Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:07:09 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: You made me look - http://www.amazon.com/Minder-Wink-App-Enabled-Smart-Tray/dp/B00GN92KQ4 I can't believe it :) Hauntingly reminiscent of: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt ... perhaps even a patent conflict. And somewhere, perhaps in the Amazon reviews, someone questioned the reason for 14 compartments when eggs come in modules of 12. I had simply assumed that allowed sending the re-order notification before the tray was entirely empty. But I do somewhat agree with the shipping culture. I've created some small applications myself for various people, and if you initially ask them What do you want?, they can't tell you. But if you show them something - anything - then they start to get ideas and you can go from there. I have long felt that if only the Wright Brothers had enjoyed the counsel of an MBA they could have become the world's leading franchiser of bicycle repair shops. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development
Ain't just software.
The internet of things is underway, and the same ship it and be damned
attitude prevails. Especially re (absence of) security.
The Christmas Playstation and X-Box attack was launched from compromised home
routers. Behind those same routers is now an array of {un,in}-secured devices.
The future bot of things - toaster, fridges, TVs that listen to your every
word (not just the command to change channel). Even egg trays - I kid you not.
TVs have been the first to make it into the news for leaking (deliberately)
information, but think about your automated thermostat telling the world you've
just left the house
Shane ...
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Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:54:22 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: The examples you give are all software. Indeed. Let's hope people think about the included software when they're buying hardware. History doesn't inspire confidence. Then again, when bodies supposedly mandated to protect national security apparently compromise the firmware of commercial hard drives, what chance do we have ?. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development
In 0269152064501693.wa.ibmmaintpg.com...@listserv.ua.edu, on 02/17/2015 at 05:52 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au said: Ain't just software. The examples you give are all software. compromised home routers. The bug was in the router software, not in the router hardware. Likewise for all the others you mention. -- 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) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development
You made me look -
http://www.amazon.com/Minder-Wink-App-Enabled-Smart-Tray/dp/B00GN92KQ4
I can't believe it :)
But I do somewhat agree with the shipping culture. I've created some
small applications myself for various people, and if you initially ask
them What do you want?, they can't tell you. But if you show them
something - anything - then they start to get ideas and you can go from
there.
Shane Ginnane wrote:
Ain't just software.
The internet of things is underway, and the same ship it and be damned
attitude prevails. Especially re (absence of) security.
The Christmas Playstation and X-Box attack was launched from compromised home routers.
Behind those same routers is now an array of {un,in}-secured devices. The future
bot of things - toaster, fridges, TVs that listen to your every word (not
just the command to change channel). Even egg trays - I kid you not.
TVs have been the first to make it into the news for leaking (deliberately)
information, but think about your automated thermostat telling the world you've
just left the house
Shane ...
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Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development
Too good not to pass to this group. Preach it, Brother! quote ... Quickly getting something in front of the people that will actually use it is a great idea. It means you waste less time building something they don’t actually want. But I look around the industry today and I get worried. Don’t get me wrong – I see brilliant people shipping brilliant, innovative software. But I also see a lot of us using half-baked technologies to shove half-assed software out the door. ... /quote -- Forwarded message -- From: Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:20 AM Subject: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development To: ib...@listserv.uark.edu A good read, imho: http://bitbashing.io/2015/02/16/shipping-culture.html Have a good one, too. --- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 -- He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
