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Why aren't aircraft made as simple to fly as cars are to drive? Why aren't regular people allowed to just get in an aircraft and start flying after a couple of
by johnklos 5y ago
Why aren't aircraft made as simple to fly as cars are to drive? Why aren't regular people allowed to just get in an aircraft and start flying after a couple of hours of practice?
We see no problem in assuming that people need the lowest-common-denominator operating system in computer to suit the people instead of the people learning how to use a proper computer, though.
If something is mission critical, then it should NOT be running on Windows. And if people find it a little harder to use because it takes a little bit of learning, so be it.
"It's not as simple as that!" Bullshit. If something matters, it's worth extra energy to do it right. In reality, it's only extra energy at first. Once people learn how to use it, it's LESS energy because it works, it works the first time, and it works properly, unlike Windows.
- pc86 5y ago> Why aren't regular people allowed to just get in an aircraft and start flying after a couple of hours of practice? I mean, they are. Student pilots often solo at 8-10 hours total flight time.
- slingnow 5y agoFirst of all, that's on the low end of the spectrum, so "often" is a stretch. Second, that only takes into account seat time, not all of the other study required to understand the instruments and other assorted knowledge.
- pc86 5y agoIt certainly falls into the category of "a couple hours of practice" - reading the PHAK or FAR/AIM doesn't qualify as "practice" to any reasonable person.
- nexuist 5y agoYes, let's put the incompetent buffoons who thought installing McAfee on every government computer was a good idea in charge of their rolling own Linux distro. That sure would solve all of these problems.
- kylebyproxy 5y agoWe could have put NIST or another entity in charge of developing a federally-approved *nix distro decades ago and we'd have none of this friction today.
- nexuist 5y agoThis would still be an awesome solution today. I hope we do this eventually. But I don't believe Windows is the problem, it's the way the DoD is trying to manage it.
- V_Terranova_Jr 5y agoWindows is definitely part of the problem, but I agree it's not the problem. Linux or MacOS are not better enough either.
- Ancapistani 5y agoNorth Korea seems to have done it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
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