Software Is Not Like Cheese
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I just posted the following to my blog[^], but I feel that it's deserving of a wider audience (than just me): I just read in a friend's blog that a programmer once said, "Software is not like cheese." I'm a programmer. I've been a programmer for almost thirty years. In all that time, I've never heard anyone compare software to cheese. It's mind-boggling. This warrants further consideration. First, I consulted SpellWeb[^], one of the prophets of the god Google: 9,460,000 votes for software 2,510,000 votes for cheese The Web decides (courtesy of Google) that software is more popular. Well, sure, I could have told you that. But it's not enough. A few minutes of meditation, fortified with Cherry Coke, yields the following thoughts: Ways software is like cheese:
- They can both have bugs.
- They can both stink, though in different ways.
- They can both have holes.
- You wouldn't want your sister to marry one. (Unless it's a big one?)
- There are many different kinds.
- People like to share them.
- The French think they do it better, but they're wrong.
- The more quality control, the better.
- You don't want it if you don't know where it's been.
- They are often associated with crackers. If you know what I mean.
Ways software is NOT like cheese:
- Cheese and Spam is good, software and spam is bad.
- You can cut the cheese, you can't cut the software.
- Cheese doesn't have tech support. Software does, but it's overseas.
- There's no such thing as American processed software-food.
- Software ends with a blue screen of death, cheese with a bleu scream of death.
- If the cheese is bad, you can't patch it.
- Cheese comes from milk, software comes from caffeine.
- You don't go to Wisconsin for the software.
- You don't want to back up your cheese.
- There's no such thing as fumunda software.
So there you have it. Happy Monday. Dave Goodman dgoodman@infoway.com www.dkgoodman.com "Actio sequitur esse."
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I just posted the following to my blog[^], but I feel that it's deserving of a wider audience (than just me): I just read in a friend's blog that a programmer once said, "Software is not like cheese." I'm a programmer. I've been a programmer for almost thirty years. In all that time, I've never heard anyone compare software to cheese. It's mind-boggling. This warrants further consideration. First, I consulted SpellWeb[^], one of the prophets of the god Google: 9,460,000 votes for software 2,510,000 votes for cheese The Web decides (courtesy of Google) that software is more popular. Well, sure, I could have told you that. But it's not enough. A few minutes of meditation, fortified with Cherry Coke, yields the following thoughts: Ways software is like cheese:
- They can both have bugs.
- They can both stink, though in different ways.
- They can both have holes.
- You wouldn't want your sister to marry one. (Unless it's a big one?)
- There are many different kinds.
- People like to share them.
- The French think they do it better, but they're wrong.
- The more quality control, the better.
- You don't want it if you don't know where it's been.
- They are often associated with crackers. If you know what I mean.
Ways software is NOT like cheese:
- Cheese and Spam is good, software and spam is bad.
- You can cut the cheese, you can't cut the software.
- Cheese doesn't have tech support. Software does, but it's overseas.
- There's no such thing as American processed software-food.
- Software ends with a blue screen of death, cheese with a bleu scream of death.
- If the cheese is bad, you can't patch it.
- Cheese comes from milk, software comes from caffeine.
- You don't go to Wisconsin for the software.
- You don't want to back up your cheese.
- There's no such thing as fumunda software.
So there you have it. Happy Monday. Dave Goodman dgoodman@infoway.com www.dkgoodman.com "Actio sequitur esse."
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I just posted the following to my blog[^], but I feel that it's deserving of a wider audience (than just me): I just read in a friend's blog that a programmer once said, "Software is not like cheese." I'm a programmer. I've been a programmer for almost thirty years. In all that time, I've never heard anyone compare software to cheese. It's mind-boggling. This warrants further consideration. First, I consulted SpellWeb[^], one of the prophets of the god Google: 9,460,000 votes for software 2,510,000 votes for cheese The Web decides (courtesy of Google) that software is more popular. Well, sure, I could have told you that. But it's not enough. A few minutes of meditation, fortified with Cherry Coke, yields the following thoughts: Ways software is like cheese:
- They can both have bugs.
- They can both stink, though in different ways.
- They can both have holes.
- You wouldn't want your sister to marry one. (Unless it's a big one?)
- There are many different kinds.
- People like to share them.
- The French think they do it better, but they're wrong.
- The more quality control, the better.
- You don't want it if you don't know where it's been.
- They are often associated with crackers. If you know what I mean.
Ways software is NOT like cheese:
- Cheese and Spam is good, software and spam is bad.
- You can cut the cheese, you can't cut the software.
- Cheese doesn't have tech support. Software does, but it's overseas.
- There's no such thing as American processed software-food.
- Software ends with a blue screen of death, cheese with a bleu scream of death.
- If the cheese is bad, you can't patch it.
- Cheese comes from milk, software comes from caffeine.
- You don't go to Wisconsin for the software.
- You don't want to back up your cheese.
