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To: DaxtonBrown
"8 million lines of code. What could go wrong?"

I seem to recall that in the very sophisticated F-22, there was a programming glitch that arose from the software not being prepared for the possibility of the planes crossing the international date line...sort of a mini, built in Y2K on board each plane.

4 posted on 04/03/2015 7:19:43 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

And how was that oxygen deprivation problem that killed several USAF pilots resolved? That story seemed to go away after USAF blamed the pilots for passing out in flight.


10 posted on 04/03/2015 7:37:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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