----- Original Message ----- From: "W. Nathaniel Mills, III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 12:29 AM Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Hmm
>... >Software -- gotta love the kinds errors it introduces that would most likely never have occurred with a mechanical hardware solution. >... Hi, With fewer postings during weekend there might be place for some (additional) words about this comparison. When I was a kid the "programmable" toy cars available here around worked with little plastic wheels rotating and operating internal switches for steering control. Though I didn't have one , I can imagine how the mechanical control center inside such a car looked after a while : similar to the dirt-stuck wheels inside a computer-mouse after weeks of operation without regular cleaning. And what about a wrongly inserted or even broken program wheel , axis failure etc. ? So mechanical hardware solutions can bear at least the same amount or even more sources of error than electronic ones. Best Regards, U. Penski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://uuhome.de/penski problems that 1 single broken wheel can cause : http://uuhome.de/penski/rail.htm To change your membership options, refer to: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
