On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > Not its main purpose, but if it's there, it should be accurate. >
Who gets to decide "should be" and what "accurate" means? I'll give those responsibilities to whoever is doing the work and laying out the cash. Too easy to spend someone else's time and money. Tell Elecraft how much you'd be willing to pay for the feature. > From some > of the comments above, it's not expensive nor difficult to implement. > Firmware could be implemented to simply update the time when the radio is > turned on, similar to the way Windows does periodic internet time updates > Going to add internet protocols to the K3 firmware? What happened to "simple"? > for a similarly inaccurate timekeeper. > Well, your complaint is a predictable intuitive assessment for sure. But after more than four decades of being beaten to a pulp in systems design and programming for installs, hardware, planning systems, and statistical systems running on everything from mainframes to PC's: If it looks simple, it isn't. If you think you understand, you don't. If it looks really complicated, and you are convinced that it contains some awful problem beyond your current skill set, it's probably twice as complicated as it looks. But at least you are on the same planet as reality. The actual cost and time to provide actual fully debugged software is almost always more than the developing company can afford. Perfect code is never profitable. Nature could give a rat's a** whether her laws and behavior can be programmed with short, sweet, inexpensive code. She does not care whether you can feed your family on a programmer's salary. This is why hardware is such a b*tch to code for. She doesn't like you, and would just as soon smack you down. As soon as you fix one bug, the customer will find another and complain all the louder. Over a lifetime, programmers don't even get a percent of the praise they deserve. Software and firmware are reserved by the human race as a default container to receive complaints. Anyone who does not complain about software and firmware is presumed mentally deficient. Software and firmware that work perfectly are resented, never acknowledged and presumed programmed by snooty people that look down their noses at regular folk. The human race is completely confused by the idea that an SMT chip 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch could contain firmware that cost 500 bux to make in one afternoon by a single programmer, or could contain firmware that cost billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees to develop over decades, and the only visual clue is a different unreadable number printed on the chip surface. Hams in particular will expect to pay the former price for the latter content, based on the size of the chip. This vein goes on for miles and miles, but you get the drift. 73, Guy K2AV ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
