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This is why micro$oft stays out of the aviation industry
i have some knowlegde on 777's flight control if it has an electronical failure (on real 777's) the screens will automatically off.
you dont say? No kidding?
WELL DUH! what else are thy gonna display? 1980's pong match where the flight crew use the flight yoke as controllers and have a duel until its fixed? No kidding? powers out so theres no way they could work. kinda obvious? every other plane does the same thing. holy crap
I believe another Navy ship suffered a similar fate while on patrol, though I can not seem to locate that particular story.
Now imagine an A380 or 744 crusing along at 38,000 ft and something like this happens.
Aldo
When I visited the National Weather Service office in Portland, Oregon I noticed that all the computers in the office were UNIX based systems and you did not see a Windows based system anywhere in the office. I asked about this and was told that they were using UNIX systems exclusively for reliability reasons.
Where I work we have been having ongoing Microsoft server problems and our IT people have been working with Microsoft on these problems. Something disturbing that Microsoft support told our IT people was that Microsoft servers should be rebooted at least once a week.
This type of recommendation would not be necessary with a UNIX type of system!!!!!
Same could be said for OSX which is built on a UNIX foundation.
Check out this story from '98' concerning Windows NT and the US Navy
Where I work we have been having ongoing Microsoft server problems and our IT people have been working with Microsoft on these problems. Something disturbing that Microsoft support told our IT people was that Microsoft servers should be rebooted at least once a week.
This type of recommendation would not be necessary with a UNIX type of system!!!!!
(777's don't display that kind of warning when it have an electronic failure)
Now im not the one whos to balme here! Thanks Ifran!
You realy thought that would happen? thats odd, you just said "good ol photoshop tricks" then said "777s dont display that kind of warngin when it have a electrical failure". Oxymoron.
Windows EULA states the software shouldn't be used for mission critical applications. I think ATC was listed as an example, I remember Nuclear Plants were though ..
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