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
