This one needs a video camera but I find it very interesting.
Several times when I have been waiting for a train the time for the next
train has jumped back and forth 1 minute about every 8-10 seconds or so.
So it will say the next train will be in 6 minutes
8 seconds later the next train will be in 7 minutes
8 seconds later still the next train will be in 6 minutes
8 seconds later still the next train will be in 7 minutes
8 seconds later still the next train will be in 6 minutes
...and so it goes on. It is quite entertaining to watch, particularly if
there are later trains on display, their time jumps backwards and forwards
accordingly as well.
I like to imagine the behaviour of the train that I'm waiting for in my mind-
it travels towards me for 8 seconds, making the arrival time 6 minutes, but
then it goes into reverse for 8 seconds, causing the time to change from
6 to 7, then it travels forwards again... there's enough problems on the
trains as it is without shcizophrenic drivers.
I haven't seen a blue screen of death yet (although when you just miss a train
and look at the blue application screen and see that the next one is not
for 30 minutes that is a blue screen of severe annoyance) but I have seen
the Windows desktop with a debug window open and what look to be error
messages in an application window, there's lots of :: in them so it might be
C++ although it might be Visual Basic for all I know about MS.
Rant: Whatever money New South Wales City Rail spent on this solution could
have been better spent employing more fat cat Rail Chiefs, that seems to be
their answer to everything.
Stuart.
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