Mama Cass Elliot wrote:
> The acceptable standard is - "free of known bugs"!
Hrm.. on second thought maybe we should rename bugzilla glitchzilla
then we can have mathman come along and try to eat Mr. Glitch.
http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/Issues/mn7805/s1mathman.php
^ MathMan was a staple of (pbs) SquareOne many years ago...
whichever way it finishes (glitch eating mathman, mathman eating glitch) we can have
'GameOver' when we get to zero interesting glitches.
too bad, that was already taken (see Slashdot | DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers)
Randall Parker wrote:
> Human minds are not capable of making a product as complex as Mozilla totally
> free of known bugs. Its simply beyond human capability.
> You are asking for something that is beyond what can be achieved with current
> software development tools and human minds.
or with current medical techniques and intuition stuff. Hey they don't even kill bugs,
they just isolate them and save them for future reference.
a never ending game? that's unacceptable, it's even worse than the never ending story!!
irc quotes for prosperity:
<dimo> i've always wondered how long will the mozilla project last.... does anyone
know?
<timeless> dimo: hopefully forever?
<timeless> i've always wondered how long will the earth1 project last.... does anyone
know?
<Bernd> as long as we have open bugs in bugzilla ...
<WD> that's a silly question
<jur> Bernd: which means the same as "forever"
<Bernd> No, if you follow the discussion in n.p.m.seamonkey, only until we release 1.0
:-)
<Jesse> timeless: do you know the address of the bug tracking system for earth1?
<dimo> Bernd: you mean after 1.0 mozilla will be no more
<Alvaro> in my opinion when 1.0 releases the fun starts ;)
<timeless> Jesse: um ... heh ... there probably is a west nile virus tracking site...
does that count?
the answer is: http://nationalatlas.gov/virusmap.html
For reference, earth1 is a (faulty -- it should have been biosphere1) reference to
biosphere2 which is a biosphere dome in arizona, the project failed and is now being
run by Columbia University in concert w/ other institutions. biosphere1 refers to the
planet most humans live on.
tracking biosphere2 bugs:
... 1 Oct 2000 20:50:50 EDT DWIDP "bugs" and inconsistencies are causing me some
concern ... I
found the oxygen level inside Biosphere2 dropped from a normal 21% to 14 ...
www.infinitefaculty.org/sci/cr/crs/2000_10.txt
exceptions:
<Hixie> I'm from the moon.
[most people are probably dead...]
there is an earth2 open source project, don't confuse earth2 w/ it, just ignore it :)
there was also an earth2 tv series, ignore that...
the price of Earth
... bionauts" for a year! Therefore we have a lower limit on the value of the Earth
("Biosphere1")...
it must be worth at least US$200,000,000/8 a year, times 6,000 ...
www.hubley.com/quote/craig-hubley/on/price-of-earth.htm
while there are lots of references to plant extinction rates, i couldn't find any for
bugs. In medicine bugs tend to mutate instead of dying.. which sounds like gerv's
description of bugzilla bugs, except like medicine we try to treat the mutations as
new bugs so that we can keep things clear.
