John Larkin said:
I think the cut here is that amateurs, who penny-pinch on gear, are
outraged by Rigol's actions, and professionals, who design and buy and
sell electronic instruments, think they are being perfectly ethical
and reasonable.
The amateurs mostly don't need a 100 MHz scope anyhow, and should be
(and aren't) grateful that Rigol sells the 1052 for around $500. I
bought the 50 MHz version to use in my office because that's fine for
most uses.
More justification. It's simple.. you do, as you have said in another post
exactly what rigol does. Hence you can't say or even believe they are wrong
because then you would be wrong.
Your right though in that "professionals" like yourself are scum. You do
this type of behavior because you believe that since everyone else does it
then it must make it ok. You have no principles or morals. Rather than go
out of business because you refuse to screw over your customers you choose
to be a bitch to the mighty dollar.
So I suppose your firmware has some code like:
double Performance_factor = 0.1;
switch (upgrade)
{
case expensive :
Performance_factor = 0.3;
break;
case RealExpensive :
Performance_factor = 0.5;
break;
case
So_Expensive_That_The_Costs_Will_Be_Passed_Down_To_The_Poor_Working_Imbecile_That_Is_too_Stupid_And_Deserves_To_Be_Fucked
:
Performance_factor = 0.52;
break;
}
SetBandwidth(Performance_factor*10^9);
and you'll call that having to set the upgrade type as "programming" which
requires a professional as yourself which is quite expensive.
I'm sure you get a hard on every time the last case statement is called.
You and your buddies that do this shit(krw and Joseph) have made it clear
why you have stood up for rigol from the very first post and tried to
justify it from every angle.
Of course it is impossible to make you understand your follies when so much
decay exists already. Just keep it up and we'll let evolution take care of
the problem.
