“Aha,” Loviatar heard James shout and looked from the kitchen at her husband sitting in his office chair squeezing a stress ball and staring at the trio of computer screens in front of him.
“Aha what dear?” she asked the wolf biomod
“Aha I found the problem,” her husband answered. “Not that I know how to fix the damn coding but I can spot the problem easily enough. Some lazy bastard ripped the code straight out of the F-14 targeting system that we were basing the system off of.” The look Loviatar gave her husband must have shown her confusion because he continued talking as he started to type on the keyboard in front of him. “Our bird has a Rate of Fire of three hundred rounds per minute, the program was accounting for a couple thousand rounds per minute travelling at a completely different rate of speed. I’m actually surprised that the test pilot actually hit anything that wasn’t at point blank range. Though honestly guns are a knife fighting range weapon anyway,” he finished.
Loviatar thought about it for a minute and shrugged. “So what are you doing now?” she asked.
“Sending programming a request for an update patch so that I can mail it to the test board with an apology mail and a promise that if they do purchase the Bat that any future systems will have already had the patch installed.” He answered. Loviatar simply nodded at this and returned to the kitchen rubbing her slightly swollen stomach.
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From: Solaris 7 Systems (S7S@OTRS.net)
To: soc.military.starfighters
Ladies and Gentlemen;
It has been brought to our attention at Solaris 7 Systems that our WC4 targeting system was not operating up to specifications in the YLF-6 space fighter. For this we apologize, review of the system has found that the problem resides in a coding error that does not adjust the targeting pip for either the rate of fire from the 20 millimeter rotary coilguns, or the speed of the round in flight. Attached to this message is a patch for the system you have in testing to fix this problem. If the convention sees fit to purchase the fighter future systems will have the patch preinstalled in all future units at no additional cost per unit.
Sincerely yours;
James Bostwick, Solaris 7 Systems
“Aha what dear?” she asked the wolf biomod
“Aha I found the problem,” her husband answered. “Not that I know how to fix the damn coding but I can spot the problem easily enough. Some lazy bastard ripped the code straight out of the F-14 targeting system that we were basing the system off of.” The look Loviatar gave her husband must have shown her confusion because he continued talking as he started to type on the keyboard in front of him. “Our bird has a Rate of Fire of three hundred rounds per minute, the program was accounting for a couple thousand rounds per minute travelling at a completely different rate of speed. I’m actually surprised that the test pilot actually hit anything that wasn’t at point blank range. Though honestly guns are a knife fighting range weapon anyway,” he finished.
Loviatar thought about it for a minute and shrugged. “So what are you doing now?” she asked.
“Sending programming a request for an update patch so that I can mail it to the test board with an apology mail and a promise that if they do purchase the Bat that any future systems will have already had the patch installed.” He answered. Loviatar simply nodded at this and returned to the kitchen rubbing her slightly swollen stomach.
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From: Solaris 7 Systems (S7S@OTRS.net)
To: soc.military.starfighters
Ladies and Gentlemen;
It has been brought to our attention at Solaris 7 Systems that our WC4 targeting system was not operating up to specifications in the YLF-6 space fighter. For this we apologize, review of the system has found that the problem resides in a coding error that does not adjust the targeting pip for either the rate of fire from the 20 millimeter rotary coilguns, or the speed of the round in flight. Attached to this message is a patch for the system you have in testing to fix this problem. If the convention sees fit to purchase the fighter future systems will have the patch preinstalled in all future units at no additional cost per unit.
Sincerely yours;
James Bostwick, Solaris 7 Systems