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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:47:39 +0100
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:56:05 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> On 2/9/2011 3:01 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> Yes, this is exactly what I consider as a problem. Crashing software is
>> felt acceptable. Food poisoning was too. Let them have it in their cars,
>> home automation systems, TV-sets and home entertainment systems etc, and
>> we'll see.
> 
> You may not have noticed,

I did! My DVD player crashed periodically. The new one isn't much better. I
have updated the firmware of my TV-set and it still has problems.

> When they don't, many are field upgradeable and the manufacturer
> provides easily applied software updates.

Applause, standing ovation.

Can't wait to start updating the fridge, light switches and the boiler.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de