With respect, guys, I think you are talking past each other. The extent to which errors are tolerated must be tempered by the potential consequences of failure. As someone who has worked in the health care industry all my life, I can tell you that it is a frequent source of frustration to physicians and nurses that they are held to an extremely high standard of performance while those who support them are not. Nonetheless, it does not make sense to impose the same quality controls on the housekeeping department that one does on the heart surgeons and the ICU nurses.
If your electronic brake system is failing, you may, indeed, be at risk of death. In such an instance, the assurance of an extremely low failure rate is appropriate and compelling. But if your 5K burps at an inopportune moment what are you going to lose? Points in a DX contest? That QSL from Moldavia that you have been seeking since 1943? Will On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Ray - K9DUR <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave, > > I beg to differ very emphatically! > > I was absolutely responsible for making the system perform. The software I > wrote controlled the production machines involved in manufacturing > automotive air bag control modules. How would YOU feel as you were heading > for an imminent & unavoidable collision realizing that the device that was > about to decide, in part, whether you lived or died had been manufactured > on > a machine that was "...only responsible for reporting its failures to meet > delivery guarantees"? > > 73, Ray, K9DUR > http://k9dur.info > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flexedge mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used > for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist > who are using alpha and beta versions of the software. > -- The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software.
