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as they said at nasa: simple, faster, cheaper choose two Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Which occurred during the Golden era (daniel golden) > of cheaper, simpler, faster. They tried to XP > a complex craft and made a bad mistake in the > rush. > > Oopsie. > > The shuttle has five computers. Computers > don't help if you launch with ice hanging off > engines with exposed creases sealed with rubber. > > Oopsie. > > Simplicity is good by itself. Speed is good > if you are in a safe passage. Put them together > and pray your luck hopes outs. If it doesn't... > oh well. Hit the wall and let your family > wish you had a harness on at the funeral. > > Oopsie. > > XP has been tried. It has its problems too. > The big one is: competence. To get around > that, QA. Failover to another system. > > QA is not a good practice; it is an absolute > cost of doing business. > > Len > http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard > > Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. > Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny@p...] > > > > I thought NASA had it pretty well sussed with the computers on the shuttle > (this might be apocryphal) - 3 systems running, if two agree then that's > your answer. But then of course there was that business about metric and > imperial units on the way to Mars... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... -- David DS Barnes MED | Imperial College | Exhibition Rd | London sw7 2bx t/f:0207 594 7181/7127 tap vein, mine deep, share gold
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