On Sunday 22 October 2006 19:47, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 11:11, Administrator wrote: > > This probably invites a long and irrelevant conversation, but BMW wheels > > weren't reinvented, but are the end result of a long process of "fine > > tuning" based upon very old improvements. The most significant > > improvements were the substitution of new materials for old, pneumatic > > tyres, disc brakes and the whole suspension. A mix of replacements and > > additions. No reinvention there, whatever the marketing people say. > > If you read what I wrote, the comparison wasn't against other car wheels, > it was with the wheels used by the original inventors of the wheel, i.e. > stone age man. I also didn't write that the "reinventing" was done by BMW, > so your objection doesn't really apply. > > But car wheels most definitely were reinvented in the same sense software > is (by which is really meant 'reimplemented')
ehm - arn't gasoline-operated cars stone-age, anyway? So: no need to reinvent, reimplement or reanything the wheel! (In many cases it would even be better to "ex-invent".) But while throwing in my 2 cents here it comes to my mind that the OT-List already *is* invented and would perfectly suit for threads like this without any improvements. Fine-tuning would only have to be applied to the "TO:" in the mail header: *that* would be a real improvement :-)) ;-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
