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Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 6, 2008 13:11 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)
Parent article: Quotes of the week

A hardware/software codesign engineer of
my acquaintance once said "Hardware engineers
put capabilities into chips. Driver writers 
take them out"

--dave


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Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 6, 2008 13:17 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

This also works if you s/capabilities/bugs/.

Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 6, 2008 15:15 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]

Bugs are just capabilities you haven't yet figured out a use for.  ;-)

Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 6, 2008 17:55 UTC (Thu) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

Hehe, just like some programmers at my job often tell me: "it's a feature, 
not a bug" ;-)

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