[time-nuts] A Time-Nut's Worst Nightmare

Tom Holmes tholmes at woh.rr.com
Sat May 11 16:30:09 UTC 2013


Seems to me it might make a good way to demonstrate the concept of phase
noise to the masses, even though it isn't exactly an accurate
representation.

Tom Holmes, N8ZM
Tipp City, OH
EM79


> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Didier Juges
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 8:55 AM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] A Time-Nut's Worst Nightmare
> 
> I checked the web site. As far as I am concerned, the novelty factor died
after
> about 5 seconds.
> I can barely understand why would someone actually spent the time to write
code
> doing that for himself for fun, but making it into a commercial product?
> How many do you think will be in a landfill before the battery dies?
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Sarah White <kuzetsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 5/10/2013 9:52 PM, Ed Palmer wrote:
> > > Part of me thinks it's cute, part of me wants to kill it.  :-)
> > >
> > > https://www.tindie.com/products/akafugu/vetinari-clock
> > >
> > > Ed
> >
> > Agreed...
> >
> > I'm just thinking: "Ahhhhh noooooo. Oww oww oww oww ma brainz!!!"
> >
> > Just the thought of being off by 250ms is upsetting for me...
> >
> > I can't imagine anyone wanting a clock which will be inaccurate by
> > something like a second or two or perhaps more than that.
> >
> > WTF!? Why?!
> > --Sarah
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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