Nahum wrote :- "Of the 1.6 million lines of code in the main product here, less than 50% has been written by us"
I must remember that if I ever go for an interview with Payglobal...hehehe... Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: "Nahum.Wild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:20:46 +1200 Subject: RE: [DUG]: WinApi Encryption > > Nahum.Wild wrote: > > > But if you spend more than $100 of your time investigating > > third party > > > encryption libs then which is cheaper? > > > > Depends... > > > > a) how many hours is US$100 for you? > > > > b) will PKZip professional suit you /future/ encryption needs? > > > > c) if, by doing the research, you learn something about encryption... > > how much is that worth? > > I think that it also depends on what your projected future use is going > to > be of the component. If you are going to be involved in encryption a > bit > then of course it'll make more sense to learn about it. But for one > off > uses then buying someone else's effort whilst only understanding it to > the > minimum neccessary is probably a better way to go IMHO. It all depends > on > the situation really. > > I might also take into account what the current goal is - is it to > further > myself or is it to get the product done for the client. It might > actually > be cheaper to not buy, but with the trade off of taking longer to > implement > and test. Resulting in me buying it anyway to get the product done out > the > door quicker. > > And often people just ignore everything and do what they feel like > doing at > the time. :o) > > This style of argument is normaly reserved for 'build it' vs 'buy it' > situations though - and I seem to have deviated a a bit. It's before > 9:30am > so I still not responsible for what I say yet. > > For my situation I'm surrounded by thirdparty components, mainly UI > stuff. > Things like email, encryption, compression etc... we have just bought. > If > it don't work, or behaves funny sometimes, and you paid for it then you > can > go hassle them about it! Of the 1.6 million lines of code in the main > product here, less than 50% has been written by us. > > > > > > Just my two cents worth. :o) > > > > Hmm... if 'a few hours' is worth more than US$100, then by > > extrapolation > > this email too you... what, a few seconds? :> > > Alternativly, is it cheaper to make lunch for one's self in the morning > before work or instead spend the 5 minutes working and buy lunch later > in > the day? ;o) > > It's a stressfull life you know with hard decisions like that to make. > :> > > > Nahum. > > > > > > -- > > Corey Murtagh > > The Electric Monk > > "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!" > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------- > > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
