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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5435 comp.os.linux.misc:35445 comp.os.os2.advocacy:79689 alt.folklore.computers:73431 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!auspex-gw!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!news.fujitsu.com!amdahl.com!amd!netcomsv!wndrsvr.la.ca.us!system From: system@wndrsvr.la.ca.us (system) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Message-ID: <D45tx6.7nJ@wndrsvr.la.ca.us> Date: 17 Feb 95 19:53:29 GMT References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> <3g862c$3mu@supreme.pcug.org.au> <D3Mvy7.1Kq@csc.liv.ac.uk> <3heh7u$scl@umbc8.umbc.edu> <3hg0ei$f96@yama.mcc.ac.uk> Followup-To: /dev/null Organization: wndrsvr - Public Access for SoCal 1.310.370.3069 Lines: 52 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Paul Floyd (paul@meed47.ee.man.ac.uk) wrote: : 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? The majority of California Interstate 5 is 65 MPH. Some of us hope it will go up. Possibly in the autobahn range :-) It has nothing to do with penises, and everything to do with reducing what could be a 6.5 hour journey, to a 2-3 hour drive. [environmental concerns deleted] I'm all for saving the environment, and I still think we can go faster than 55-65 and still clean up auto emissions. : 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 Excuse me? The mind boggles where this historical revisionism comes from. The reason the USA has no TV manufacturers is due to DUMPING of Japanese TV sets on the American market at below cost. American manufacturers were driven out of business not by quality, but due to inability to compete with Japan Inc. The Japanese business industry, it is well known, is supported by the government. The gov't funded the TV industry until American manufacturers went bankrupt. It's well known that the Japanese market is closed to foreigners. With a captive market to make up for the losses in America, Japan couldn't go wrong. It's only very very recently that the market has opened a hairs-width to foreigners (American). : 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). : 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 For a chap who is supposedly doing research, it would seem that your methods leave a bit to be desired. - Andy P.S. This thread wandered off-topic long ago. Follow-ups set to /dev/null