| ??? 11/14/06 17:01 Read: times |
#127975 - if the shoe fits ... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Erik Malund said:
In answer to your question, Yes, it is the responsibility of the engineer to select the best component for the task. However, if the board has a given component on it and he's required to use that board, then the best choice is limited to what's on the board, isn't it?
If "is the responsibility of the engineer to select the best component for the task" then how come it is not "the responsibility of the engineer to select the best" board "for the task" Yes, but if he's directed to use that board, or a specific portion of that board, then it's the best choice. I know that YOU'd recommend that he throw a tantrum and get fired, but I'd hope nobody's as dumb as you'd be in that regard. The problem with your constant trumpeting of "this is better" or "that is stupid" doesn't consider the constraints that have been placed. You never ask, "How long do you have to obtain the components?" and, "How much budget do you have?" or "When do you have to be finished?" nor do you ask, "How many are you going to build?" If a proposal for hardware allocation has to be done an on the boss' desk TODAY, it may not be possible to involve that part that YOU like. In no case at all, however, is it YOUR role to answer a question not asked, nor is it YOUR place to tell him he's wrong just because you don't know how to answer his question. You blatantaly surmise that I do not know and 'cite' that. This is not the first post where you have insulted me with 'citing' that because I do not post a given fact I do not know that fact. I know that a f12x CAN be slowed down, that I will not pay more for speed and then slow it down to match what I could have got for less money evidently totally bypass your sense of 'proper engineering'. When I have no desire slowing down an expensive chip, does that mean that I do not know how to? If I knew how to make a nuclear bomb, and I would not share the knowledge, would that mean that i did not know? If you must 'cite' why do you not 'cite' e.g. http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=127734 where I make it crystal clear that in the days you want us to go back to I used the slowpoke extensively. I don't refer to that because I believe, through your discussion, you've amply called that very comment into question, and, in fact, I think you've damaged your own credibility with savvy MCU users everywhere, in part because you seem to believe that a speed reduction of one part in 10^17 will significantly slow down your ultra-costly favorite MCU. If you really did know, you'd probably not be so touchy about it. You've been asked the same thing several times and, each time, failed to answer it. That suggests you don't know how to answer it. When you don't know, why not just leave it alone? Now, YOU emailed me saying that you didn't think this line of discussion was useful, yet you continue. You've frequently demonstrated that, since you have lots of bandwidth, you don't mind wasting a little, yet you complain about 1 part in 10^17. I think you've demonstrated yourself to be one of those software guys who's caused so many people to think of "software engineering" as an oxymoron. I don't care one bit what YOU do for your hardware, software, firmware, lunch, or whatever. What I do care about is when you lie to people by telling them that there's something wrong with what they want to do just because YOU don't like it. You're just not that important. RE |
