In other news: Humans will soon be flying using nothing, other than their own bodies. According to spokesman C. Imanut, "The challenge is going to be creating enough lift using just arms, hands and perhaps ears," said Imanut. "Once this is done, flying people will be common."
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up2date does this for you in a couple of clicks. You then administrate all your server updates at their site.
If cost is an issue and you have an administrator to set it up, you can use Current or NRH-up2date.
With up2date, in a few clicks you can easily apply three patches to 100 servers before Close of Business
At the very least, there will always have to be someone to write the boot code, compilers and the automated software development tools that you are speaking of. Perhaps not for the Pentium XX, because it will be "backwards compatible" with the previous version. But for the latest new line of processor, someone will have to write the very basic to get it going.
Beside that, the large programs (at least the better ones) still get hand coded in essential inner-most loops.
As CASE tools improve, the programming field may become much smaller. But, I don't think it will ever go away entirely...
Surely you're not really that stupid, are you? What do you think you are doing every time you download patches to your MICROS~1 system? It's exactly the same thing. The only difference is that you are hoping and praying that the patch for your MICROS~1 system does not have more bugs than the previous one, or that it really fixed the problem.
If your "bank" were running widespread open source systems, they could hire someone to check any part of the software. If they were large enough, they probably would. They might even team up with other businesses to "certify" a particular system or configuration.
You are suggesting that the "better" scenario is to close your eyes, since you couldn't see the source code anyway, and trust that your MICROS~1 system doesn't have any holes.
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In other news: Humans will soon be flying using nothing, other than their own bodies. According to spokesman C. Imanut, "The challenge is going to be creating enough lift using just arms, hands and perhaps ears," said Imanut. "Once this is done, flying people will be common."
up2date does this for you in a couple of clicks. You then administrate all your server updates at their site.
If cost is an issue and you have an administrator to set it up, you can use Current or NRH-up2date.
With up2date, in a few clicks you can easily apply three patches to 100 servers before Close of Business
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At the very least, there will always have to be someone to write the boot code, compilers and the automated software development tools that you are speaking of. Perhaps not for the Pentium XX, because it will be "backwards compatible" with the previous version. But for the latest new line of processor, someone will have to write the very basic to get it going.
Beside that, the large programs (at least the better ones) still get hand coded in essential inner-most loops.
As CASE tools improve, the programming field may become much smaller. But, I don't think it will ever go away entirely...
Just my opinion.
Surely you're not really that stupid, are you? What do you think you are doing every time you download patches to your MICROS~1 system? It's exactly the same thing. The only difference is that you are hoping and praying that the patch for your MICROS~1 system does not have more bugs than the previous one, or that it really fixed the problem.
If your "bank" were running widespread open source systems, they could hire someone to check any part of the software. If they were large enough, they probably would. They might even team up with other businesses to "certify" a particular system or configuration.
You are suggesting that the "better" scenario is to close your eyes, since you couldn't see the source code anyway, and trust that your MICROS~1 system doesn't have any holes.
History has shown that is not a good bet.