2010/9/29 Dave <[email protected]>: > Viesturs, > > OK... I have to ask... > > >>>so the casino box - Mach3 - is his most likely choice :)) > > Why do you call it the casino box?? > > I've never heard that before.
Because, IMHO it looks like that. The buttons and virtual LEDs have blinging contours, personally I do not like that. And I know couple more guys, who have chosen EMC2 over Mach3, basically because of the GUI. 2010/9/29 Jon Elson <[email protected]>: > Viesturs Lācis wrote: >> Przemek suggested that somebody should introduce that guy to EMC. I >> have a personal belief that he will not give up on using Windows, so >> the casino box - Mach3 - is his most likely choice :)) >> > No way! There may be Windows under the hood, but more likely Fanuc or some > other high-end control, with a major controls rep doing the install, for > $50K per > machine, minimum. That was meant to be a joke. But, if seriously, how do those win-based controllers achieve working in real-time? 2010/9/28 doug metzler <[email protected]>: > Hmm, I think you're not seeing the bigger picture. He's not doing this to > recover his costs. He doesn't care about the money. He's doing this to try > to bring about the revival of the hard manufacturing base in the US. His > goal is not to build parts, his goal is to entice major manufacturers back > to the US by offering high-quality, highly skilled local machinists in local > shops. If this goes he may make a major contribution to the reversal of the > outsourcing trend (which actually is showing a few signs of reversal > already). > > I worked for MS for 15 years. I'm not completely sure it's productive to > dismiss completely the man's approach because of his current employer. > There are a lot of good smart people at MS who are trying to make a > difference outside those walls. That also was meant like a joke. I never meant it as an offence to anybody. That guy has all my respect for having a vision and a goal for his venture something more than just earning more bucks, but also provide benefit to other companies, indirectly - also to his competitors. I like to think that my company also has such a goal. But, since I have recently graduated MBA, I have been made to believe that any company should be able to break even and provide positive cash flow to recover the investment (not necessarily being profitable), otherwise it is called "charity". And I think that keeping to live unprofitable company is not the best implementation of charity. Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
