Nick, if posting facts is insulting and arrogant, I'm sorry for that. It's the way engineers often come across, because the answers are defined and straight. There is no being 'wishy washy' to not insult your feelings.
You're insulting all the electronics engineers in paintball to state it is simple and easy and not worth protecting. Ever think about how your posts come across Nick?
It's still true though. The facts of what are involved, and the way companies feel about their software are not open to discussion. We will NOT let out our code. How do I know both of these FACTS? Obviously because this is part of what I do for a living.
Question and tell me I'm wrong by all means, but you won't be correct. When I tell you we won't do it, again tell me I'm wrong, but you won't be correct. I don't get you sometimes. At least I try to only post on subjects I am knowledgeable rather than to post like I know everything on all subjects.
Again, obviously from your post, you don't know what you are talking about when it comes to programming gun boards. You just don't. I'm sorry if that insults you but don't you think it would be worse to tell someone who works on these things that they don't know what's involved or possible/not possible? Which is what your posts are implying towards all of us Engineers in paintball.
You are still trying to argue something you don't know about and are wrong about. How else can I put it? Especially when you want to keep argueing it, and still don't have any reason to back up what you say, and yet I did try to outline it to you.
You are hilarious, I did actually laugh at your post, you try to feign knowledge by saying the code is a lot of 0's and 1'. Excuse me but that makes you sound really like you don't know what is involved, but that you think you do. If you only want to look at 0's and 1's you'll never see what the code is, and nor is that how code is programmed.
Code is programmed in a 'language' (there are quite a few being used, so your cheap engineer would need to be very good in all of them, which is rare) and then compiled into a hex file which is what you programme onto the board. Which file would you want to check Nick? and why? Why would one be useless to you and the other never ever given to you?
There is no point having 'dialogue' with you on this subject. In fact it's one reason I haven't been posting so much anymore, because however much you and others want to pontificate about having a workable solution you just don't, because you don't have the knowledge you need to do what you want to do. If when someone who does, tells you part of the information you need, you try to tell them they are insulting you, then you will never get answers.
You'll just keep talking about something that isn't possible and isn't likely to happen. Good luck with that. Do you want a solution? or just to talk on the internet?
How can I say that in a less insulting way? I'm not meaning to insult you, but obviously I can't say you are completely wrong without you taking offense.
Your solution won't work. None of the manufacturers will do what you want. You are wrong in your assumptions about what is involved.
Find another answer.
Your post above just again shows that you really don't know what is involved in programming a board. You don't want to listen though.
You want to say something is simple, that you don't have the skills to do, and that you have never done. You are incorrect in your assumptions.
You think that a gun board is only about rof settings and dwell times? That's why you don't know the subject on which you are talking. Those things are very simple agreed, they are probably not even 5% of what makes a good gun board. You think 'all gun boards basically do the same thing' again rubbish. You only see what you want to and the end result, you don't see how they get there. I work with an electronics engineer dedicated to writing code, we have electronic boards in many different types of guns, they all require different code and tuning to that gun. Not all the guns work the same, or even work with the same code.
It's like saying aeroplanes and boats are the same thing. Afterall they can both get you to the same place can't they?
Obviously not, and obviously they work in very different ways.
If you can't see nor do you want to see why you are wrong, then feel free not to enter into dialogue with me.
If you do come up with a solution I am one of the people who can try and help implement it. Right now you don't have it.
I agree with Missy Q that the manner of modern paintballers is horrific, and more power and better referrees is the best answer.
Don't see much abuse to refs on the rugby field do you? Why? because they have power, and use it when they need to.
Again, why is the NOX board a great product? It's so simple to do, why aren't they all?.... Simple question, you should be able to give me a simple answer. Do you recommend people to spend $99 on a board instead of using their stock one?
I'll leave you with:-
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.
