From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23322 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2006 12:58:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 23312 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Apr 2006 12:58:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:58:54 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3JCwq9e006095 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:58:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:58:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: RE: FW: cygwin-1.dll long-time bug In-Reply-To: <009c01c6638b$3f6b04e0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <009c01c6638b$3f6b04e0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 19 April 2006 04:44, Eric Blake wrote: > > > According to Dave Korn on 4/18/2006 12:38 PM: > > > >> [snip] > >> in microsoft's QA dept.... ;) > > > > They have one? What are the job qualifications to become a member of that > > dept, I wonder? I bet even a hippo could apply... > > Yes, actually! Most of their testing is done by dropping hippos on > software and seeing what happens. Usually it breaks. > Then they ship it! This reminds me of the actual testing DEC did for PDP-8 and PDP-11 machines: they dropped a machine on the concrete floor from a height of precisely 2 meters while it was performing some computation. If it continued working at that point and produced correct results, they shipped it. Eerie, isn't it? Oh, and in the words of ESR: "software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry". Just seemed relevant here, somehow... :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"