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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brad
Thompson
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 11:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ogf-d20-l] Does it make sense for PCs to make things?
<< Following this reasoning, I would suggest that building a blaster
according
to the rules is pretty much from scratch, whereas if you had a crate of
'spare blaster parts' you could assemble one much faster. Think of it as
building a computer from scratch with a soldering iron vs. buying the
motherboard, cpu, video card, etc from CompUSA. One is hard, and would take
80 working days. The other is EASY, and could be handled in an afternoon.
>>
See my other post: if the materials cost is 1/3 Final, and the wholesale
cost is 1/2 Final, then I have trouble believing those materials are
completely from scratch. They're not completely finished, either, of course.
Consider a car: to buy the component parts for a $20K car would cost well
over $50K; but the cost of raw metal amd fabric and plastic is nowhere near
$6K. I'm figuring that one-third cost covers stuff like standard bar stock
and wire and moldable plastic that comes prefabricated but needs work, AND
stuff that comes in ready-made pieces, like circuit boards, solid state
circuits, etc.
Martin L. Shoemaker
Emerald Software, Inc. -- Custom Software and UML Training
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