Um... if they can get Windoze Update to go off to their web site and bugger up my system whenever it feels like it, surely they can have it download a new virus pattern file at the same time?
Well, up here in Leicester we got around 93% coverage, and I'm lucky enough to live in a south-facing flat on the top floor. I constructed a couple of pinhole cameras and got great viewing right up to the last minute - and just as I announced "It's over", the first cloud in two and a half hours obscured the sun!
Anybody nostalgic for Blue Peter can check out my pinhole camera designs in case they want to get ready for the next one in 2081 CE.
I rather be writing software that has low expectations (such as games, web sites, etc)for which we have greater freedom to express our ideas.
Meanwhile, back in TRW...
I used to be a games developer, now I'm a website developer. If your game crashes on the MD (CEO in the States?) two days before delivery date, you'd better forget about seeing your bed anytime soon. And if your website loses customer orders for as little as a hundred quid (tr: bucks), you've got a lot of explaining to do.
The simple fact is that badly or undesigned code is a pain. Ever tried debugging 1000 lines of somebody else's uncommented 8086 assembler knowing that the man with the money for this month's wages is calling back in half an hour?
(And BTW, that's another downside to working for a small company where nobody is organised - it probably means the boss isn't either, and he's got to get the cash coming in.)
Well, I kept telling my boss this was the route we should follow, but he just wouldn't listen.
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Dick Pountain, a long-standing computer industry commentator in the UK, has some comments in his column in the latest issue of PC Pro in which he draws interesting analogies between genetics and operating systems. Specifically, he suggests compiling a piece of Linux kernel which works and whose purpose is well understood, and patching it into a copy of Windoze 95. Even if Windoze runs, one day something awful is going to happen to the system... and surely the same implications are present for genetics (even without species crossover).
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Um... if they can get Windoze Update to go off to their web site and bugger up my system whenever it feels like it, surely they can have it download a new virus pattern file at the same time?
Anybody nostalgic for Blue Peter can check out my pinhole camera designs in case they want to get ready for the next one in 2081 CE.
Meanwhile, back in TRW...
I used to be a games developer, now I'm a website developer. If your game crashes on the MD (CEO in the States?) two days before delivery date, you'd better forget about seeing your bed anytime soon. And if your website loses customer orders for as little as a hundred quid (tr: bucks), you've got a lot of explaining to do.
The simple fact is that badly or undesigned code is a pain. Ever tried debugging 1000 lines of somebody else's uncommented 8086 assembler knowing that the man with the money for this month's wages is calling back in half an hour?
(And BTW, that's another downside to working for a small company where nobody is organised - it probably means the boss isn't either, and he's got to get the cash coming in.)
Well, I kept telling my boss this was the route we should follow, but he just wouldn't listen.
Dick Pountain, a long-standing computer industry commentator in the UK, has some comments in his column in the latest issue of PC Pro in which he draws interesting analogies between genetics and operating systems. Specifically, he suggests compiling a piece of Linux kernel which works and whose purpose is well understood, and patching it into a copy of Windoze 95. Even if Windoze runs, one day something awful is going to happen to the system... and surely the same implications are present for genetics (even without species crossover).