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From: James N Wilson
Date: 2012 Feb 9, 14:06 -0800
Lu Abel:
Re computers, I'm the proverbial "end user", quite possibly not the brightest of the genre.
The following is from your post, "As a computer type, I am disgusted by sloppy software. As a businessman, I realize that the public far prefers neat new features to reliability (except in places like aircraft and satellite systems)"
Based on what I've heard from people more knowledgeable than I, on software, Microsoft in particular, most software on the market is GARBAGE, this evidenced by Microsoft's seemingly endless parade of "critical updates", their software being turned loose on the public insufficiently vetted, that is checked for errors and "holes".
As to the "new features preferred by the public" as opposed to "reliability", strikes me that the problem therein lies in and with corporate structures, and their seeming preference for advertising hype, most which being empty noise, to engineering and or real product improvement. Remember the tailfins on cars, and then think on the following. How much of a performance boost was attributable to alloy wheels and "racing stripes" compared to overhead cam shafts(1 or 2) and fuel injection compared to carburetors, and that doesn't begin th speak of handling improvements brought about by "proper suspensions".
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