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| Disruptions on ECML 25/02/2013 at 14:47 #41787 | |
outofsection
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" said:Erm, not always! What I ALWAYS do wherever it's possible to do so is to buy something that is capable of AT LEAST meeting the SPECIFICATION - NOT the price - or even slightly over-speccing something! Let's not forget (and I can say this as a fully qualified ex. TV engineer) that the reason Sony Trinitron TV sets wiped the floor with British TV sets of the day for reliability (1970s) was that the Sony Trinitron TVs were heavily over- engineered - meaning that most if not all the components were not stressed in any way - unlike British TV sets that were all produced "down to a price" where all components were rated at their limit to keep costs down! As the Americans would say... "go figure!" Last edited: 25/02/2013 at 14:49 by outofsection Log in to reply |
| Disruptions on ECML 25/02/2013 at 16:31 #41792 | |
postal
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" said:[As the Americans would say... "go figure!"The Americans obviously can figure. The Mercury program was run by NASA as the precursor for Gemini project to land a man on the moon. The first pilot (Alan Shepard) said ""It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract." I'm still not sure whether you have addressed the original point. You quote an example from the 1970s when the Japanese for whatever reason were capable of turning out manufactured goods at a cheaper unit price than the UK could and were thus able to over-specify and still sell at a competitive price. What you haven't explained is what you would do in the situation where there were two TVs on sale, one of which was designed down to a price while the other was over-specified but more expensive than your budget would allow. Would you buy the cheaper TV or would you go without? If you did decide to buy the set that you could afford, would you then accept extra costs after the sale was agreed because the supplier found it cost him more than expected to buy in parts or transport the set from the factory? If the answer to that question is "No" then you have just gone down the route of 'The Original Mad Cow had a penchant for "it mustn't go over budget".' “In life, there is always someone out there, who won’t like you, for whatever reason, don’t let the insecurities in their lives affect yours.” – Rashida Rowe Log in to reply |
| Disruptions on ECML 25/02/2013 at 18:26 #41798 | |
wain77
81 posts |
All hail the wonders of thread creep... 
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