Well, yeah, wouldn't hurt to completely rewrite Windows from scratch I guess. But if that is to improve _anything_, backwards compatibility would be necessarily broken, and that hurts sales.
Same thing for architectures. The thought of running some very, very, very fast version of my 1989 80286-16 with just some extra instructions and other neat stuff is not very comforting at all! Especially considering that it is a product of one of the "fastest evolving" industries ever. Certainly not the most flexible, I guess.
"... The we have done file deletes on the spacecraft before, so we've shown that does work. The file directories have all different names and you can convince yourself that you are actually deleting the right thing."
I am rather glad they gave all the directories different names. If they had managed to do otherwise, I would not go so far any more as to call the thing they have a "filesystem".
Might even be a future news: "NASA integrates first non-deterministic filesystem into space probe 'Hope'".
I just imagined my grandparents coming home from an election, drooling about those funny letters and numbers on the slip of paper they got. Where would they put it? In a lucky case, it disappears behind a cupboard within minutes. In a less lucky case they switch slips with their neighbors because they mix them up with bingo charts. But probably they would just throw it away. So what would be the whole point of those printouts?
IMHO you can not use automata to count votes until you can assure, no tampering with the machines is possible, at least not within a reasonable amount of time (a year? two?). But equally, no personnel involved in the whole process should be allowed until it is proven they will not tamper with anything they count.
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Well, yeah, wouldn't hurt to completely rewrite Windows from scratch I guess. But if that is to improve _anything_, backwards compatibility would be necessarily broken, and that hurts sales.
Same thing for architectures. The thought of running some very, very, very fast version of my 1989 80286-16 with just some extra instructions and other neat stuff is not very comforting at all! Especially considering that it is a product of one of the "fastest evolving" industries ever. Certainly not the most flexible, I guess.
"... The we have done file deletes on the spacecraft before, so we've shown that does work. The file directories have all different names and you can convince yourself that you are actually deleting the right thing."
I am rather glad they gave all the directories different names. If they had managed to do otherwise, I would not go so far any more as to call the thing they have a "filesystem".
Might even be a future news: "NASA integrates first non-deterministic filesystem into space probe 'Hope'".
Some people claim that it also helps keeping their spirit up.
I just imagined my grandparents coming home from an election, drooling about those funny letters and numbers on the slip of paper they got.
Where would they put it?
In a lucky case, it disappears behind a cupboard within minutes. In a less lucky case they switch slips with their neighbors because they mix them up with bingo charts.
But probably they would just throw it away.
So what would be the whole point of those printouts?
IMHO you can not use automata to count votes until you can assure, no tampering with the machines is possible, at least not within a reasonable amount of time (a year? two?).
But equally, no personnel involved in the whole process should be allowed until it is proven they will not tamper with anything they count.