This can't be good.......

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09..._for_warships/

 

Can you imagine the damn thing crashing in the middle of a battle...

 

I wonder if it comes preloaded with minesweeper?

 

hehe... they should have went with linux... wait, that would also suck.

Junkster, who thinks the Brits always do things in a weird way

 

 

+ 1

 

+2

 

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such a simple statement and it just cracked me up.

 

+10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to see showing up in the middle of a nuke launch

 

There is always the paperclip if something goes wrong.

 

+4

that was great

 

Ever see War Games? Hello hackers!

 

+5

 

I am not surprised. UK is just following the traditional close ties with US.
Since US military runs a LOT of systems on Windoz.

 

.........hey, wait....that's not funny

 

From my personal experience on US Submarines, we use a bunch of different flavors of UNIX. So we're good there

 

lol, ya there are probably some really nice wizards to help them with their targeting.

 

You're lucky

The tincans and carriers have to deal with Windows 2000.

 

Error Popup: The application 'Defend the Brits' has crashed unexpectedly with error code 0x001DA527MSBLOWS. Please contact Microsoft support for assistance. Would you like to start the debugger? [Yes|No]

 

So when a British soldier sees "bugger off" on the screen, is he/she reading program status or an instruction?

 

I remember touring Johnson Space Center and I think NASA ran Mission Control for shuttle missions with off-the-shelf PCs running Windows (or at least it did about four years ago). I remember wondering how safe that was. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Aboard submarine HMS Torbay:

"I'll fire in a minute - just rebooting quickly." - Gunner's mate

"That's bloody weird - I clicked "fire" but it seems to have hung." - Missile gunner

"Does ANYBODY know what the bloody hell it means then it says
"Your system is running low on virtual memory?" - CIC crewmember during a battle

"I swear I didn't click fire! It just went and did it !" - Missile gunner on
the joy of using Windoz to control missile release functions

"Did you click fire ONCE or TWICE?" - Captain

"Welll.... it didn't respond when I did so I did it a few times, in case it
missed the first click." - Missile gunner

 

I hope you're kidding man...that would never happen on a 688

 

I'm worried about that Seawolf class though, the so called "paperless" submarine.

 

It's not all that bad really...I'm on shore duty with a couple of guys off of the Connecticut and that is one nice boat! When it works, it works really well. AS for the issue of getting parts for it...that's a totally different story

 

omg.