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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Splitting comp.robotics
Organization: The Armory
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 10:08:37 GMT
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In article <GAMIN.94Sep12064552@amadeus.ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca>,
Martin Boyer <gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca> wrote:
>>>>>> 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?
>
>--
>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
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Fine, so create comp.robotics.research and leave c.r. alone!!!! This seems
to be the bone of contention and it would also please both sides!!! I don't
know why a bunch of sane humans cannot see that simply creating another
groups for the "snobs", (no offense even, TRULY!), might really be the saving
idea here!!!! I cannot promise that anyone in the new c.r.r would be
interested, on any particular day, in vane versus linear hydraulic
actuators, but *I* would take a look! I would like to know something
important about them even if I never get to use million dollar equipment on
a big scale!!! So if you DO publish your work, I can tell you that *I'd*
like to at least have a look at it for a minute or so! I might have a
homebrew use for a miniature hydraulic actuated system and what you say
might point me right someday!!! Even just something terse that is obvious
to you might give me a great idea!!! Isn't that what this net thing is
about after all????
Thanx all,
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

