Re: weird UltraSmart meter glitch

Slap <slap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:07:55 GMT:

> "Alan Mackenzie" <acm@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:fhfued.46.ln@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Elizabeth Blake <poodlebone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Sun, 28
>> Aug 2005 02:51:49 GMT:
>> > I've been using an UltraSmart meter since February, and I love it.
>> > Several weeks ago when I was doing a test, after the meter counted
>> > down the screen went blank for a couple of seconds, and then the
>> > result appeared. I had put in fresh Energizer batteries very
>> > recently, so I
>> >

>> Forgive me when I make some observations here, which will be no help
>> to you whatsoever!

>> The UltraSmart meter is a device which contains a blood sugar meter.
>> It also has a programmable pocket calculator, a calander, a mobile
>> telephone, an alarm clock, a GPS locator, a web browser, and what not.
>> (OK, there's a bit of exaggeration there, but not much.) With that
>> much functionality buzzing through its processor, it's somewhat
>> unreasonable to expect that it will work 100%, 100% of the time.
>> Think about Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

> Myself I can't wait for that model. My UltraSmart works very well now
> and as they add various functions (say, a cell phone for example) there
> is no reason for the device to fail.

Sorry to have to say you're wrong here, but you're wrong here! It's the
addition of "various functions", the increase in complexity, which caused
Elizabeth's UltraSmart to behave strangely. Programming devices like
these is what I do for a living.

A BS meter is basically a computer program with a sensor and a screen
attached. Three desirable attributes of a program are that it be
feature-rich, cheap, and reliable. You can have any two of these three
attributes.

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Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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