On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:32:18AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> Of course in any real engineering project, availability of the system is
> what's measured, so you have lots of redundant systems, such that the
> failure of any one is not critical. This is especially important in e.g.
> aviation, a field where uptime is a very meaningful word.
one can always count on mr. o broin to explane statistics to the average
man.
kevin, never mean with his puns...
--
kevin at ie.suberic.net ~ "you're either with us or against us." --dubya
iraq: vietnam again? ~ in that simplistic world-view progressives and
a new lbj selected - ~ liberals are "us" while bush and bin laden are
"looney bush junior" ~ "against us."
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