So workstations on an airgapped network can never get software upgrades?

Correct. The system would have to have its airgrapped status stand down temporarily to perform the upgrade. Which is one reason that upgrades on such systems are rarely done.

Yes it is. Otherwise, you would never get a single computer on that network. At some point you *have* to bring something into the area.

Correct. And at that point, the system is not airgapped. It will be airgapped once installation is complete and system sealed.

Sure it is. An "air gap" is a network configuration- e.g. there is no wire connecting the network to the outside world.

Wrong. An "air gap" is a *network and system* configuration. There is no *nothing* connecting the system/network to the outside. If there isn't air between hardware and *any* outside media, network or otherwise, there isn't an air gap.

And the answer is, they are not air-gapped during the update procedure, which thus must be carefully controlled Updates tend not to happen often in such evironments, for exactly that reason.

If you can stick foreign media into it, it's not airgapped.

Except that very few people have the skills to hand-forge such a part, or access to the heavy-duty equipment to set up a production line for it. 3D printing is vastly more available.

I once asked a prof how I was supposed to know which integration formula/identify I was supposed to be using. He basically said "after a while you just know which ones". Because, apparently, there are no teachable rules for this, just hand waving guidelines which are supposed to make sense at some point.

Well, yes. Integrating an unfamiliar type of equation is one of the tougher things to do in math--in fact, most of the time it's not possible to integrate a comoplex equation symbolically, which is why we do numerical integrations.

Doom might be a little hard to find (but not impossible), but you can get Secret of Monkey Island from Good Old Games. It's a remake (still kinda old even so), but very faithful.

If the game industry wants to be taken seriously artistically

Well, that's the problem. With a few notable exceptions, the game industry doesn't give two figs about being taken seriously artistically. They just want to make as much money as possible.

Lame comebacks don't change the fact the OP's claim is not just blatantly false, it is ridiculously false.

Theoretically, it can do that. Practically, somebody has to figure out all the possible emergency options ahead of time, along with how to rank them by desirability, for the computer to choose one. An experienced pilot can reason through his options based on his experience and knowledge of the actual situation facing him. A computer has to be preprogrammed with all possible options and how to rank them by someone who has to imagine all the possible situations before they happen.

Complaining about someone on the internet like this is ludacris

What does rap have to do with this?

A better question might be who is the Internet Association? They certainly aren't part of the internet's governing bodies. Why should we give two cents for what they think or who they give awards to?

The person ordering doesn't necessarily have to be the person driving the car.

The customer also pays the cable company (or whoever provides their connection). Why don't they have to answer to this customer grievance?