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<title><![CDATA[By: Ron]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120068</link>
<description><![CDATA[Seems like my last two attempts to post a response to Fubar were not allowed. No bad language, etc. Fubar's concept of time is very narrow and limited.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:27:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120066</link>
<description><![CDATA[#39, Ron, I didn't want to go into long technical details about time standards.  As I stated in my post #37, getting the time via RF from a recognized time standard source is always more accurate than getting it over the Internet.  I doubt that your computer's time is more accurate than mine.  What you miss is that NTP takes into account all of the delays and jitter throughout the network, and uses multiple time sources.  It does estimate the accuracy in milliseconds.  NTP continually modifies the clock frequency, not the time.  So it corrects for imprecision and thermal variation in the computer's clock crystal on a continual basis without introducing jitter into the clock which your method does, and your method doesn't adjust for those problems with the clock crystal.  Most crystals are pretty imprecise in terms of maintaining an accurate and stable frequency.  GPS time is far, far more accurate than your over-the-air NIST RF reception, as the GPS signals don't use and aren't affected by the atmospheric bounce which the land-based RF signals depend upon.  The quality computer time implementations use NTP-like software, usually with GPS time as the primary reference, with standard RF as the secondary, NTP as the tertiary, then a high-quality stabilized and calibrated/adjusted local crystal (not the PC's) as the time reference of last resort.

I get the impression that you misunderstand the relatively of time.  This is a physical property of our universe, it doesn't have anything to do with people.  The things which people think are constant and uniform aren't--length, mass, and time are all variable.  The atomic clocks in GPS satellites have to be continually adjusted.  They're just as precise as the atomic clocks on Earth, but they're in a lower-gravity field, so they run faster.  As I said, even the clocks on Earth run at a variable rate, as they're affected by the local gravitational field and tidal forces which continually deform the Earth.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:07:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Ron]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120065</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fubar - Since you cannot measure the second to any meaningful degree how do you know that your sub-second accuracy is really accurate to anybody's second other than your own? I suppose one could go to http://www.ntp.org/ and download something there. There are realistically very few application that actually NEED precise time requirements. Timing is different. And relative time is different. 

My software is set to the US Naval Observatory time standard and takes signal propogation delay into account. So I suppose you may want sun-second accuracy but for a network each server and workstation 0.9999 seconds different (sub-second) does not really matter. But this is sub-second accuracy. Why don't you go to sub-microsecond accuracy?

I have been setting my software to the US Naval Observatory and it takes signal propogation delay into account. (I presume NTP does also, or maybe not since all you want is sub-second accuracy.) I having been using NIST standards since the early 1970's in system software and application design and didn't even worry about Y2K.

So time is relative to people but computers do not share peoples' perspectives. They rely on cheap crystals that do not reliable can consistently resonate at the same frequency. My computer is probably an order of magnitude more accurate than yours at any given time. I prefer the accuracy of a physics time source rather than a network time source. After all it is relative and my computers have been synchronized to an atomic clock and have been before the internet was operational.

If you want a good and accurate and reliable time source on a computer then you need to cool, internally, it to a specified temperature and maintain that temperature. And then if you want a reliable network-time you need to match all of the crystals in all of the computers and maintain them a a specified temperature. But that is not practical not economically viable so then some Network Time Protocol is being developed (it is a progress in work) to account for all of the physical variations contained in the components of the network and in the network's operating environment. A GPS time reference is actually not that precise.

And from a physics perspective an understand has been reached in the USA that the The Primary Time and Frequency Standard for the United States is based on the NIST-F1 Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock. Refer to 
http://www.nist.gov/physlab/div847/grp50/primary-frequency-standards.cfm to learn why this clock will remaim accurate to within 1 second over 60 million years. They even have an "MPEG Video Demonstration of How a Cesium Fountain Works" which is interesting to watch.

Also see http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html for other fun things.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:52:07 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Clamp]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120064</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nice little freebie. Can't say I have any practical use for it, but I'm having fun watching Homer eye the duff beer around the clock face.
It instantly picked up all the clock skins I downloaded, no user intervention required. That wasn't the case with wallpapers, but that is probably because it doesn't support them. Works great on a dual screen setup as well. I've got two clocks running on my secondary display. It fluctuates between 0 and 1 cpu clocks on my X2 4850e setup running xp. Memory hovers around 1400k. Sometimes dipping to as little as 288kb and spiking to as high as 4000kb.

