Re: So let's build a router

From: Universe (universe_at_tAkEcovad.OuT.net)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:36:10 -0400

kurbylogic@hotmail.com (Kurt) wrote:

> ... It is cheaper to put scetch the ideas on paper
> and build miniture prototypes then to start the actual development no
> matter how incremental or well tested the componenets are it means
> nothing if the idea itself is flawed. (Well for our 757 we are going
> to need a device to flap the wings you start on that, I'm going to
> work on the shock absorbers for the landing feet... I see you got the
> wing flappers working, great job) even if prototypes might be
> espensive to build they are created to test the idea, to mitigate the
> risk of a fundimentally flawed idea. This isn't a *crisis* (just
> because there are more bad ideas then good ones), it is the
> exploration of an idea, a calculated risk, an investment, the cost of
> knowledge and progress. The *crisis* I see is spending millions on an
> idea doombed to failure when it *could have been cancelled* in the
> early stages while investment was still in the thousands.

Hear, here!

Elliott 

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