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Doing the Hard Part

A conversation I just observed:

Project Manager: Have you finished building that new car yet?

Engineer: Yeah.  It's basically done.

Project Manager:  Well, there's no emergency brake.  And the fuel gauge doesn't work.  And you can't replace the air filter - it's super-glued in.  And the duct tape that's sealing the exhaust system isn't going to last long.  And there's nothing here to keep the driver from shifting to reverse while they're going forward at 90mph.

Engineer: Yeah.  But it starts and got me around the test track once.

Making things work is the easy part of my job.  Making them work right and fail gracefully is the hard part.

Don't tell me that the job is basically done when the hard part is still undone.

WiMax vs. WiFi

Ok, ok. I admit it: I'm a computer neophyte. I have barely mastered the keyboard, but I still pretend that I know more than I do.

Thus, I am turning to my resident techonologists to ask:

What do you know about this WiMax technology? Is it everything this article seems to suggest? Is it going to crush Earthlink's Wireless Philly/SanFran/Anaheim/etc. and all other municipal Wi-Fi projects? Or will something better come along to replace it before it gets started (the residential broadband problem)?

Just curious.

Article credit: The Road to WiMax, from businessweek.com

You knew it was coming...

...maybe you weren't slow on the uptake like me, and already knew it was here.

Link: Google Calendar.