Discrepancy at Chesapeake, Israel, Waterloo?

[pitzoid]

Originally Posted by pitzoid

Until we work through this natural cycle of introducing new gear, there will be some issues.

Well, these are just my personal opinions, but being everyone seems to think their own opinion best, I thought I'd just share mine.

My back ground is running nuclear reactors on submarines, and building automation equipment responsible for billions of dollars of manufacturing. Needless to say, these are two real world environments where “attention to detail” is critical. One could cost many lives, both could cost a lot of money. Both things are near and dear to people everywhere.

With that said, how did I get an aptitude to field deploy complex gear the way I can and overcome a million variables having to do with dealing with imperfect technology and inexperienced techies? Well, I screwed things up. Mostly in situations that didn’t kill people or cost millions of dollars, but that’s how I learned my “attention to detail”. My programmers still marvel at how myself (not really much of a programmer) can test their code, and find things they would have never thought of. It’s because I have a logical sense of thought and I notice the small details. All this came from training, a lot of training. Student competitions are great places to learn this as no one is going to die, and at the end of the day, all you did was learn.

The people who equate the money spent on this program to the number of matches a team runs are missing the big picture. Yea, it stinks when your bot just sits on the field while the other bots run around, but you learn a lot from that. People learn best when they self question their abilities about something they care about, if you aren’t going to try your best to make yourself better, no one else will. Pride and Ego are very powerful forces.

Is it right that teams were bypassed to get a match going on time? Don’t know, wasn’t there. But for the most part, if a Match was scheduled to start and all the teams weren’t, kinda sounds like the real world….. I mean, planes usually don’t wait for you when you’re late to the gate, why should FMS? You can argue this up and down, there are probably a thousand “right” answers. Fact is, if you weren’t there, you’re burning a bunch of wasted calories. Every event has its own personality.