> Darren New wrote:
>> I'll disagree with this one too. In some areas, software is like that. 
>> Not in all fields, however. When's the last time your DVD player crashed?
> 
> DVD player? Actually never.
> 
> [It does, however, fail to correctly play a number of DVDs that play 
> perfectly OK in other players. And it was NOT a cheap player, by any 
> stretch of the imagination. Panasonic too.]

In my and my uncle's experience, cheap players cope with crappy (and 
pirated) DVDs better than expensive and good-brand ones!

> My MP3 player? Roughly once every 4 days. (And it HURTS when it crashes!)
> 
> Then I took the firmware supplied by the people who designed and built 
> the device and replaced it by something written by a bunch of Internet 
> heads in their spare time who didn't even have access to the design 
> specs. And you know what? It has about 4x the functionallity, and it 
> never, ever, under any circumstances, crashes.
> 
> Does that not seem wrong to you? That a bunch of guys in their spare 
> time could do a better job than the people you paid money to?
> 

What player is it? Is the firmware Rockbox? :)

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