- There's no such thing as fumunda software.
So there you have it. Happy Monday. Dave Goodman dgoodman@infoway.com www.dkgoodman.com "Actio sequitur esse."
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I just posted the following to my blog[^], but I feel that it's deserving of a wider audience (than just me): I just read in a friend's blog that a programmer once said, "Software is not like cheese." I'm a programmer. I've been a programmer for almost thirty years. In all that time, I've never heard anyone compare software to cheese. It's mind-boggling. This warrants further consideration. First, I consulted SpellWeb[^], one of the prophets of the god Google: 9,460,000 votes for software 2,510,000 votes for cheese The Web decides (courtesy of Google) that software is more popular. Well, sure, I could have told you that. But it's not enough. A few minutes of meditation, fortified with Cherry Coke, yields the following thoughts: Ways software is like cheese:
- They can both have bugs.
- They can both stink, though in different ways.
- They can both have holes.
- You wouldn't want your sister to marry one. (Unless it's a big one?)
- There are many different kinds.
- People like to share them.
- The French think they do it better, but they're wrong.
- The more quality control, the better.
- You don't want it if you don't know where it's been.
- They are often associated with crackers. If you know what I mean.
Ways software is NOT like cheese:
- Cheese and Spam is good, software and spam is bad.
- You can cut the cheese, you can't cut the software.
- Cheese doesn't have tech support. Software does, but it's overseas.
- There's no such thing as American processed software-food.
- Software ends with a blue screen of death, cheese with a bleu scream of death.
- If the cheese is bad, you can't patch it.
- Cheese comes from milk, software comes from caffeine.
- You don't go to Wisconsin for the software.
- You don't want to back up your cheese.
- There's no such thing as fumunda software.
So there you have it. Happy Monday. Dave Goodman dgoodman@infoway.com www.dkgoodman.com "Actio sequitur esse."
Dave Goodman wrote: I just read in a friend's blog that a programmer once said, "Software is not like cheese." I believe the mystery programmer is saying that software, unlike cheese, does not get better with age. i.e. - old, outdated software is a bad thing. -- Russell Morris "So, broccoli, mother says you're good for me... but I'm afraid I'm no good for you!" - Stewy
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Dave Goodman wrote: I just read in a friend's blog that a programmer once said, "Software is not like cheese." I believe the mystery programmer is saying that software, unlike cheese, does not get better with age. i.e. - old, outdated software is a bad thing. -- Russell Morris "So, broccoli, mother says you're good for me... but I'm afraid I'm no good for you!" - Stewy
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I just posted the following to my blog[^], but I feel that it's deserving of a wider audience (than just me): I just read in a friend's blog that a programmer once said, "Software is not like cheese." I'm a programmer. I've been a programmer for almost thirty years. In all that time, I've never heard anyone compare software to cheese. It's mind-boggling. This warrants further consideration. First, I consulted SpellWeb[^], one of the prophets of the god Google: 9,460,000 votes for software 2,510,000 votes for cheese The Web decides (courtesy of Google) that software is more popular. Well, sure, I could have told you that. But it's not enough. A few minutes of meditation, fortified with Cherry Coke, yields the following thoughts: Ways software is like cheese:
- They can both have bugs.
- They can both stink, though in different ways.
- They can both have holes.
- You wouldn't want your sister to marry one. (Unless it's a big one?)
- There are many different kinds.
- People like to share them.
- The French think they do it better, but they're wrong.
- The more quality control, the better.
- You don't want it if you don't know where it's been.
- They are often associated with crackers. If you know what I mean.
Ways software is NOT like cheese:
- Cheese and Spam is good, software and spam is bad.
- You can cut the cheese, you can't cut the software.
- Cheese doesn't have tech support. Software does, but it's overseas.
- There's no such thing as American processed software-food.
- Software ends with a blue screen of death, cheese with a bleu scream of death.
- If the cheese is bad, you can't patch it.
- Cheese comes from milk, software comes from caffeine.
- You don't go to Wisconsin for the software.
- You don't want to back up your cheese.
- There's no such thing as fumunda software.
So there you have it. Happy Monday. Dave Goodman dgoodman@infoway.com www.dkgoodman.com "Actio sequitur esse."
Dave Goodman wrote: Ways software is like cheese:* You will always find a mouse around.
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Dave Goodman wrote: Ways software is like cheese:* You will always find a mouse around.
* * * "Good morning is a contradiction of terms." -_Garfield_Bee Master wrote: You will always find a mouse around. Wow, good one! Can't believe I missed that myself. You get some cheese. Dave Goodman dgoodman@infoway.com www.dkgoodman.com P.S. Almost immediately upon starting this thread CP fell to its knees. Was Mr. Server Software offended by being compared to cheese? If this was my fault, I apologize.
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Dave Goodman wrote: Ways software is NOT like cheese:* It does not taste good with Jalapenos
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