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I'm glad that wasn't just me. I thought my brain had frozen.
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see my other message, but I completely agree with you. If a company hides their prices behind an email or phone wall, there's your sign.
It's a decent tool, but way, way, way too expensive for a code editor. Once you understand the code base you inherited, it's largely a convenience and cannot justify the rental cost.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: If a company hides their prices behind an email or phone wall, there's your sign.
A salesguy I used to work with operated that way. When a potential customer called up to inquire about the price of the software we were selling, he would respond by asking "what's your budget"...
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We have it at work but I don't use it at all. We develop on microcontrollers so we need to use the appropriate suites for compiling, managing the targets and debugging (uVision, STM...) and my coworkers use Understand to have a decent code editor.
I have a lot more experience with VS + VisualAssist though so I use those, it really looks like the functionalities are the same for a lower price point.
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I *had* used this tool for years. I came across it when I was trying to comprehend a rather large base of FORTRAN. It was the *only* tool that actually understood FORTRAN. So, I plopped my $400 down for a PERPETUAL license. Mind you, I am a single/dual person development company, so I have to spend my money wisely.
It does an excellent job, has good support, and the butterfly reports are amazing.
Then it went evil. If I wanted to continue to use it, it was $xxx/year for "support." Then it went utter evil - something like $2k/year for an annual subscription. If you have deep pockets, it's a good tool. I told them to pound sand.
Two keys for me: 1) if you sell me a license to use your software, don't elephant with me for more and more money. 2) There are cheaper alternatives out there (some may be free) if you are working with C or C++.
After thought: had I been thinking long term, I would have generated all of the reports and butterfly diagrams ahead of time. My bad.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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A similar story here but with the hardware end of the software/computer tale.
As you say "plopped" down exactly $3999.99 for a perpetual license and skinned my knuckles for easily ten years coming up to speed with the interface. And what an interface it was/is; more than any user could ever master kind-of-thing PERIOD.
Come time for perpetual license idea scrapped by the company, ackompanying the idiomatic $4000.00/year subscription, subscribing to a new-fangled interface also chocked with more features on top of the last more features (this company has always been an industry big name and has been in the game since software and personal computers were born) ... became a non-sequiter but I had my 64-bit version, even though it ran slow on 16GB of memory. Gungho still and undetered from no more updates/upgrades, computer evolution goes on, etc.
Come limitless amount of memory on a new computer (~ year 15) and reinstallation of the application and 6 months of dicking around without thee driver selectively excluded by me upon start up in order to get the thing to show me the interface (without the ability to "color" anything <gah!>) ... I was ready to toss in the towel.
Now for the hardware part: one day ... as I was waltzing down dingly dell way (tromping through my BIOS with size 14 Sorels on snowshoes and only an umbrella in lieu of a 70lb pack, perhaps because I'd danced through here before and knew better, perhaps not) ... I happened upon the CPU Core Count/Hyperthread limiting ticker. For some reason I spun down the core count to 11 from 32 (approximation; because I don't dick with it anymore since I "fixed" it ... and to make this story less long-winded). Waking back up after a repower on ... I was only looking to see if my box had altered any behaviors, right? And I don't remember why I would have dumped that driver which caused the interface to the app to crash upon load back into the active load folder but I did ... and the app didn't crash!
And I now had "color" and could use the full $3999.99 perpetual licensed ball-of-wax.
Once in a while the interface crashes and even though it's over twenty years old the app still messages me that I can send the crash dump to the developers now. And there's even the comment box that the devs will read; the one where I tell them ... what I really think of this whole subscription idea.
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Some time ago my spouse came home from work (New England Medical Center, hematology lab) talking about seeing a bunch of micromegs in several patient's blood samples. Wait, wait, I said, you saw WHAT!? She was referring to abnormally small megakaryocytes[1].
I of course got tripped up by the meg not being an SI unit at all but rather an adjective denoting small. This got me thinking: Hey, this is a pretty creative combination of prefixes used in a specific way to describe something fairly accurately.
I'll use descriptions such as nanolight-second to measure a distance just to prove my geekiness. But I think that pales in comparison to micromegs.
Does anyone have other examples?
[1] Megakaryocytes are large blood cells normally confined bone marrow. They are too big to escape to the peripheral blood. If they do then you have some real trouble health-wise. I'm not standing on Mt. Stupid saying what that trouble might be because I don't know. And to be honest I'm not qualified to even read the wikipedia article on megakaryocytes.
Disguise the limit
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I expect you know that a milliHelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
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The micro-fortnight: about 1.2 seconds.
Used as a time unit in some Unix systems, IIRC.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The nano-fortnight (1.2mS+) was used as a unit by Control Data field engineers in the 1960s and 70s.
They used 3000-series processors as I/O channels for the 6600 etc.
There was a fixed slice timesharing setup on the channel, and it got round to each device in a nanofortnight.
I'm not sure if it was ever documented as such, but the unit was certainly well-known (in the right circles).
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: The nano-fortnight (1.2mS+)
Milli-Sievert? What does ionizing radiation have to do with fortnights? 
(For those who haven't noticed yet: SI units are case sensitive.)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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We build commercial inkjet printing systems, so measuring distances precisely is important. Our internal measurement unit for length is the micro-inch. We use this rather than the metric micron unit because some of our physical properties like resolution (600 dpi) are expressed in English units.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: expressed in English units.
Being an oldie I still use them. However, the next few generations have grown up using mainly metric, so the old Imperial measurements should probably be renamed American units.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: the old Imperial measurements should probably be renamed American units
This is an example a problem I deal with all of the time as our UI developer. Our industry has been around since the late 1970's, with many generations of products. On a larger scale we are part of the commercial printing industry. The end result is that we have a complicated vocabulary sprinkled with many terms that are to one degree or another synonymous. For the time being, "English" and "metric" seem to be the most prevalent terms for Imperial and SI units, respectively.
The good news is that I retire in four years, so it will soon be someone else's problem  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Have you noticed that for many years, inch (and foot, yard and all other inch-derived units) are derived from metric units? Inch is defined as 25.4 mm, so a micro-inch are defined a 25.4 nm.
Obviously, if your tools work in steps of 25.4 nm, µin will give you integral measurement values. Still, it is a measurement, so in a computer program, I would prefer to use float rather than integers. When teaching programming to beginners, I do not use the terms integer and float, but counting values and measurement values. Distances are characteristic measurement values. But you may want the exact measurement value to have a zero decimal fraction, so it could make sense to represent the measurements in 25.4 nm units.
I have been surprised by how many newer (30-40 years old or less) engineering products are really defined in metric units in the standards, but referenced/described in the US marked in approximate English units (such as a CD being described as a 5 in disk). We do it the other way, too: If you ask for "4 toms" (4 in) planks, or "to tom fir" (two by four) you get the 98 mm width, or 98×48 mm, with hesitation.
Some years ago, the Sun-Maid Californian raisin packs started appearing in Norwegian grocery shelves with a yellow banner across the top left corner: "Now in metric pack". That was no lie: The pack size was no longer half a pound, but 227 grams. It took a year or two before they adjusted it to 250 grams, but then they removed the "Now in metric pack" banner.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: I would prefer to use float rather than integer
In our case many of our computations have more predictable behavior when performed using integral values.
Of course, we convert things to double's with the appropriate scaling for desired units when they're shown to the user.
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