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So how did NASA's engineers make this old technology work for them in the rigors of space? Testing. That's what users are for.
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Testing? BS.
From building to testing, the current computers cost more than $1 million each.
Tax payer dollars, tax payer dollars, tax payer dollars!
Yeah, I could put together a bullet proof piece of software for $3 million too. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I could put together a bullet proof piece of software for $3 million too
Some "giv me codezzz, plzzz" would do it for $3 million as well 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Project Maelstrom is BitTorrent’s take on the web browser: doing away with centralised servers, web content is instead shared through torrents on a distributed network. P2P FTW?
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A lot of the software on which the world relies a great deal can be terrible — riddled with poor design decisions if not outright and undeniable bugs. "Only the good die young"
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So so true. The developers focus more on the concept of functionality, processes and money but leave the very thing that was meant to fill the gap between users and workforce...and that is usability. The UI/UX (User Interface/User Experience) is just so poor, so buggy and hindering many users out there to do more with apps and softwares. It's time we redefined this industry before we hit the ground so hard we won't be able stand up again. Users are crying out there everyday about bad designs and how hard it is to view different typographical implementations, tools they use and even color graphics in systems and softwares built not by machines but by humans.
It's time we do something about this, it's time we rebuild the vision that was before everything became so crappy as of this generation.
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Primarily because the software cannot be seen (or understood) by people who have a stake in it - the C- level managers and the end users. It is this intangibility that prevents anyone except developers having a "quality" conversation.
Of course, managers need to have a quality conversation because the source code is a very significant part of the developer's working environment and massively impacts both their productivity and their job satisfaction.
Companies can go to the wall if their big ball of mud becomes too failed* to recover. You could argue that this constitutes negligence on the side of the board of directors....
*KSS substitution
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Fundamentally, clean, well-tested, well-documented, and instantly-comprehensible code only matters to developers.
And THAT is exactly the wrong-think that continues to support the crappy code everywhere I look.
For example, just yesterday, I got a prioritized task list back from my client. Eight items. Where was documentation?
AT THE ELEPHANTING BOTTOM OF THE LIST!!!
Fortunately, because I am consultant and not an employee, I can do what I damn well please, and they have been informed that documentation has been bumped to the top.
And geez, the doc that I want to write is bare-bones on how to configure the URL's and connection strings for the five moving parts of this system (a WPF app, three web services, and a web app, the latter 3 connecting to 2 different databases) so that I can set up, say, a VM that runs all this on one system.
In the long run, it'll save me time (my primary motivation) and it'll save them money (my secondary motivation.) But noooo, documentation was put at the bottom of the list.
Marc
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Wix# (WixSharp) is a deployment authoring framework targeting Windows Installer (MSI). Wix# allows building complete MSI setups from a deployment specification expressed with C# syntax. Because the world needed another installer builder (no, seriously, it did)
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A French group of publishers, including top names such as Microsoft and Google, are planning to sue developers of ad-blocking software because of the impact that their solutions have on their web-based solutions. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
modified 10-Dec-14 13:32pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Alas, few ever get past the first step with me.
When they do, they always get stuck on step 2.
Ah well, it's easier that way. 
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How about "AdBlock" - The most popular Chrome extension, with over 40 million users! Blocks ads all over the web.
Google allowed this one and not Adblock Plus. This is simply crazy 
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Message Closed
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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Leandro Taset wrote: would I be entitled to sue them later
All you need is deep pockets!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm waiting for the day when they integrate an ad-bar you can't disable directly into their browsers... oh, wait - I actually don't. This is ridiculous. I mean, why do Microsoft and Google care so much if users block advertisements? The only ones being upset should be the providers of this garbage.
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Quote: why do ... Google care so much if users block advertisements? The only ones being upset should be the providers of this garbage.
Isn't that Google though?
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They make a lot of money from selling advertising space on their web pages - that's why
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Opera used to do that, before they realised how stupid it was.
Up to this point, Opera was trialware and had to be purchased after the trial period ended. Version 5.0 (released in 2000) saw the end of this requirement. Instead, Opera became ad-sponsored, displaying advertisements to users who had not paid for it. Later versions of Opera gave the user the choice of seeing banner ads or targeted text advertisements from Google. With version 8.5 (released in 2005) the advertisements were removed entirely and primary financial support for the browser came through revenue from Google (which is by contract Opera's default search engine).
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The fundamental disconnect is their assumption that those of us who run adblockers would ever:
0) Click on an ad even if it was relevant. or
1) Remember a product/service advertised that way for any other reason than because the ad they used was sufficiently obnoxious to earn them a slot on the viewers boycott list.
Every banner/popup/etc that I block from even downloading is one more that the advertiser hasn't thrown money away to pay for and that won't run the risk of eliminating any chance of my doing business with them in the future.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If I rent out billboard space on the wall of my house, it's not really my problem if the advertisements on there aren't well placed. But if someone plants a tree in front the billboard, then it does become my problem.
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And when you decide a static billboard isn't good enough, and replace it with a 1.21gigawatt projector and a huge set of speakers that go to 11 and aim both to blast through my window when I'm doing something else it's a declaration of war and I won't be taking prisoners.
I don't know where the revenue model for the web is going to end up; but the barrage of video, talking, animated, content blocking, and seizure flashing banners/etc that elephanting advertiscum have been spraying all over the place are so far beyond the pale that they're not the answer. My blocking filters are entirely selfwritten; every banner host that's blocked and every page that's had all it's ad divs blocked has gotten on the list for disrupting my ability to do whatever I was on the site to do.
Ads that don't do that, like say the text banner in my gmail account, still get through.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I hear you, but the point was that it's not the advertisers themselves that decided to sue.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Erm...no.
Then you lose.
Marc
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Eric Schmidt wants you to know that robots are your friend. "Seasons don't fear the reaper. Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain"
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You know I hate to ask but, are 'friends' electric?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
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