Posted on 01/13/2003 3:13:17 PM PST by rudy45
Some examples come to mind, such as Betamax vs. VHS. Can you think of others? I'm doing a presentation on how an inferior product, with the right strategy, can overome a superior one.
Thanks.
That is true...sort of. At the time that NT was developed, OS/2 was a 16-bit OS co-developed by IBM and Microsoft.
They parted ways after OS/2 1.2, and Microsoft developed the sort-of-microkernel-based NT as their 32-bit offering, while IBM took a more gradual approach to removing Microsoft's 16-bit code from OS/2.
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still... while reliant stadium is a nice field, it was wholly unnecessary, as was minute maid field (park, stadium, etc.). come to think of it, the new light rail was unnecessary as well.
No, no, and yes. Mozilla is just an application, it doesn't integrate itself into the system like IE. It may ask if you want to make it your default browser, but that's about it.
AM radio was used for the most part of the 20th Century because of a monopoly by an individual that orchestrated one of the large networks (NBC I believe) even though FM was available and practical early on. Not until the 1970's did FM go into common use.
Another inferior action that gets used is in sex. Most men and women use the missionary position when there are more other positions that are more satisfying to both partners except most of the time that is the only shot a man will get at it before the woman cools off. Noone are bad but some are better ;-).
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Do a report on Saccharin.
Saccharin got a bad rap, because they said it gave the tiny little mice cancer, and replaced it with that nasty stuff called Aspartame.
It turns out, that Saccharin isn't so bad after all. The taste was superior to anything out there now and the after effects of Aspartame are still being investigated. (There's your inferior product)
You can use Google and find more information on the subject you can ever put in writing.
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A common myth. They were better at some things and worse at others.
Our commanders, better. Our command structure, better. Our intellingence, better. Our equipment, worse early, better late. Our soldiers were the match of even the best Wermacht, and vastly superior to most of their troops (on the western front) whose ranks were riddled in a meaningful way by conscripts, old men and youngsters by the time we were up against them. Early on they had superior weaponry in tanks, cannons and machine guns, later the gap was closed.
In short, they had a bad plan and they were nuts to declare war on us. Hitler did it himself without any consulting anyone else. They are mostly in hell now.
In what way is the piston engine inferior to a steamer? While continuous combustion has definite advantages over pulsed combustion, a steam engine is limited by the ability to transfer heat into the steam.
An approach I'd like to see used would be to combine the concepts of internal- and external-combustion engines by having an engine where fuel and air are pumped into a combustion chamber and the combustion products power a piston engine (which in turn powers the pumps). I would think that there would be a potential for quite reasonable efficiency in such a system (this principle, btw, is how turbine jet engines work).
VHS's color encoding is pretty crummy. Essentially, what happens is that the NTSC video signal is converted into YUV (which is fine--it's what component video is) but then the U and V are amplitude-modulated onto the Y signal. This means of encoding video wouldn't be bad if it were the only one used (even though U is only modulated at about 2.something megahertz, compared with 3.579545Mhz for NTSC, the phase-independence of the signal would be a major plus) but conversion to and from NTSC is quite lossy.
I forget how Betamax encodes its color, but I recall it's something a bit better. What's particularly interesting, though, is that there's a format called Betacam which was used in many television stations until it was displaced by digital formats. Betacam captures each line of video in YUV format and then records the Y component at double speed and the U and V components each at quadruple speed. The net effect is that not only are the U and V component bandwidths now only limited to (tape_bandwidth/4), but more importantly they no longer have the relative phase lag effects of other video formats.
A few years ago, I set my computer for Dvorak, posted a chart over my monitor, and was typing moderately decently (about 40WPM) in a couple hours and even better (about 50WPM) a few hours after that. If I could find a keymap which would put the uppercase, lowercase, and "Alt" letters in Dvorak format but keep the control characters in QWERTY (so the ZXCV group work for Windows stuff, and the ctrl-letters around the ESDX diamond (any idea what might use those?) work as they should, I might like to give it another go.
There is absolutely no advantage to front wheel drive on ice. With rear wheel drive, you can steer your way out of a spin, with front wheel drive, all you can do is pray. However, front wheel drive is much better in heavy snow.
What was wrong with tinker toys or lincoln logs? now there are probably a thousand different sets of building toys and some kids have a 100 of them and play with none of them.
However a gasoline internal combustion piston engine has the following drawbacks:
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