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Old 3rd Dec 2014, 10:01
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Originally Posted by Tourist
.......Of course, one of the nice things about computers is that they only tend to make the same mistake once and then the software is changed so they don't make it again.
And therein lies a whole other can of worms!!

I might just get on a flight driven by software that is at version 99.9 but would I get on version 100.0?

The software industry is incredibly bad at testing new releases - how many times have we seen one new or updated feature cause mahem to something else after an update.
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