I've been using Skype for about a year now and have been waiting for this feature just as long.
I just downloaded 1.0, bought 10 EUR of credits costing 11.5 EUR including Swedish VAT.
Being midnight in Sweden, I had no one to call so I asked my girlfriend to go into another room to test it with my own phone. The sound quality was very good.
Actually, the first call I made was to my girlfriend (in the same room as the computer) 5 minutes earlier before I told her about it. I turned down the computer sound so she couldn't hear that I was calling. When she answered I turned up the sound so she could hear her own voice echoing from the computer speakers. She got really scared and hung up before realizing what actually happened.
If you can find someone to work with, this will be a great way to stay focused and also speeds up the work a lot (even for people who doesn't have a problem with staying focused).
Try it with different persons and you will also learn their habits and find out who you work best with.
Of course it is bullshit. It's a press release. It's marketing. They wanted people to know who they are and they succeeded in doing so.
If you would have read the press release you would have noticed their business model by the end of it.
Reasoning Inc. is the leading provider of automated software inspection services that help development organizations reduce the time and cost involved in finding software defects.
To "Sit around mumbling about defects, Open Source software, closed source software..." is just part of their marketing. I guess it worked well with the TCP/IP stack study in February, so they decided to do it again.
Just checked http://www.m-w.com and confirmed that Architecting is not, in fact, a real word.
Ok, so where do new words come from? m-w putting the word in their dictionary and then people start using it?
People see the need for a new word (in this case a verb describing the process of building software architecture) and they start using it. There's nothing wrong with that. Then other people start using it too and eventually it ends up in m-w. Or people stop using it and it doesn't end up in m-w.
To start with, all languages exist due to the evolution of languages. New words appear and old words disappear. Nouns turn into verbs and verbs turn into nouns.
I believe the reason for turning "architect" into a verb in this case is because in software development you separate between the software's architecture, design and implementation. The programmer is implementing, the system designer is designing and the system architect is... well... not designing. That's what the system designer is doing. The system architect is architecting.
Ok, not everybody must use that word. You're free to use whatever words you want (at least in my country).
I wouldn't mind using "architecting" whenever I need to distinguish it from "designing".
I will probably never use "marchitecture". And I will definitely never ever use "tarchitecture". However, I don't mind if other people use those words. It's up to them.
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I've been using Skype for about a year now and have been waiting for this feature just as long.
I just downloaded 1.0, bought 10 EUR of credits costing 11.5 EUR including Swedish VAT.
Being midnight in Sweden, I had no one to call so I asked my girlfriend to go into another room to test it with my own phone. The sound quality was very good.
Actually, the first call I made was to my girlfriend (in the same room as the computer) 5 minutes earlier before I told her about it. I turned down the computer sound so she couldn't hear that I was calling. When she answered I turned up the sound so she could hear her own voice echoing from the computer speakers. She got really scared and hung up before realizing what actually happened.
If you can find someone to work with, this will be a great way to
stay focused and also speeds up the work a lot (even for people who
doesn't have a problem with staying focused).
Try it with different persons and you will also learn their habits
and find out who you work best with.
Good luck!
This just feels like marketing to me.
Duh! It's a press release, not a scientific paper.
They are simply saying - look, we found 31 bugs in Apache, imagine how many bugs we can find in your software.
Of course it is bullshit. It's a press release. It's marketing. They wanted people to know who they are and they succeeded in doing so.
If you would have read the press release you would have noticed their business model by the end of it.
Reasoning Inc. is the leading provider of automated software inspection services that help development organizations reduce the time and cost involved in finding software defects.
To "Sit around mumbling about defects, Open Source software, closed source software..." is just part of their marketing. I guess it worked well with the TCP/IP stack study in February, so they decided to do it again.
Just checked http://www.m-w.com and confirmed that Architecting is not, in fact, a real word.
Ok, so where do new words come from? m-w putting the word in their dictionary and then people start using it?
People see the need for a new word (in this case a verb describing the process of building software architecture) and they start using it. There's nothing wrong with that. Then other people start using it too and eventually it ends up in m-w. Or people stop using it and it doesn't end up in m-w.
To start with, all languages exist due to the evolution of languages. New words appear and old words disappear. Nouns turn into verbs and verbs turn into nouns. I believe the reason for turning "architect" into a verb in this case is because in software development you separate between the software's architecture, design and implementation. The programmer is implementing, the system designer is designing and the system architect is... well... not designing. That's what the system designer is doing. The system architect is architecting. Ok, not everybody must use that word. You're free to use whatever words you want (at least in my country). I wouldn't mind using "architecting" whenever I need to distinguish it from "designing". I will probably never use "marchitecture". And I will definitely never ever use "tarchitecture". However, I don't mind if other people use those words. It's up to them.