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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) David Barboza, Despite Restrictions, Microblogs Are Booming in China,
New York Times, May 16, 2011 (title in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/business/global/16blogs.html?
_r=1&sq=microblog&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1305561653-
LVjfUG7CBJ0VnsMqNkDNAQ
My comment:
(a) Marshall McLuhan 麦克卢汉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
(1911-1980; Canadian)
(b) The report does not say anything meanful.
(2) Nick Bilton, With 3-D Copier, Print Your Dishes. New York Times, May 16,
2011 (title and date in print)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/with-help-from-
shapeways-you-can-print-your-dishes/?scp=1&sq=3-d%20printer%20dish%20ceramic
&st=cse
Quote:
"Shapeways, a company that allows people to print 3-D objects, announced on
Thursday that it will now let you print things in a ceramic material that is
'food safe.' Until now, 3-D printers have primarily printed in plastics or
other materials that you wouldn’t want to eat off of.
"Ceramic 3-D printing works by adding multiple layers of ceramic powder to
create an object, which is put in an oven to dry and harden and then fired
in a kiln at high temperature. Finally, the object is glazed to make it
smooth.
My comment:
(1) The company's web site shows (i) its 3-D printer can work with plastic,
ceramic and metal, (ii) it will print it--and bake it in case of ceramic--
for you, instead of selling the printer to you, and (iii) check out "jewelry
" in the left column (headlined "Product categories") of the home page.
(2) "In March 2007, Shapeways started working for the Lifestyle Incubator of
Philips Electronics in Eindhoven, the Netherlands." In September 2010 it
moved headquarters to Manhattan.
Eindhoven
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eindhoven
(The name Eindhoven derives from the contraction of the regional words eind
(meaning last or end) and hove (or hoeve; a section of some 14 hectares of
land). "Eind" is toponymically a common prefix and postfix in local place-
and streetnames. A "hove" was a parcel of land that might be given in
leasehold to private persons such as farmers by the local lord. Taken in
conjunction with the fact that a string of such parcels existed around
Woensel, the original location of Eindhoven may be understood to be the "
last hove on the land of Woensel")
(3) Hiroko Tabuchi, A Stricken Japan Ponders Its New Normal; A chance for a
demoralized nation to redefine itself. New York Times, May 12, 2011 (title
in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/business/global/12normal.html
scp=1&sq=Stricken%20Japan%20Ponders%20&st=cse
Quote:
"'This is an unprecedented disaster,' said Takayoshi Igarashi, a politics
professor at Hosei University in Tokyo and a member of a council the
government has asked to draft a long-term reconstruction plan. 'Japan is at
a crossroads.'
"So, it seems, is Japanese manufacturing.
"Take Meiko Electronics, which supplies circuit boards to some of the world
’s biggest makers of smartphones, including Apple. The tsunami ravaged
Meiko’s most sophisticated circuit board factory, here in Ishinomaki,
mangling machines and sweeping a mountain of debris onto the factory floor.
"Meiko already makes 80 percent of its parts overseas. Now, with the damage
to two of its five Japanese factories — and the uncertainties of Japan’s
power supply — it does not make sense to rebuild in the country, said
Hidetaka Maruyama, a company spokesman.
"A new factory in Wuhan, China, completed in April, has already started
producing many of the most sophisticated Meiko circuit boards once made in
Japan. 'Without a doubt, there will be a shift toward production overseas,'
Mr. Maruyama said.
My comment:
(a) Takayoshi IGARASHI 五十嵐 敬喜
五十 can be "iso" or "i" in Japanese: the former represented in Isoroku
YAMAMOTO Isoroku Yamamoto 山本 五十六; the latter by Isuzu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuzu
(founded in 1916; renamed in 1934 after the Isuzu River 五十鈴川 (starting
and ending at Ise, Mie 三重県 伊勢市).
arashi 嵐 【あらし】 (n): "storm; tempest この風は嵐の印だ。 This wind is
a sign of a storm."
(b) Hosei University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosei_University
(法政大学; private; at Tokyo; The university originated in a school of law,
Tōkyō Hōgakusha (東京法学社, i.e. Tokyo company of law), established in
1880)
(c) Meiko Electronics Co, Ltd 株式会社メイコー*: Established 1975;
Headquarters Ayase-shi, Kanagawa 神奈川県 綾瀬市; Main Business Design,
manufacturing, and sales of PWBs)
, according to conpany web site
http://www.meiko-elec.com/english/index.html
* Established in 1975 as 名幸電子工業（株）; 株式会社メイコーに商号変更 in
1991--in other words, a name change from Kanji to Katakana.
Printed circuit board
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_circuit_board
(also referred to as printed wiring board (PWB))
(d) These five paragraphs are the only mention about China in this report.
There is no need to read the rest.
(e) The Wuhan facility was completed in April this year. East Japan Great
Earthquake 東日本大震災 occurred on Mar 11, 2011. There is no correlation to
me. There are news reports, some of which the pertinent Japanese companies
confirm, that certain Japanese companies are moving some production to
Taiwan also. But I think politically speaking, no Japanese company dare say
it is abandoning Japan. |
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