NauticusLX;170732 Wrote: > > Most significantly, how can this device be used, reliably, as an alarm > clock if there is some other process, outside the users control, > competing with this function? Hmm? Answer: it cant be. Because a > sleeping brain cant discern between the intended alarm and a false > alarm, and youll eventually learn to ignore it (like the boy who cried > wolf too many times), at which point its no longer useful as an alarm > clock. >
It can not reliably be used as an Alarm Clock with Squeezenetwork because you can not predict any maintenance windows, the reliability of your ISP, or the ISP of the music stream, the reliabilty of your Cable or DSL modem, or the reliability of your router.. or the reliability of electricity for that matter. If you want a 100% reliable alarm clock, you can get something far closer for $10 or so as you keep it wound or keep the batteries fresh -- depending which model you get. Complexity breeds failure as any engineer will tell you. If you want a foolproof system, go for something simple. My sleeping brain has no problem with light: the display on the SB isnt THAT bright, it's across the room anyway, and my eyes are usually closed when I sleep (though admittedly not always, but that is another story). Ignoring reasonably loud music, on the other hand, especially since I deliberately do not use an alarm with a Snooze button, is much more difficult. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31652 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
