ARCHIVED  March 5, 2004

Geek News: Flawed computer technology frustrates

I’m in a cynical mood, so I’ve decided to write a little about computer technology that doesn’t work — and there’s a lot of it. I remember while working in the oil business long ago we had a special sensor that, in theory, could measure the density of the mud that was coming out of the well. (You pump mud down the pipe and it comes up around the pipe to bring up the rock cuttings.) This was a very expensive bit of equipment that was complicated to install and calibrate, but that would have been OK — if…

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