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From: gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Boyer)
Subject: Re: Splitting comp.robotics
In-Reply-To: dkt@studio.disney.com's message of 10 Sep 1994 02:55:21 EDT
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 10:45:52 GMT

>>>>> Don Thomas writes:

>I don't see the need nor do I want to see it split [...]
>What is relevant to the PROFESSIONAL IS relevant to the home user. 

But what is relevant to the home user isn't relevant to me.  That the
reason why I don't discuss my work on this group; I don't believe I
will get a relevant answer.  For similar reasons, I don't publish in
nor go to certain robotics conferences.

Moreover, it is not true that what is relevant to the professional is
relevant to the home user.  For instance, how many home users are
interested in discussing the relative merits of, say, rotary vane
hydraulic actuators vs linear actuators?  The cost is typically in the
thousands of dollars, not counting the hydraulic pump.  That's beyond
what a home user can afford.  Disney uses a lot of hydraulic, so does
Hydro-Quebec; how come we don't discuss it on this group?

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Martin Boyer				mboyer@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca
Division Robotique			mboyer@ireq-robot.uucp
Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec    +1 514 652-8412
Varennes, QC, Canada   J3X 1S1
