Royal Pain

[Marc Lijour]

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:45:04AM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
>> I love that quote.  All of them actually.
>>
>> Perfection is a waste of time for us, but I'm not sure it will be for
>> Sony and the QRIO.
>>
>> Give them a few years.  I'm sure they've already got plans for Mars,
>> the moon, and any number of other places.
>>
>> The fuzzy controllers(?) in it are about the most perfect I've heard
>> of.
>>
>> http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/

The site denies me the flash animation.
I have FlashPlayer-6.0-6mdk.

>>
>> (I'd recommend the Flash presentation.)
>>
>> Frankly, I don't know what to make of this "toy."
>
> Well I am certainly happy that not all companies (and programmers) think
> perfection is a waste of time.  Companies that work on automation
> software for trains and subways, and software for air planes and such
> certainly live by a much higher standard (and should too).  Companies
> working on control software for medical equiment certainly should too
> (although there has been a few cases where they didn't, with unfortunate
> results).
>
> If all you are doing is writing a web browser, you can get away with
> being sloppy if you really think that's the way to go, although why
> would you want to?  I think it is more interesting to make software bug
> free when possible and to make it do excactly what it is supposed to at
> all times.  In some cases the specifications aren't accurate enough to
> do that, but you can still try.  I suppose the bottom line is often what
> drives people to cut corners.  Fortunately the bottom line likely won't
> be there next time if a comapny doing safety critical stuff cuts
> corners.
>
> Lennart Sorensen
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