Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>
> > Surely the spec writers could have anticipated this? Of course not.
>
> everything has its price. had the spec taken 50 m into account the
> result would have been more expensive, slower, or both, and USB might
> have failed to take off. if you think you are good at directing a
> specification process I suggest you grow pointy hair :)

Given that I have just fallen victim to an arbitrary spec'ing process
I wish I could grow pointy hair.

BTW I was not being sarcastic this time. It really IS impossible
to anticipate everything in a spec. Just ask NASA, who bent it's
own rules, and lost two shuttles as a direct result.

R

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