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Bill Levy

Re: OT- Final edition before release

Perhaps you haven't noticed.

The software is never finished because we now have to upgrade:

Our cameras
Our radios
Our TV's
Our Computers
Our GPS boxes

It never stops. How I miss my KWM2A!

Oh and now that the photo cells have gotten better than film ever was......
we have to upgrade our lenses. This goes for everything else on the list
above.
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Jim Rhodes-2

Re: OT- Final edition before release

I used to tell my little brother that the reason computers were getting
more powerful and more expensive was because programmers were paid too much
and when they got that big check they would just go out and buy a bigger,
more powerful computer and then would write software that wouldn't run
properly on the older, cheaper machines, so we had to upgrade to bigger,
more expensive computers, just to do the same things we did on our older,
slower, cheaper computers. He just smiled.

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 7:32 PM William Levy <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Perhaps you haven't noticed.
>
> The software is never finished because we now have to upgrade:
>
> Our cameras
> Our radios
> Our TV's
> Our Computers
> Our GPS boxes
>
> It never stops. How I miss my KWM2A!
>
> Oh and now that the photo cells have gotten better than film ever was......
> we have to upgrade our lenses. This goes for everything else on the list
> above.
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Bill K9YEQ

Re: OT- Final edition before release

Actually there were programmer rules and conventions while writing which did require that the managers maintained the proper procedures. These conventions disappeared, programmers quit document lines of code and then all hell broke loose. Do you think this changed today? Layers and layers of non-descript code exist and plague the programs today. Backwards compatibility and versioning have helped create the buggy world of today. Sloppy programming, lack of oversight and accountability plague our world. You ask? How do I know this, worked in the industry.

73,
Bill
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Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2020 7:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT- Final edition before release

I used to tell my little brother that the reason computers were getting more powerful and more expensive was because programmers were paid too much and when they got that big check they would just go out and buy a bigger, more powerful computer and then would write software that wouldn't run properly on the older, cheaper machines, so we had to upgrade to bigger, more expensive computers, just to do the same things we did on our older, slower, cheaper computers. He just smiled.

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 7:32 PM William Levy <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Perhaps you haven't noticed.
>
> The software is never finished because we now have to upgrade:
>
> Our cameras
> Our radios
> Our TV's
> Our Computers
> Our GPS boxes
>
> It never stops. How I miss my KWM2A!
>
> Oh and now that the photo cells have gotten better than film ever was......
> we have to upgrade our lenses. This goes for everything else on the
> list above.
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
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