Comment It could be worse... (Score 1) 355
Me: *digging in fridge looking for a midnight snack*
MS Clippy: Uh oh! It looks like you're about to go off your diet again! Would you like help with that?
Me: *digging in fridge looking for a midnight snack*
MS Clippy: Uh oh! It looks like you're about to go off your diet again! Would you like help with that?
In some instances, and I can fathom just a few - mostly in regards to 32-bit time-stamp bugs, end of life is acceptable; this product should no longer be in service. Given enough time, a bug of convenience will throw the entire system out of whack. Said bugs of convenience are put in place by developers who cannot fathom the system being in use after the year 2106 (or 2038) or the entire flash memory module will fill up or the EEPROM will finally see 100,001 write operations.
But in others, I'm finding it hard to justify. There are many industries where "it's worked for years and we're not going to change it" is the modus operandi. In manufacturing operations, like a paper mill I worked in, many times the individual embedded systems don't have to be complicated; they have one job and they just have to do it right. In fact, they'll often employ the same out-dated desktop and servers on isolated networks for over 15 years simply because it's still working and there's no pressing need to change.
So, in some instances yes, sure, let's give the poor chips a dignified rest. But I'd really rather not find out that a when the warranty on a pace-maker goes ou...
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Why, Internet? Why?
I would recomment a 3 year stint in embedded for app programmers. You'll be shocked how sloppy you are, and, more importantly, how needlessly sloppy. Many techniques can be incorporated without slowing down the freewheeling development much at all.
Somebody mod that guy up.
It just made me poor.
Wouldn't this be a bit easy to hack? Just blast a diabetes patient with radio waves, instant insulin overdose, nobody will know what happened. Perfect murder.
Mod this guy up. I was thinking the same thing when I first read this.
Back when he was in office, I asked my mother what she thought of Bush.
She replied that if she knew the things he did, she probably couldn't sleep at night.
That gave me a new appreciation of the man.
You, sir, should read this.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/217283/top_15_kinect_hacks_so_far.html
Will it play Farmville?
Have YOU tried Dia?
It has great features, but doesn't feel very polished as a program. When in Linux and don't have only minimal needs, I'll use Dia or LibO Draw. (I actually prefer Draw in that instance - even if it can't natively do UML.)
Seriously, Jobs. Xerox. Freaking. Xerox.
called Texas.
Yeah, about $1000.
Guys, remember the Internet Explorer anti-trust controversy?
*long awkward pause*
They. Are. Not. Going. To.
And even if they did, so what? Seriously, this is frickin' Slashdot. All of you either build your own machines or own Macs.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.