Lead times / factory build times / committed ship date / regulatory certifications

[kittski]

I understand people wanting to be informed, but I have to agree with you James. I don’t understand why folks who have no faith in a company or product would put themselves through the wait. If the delays caused me that much angst, I would have moved on a long time ago instead of just keep poking the bear hoping for it to tell me what I want to hear. Life’s too short.

@jamesdhatch

it’s our belief that being loved by puppies is a marker of laser worthiness

But this is GREAT to hear as I gotta be toward the front of the line! Hell, I even let one pup bid on an online auction and buy his own fertility God. That has to put me in front of a few others

[Sam]

@jamesdhatch

It’s intellectually bankrupt behavior.

I can think of no reason they should send you a unit until it’s the last one to go out the door. After all, if you deserved better treatment you’d be loved by puppies & kittens and we don’t have any evidence of that and we wouldn’t believe you if you said you were and it’s our belief that being loved by puppies is a marker of laser worthiness and nothing you can say will change our minds because that’s just the standard we think they should apply. It just makes me think you shouldn’t get an early ship date.

I can think of one reason why they might send @palmercr a unit when it gets to his place in line - because that’s when he ordered it and they aren’t morally bankrupt.

Your reply seems extremely inappropriate to me. @palmercr has every right to ask for for a firmer guarantee that shipping is on schedule than the standard statement in the sticky. Dan doesn’t have to give him one, but he is allowed to ask. Responding with a disparaging comment is totally inappropriate.

[henryhbk]

@Sam

Don’t your rebuttals strike you as a perfect example of a person grossly understating the complexity of a problem they’ve never personally worked on?

I have actually worked on all these problems at industrial scale, I run the software development team at our hospital, and I’ve built hardware that does each of these features. Heck, you’ve probably used software I worked on.

@Sam

If it is so difficult just to accurately locate designs on a lid cam image, for example, how feasible do you think it is that we will see accurate double-sided cutting in the foreseeable future?

Sorry if I misunderstood the issue of the OP, but the statement was you can’t align designs with precision based on the camera image, if you meant double sided that is a different problem (I would agree double sided is a way, way harder problem and has not been solved) which is precision alignment on 1 side with the camera due to lens distortion which those of us with PRUs are currently dealing with (the image looks like Lightroom or Photoshop with lens-correction turned off in camera raw when using a fisheye lens…)

[Sam]

@henryhbk

I have actually worked on all these problems at industrial scale, I run the software development team at our hospital, and I’ve built hardware that does each of these features. Heck, you’ve probably used software I worked on.

In that case I apologise for being presumptuous! You are probably much better placed to understand how complex the problems are than most. I stand by my earlier comment that “it can be fixed in software” is a risky claim to make both in this context and in general