SNAFU - The industry was founded on unreliable software
Too right, but don't hold your breath.
"issue of software reliability" "the industry has been sleepwalking into a tacit acceptance of unreliable software"
The industry was founded on unreliable software
Microsoft Windows was IBM compatible, yet you needed a graphics accelerator, more memory, bigger hard drive...etc to work with any reasonable efficiency.
Some developers did amazing things to get their products to work, although it often came to nothing as other parts of their software could not over come the SNAFU's.
"Sony Bravia TV takes 10-20 seconds to respond to a key-press on its remote controller"
I can vouch for that - & Bravia EPG in Aus, I can make a cup of coffee/tea and be back before it updates.
Cookies Arrrg too right - Paypal takes your money then refuses to give a receipt telling you to go back set cookies then do it again - charging you for another item, when all it had to do was give you a receipt & exit. To complain you need a 3 part application and a note from your mother.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