Would have been nice if they would have mentioned this version doesn't support wallpaper clocks prior to installing them. Before going to the effort of downloading them, it simply said that there were none installed. Wasted bandwidth :p]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:59:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120063</link>
<description><![CDATA[The website says to contact support.perfectclock2007@gmail.com if you're interested in creating skins.

A number of people claim you can't resize or move the clocks.  Of course you can.  Click and drag to move.  Click to select then use mousewheel to resize.  Obviously, these features aren't available for locked or click-through clocks.

#19, Ron, your descriptions of human timekeeping are naive.  From a physics perspective, all time is relative to the observer, so there is no universal standard, synchronization is impossible, and there are no simultaneous events.  Humans use "close-enough" standards and synchronization via atomic clocks.  Our most precise clocks speed up and slow down throughout the day as tidal forces move the clocks closer to or farther away from the Earth's center of gravity (gravity and acceleration affect time relative to an outside observer).  For most of us with PC's, true NTP clients use complex software to provide sub-second synchronization.  Someone could market a $10 USB clock which uses time-standard radio signals available in most developed nations, which would be more accurate than NTP.  Short of an atomic clock, the post precise time reference most of us has access to is GPS signals.  Someone could market a $50 USB GPS time synchronization device, but most cost hundreds, although most laptop GPS cards can yield the time for a lot less (I haven't checked lately, I don't use a laptop, probably around $100 for a GPS card and software).  I have a dirt-cheap GPS.  I like it, but its time display clearly has a software error, it's off by a couple of seconds.  It bugs me that $10 radio-controlled clocks and my radio-controlled wristwatch have more accurate time than my computer can get via a true NTP client (the Internet makes for a lousy time reference).]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:42:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Alan]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120062</link>
<description><![CDATA[Installed and works very nice. I definately like it much better than the "Clocks on Desktop" that was offered before. Thanks GOTD!!]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:20:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: N K V RNGA RAO]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120061</link>
<description><![CDATA[VERY USEFUL AND VERY SIMPLE APPLICATION]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:11:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Pablo]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120060</link>
<description><![CDATA[Excellent replacement for the clock gadget. Keeper]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:41:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: goodgotd]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120059</link>
<description><![CDATA[oh, and another suggestion- if you are going to drag a person to a page to say why they removed the software, drag them to a page that works, not one that says:

Please, let us know the uninstall reason. We will use this information to improve our product. This information is very important for us. Thank you.

Sorry, this page is broken now.
Please contact us at support.perfectclock2007@gmail.com.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:25:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: goodgotd]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/perfectclock-standard-edition/#comment-120058</link>
<description><![CDATA[I couldn't find a single simple, readable, useful skin for the tray clock in all the skins. running 1152x864, every one of them has to take up way too much room in the clock area- I much prefer Atomic Alarm Clock's amber-on-black digital with date, time with seconds, am/pm *and* day of the week in 3/4 of the space of any I found aside from the barcodes- those were black (and I use a dark gray taskbar) and too tiny to make out most of the bars. much less the time. 

Desktop clocks I personally use very rarely, though I was hoping this would be better than the last few I've tried, and I do use Iconoid to keep my icons arranged for each resolution. running a game at 1024x768 and having the desktop clock moved when I come back is unacceptable. 

so my first suggestion is make some skins that are *useful* instead of all form with little function. (lotsa big name types, retro, one-day wonders- hey, how often does halloween come around?) 

I agree about the lack of screensaver support in standard- and here's another suggestion- if it's not usable in the version you have (standard) the company should mark the functions *only available in the pro version as such* instead of waiting for you to random-click on the screensaver settings and *then* popping up with a pay-me-gram saying you need Pro *and* bringing up the desktop properties and *showing that your screensaver has been hijacked* to the *non* functional Perfect Clock screensaver. bleah. 

that one tipped the balance for me- I'm back to AAC. 

I didn't wait to get the nag screen about wallpaper clocks. (another gimmick I generally won't waste memory, CPU or GPU cycles messing with.) I just uninstalled. At least the uninstall appeared fairly clean.

it's a nice idea, but the execution is flawed.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:18:03 -0400</pubDate>
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