14th August 2003, 6:00 PM
You'd think there would be a fail safe to prevent a system from outputing more than it is capable of doing safely, and pretty much shafting whatever it isn't able to power.
Then again, Tulsa's main airport, last I heard, has been using MAJORLY outdated computers which networked together still have less power than the average current day calculator, so maybe the accounting department of these power companies, who believe numbers don't represent reality, but rather DETERMINE reality, are to blame.
Then again, Tulsa's main airport, last I heard, has been using MAJORLY outdated computers which networked together still have less power than the average current day calculator, so maybe the accounting department of these power companies, who believe numbers don't represent reality, but rather DETERMINE reality, are to blame.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)