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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5510 comp.os.linux.misc:35807 comp.os.os2.advocacy:80704 alt.folklore.computers:74068 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!pipex!uknet!festival!nerc-keyworth!swsteh.nerc-swindon.ac.uk!steh From: steh@wpo.nerc.ac.uk (Steve Heaven) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 13:35:56 Organization: Natural Environment Reseach Council Lines: 51 Distribution: world Message-ID: <steh.50.000D99B7@wpo.nerc.ac.uk> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> <3hg0ei$f96@yama.mcc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: swsteh.nerc-swindon.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <3hg0ei$f96@yama.mcc.ac.uk> paul@meed47.ee.man.ac.uk (Paul Floyd) writes: >Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! >From: paul@meed47.ee.man.ac.uk (Paul Floyd) >Date: 10 Feb 1995 15:24:02 GMT >In <3heh7u$scl@umbc8.umbc.edu>, rdavis4@umbc.edu (R. D. Davis) writes: >What a jerk! >What use is a 300hp car in a country with a 55 (60 sometimes speed limit)? >Is it to cover a penis inferiority complex? >And do you simply not give a shit about the environment, as long as you're >sitting in a fat slug 4-litre engined car? The days of engines like that >are over, legislation [California especially] is forcing car manufacturers >to produce ~1 litre lean burn engines. I'm sure David Leblanc can put you >straight on these matters. >As for the product quality, I'm less familiar with the auto industry than >I am with electronics, but I think the fact that the USA has no TV >manufacturers (only foreign owned plants) is a classic example of Japanese >product quality. If you knew much about the history of PQ, you'd realize >that it grew up in Japan (ironically, the idea was sold to the Japanese >by an American, who went there after American companies ignored him. Sorry, >don't remember his name). John Deming Check out Implementing Quality J. R. Jablonski ISBN 0-88394-295-8 Total Quality Management J. Oakland ISBN 0-7506-0084-5 >I'll leave your bright idea about expensive dinosaur iron to the others >in this group. >>R. D. Davis >-- >Paul Floyd, Information Storage Research Group, Division of Electrical >Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Manchester >Edification - the process of changing your name to be "Edward" >paul@meed47.ee.man.ac.uk http://meed47.ee.man.ac.uk/paul.html >mbhpfpj@meehpc.ee.man.ac.uk mbhpfpj@fs1.ee.man.ac.uk ================================================================= NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL Swindon UK E-Mail: steh@mail.nsw.ac.uk =================================================================