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On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:23 PM, djhbrown . <djhbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 6D out of the blue is no mean achievement,... 60+ years ago, the > market for gizmos in UK was flooded with cheap Japanese copies of > European products; but whilst innovation and product quality > improvement by European manufacturers faded as their fat cat owners > complacently went cocacola-soaked soft, Japanese industry, unlike its > USA counterpart, was listening attentively to the wise words of > W.Edwards Deming (eg [1,2]) and beginning to improve the reliability, > efficiency and efficacy of its products, and by about 30 years ago, > Japanese engineering was the equal or better of even German > technology. > > Korean, Formosan and Hong Kong e-tigers followed hotfoot in Japan's > footsteps, and now the same thing is happening in China, so we can > expect to see a vast array of Shanghai-teenager-bedroom-produced > shanghaied miniclones of Alpha, most with unimaginative copycat names > like Beta, Eta, Theta, AIota etc, skulking around the corridors of the > Internet, all of which will at first be cheap imitations, but sowing > the seeds of in-house and inter-house R&D quality circles, so that > their own descendants will before very long become to Californian IT > as Japanese fuel-efficient reliable engines are to US unreliable > gas-guzzlers. > > Watch out Google Cloud byte-guzzlers, teenage rebels with the lessons > of Deming in their notebooks, who have learned from history and from > the sterling modus operandi of Steve Jobs and Uncle Tom Cobley et al, > are on their way up your Jacob's ladder... > > 1. Charles A. Barclay (1993) Quality Strategy and TQM Policies: > Empirical Evidence. > MIR: Management International Review Vol. 33, Strategic Quality Management. > 2. > http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/total-quality-management/overview/deming-points.html > >>> Anybody knows who is the author of BetaGo? It is playing with account >>> GoBeta on KGS, and is 6d. > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
