Manage your Nuclear Power Plant with Adobe AIR!

I’ve been looking into Adobe AIR recently, and this line in the developer’s manual gave me a chuckle.

[…] most errors and alerts can be handled in the normal window display order. (Please refer to the AIR end user license agreement (EULA) for information on AIR’s suitability for time-critical applications such as aircraft and nuclear power plant control.)

OK, I know they’re not suggesting anything. I mean, who in their right mind would use AIR for something as critical aircraft/nuclear plan control? But I just found it funny that it was even hinted at. You never know, of course, maybe one day. I betcha’ those nuclear plants use really old software (albeit tried and tested) that could really use a breath of fresh AIR.

This entry was written by Hamish and posted on November 9, 2007 at 11:44 pm and filed under , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Mike
    Posted December 17, 2007 at 10:40 pm | Permalink

    Yeah it’s funny. I can imagine down the track a power plant hiring a developer who only happens to know web-technologies and so uses AIR because it’s what he knows :)

    Just as people currently use images, Flash, JavaScript or HTML in the wrong situation.

  2. Hamish
    Posted December 17, 2007 at 11:24 pm | Permalink

    Haha, yeah, you never know, eh?

    By the way, that’s some great art on your site! Really slick curves and colors.

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