Re: the flashing 12:00 problem (Re: Twitter successors)
Rick Moen <[email protected]>
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Quoting Michael Paoli ([email protected]): [...] > Now, maybe a conventional oven might be useful ... but I'd bet that > still <<5% use such on a conventional oven to set a time to start and > stop cooking something in the oven. But both conventional and microwave ovens will continue to reliably include 50￠worth of digital clock circuitry, out of fear that some purchasers will prefer another unitl on grounds of "features". This is what happens with unsophisticated buyers predominating. http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#moenslaw-bicycles > And bloody hell ... yeah, defaults matter, so okay lose power, power comes > back, no battery backup for the clock. Okay, so it won't show the correct time. > But bloody hell, why show or flash an incorrect but possible time? Even including an empty socket for a little alkaline "button" backup battery requires an access door, which probably adds 10x as much production cost as the digital clock itself. And, since the undiscerning buyers don't ding retail units for lacking this ability (see link above), it isn't included. _______________________________________________ conspire mailing list [email protected] http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire