{"id":12,"date":"2016-12-17T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2016-12-21T09:54:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:54:38","slug":"strengths-and-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/strengths-and-weaknesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengths and Weaknesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every engineering tradeoff involves both a strength and weakness. \u00a0The paradigm of BasicScope is <em><strong>simple and correct,<\/strong><\/em> trading off <em><strong>powerful and flexible.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0Here is a summary of major tradeoffs taken.<\/p>\n<table width=\"700\" border=\"3\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Strength<\/th>\n<th>Weakness<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Low price<\/td>\n<td>Unreliable triggering (Hardware issue, cannot fix)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Consistent time delay and zoom<\/td>\n<td>User could wait a long time for display under some conditions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Never display an incorrect trace<\/td>\n<td>User could wait a long time for display under some conditions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Easy to \u00a0use buttons<\/td>\n<td>Learning curve for user<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Uncrowded display<\/td>\n<td>User must learn what controls do what<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Small feature set is easy to learn<\/td>\n<td>Missing features someone might want<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Simple, fixed display configuration<\/td>\n<td>Less flexibility<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Runs on Windows XP<\/td>\n<td>Missing features of later Windows versions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Screen capture to PNG file<\/td>\n<td>No significant downside compared to BMP format<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every engineering tradeoff involves both a strength and weakness. \u00a0The paradigm of BasicScope is simple and correct, trading off powerful and flexible. \u00a0Here is a summary of major tradeoffs taken. Strength Weakness Low price Unreliable triggering (Hardware issue, cannot fix) Consistent time delay and zoom User could wait a long time for display under some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/strengths-and-weaknesses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strengths and Weaknesses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/basicscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}