You can say everything you want about Seiichi Inoue exept that it has
ineficiency or lack of ingenuity. What some people on this list can't
understand is that not everything in this world is made for selling.
This will be difficult to understand if living in US for a long
time...
:)
About packaging, do you know why most of the people are selling
modules without a real package ? Because a good package for electronic
stuff is as difficult to be manufactured or bought as the whole
electronic design which will fill that box...

Vasile

On 3/5/07, James Newtons Massmind <jamesnewton@massmind.org> wrote:
> > James Newton, Host wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > I won't comment on the negative things I encountered, but when it
> > > comes to pride in work, most people will find it hard to live up to
> > > the Japanese standard. At least in my experience. I am
> > proud to share
> > > the planet with Inoue San's people and learn some of their ways.
> >
> > I take this to be an indirect response to my previous post.
> >
> > However, this is one person's we're talking about, not an
> > entire culture.
>
> I was impressed both by this persons work, and by what I saw of his culture,
> in terms of how exacting and neat it was.
>
> > Are you saying that an American, a Chinese, or a New
> > Zealander is not capable of achieving the same level of
>
> I have not visited every place in the USA. I have visited Hong Kong, but not
> mainland China. I have never visited New Zealand*. From what I have seen, in
> the places I HAVE visited (Most of SoCal, Oregon, and Washington; Memphis,
> Chicago, Maui; Thailand, UAE, Abu Dhabi, Iraq (not on a good day),
> Philippine Islands, Hong Kong, and Singapore) Japan is run to more exacting
> standards.
>
> > quality? Obviously not. Then why try to justify the "clean
> > work" with "Japanese attention to packaging"?
>
> I didn't say "attention to packaging", but based on what I saw of Japan, it
> was run with more exacting attention to detail than any other place I have
> been. I am making an assumption, which could be wrong, that Inoue San is a
> product of that culture and that the prevalent attitude about neatness had
> an effect on him.
>
> > If Seiichi held a job that was utterly pointless, would you
> > mention the "Japanese inefficiency", or "Japanese lack of ingenuity"?
>
> Probably not, because even the pointless jobs in Japan appear to be done to
> more exacting standards than those in the other places I've visited.
>
> > http://www.tema.ru/travel/japan/IMG_7177.jpg
> >
>
> Please do keep in mind that I am NOT saying Japan is BETTER or that any
> person is necessarily a product of his culture or even that neatness is the
> only measure of a persons work.
>
> ---
> James.
>
>
>
> P.S. From what I know of New Zealand, it must be filled with people who
> speak at warp speed, have the patience of Job, or have very LOUD fashion
> sense. :)
>
>
> P.P.S. That is a joke for Russell, Russell's Wife, and their friend XOD, and
> in no way any reflection on NZ in general. They are the only people from Oz
> I have ever met.
>
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