Why Computers Are Not DIR!
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bluesbro1982
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jeckyll:If it was Linux the thing would have 15 different front ends and you'd need to be a coder to get it to work at all.
Doesn't speak highly for standardization and therefor wouldn't be DIR
Not to mention that you'd need to recompile the kernel every time you got a new piece of equipment
I only jest with linux with the greatest respect, though... Running OS-X right now and the things one can do with that terminal shell after running gentoo for 4 years...mmm...
Scared Silly
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Yeah, but at least with Linux you can recompile it. Of course that is after you update the compiler.
- a 20 year UNIX/Linux hack
- a 20 year UNIX/Linux hack
Absoutely priceless
Solaris System Administrator
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Ack! .. "servers are down" :11:
they had better have this when they come back .. Tooo Funny
they had better have this when they come back .. Tooo Funny
But computers are fine for the 99.9% of the rest of your life you dont spend diving? If they are good enough to wake you up, make you breakfast, get you to work, do your work, get you home, make dinner, entertain you and then put you to sleep, why can you not trust them to do something so simple as math? The DIR opinion of computers is simply irrational and impractical.
SparticleBrane
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mikerault
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Why don't the DIR folks get together with a dive computer manufacturer and build one they trust? One you could program your proposed profile into and it would act as an aid to backup you up. Face it, dive slates are so 1960's...
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lamont
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mikerault:
The biggest problem with computers is that you don't want to be punching buttons on a machine while you're dealing with an emergency involving gas switching.
Its not the computer aspect, its the user interface and the need to keep it informed during the dive of how the dive is progressing.
If you had a computer which was linked to a chip in your throat that measured what you were breathing on-the-fly (and that requires a reliable O2 sensor that operates in a wet environment) then it would start to become more reasonable. A computer hooked into the loop of a rebreather starts to come close, but it'll be useless to you if you need to bailout to OC and it pulls in a whole host of other issues.
Then there's the issue that you're at the mercy of the person who programmed the algorithm. You can't tweak and tune the deco to do what works for you and your team. There is no one objectively correctly decompression algorithm, techdivers are all lab rats.
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