mattox82

The days of physical software bought in stores are numbered

if your buying music software you need to download a demo and test it before making a purchase

Bub

mattox82

The days of physical software bought in stores are numbered

I have to disagree with you on that. The vast majority of people still don't have access to broadband. When you can get broadband anywhere then I'd say different. Otherwise you are alienating way too many potential customers. 

 

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mike_mccue


JClosed said "Well - all I can say is that a lot of people here are underestimating the complexity of software like X1"


That's always possible.

May I ask you... have you considered that a stack of 510,000 mechanical drawings for one project might be equally complex?

510,000 hand made drawings each filled with info and calculations.

What some of us are saying is that we are aware that complex projects are nothing new.





The excuse making is new.

mike_mccue


JClosed said "Well - all I can say is that a lot of people here are underestimating the complexity of software like X1"


That's always possible.

May I ask you... have you considered that a stack of 510,000 mechanical drawings for one project might be equally complex?

510,000 hand made drawings each filled with info and calculations.

What some of us are saying is that we are aware that complex projects are nothing new.



The excuse making is new.

If a team sitting in a HVAC office in nice comfortable chairs can't nail down the details of a software product they are developing... it is not because their vocation is more complicated than all the other vocations. It's because they operate to a standard that isn't the norm out in the physical world.

Well - all I can say is that a lot of people here are underestimating the complexity of software like X1. There are so many types and versions of plugins, types and versions of hardware etc. etc. that testing for every possible permutation is impossible. The only thing a developer can do is taking a broad testers base, and try to get it right. Testing on every possible piece of soft- and hardware would be very, very time consuming and very, very expensive. I theory it could be possible, but it would take 5 years to write the software, and the software would cost around $ 6000.- to $10,000.- or more. And even then there could be bugs that have to be patched.. And here is when reality sets in. It is impossible to really test every permutation, because it would take years to do so and would cost a enormous amount of money. In the mean time the company has to make money, otherwise it wont survive that long. On top of that new hard- and software is coming out every day, so it is a huge task to keep everything up-to-date. Take for example sandy-bridge. Motherboards using the H61/H67 express chipsets where not even available on the day X1 hit the streets. And as a result some people with this new chipsets are having unexpected gliches, and blaming Cakewalk. The same goes for new software and "upgrades/patches" for the Operating System, and new drivers for hardware. Al these things can have unexpected side-effects. And at last.. There is the problem all software has to be compiled to run on the computer. It has to be "translated" from something readable to ones and zeroes. I have met situations the software was programmed perfectly, but the compiler used had some bugs. The result was buggy software. The developers had to wait until the bugs in the compiler where solved. The makers of the compiler where not aware about the specific situation de bugs where emerging - so they had to rewrite a part of the compiler. Using another compiler in the mean time is possible - but that one has its own set of bugs and "work-arounds", and what to do if your "main" compiler is up-to-date again? On top of that - the compiler is low-level machine code that is more depending on hardware then a high-level language like C++ is. When new hardware comes out, parts of the compiler has to be adjusted, what can lead to a whole new set of bugs.. So - expecting software is bug-free when it hits the road is really an illusion. You can expect that sofware that is running good on 653425662431 possible combinations can do something strange when a user has combination 653425662432. Sure - that problem has to be resolved, but this could lead to problems wit combination 5678443, and I don't even dare to talk about combination 653425662430 (yes I am exaggerating a bit here, but you get the picture).

John T


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OH MY GOD DEAL BREAKER.