Tony Harding <ToHard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Richard Evans wrote:
>> "Mike Minor" <mminorhsd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> You have to admit though that the writers at least put some thought
into the
>>> plot of this storyline.
>>>
>>> Granted, recovering the data from the busted MP3 player might have
been a
>>> stretch, and deducing which train track based on the song might have
taken
>>> more time than they showed, but using an IPod to transfer data and
programs
>>> is not farfetched. As a professional programmer, I use my IPod to
transfer
>>> data files to and from multiple computers on a daily basis.
>>
>> You do it to familiar computers in a familiar environment, but could
>> you do it through a junction box in a subway tunnel to a computer
>> you'd never seen before? And succeed the first time?
>
>That's not how a professional programmer would approach it - one of the
>first things to do would be to establish a test bed so you'd be
>confident it would work when it went into production, i.e., the real
>subway.
And how would you get access to the subway system computers to ensure
you had an accurate test bed?
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