On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:20:07 +0200, LordBlick wrote: > On the other hand, is not very apt programming assumption that the > Internet/network connection and is the primary function of the operating > system > and all remote(local too) services are always present… > Ussually most of programmers schools tels that some smart timeout routine need > to be implemented and message displayed to user.
You're living in the past lol:P:P In fact we had a lot of problems with internet-licensed applications which assume a permanent high-speed internet link. Keep in mind that in italy 384 kbps upstream at home is premium rate:D A small company with 5/10 employees usually has a 2Mbps/512kbps link and we still have a lot of P4s running with XP deployed. They simply don't break:D A few years ago I've seen a PABX accounting box running 3.1 (hint: that software doesn't even run on 95...). No idea on how they manage to transfer the call records out of that box... So, don't trust all the hype on cloud services and all these things, in some countries (and Italy is a G8 one, we're even a rich country:P) even a shell over ssh has severe lag and business PCs have less than 1GB of RAM on average:P Oh and BTW most programmers school don't even teach to check the result of fopen, so you're hoping a lot asking for a timeout (just kidding: maybe they teach it but never seen anyone actually doing that...) -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
