Bias And Opinion In Tech And In Life

摘要

I recently received a fairly critical e-mail that began with an eyecatching and eyebrow-raising subject line: "Bait and switch?" The reader who sent the e-mail appeared to be quite disappointed because of my recent cover story (Reference 1). In the article, I wrote about visualization instead of covering hardware-specifically, CPU-instruction-set-emulation, which is the topic he was interested in. He was frustrated despite the fact that my article's title began with the word virtualization, not emulation.rnTo be fair, the first draft of the article included a sidebar in which I'd explic- itly directed readers to the Brian's Brain blog, where they'd find a post on emu- lation, among others. The sidebar was cut at the last minute due to limited available space. Perhaps, had the sidebar survived the editing process and had he seen it, the reader would have been less disappointed. Then again, he admitted that he didn't make it past the first paragraph of my article.rnAs I shook my head with bemuse-ment and other emotions at this reader's narrowly focused agenda, thought back to one of the top sessions I attended in October at the Audio Engineering Society Convention. The panel session, titled "Engineering Mistakes We Have Made in Audio," featured several well-known hardware and software technical experts.