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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org