Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter 441
Gogo Dodo writes "According to the Cincinnati Post, the Comair system crash was caused by an overflowed 16-bit counter. Perhaps Comair should have paid for the software upgrade to MaestroCrew." You heard it here first...
Forget Y2k... (Score:5, Funny)
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
actually... (Score:2, Funny)
So after Y2K is this ... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeahhhhhh! Mmmmmmkay!
Did you get that memo?
Re:Comair? (Score:2, Funny)
Wasn't it Nic Cage? (Score:2, Funny)
Let's try to remember (Score:5, Funny)
Don't mod me up. Mod up the Zucker brothers. (Score:4, Funny)
When the shuttle on the screen blows up, and is accompanied by a very loud explosion sound outside the building, the kid looks sheepish and sneaks away.
Re:From Another article... (Score:5, Funny)
You arent by any chance the original developer of this software?
It's times like this... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wasn't it Nic Cage? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:98 (Score:1, Funny)
ComAir Now Hiring IT People (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let's try to remember (Score:2, Funny)
What about two of those little baggage carts crashing in the arrivals area? Surely that's even less traumatic?
I did RTFA (Score:3, Funny)
First paragraph. I had just forgotten about it by the time I got to the *end* of the article. 6am + ADD - caffeine = me missing that bit. My bad.
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Re:Maybe it had "worked just fine" for them? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:98 (Score:1, Funny)
We're working on a solution. Right now we've just started to dangle shiny things in front of the imbecile fanboys to distract them; we've called them "Gentoo" and "Unbuntu". That way most of the uninformed and downright wrong fanboy opinions are becoming contained in small, easily avoidable groups where they can't do much harm to the rest of us.
The next stage in the plan is working out some way of getting them to fight each other without causing any fallout which might damage the rest of us.
Re:actually... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maybe it had "worked just fine" for them? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Maybe it had "worked just fine" for them? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The far bigger snafu... (Score:2, Funny)
If they hate their jobs so much, why don't they just quit and go elsewhere? This "strike" is like pouring water in a sinking ship. They'll be the first to suffer the negative effects. Not only does it damage the company so that it has less money to pay these employees: it also tells the company to do whatever it can to get rid of these employees.
Re:There was a high profile example of this proble (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is he among us? (Score:1, Funny)
Here's how:
"Hi honey, remember when I was complaining to you about how my boss wanted this project done double-time and they didn't have enough programmers because the pay is sh*t, and the testers had their hands tied because of internal politics, and the Q/A department couldn't do their job properly because we had an artifically tight deadline? Remember that? Well, that just came and bit us in the ass."
ahhh, I love my job.
Re:Over-engineer, then optimize! (Score:1, Funny)
Note to self:
The universe is about 100 million millimeters across.