Archive for June, 2007

Unambiguous Definition

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

I found this gem in the FDA Glossary of Computerized System and Software Development Terminology:
“unambiguous. (1) Not having two or more possible meanings. (2) Not susceptible to different interpretations. (3) Not obscure, not vague. (4) Clear, definite, certain.”
Strangely, their glossary does not define ironic.

Sapient Processes

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Have you ever done something manually? Have you ever tried to automate it? Did you successfully automate what you were doing?
If you answered yes for any of these questions, then I’m afraid I’m being too vague– because at least three very different kinds of things are tangled together in a simple answer. In any activity [...]