Re: [Elecraft] K4 Shipping Delay

2020-01-17 Thread Bill Frantz
In the computer industry, we have a saying, "On time, Full featured, Debugged: Pick two." And the K4 is as much a computer as it is a radio. I'm glad that most commenters go for slipping the on time part of the triad. 73 Bill AE6JV (Who's waiting for the kit) On 1/16/20 at 2:25 PM,

Re: [Elecraft] K4 Shipping Delay

2020-01-17 Thread Kurt Pawlikowski
"By definition, the number of bugs in a program is infinite."     Regards,     kurtt, WB9FMC     Kurt Pawlikowski     The Pinrod Corporation     ku...@pinrod.com     (773) 284-9500     http://pinrod.com On 1/16/2020 2:19 PM, Gwen Patton wrote: Murphy's Law of Cybernetic Entomology says:

Re: [Elecraft] K4 Shipping Delay

2020-01-16 Thread stephen shearer
One of the software projects I worked on...  The lead eng reported it will be done in two weeks, for about six weeks.  Then WE looked at what/how we were doing the job and took a different approach.  it WAS done in two weeks, but needed six weeks of data (micro code) entry.  An intern did the

Re: [Elecraft] K4 Shipping Delay

2020-01-16 Thread Walter Underwood
One of the Python developers observed that when the test suite passes, it doesn’t mean that Python is bug-free. It means that the test suite is insufficient. wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Jan 16, 2020, at 12:19 PM, Gwen Patton wrote: > >

Re: [Elecraft] K4 Shipping Delay

2020-01-16 Thread Gwen Patton
Murphy's Law of Cybernetic Entomology says: "There's always one more bug." So "bug-free" is impossible. Gwen, NG3P On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 2:50 PM rich hurd WC3T wrote: > In the computer programming world, it's "bug free, cheap, or on time." :) > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 2:25 PM Fred

Re: [Elecraft] K4 Shipping Delay

2020-01-16 Thread rich hurd WC3T
In the computer programming world, it's "bug free, cheap, or on time." :) On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 2:25 PM Fred Jensen wrote: > "Good, Fast, Cheap"** ... choose two. > > 73, > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW > Sparks NV DM09dn > Washoe County > > **Said to a Marine BG. He chose Good & Cheap. We declined

Re: [Elecraft] K4 Shipping Delay

2020-01-16 Thread Fred Jensen
"Good, Fast, Cheap"** ... choose two. 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County **Said to a Marine BG.  He chose Good & Cheap.  We declined to bid On 1/15/2020 8:18 PM, Terry Brown wrote: I am one of those far down the list in the first shipping group. When I read the notice

[Elecraft] K4 Shipping Delay

2020-01-15 Thread Terry Brown
I am one of those far down the list in the first shipping group. When I read the notice from Eric and Wayne, about the new shipment dates for the K4, I was reminded of a comment from my builder a year and a half ago when our new house was about 4 months behind schedule. He said, we could