[Qt-interest] Scaling bug in most software

[Rick Vernam]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 13:26:20 Brian J Mingus wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Brad Howes <howes at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> > On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Brian J Mingus wrote:
> > > I really wish this meme would die. If *everybody* is looking at the
> > 
> > images and *nobody* notices for decades it is not a bug.
> > 
> > 
> > Now that is just plain silly. That is like saying, if *everybody* thinks
> > the Earth is flat and *nobody* notices for decades it is not, then it
> > must be flat.
> > 
> > People *did* notice the problem (read the original posting), someone
> > figured out the root cause, and then investigated where it existed and
> > discovered that a lot of image manipulation software had the problem.
> > 
> > Brad
> > 
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> The curvature of the earth is not inconsequential. This "bug" is. Poor
> example.
Isn't the consequence of this improper calculation completely dependent on a 
particular scenario?  It is quite short-sighted to presume that because YOU 
don't see it as important that NOBODY should see it as important.

Calling the bug a bug regardless of whether or not people notice is exactly 
the same as calling speeding "speeding" regardless of whether or not a police 
officer pulls you over or not.