This contains very discouraging interview with Bill Gates. With a decidedly biased opinion piece, but certainly an educated discussion. http://billpalmer.net/com000144.html
The full interview is <http://www.jas.com/shame/shame/focus.html> Obligatory LV content.... Do bugs get fixed between versions. Yesterday evening I looked over the bug list for LV from V 6 to 7.X. There are many long standing bugs, that just are not getting fixed! This is in 4 major upgrades of LV (some I know existed in LV 5.1!). A clear example is the "thermometer units" bug. Now it could be worked around by creating a VI, but it is still clear that it is a bug and fixing bugs in existing software has two drawbacks for a corporations. No glory and no income. References: Item 13, http://sthmac.magnet.fsu.edu/labview/buglist602.html Item 3, http://sthmac.magnet.fsu.edu/labview/buglist610.html Item 2, http://sthmac.magnet.fsu.edu/labview/buglist70.html There are several others as well. (waveform chart drawing, etc). FYI: these have all been reported to NI thru normal channels as well as beta test versions. -Scott (beating the dead horse of software reliability) -- Dr. Scott Hannahs, Head of User Research Instrumentation http://sthmac.magnet.fsu.edu National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee FL 32310, (850)644-0216/FAX 644-0534 Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are easy to annoy and have the root password.
