In Ground Control's defense, it's often times extremely difficult to fully test and develop a product that has such specific and limited use. Even the most fully developed products can benefit from further "real world" testing. Take VW for example - the 944 was notorious for water pump and motor mount failure. After 15 years of further "development", the failure rate is practically non-existent. I don't think I'd consider Porsc.., er VW a "fire fighter".
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Clayton wrote: > > > Sounds to me like they are 'fire fighters' rather than R&D types. > > R&D means you fully test the product and improve it before you > sell > > them. Fire fighters are people who put a product out and modify > it > > when they come back broken (or mushroomed in this case). > "Running > > around and putting out fires" ===== Matthew Yip http://www.geocities.com/mgyip/ '81 Rabbit diesel - '87 GTi 16v "General Li" - '88 M5 - '99 F350 psd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
