Pamphlets <= treatises On Apr 20, 2016 11:17 AM, "David Ongaro" <david.ong...@hamburg.de> wrote:
> Some of "Dr. Browns" pamphlets remind me of Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf. > But Hesse's text was much more refined and enjoyable to read, so I think > "SPAM" is a fitting categorisation. > > > > > On 20 Apr 2016, at 00:57, Michael Markefka <michael.marke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Can I flag this as spam? > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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