On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:49:02 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:25:15 +1100, the renowned F Murtz
wrote:

Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Feb 26, 2:29 am, Don wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:19:40 -0500, Wes
...
How good of you to convey as much of our technological expertise as
possible to your Chinese doctoral candidate colleague.

There isn't much point in concealing old technology they can buy at a
scrapyard. Stories from WW2 prisoners such as Greg Boyington show a
considerable difference between the open attitudes of Japanese who had
visited the West and the narrow racist prejudices of those who hadn't.

OTOH before WW1 the British and Germans had been each other's largest
trading partners..

jsw

Do you really think such machines are not already churned out in chinese
factories

I see 2700+ such suppliers on the mainland. I did some work on driving
them optimally using accelerometers etc. a while ago (end customer was
the US military) but really in most cases this is _mature_ technology
that has no real secrets to yield.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

So you'd spoil the guy's day by revealing that what he is discovering
with great glee isn't special or secret but in fact rather mundane:
elliptical vibration, been around for decades. Millennia, in fact,
since some legless critters locomote that way.

Why screw up what may be a perfectly good dissertation topic for a
Chinese PhD candidate?