On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:04:32PM -0500, Steve Schafer wrote:
This is not just a progrmaming issue; I encounter the same phenomenon pretty much everywhere: I'm currently trying to build a house, and I've found that most of the people who are in the business of building houses don't want to try anything new, even if it might be a better way that has the potential to save them money and/or result in a better end product. They want to continue building houses the way they've always built houses. The fraction of house builders who do want to learn new and possibly better ways of building is, and always will be, a small one.
This may change with the arrival of the first home building robots we've been reading about recently. They won't mind building in new ways, so the human builders will be forced to choose between becoming more flexible or changing their jobs. http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14029-2546574,00.html Best regards Tomasz