Even high-end "designer" stuff -- it's not just the cheap stuff at Walmart.
It's the same stuff, and always has been. The only difference is the label. There is no need for quality in "high-end designer stuff" because it will be out of fashion before the defects become evident.
What is your version control system and how are you using it? Your build system? As someone else mentioned, what are your rules for commenting and documenting bug fixes? Perhaps you can eliminate many of these regressions by improving your process (not that regression testing is a bad idea if you can justify the cost).
I can see a gap in the market for "family cloud" appliances - plonk them on your home network, trust a few similar units on the networks of family members, and get the benefits of redundant backups, mail service, etc, exchanging the cost of your privacy for a few hundred dollars.
Good idea, but how are you going to implement it in such a way that the consumers don't actually need to do anything?
Who would want to read documentation that knew what system you were running, or what language you could read, and tailored the display to make it more relevant to you?
Not me, certainly. When I view a document I want to see exactly what everyone else viewing the document sees unless I take explicit action to change it.
...I'm not sure exactly why the EU believes it needs to ensure the "proper" regulation of Internet-based services; perhaps traditional broadcasters are no longer able to control the political opinions available to their audiences and have been lobbying.
Don't most EU members have state-owned broadcasters? Besides, you don't want people doing things without proper "oversight", do you?
I think that if they knowingly take off *all* editorial, but have full log retention of uploads, and fully comply with law enforcement, then they're fine.
I haven't seen the subject law, but I suspect that there will be a "regulator" which will "rule" on individual cases. It will be empowered to create a complex and vague set of regulations such that it will be able to classify any given Web site however it wants. Thus if you are not an enemy of the current Italian government you will have nothing to worry about.
Here is a more politically-correct source for the same story: Huffington Post . It says essentially the same thing but will not induce those painful knee-jerks.
Five seconds of thought, if that, and a snarky one-liner are what constitute good conversation now?
Snarky one liners are what Slashdot is about (that and pointless rants like yours). Only on rare occasions do intelligent conversations occur (always on a physics or math thread).
> An ice storm or a tornado can have your POTS down for days, even weeks.
We've had both, but neither took out the phone. Weather doesn't much affect buried cable. I recall only one outage in the last twenty years. Lasted a few hours.
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...to a paper that assumes that the reader already knows what a cpu is? This article is content-free.
Because you bought the software in the full knowledge that it was shoddy and sold "as is, no returns, no guarantee".
It's the same stuff, and always has been. The only difference is the label. There is no need for quality in "high-end designer stuff" because it will be out of fashion before the defects become evident.
What is your version control system and how are you using it? Your build system? As someone else mentioned, what are your rules for commenting and documenting bug fixes? Perhaps you can eliminate many of these regressions by improving your process (not that regression testing is a bad idea if you can justify the cost).
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> why can't they keep backups?
It is quite possible to lose data despite backups.
> Is ePDFview in the Debian repos?
Yes.
...medicine and biochemistry. In some of them 95% confidence is considered utterly inadequate.
Good idea, but how are you going to implement it in such a way that the consumers don't actually need to do anything?
> Thats a huge advantage given the number of idiots out there.
Right. Recall that Apple products are for "the rest of us". Who do you think he meant by that?
> You gets what you pays for.
No you don't. proof: people buy Microsoft products.
Not me, certainly. When I view a document I want to see exactly what everyone else viewing the document sees unless I take explicit action to change it.
> Why is ANYONE with half a brain still using Microsoft browsers?
Why is anyone with half a brain still using any Microsoft software at all?
Don't most EU members have state-owned broadcasters? Besides, you don't want people doing things without proper "oversight", do you?
Sure they are. Google executives convicted in Italy over abuse video
I haven't seen the subject law, but I suspect that there will be a "regulator" which will "rule" on individual cases. It will be empowered to create a complex and vague set of regulations such that it will be able to classify any given Web site however it wants. Thus if you are not an enemy of the current Italian government you will have nothing to worry about.
They already said that he is a politician.
Intelsat.
> ...a genuine news agency.
Which can be reliably identified by a superficial examination of the political slant of their columnists.
Here is a more politically-correct source for the same story: Huffington Post . It says essentially the same thing but will not induce those painful knee-jerks.
> Would that count as a fake rolex?
How much does it look like a Rolex? Does it infringe their trade dress or trademarks?
> ...how did you accidentally find that 'reply' button?
Sheer snarkiness.
Snarky one liners are what Slashdot is about (that and pointless rants like yours). Only on rare occasions do intelligent conversations occur (always on a physics or math thread).
Right. Gases count (at least heavy ones such as sulfur hexafluoride).
> An ice storm or a tornado can have your POTS down for days, even weeks.
We've had both, but neither took out the phone. Weather doesn't much affect buried cable. I recall only one outage in the last twenty years. Lasted a few hours.