On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 5:59:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 22:44 +0000, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: >> The LHC is an interesting analogy; it certainly has problems that can be >> picked out with 20:20 hindsight, but there was no way anyone could have >> changed the processes in advance that would prevented them coming up in >> the first place. > This is certainly true. However, if they'd decided to build the whole > thing based on their first calculations, measuring once and cutting > once, and without doing any checking to make sure they were building > everything in a straight line, it probably would've gone even worse =) > you're right it was a bad example to pick, though, without further > explanation. > -- > Adam Williamson Um... Adam, on that straight line thing. Last time I checked, they were trying to make a very large perfect circle. **GRIN** Some days Murphy is the only winner, no matter what we do! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
