Comments on: Software Gestation Periods

By: btds

btds — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:26:50 +0000

Next time I complain about how big and bloated Java has become, I’ll just reflect on this posting.

The NetBeans IDE — which includes the Java SDK — is 139.69 MB.

Oh, and it’s free, portable, and (will soon be) open source.

Tim… join the light side of the force… .

By: Iesu no deshi

Iesu no deshi — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:22:33 +0000

Gestational Software…sounds laxitive to me. Stocking up on cigars and baby blankets? The smell of a smoldering baby blanket can’t be good? burning baby barf or downey fluff fired, I can’t imagine tring to market those flavors of cigars. I tried to make and IDVD on my mac and I spent 3 hours of recording and I produce a 3 minute dvd of almost nothing of 2 hours of material I intended to record. That was a frustrating exercise in futility. You know software engineers spend years developing programs and then spend the rest of thier life defending it and rewriting it. I would be afraid to find that God has other worlds out there of botched creation projects that just didn’t go well. I’ll let your mind run with that since you have a propensity to enjoy Larson’s “Far Side” cartoons.

By: Joey

Joey — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:29:30 +0000

…with its computer-in-a-computer abilities…it would be like having a double-scoop ice cream cone in the middle of your steak and potatoes dinner.

A computer in a computer sounded pretty exciting until I contemplated ice cream in my steak and potatoes. Now that I think about it, I suppose that was your point — seems exciting, but uhm, not so much.

tried to copy the ISO image to a DVD, it said the DVD was too small.

I did that very thing yesterday! ugh. Backing up a DVD movie and got the same error. Time to invest in some double-density DVD’s it looks like…

Instead I will refer to them as “software gestation periods”.

Hehehe. You’re such a nerd. You always have been.
and yes, it’s a compliment.