jmpage2;519932 Wrote: > You are continuing to miss the point. No one should need to leave a > computer on 24X7 for an *alarm clock* to work reliably! > > > > We personally pay about .09 per kwh for electric and the rates have > been going up at a faster level than inflation for the past 5 years now.
In VA I pay $0.15/kwH which I thought was on the high side. Pisses me off knowing that my coworker who basically lives across the street pays $0.09/kwH! Different companies service our houses, I called around seeing if I could somehow get his company but I can not. Basically they deregulated the power companies under the thought that they would be self-regulated by consumer choice, however consumers still do not have a choice so not sure what the people were smoking who thought that made sense? I am not for government regulation in most cases however some industries just do not lend themselves to consumer choice and must be regulated to prevent monopolistic practices. Sorry for the rant back on topic: I have been using 7.4.2 for a bit now and while it improves the Alarm reliability for me and I do not have any bugs, I do find the UI horrible for an Alarm. Not sure why the devs do not understand these basic alarm rules: 1. It should be easy to snooze without looking at it. 2. It should NOT be easy to disable 3. Snooze and disable should not be easily confused 4. When I do disable I should have clear indication that the alarm will not go off again in 10 min. Right now using the scroll knob to snooze or disable is not good. Too easy to confuse the two. What I would suggest to the Devs is have the big wheel knob button Snooze and have the Power button disable and NOT use the turning of the knob to do it, then you can just have a popup like you have now but with icons telling the user how to do the two tasks. This would probably require less screen area and allow more room for a LARGER display of the time. Then to meet number 4, use the alarm icon you already have but when the alarm is in snooze mode have the icon blink. When the alarm is disabled have it stop blinking. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75541 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
