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From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 14 Feb 2010 07:29 Dave Plowman (News) wrote: > You think India communist? ;-) No, but what I do think is common in India, is that the low paid workers have tools provided by their employers and the employers own the tools. The workers are paid far too little to buy their own tools and if they were given them, sell them to buy cheap tools and use the money for food, etc. The philosophy may be different, but the result is the same. Note that India is a very large place and not everyone who lives there is poor. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 14 Feb 2010 07:39 life imitates life wrote: > Printing hell! You can "print" hard 3D prototypes now. > > But according to the dumbass, buying such a machine will surely take > your company down. I don't know to whom you refer, but it could be thought that way. (just a stretch, not a position I'm supporting) Let's go back to the small company with designers and engineers and a bunch of people (titles irrelevant) who build 3d models of things. If you buy one of the machines, the lower skilled model/prototype makers will be replaced by it. This leads to the higher skilled (and older) makers retiring and leaving the company, assuming they stay around that long. As the devices get better, which they will over time, the more skilled makes they can replace. In some ways it's sad, the son of a friend of mine took a course to run a CNC device. Twenty years ago he would have been called an operator, now his title is engineer. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 14 Feb 2010 10:19 life imitates life wrote: > Grasping at straws. We advance as we advance, and the skilled craftsmen > remain and skills get handed down. Why do you think a YF-22 costs $230M? Just because you mentioned the YF-22, I submit the following video for your entertainment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQOLO4U5iQ Just in case you don't get it right away, this was shown at an Indian Defense Conference. The man represents Israel, the woman India, and the company who made it, Rafael, has its products placed around the stage. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
From: life imitates life on 14 Feb 2010 12:48 On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:19:03 +0000 (UTC), "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com> wrote: >life imitates life wrote: >> Grasping at straws. We advance as we advance, and the skilled craftsmen >> remain and skills get handed down. Why do you think a YF-22 costs $230M? > >Just because you mentioned the YF-22, I submit the following video for your >entertainment: > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQOLO4U5iQ Wow. Rafael makes some very advanced stuff to have such a lame ad evolutionary position. Hell, it is even illegal in India to make such a suggestive "movie". Or at least it was. > >Just in case you don't get it right away, this was shown at an Indian Defense >Conference. The man represents Israel, the woman India, and the company >who made it, Rafael, has its products placed around the stage. In India, even staring at a tomato in the rain was too suggestive. Big missiles with veils draped over them. How quaint. > >Geoff.
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 14 Feb 2010 15:39
> > How do you think Iran and North Korea get hold of technology they > shouldn't have? > > I'll keep outsourced production within US jurisdiction and control, if > you don't mind. I don't mind at all. I just think that ship sailed in 1947. You would be surprised (or maybe you would not, I don't know) how much US technology isn't. The company name is "American", the patents were filed in the US (among other places), but the actual invention, development and manufacturing are somewhere else. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia. |