In <[email protected]>, on 12/02/2009
at 11:22 AM, Howard Brazee <[email protected]> said:
>But we do complain about how complex things have gotten, how we have far
>more people working on infrastructure instead of applications, and how
>vulnerabilities have increased.
I complain about how many people tinker with things that they don't
understand, but I don't complain about tools that make my job easier, and
I don't complain about their being too many tools for one man to master
all of them.
>This is kind of wishing we could work on our cars the same way as we
>worked on the 1958 Chevy.
That's one kind of complaint. Another kind is to wish that they designed
cars to last as long as they used to.
>but our cars are better now.
Are they? They're not designed to the same engineering standards, and in
some cases safety has been compromised in the name of convenience, e.g.,
replacing sturdy seat belts with dangerous air bags.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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