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In Reply to: "Not working = defective." No, sir. Imagine this: posted by clarkjohnsen on September 24, 2005 at 10:27:16:
What's with the sir, Clark? We're talking pure working class on my part - lotsa work, lotsa class. Ha -:)Now you're talking tweaks "in parallel" or "series". Granted, that could undermine their effectiveness or end up with completely unpredictable results.
The speaker elevator example is poor because companies who sell such products talk about their effectiveness with synthetic carpets, less so with wool carpets and perhaps none at all with bare wooden or stone floors.
The point being, if a tweak is a special application product, list the recommended applications and those that are possibly (or known to be) counter-productive. Then also state that certain scenarios may elicit no results whatsoever.
That would be full disclosure, no?
I still remember the artillery in the chip debates leveled at detractors. "You guys simply don't understand the science involved here." Nano tech. Quantum. Etc. A lot was thrown into people's faces who asked reasonable questions.
Clearly the same is already happening again. Reasonable people look at the clever little clock and remember the TICE clock. Unless of course the marketing strategy is exactly this: create an information vacuum and have people react to that. Kick off a few heated threads, attract attention, sell some product.
Hey, if so, it seems to be working . What do I know? -:)
But if any kind of science be invoked (and of the advanced kind us primitives can't fathom), then scientific etiquette demands that the invention be presented jointly with the hypothesis or theory that compelled the research in the first place. Right - sir?
But this goes
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Follow Ups
- Re: "Not working = defective." No, sir. Imagine this: - Srajan Ebaen 10:37:13 09/24/05 (1)
- "Certain scenarios may elicit no results." As it was and ever shall be. World without end. Amen. - clarkjohnsen 11:57:53 09/24/05 (0)