Comments on: Excess packaging with software http://blog.seb.me.uk/2009/05/21/excess-packaging-with-software/ thoughts. ideas. ponderings of an internet entrepreneur Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:23:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Hunt http://blog.seb.me.uk/2009/05/21/excess-packaging-with-software/comment-page-1/#comment-5523 John Hunt Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:22:28 +0000 http://blog.seb.me.uk/?p=45#comment-5523 Aaah. That's nothing. HP seem to be repeat offenders at that: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/23/enormouse/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/hp_packaging/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/21/more_hp_packaging/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/opteron_outrage/ Aaah. That’s nothing. HP seem to be repeat offenders at that:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/23/enormouse/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/hp_packaging/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/21/more_hp_packaging/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/opteron_outrage/

]]> By: Paul Doust http://blog.seb.me.uk/2009/05/21/excess-packaging-with-software/comment-page-1/#comment-5489 Paul Doust Fri, 29 May 2009 06:56:44 +0000 http://blog.seb.me.uk/?p=45#comment-5489 In the pre Visual Studio days, I'm pretty sure that Microsoft's first C/C++ complier came on the 3.5" disks. In one sense, the fact that so much storage is available on DVD's in a pity, because it encourages people to be verbose and include lots of unnecessary stuff. I think it was Sir Winston Churchill who insisted that his ministers should précis topics onto a side of foolscap paper for him to digest. If software writers had to précis their work onto a few 3.5" disks, then our hard disks wouldn't be filled up with garbage that never gets used! Paul In the pre Visual Studio days, I’m pretty sure that Microsoft’s first C/C++ complier came on the 3.5″ disks. In one sense, the fact that so much storage is available on DVD’s in a pity, because it encourages people to be verbose and include lots of unnecessary stuff. I think it was Sir Winston Churchill who insisted that his ministers should précis topics onto a side of foolscap paper for him to digest. If software writers had to précis their work onto a few 3.5″ disks, then our hard disks wouldn’t be filled up with garbage that never gets used!

Paul

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