Comment Re:Declared underweight? (Score 1) 361
Every system failed at the human factor. If it wasn't for humans, we could all have really well working communism too!
Every system failed at the human factor. If it wasn't for humans, we could all have really well working communism too!
7000 containers sounds like a real lot, until you put it into perspective. 10,000 containers get washed overboard annually. Each and every year. And very obviously nobody gives half a shit about it. Losing those 10,000 containers each and every year is apparently still much cheaper than working out something to keep them from going under.
7,000 more is just, well, more cost of operation. That it costed a container ship is unfortunate. For the shipping carrier, that is, but I doubt anyone of those owning the contents of the containers really cares.
Companies are not different to people. "Why should I hold back, he overloads his container too!"
Not to mention "And if I don't overload it, I'm at a disadvantage".
Well, he's gotta compensate somehow...
Duuuuuude, can you imagine him on weed? He's gotta be aaaawesome!
The problem is, what could they have pushed in 7 that would have made it a success in the office market? Even in 2004 it would have sunk.
XP is, has and offers everything the office environment wants. Does printers out of the box, does networking out of the box, does WiFi out of the box, does USB out of the box... What does 7 offer more than XP? Aside of graphic gimmicks the average CFO brushes aside before you're done saying "graphics gimmicks"?
The main changes with 7 are not where the average user would see them.
Sales drone: Umm... there are improvements in security and a few things are done easier now.
CFO: Ok, for both things I have an IT department, they should do some work for their dough. Next?
Sales drone: Umm... well, graphics gimmi
CFO: GTFO!
Another thing that broke 7s neck was the browser. Yes, IE. There are various sites, various very expensively done sites, mostly internal sites, that rely on "features" (read: bugs) of older IE versions which invariably breaks them with newer IE versions. Want to use IE6 with Win7? Weeeeeelllllll... technically it is possible. But MS made it about as hard as it can possibly get to work out a way. Now, why should the average company that has such an expensive and hardly portable cludge running move to an OS that not only costs them money, but also costs them manweeks if not -months to bring it up to compatibility again?
And I say it again, without ANY reasonable benefit to them.
tl;dr version: XP was too good. It's all any normal office will need until some new and must-have hardware comes along.
It's the ship's master that needs the info. Loading a container ship is complicated. There's a stability calculation that has to be performed for large container ships, and software to do it. A loading plan has to be created. You don't want the empties on the bottom, or all on one side, or all at the ends. Stability has to be maintained during loading and unloading. Here's a Maersk ship which capsized at the dock while being loaded.
because it assumes an active, competent administrator is thinking and making decisions
I rely on Tom Lane being awake at 4am or whatever to help fix some rare weird Postgresql error
his handlers never watched the first Iron Man movie.
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If he didn't try it, but relied on underlings telling him that it was good, then shame on him.
If he tried it, realized how bad it was, but let it go out anyway because usability was less important than some other agenda--forcing developers into writing apps that would work on Windows Phone 8, maybe--then shame on him.
If he tried it and he thought it was good, then shame on him.
Bromma, which makes the "spreaders" which grab containers at 97 of the top 100 ports, now offers a solution. Their newer spreaders weigh the container as it's being lifted on to or off of the ship. Accuracy is within 1%. The container crane knows where the container is being placed on the ship, so weight and balance information for the whole ship is collected.
It's being installed in Los Angeles now, London next, and can be retrofitted to existing Bromma spreaders. So there's a technical fix to this almost in place.
This looks like it might be a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the part about "exceeds authorized access". File a criminal complaint with the FBI.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.