Originally Posted by
barit1
That's what I'd call (in software terms) a bad bug. (Microsoft would call it a "feature").
Er, that would be "undocumented feature" to be precise. Of course, Apple will simply tell you that there are no bugs in their software and you must be doing it wrong.
But I guess that's what you expect in a monopolistic design environment - The good ol' USSR. Market forces would have starved this "feature" out of the system.
Now now, Russian warbirds could be a bit "agricultural", but bearing in mind the whole country was effectively agrarian in nature as late as the 1920s I think they picked things up pretty well - in later years they certainly developed some interesting solutions to rocketry problems that the West relied on brute force to solve.
Also, what market forces give with one hand, they can take away with the other - such as discarding a cargo door failure in testing as irrelevant in order to beat competitors to market. We all know how that one ended up.