Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.
There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two. "
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.
I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.
If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors -- security and otherwise.
In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.
I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.
I've passion for software, and Microsoft provide me a true platform.
Impute People DO judge a book by its cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software etc. ; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities.
With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.
This is a software-powered world.
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal. ]
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories. . . Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.
Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.