if you're coding for cheap oriental novelty goods when the net result of a bug is you have to take the batteries out
then I agree. I have to deal with buggy software releases that regulate a system which has the potential to cost millions in warranty, cause safety-related issues and have the capability to destroy the hardware it is supposed to be controlling- not just temporarily lose someone's e-mail folder or make LEDs blink green-red instead of red-yellow. So... your complaint may be valid but in some cases all that extra apparatus and accountability is neccessary.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 12:55, Reply)