If I'm driving down a road and there is an accident up ahead I have to slow down because the traffic will back up. I don't expect GM to put in a set of wings and propellers so that I can fly over the accident. That is an unrealistic expectation. PowerSDR does what it is supposed to do. Fix your computer first and it will fix the problem, methinks.
Edwin Marzan AB2VW > Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:29:49 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Writing Professional quality software > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Drax Felton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Simon, You are correct. > > > > I produce software "products" for a living. Mostly for the banking industry > > where there is zero tolerance for some practices. > > > > Example: > > The solution is never allowed to be "Just make an offsetting entry in your > > general ledger for the lost coins." "Because Your Computer makes errors in > > rounding off with floating point arithmetic." "You need to demand that > > Intel make CPUs that don't have floating point issues." > > > > No - We code to handle currency, decimal points correctly! > > Certainly. But when your floating-point unit begins to produce errors, > you don't rewrite your software to check the output of the FPU. You > repair or replace the FPU. > > (OK, I come from a time when the FPU was actually a board and we could > and would repair the board. :-) > > -- > 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 _______________________________________________ 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.
