statement for data originating after a certain date is causing an error now?
The data layer supporting larger VIN strings doesn't do any good if the validation routines in the business layer and the form fields in the presentation layer aren't reviewed and possibly rewritten, anyway.
did we really really save that much money when we used 2 digit dates verses 4 digits
The answer to that is easy to come up with now, when RAM is $0.25/megabyte and hard disk space is $0.80/gigabyte.
Just 20 years ago (nevermind 30-35 years ago, when the roots of the Y2K problem ACTUALLY began) RAM cost $35,000/MB and hard drives were $170,000/GB -- as if there were any hardware with that much capacity. Go to your project manager in 1980 and tell him that you want to store dates in a way that will still work when his newborn son is in college, but it'll double the memory footprint of the product -- think he'll agree to it?
We're spoiled by our modern hardware that sits idle 99.9% of the time -- in the olden days, every tiny scrap of performance mattered.
Foreigners could simply obtain SPARC or MIPS specs and fab a multi-GHz version of those.
Yeah! No big deal for them! All second- and third-world countries have at least one world-class fabrication plant ready to crank out superpowerful chips at a moment's notice!
And I thought UPenn was a party school...
Oh yeah, the major party town of Philadelphia! Those Ivy Leaguers really know how to cut loose!
At the beginning of the century you could travel to almost anywhere you wanted to go in the US by rail.
At the beginning of the century there were no interstate highways or airports; not like there were any cars or airplanes around to utilize them yet, anyway.
Rail travel was state of the art then; now it is not, and the amount of capital needed to bring it into the 21st century is more than anyone is willing to invest.
Europe is 3,837,000 Sq. Miles and the US is 3,537,438 Sq. Miles.
Europe's population is more evenly distributed, though. Large cities like London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow are spread apart, because of the geopolitical history of the continent.
In the United States the population density is very high on the coasts, but drops quickly the further you move inland.
we don't have any of the long rail lines like they do in Germany or Japan.
You mean like, oh, AMTRAK?
The United States are simply too big to sustain long-distance rail service. It's too slow with the
Still, even without involving Amtrak, I can make regional commuter rail connections taking me all the way from Philadelphia to Lowell, Mass. I'd gesture to say that in the densest part of the country, the Northeast, there actually is some semblance of what you're thinking of.
The names "Vic" and "Pet" will resonate with former Commodore users, perhaps
I'd say "perhaps" is right.
The C64 is THE 8-bit nostalgia computer for people like me, now in their mid to late twenties. The VIC-20 and PET were old news by the time most of us started keying in BASIC programs twenty years ago; we may not have even known the models existed until years later looking at "classic computing" websites.
I'll just sit back and wait for the "Coleco xADAM" music carrier, thankyew.
Sometimes people used it to simulate polyphony but mostly it was used to make a full song (ie. 1 osc for drums, 1 for bass, 1 for lead)
Um, yeah. That's pretty much the dictionary definition of what polyphony is.
We dare you to show us a better magazine Web site (Wired.com).
Wired.com isn't really Wired Magazine's web site, though. They're not even owned by the same people -- when Conde Nast bought the title a few years back, the deal included the magazine, but not the online aspects.
innocent until proven guilty last time I checked
That's how it works in the court of law, not in the court of public opinion...
sadly no one in the US wants diesels
Sure they do... now. Regular unleaded is $2.20 a gallon while diesel is only $1.70. The bottleneck is that VW is the only manufacturer of diesel passenger cars in the US.
Of course you Canadians don't have to fear the CRIA coming after you.
They get money every time you buy a blank CD-R or MP3 player. They don't have to threaten you to get your pound of flesh... because they already have it.
However, with such non-volatile RAM, this is a thing of the past: even leaving the machine unpowered for an hour won't erase the crashed program state...
It'd be easy enough to make it so that it you hold down the power button for, say, 10 seconds, the MRAM will be flushed and the machine will go through its "long" boot process.
If it's in a data segment, your important manuscript may suddenly lose a paragraph or skip a couple pages as a linked list pointer jumps to the wrong spot, or you may find a bunch of junk replacing normal text.
Memory errors could also convert a NOP instruction into a HCF and burn down your house!
A lot of things COULD happen. But when was the last time any of your examples HAVE happened to anyone here? Show of hands? No one? Huh.
Now, what happens when the number of seconds since 1970 rolls over the maximum digit for an int?
Hopefully we'll all have graduated to 64-bit or better hardware and software by 2038. That'll give us 292 billion years before the next crisis.