On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:43:41 -0800, Jay in the Mojave
wrote:

|james wrote:
|
| Sometimes mangers,as well as engineers, fall in love to much with
| their designs and are very short sighted. They feel their designs are
| better than others. This is kind of what I tried to get across. In the
| end the management team is often held responsible for final decisions
| on designs as their sucesses and failures.
|
|
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|
| Comparing consumer electronics to military hardware is not very
| appropriate. Military hardware has the luxury of larger budgets and
| one customer. Consumer Electronics is a design for an average of many
| different users.
|
|
| james
|
|
|Hello James:
|
|Sure some heads swell and arrogant egos soar. But those self center me
|first types wanting a star placed next to their name will be at the cost
|of reduced sales. Kind of like mangers who want only to emphasizer their
|important and stardom at the expense of work crews. The real sin here is
|their higher up mangers can't or don't see this. So the "Boys Club" is
|in work.
|
|The comparison of military electronic/systems to consumer electronics is
|a great analogy. By this I mean if the mind bending operation of
|cockpits can be made user friendly so can ham radios, scanners, cell
|phones ect. The overly complex design of these consumer radios will soon
|choke the manufactures in sales. Aircraft Customers appoint a "Prim
|Contractor" to do all the finger pointing and take all the customers
|product heat. Just try to point the finger at say tires and rims when
|you buy them from separate stores. So it appears consumer electronics
|manufactures lack a good product testing program, incorporating human
|engineering, user friendly button-ology, and just plain common sense.
|
|Ham radios, scanners, cell phones, and even my rice cooker can be made
|much simpler to operate. The cost need not equal the button-ology in
|functions times dollars, as in aircraft. But a hand full of
|distinguished radio enthusiasts as I mentioned early, who could take one
|of the radios as payment for their testing. So a inexpensive testing
|process can be done quit quickly and easy.
|
|Well got to haul....
|
|Jay in the Mojave
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I would agree that manufacturers have gone wild with dedicated
microprocessors. Cars today have upwards to 20 of the little buggars
on board. I have seen commercial 2-way radios have as many as 7
microprossors. Buying a generic processor and programming it to do
what you want is faster to market than a new dedicated ASIC for each
product. SO with all those processors on board software engineers tend
to go a bit overboard. Easy to sell features that are emplemented in
software with minimal hardware than try and event the wheel all over
again.

james