Posted on 02/26/2007 2:47:19 PM PST by SubGeniusX
I'm not either.
But I'll bet those pilots are!
"I probably speak for a lot of the computer programmers reading this thread when I say I read this article thinkng, "Thank God it wasn't my code."'
The hardest debug I ever saw was from Konica. A code writer had mispelled the letter 'i'. He had entered the number '1' instead. It took forever to find it.
You do what for a living?
East-west involves changing longitude.
That would be as costly as losing an attack sub or an Aegis cruiser. Aren't those things like $250 million apiece?
-ccm
Why are you saying that Lockheed is scum?
That was my thinking as well, but I guess these guys were using a geosynchronous sat system that was not GPS, or I suppose thats the inference, and the time signal was somehow linked to the position matrix in the nav system , so that it couldn't do a proper return affirmation signal on the time line? This caused all computers to crash and they were on VFR?
Sounds like a bas akwards nav system that won't work unless all the clocks are synchcronized to local way point time zone progression?
I have a hard time believing that , but I suppose its possible.
After all we must bomb the enemy at exactly the planned local time, not Zulu?
And all the computer systems crashed? Sounds too urban legendary for me. But what do I know, with all the new systems coming on line these days.
Or maybe F22s are also able to engage in time travel?
Just kidding.....
ROTFLMAO!
One of my pet peeves on the Macintosh was that the default monospaced font had "I" and "l" characters that were identical, as well as "O" and "0". Grrrrr....
NOTE ITEMS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787369/posts?page=27#27
WE HAD TO RUN NAV. SYSTEM IN OWN AIRCRAFT ---FOR VARICATION
OVER POLES AND -+ 180 DEGREES
It is very hard to understand how this could get out of the house
I pass by that 757 everyday, I thought that cockpit redo was for the JSF(Boeing Version). Was it for the F-22?
Super Hornet gun kill of F-22
That was in Washington State, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge...
Yep, complete regression testing is an impossibility with systems of any complexity.
As a matter of fact I do... and thanks for talking down to me anyway, as if you don't know anything about me.
I guess since you've had your say, there's nothing left for lowly little me to comment on. I guess the robots that I have in service in Iraq and Afghanistan are of no use whatsoever.
Well, enough fun here. Time for a beer. Later.
Wasn't this the same company that didn't know the difference between metric and British units of measure?
The F-22 Raptor (beta). This won't happen in the next release.
Tacoma Narrows, Washington. Not all that far from Redmond...
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