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14 Jul 2025 15:51:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I don't know what's worse ...  
From: andrel
Date: 1 May 2008 14:26:51
Message: <481A0B93.2020603@hotmail.com>
Warp wrote:
> Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>> I thought one that said
>>>   "Social Engineering: Because Humans are still at 1.0Beta"
>>> would be more geeky.
>>>
> 
>> When have we evolved past the alpha-level? :p
> 
>   In software the usual versioning terminology is that an "alpha" version
> is one which still doesn't have all the planned features, ie. features are
> still being added, while a "beta" version is a version of the software which
> has all the features but still lacks complete bug testing (ie. it "should
> work" but there may be still bugs left).
> 
>   I suppose the analogy with people is not all that bad.
> 
Do you think we already have all the planned features now or are there 
new ones still to be added later?


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