Originally posted by d000hg
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A submarine can hit the ground anywhere 
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Has everyone forgotten the USS Yorktown?Originally posted by zeitghostHope its not using Vista.
From 1996 Yorktown was used as the testbed for the Navy's Smart Ship program. The ship was equipped with a network of 27 dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro based machines running Windows NT 4.0 communicating over fiber-optic cable with a Pentium Pro based server. This network was responsible for running the integrated control center on the bridge, monitoring condition assessment, damage control, machinery control and fuel control, monitoring the engines and navigating the ship.This system was estimated to save $2.8 million per year by reducing the ship's complement by 10%.
On September 21, 1997, while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing a divide by zero error in the ship's Remote Data Base Manager which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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The Royal Navy routinely manage to run ships aground. That is what comes of using your charts as coffee coasters!
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Ever since SupremeSpod left them, they went downhillOriginally posted by shaunbhoy View PostThe Royal Navy routinely manage to run ships aground. That is what comes of using your charts as coffee coasters!
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