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DysonInventsBig


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Original Message   Jun 28, 2008 12:41 am

Dyson is in the news frequently and so a dedicated thread.

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HARDSELL


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Reply #400   Dec 12, 2008 8:59 pm
CarmineD wrote:
No complaints from you when a poor engineering student took on your idol the Forbes multi-billionaire.  But when dyson faces off with a power house company like Samsung, then you cry like a baby!   Typical.  Dyson fans always like to compare dyson to lesser competition [read weaker] in a match off.  When the face off is with an equal/greater opponent you pout.  

I don't know what new market[s] dyson can enter to make up for the lost sales in Japan.  None as good.  Dumb business move.  Dyson dumb.   

Carmine D.


It can only be that way since all the competition is inferior to Dyson.  They have no equal competition in the performance category.
CarmineD


Joined: Dec 31, 2007
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Reply #401   Dec 13, 2008 6:57 am
DysonInventsBig wrote:
Carmine,

You're the anti-Dyson poster-child,
DIB
 

DIB:

I am anti-dyson shills who bash the vacuum industry, its pros/experts, and all non-dyson vacuum products and brands with rhetoric like this: 

HARDSELL wrote:

It can only be that way since all the competition is inferior to Dyson.  They have no equal competition in the performance category.

The above idiotic statement is the quintessential reason for dyson's litigious history.  Dyson never learned to coexist in an industry that helped it make billions.  Dyson's MO, fueled by dyson shills, is bash, demean, and impugn all the others.   Lawsuits are dyson's means to an end.    

Lest you believe your own propaganda, I'll remind you.  A class action against dyson by about 3 dozen angry UK dyson buyers/users and several vacuum companies.  Result: Dyson lost its legal fight [with the ASA] to keep and use it's now infamous brand mantra:  Never clogs and doesn't lose suction.   ASA said these statements were false and exaggerated claims.   ASA told dyson to cease and desist.  Dyson did.  Why?  Dyson lost it's legal fight [again with the ASA] against the Electrolux Infinity which claimed it outcleaned dyson, with a full bag, by 50 percent.  ASA ruled in Electrolux's favor against dyson.  Why?  Dyson has been losing vacuum market share in the UK since 2004, so dyson fans can't blame the 2008 economic downturn completely for dyson's lackluster sales.  Dyson virtually guaranteed shutting itself down to the Japan market in the future, because of its suit against Samsung.  Samsung merely filed a patent.  It doesn't even have a product on the drawing board.  Vacuums are an afterthought for Samsung.  It still markets one stage bagless vacuums.  And just a few low priced models not even in the dyson price range!  Dyson dumb and arrogant! 

Carmine D.

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DysonInventsBig


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Reply #402   Dec 23, 2008 4:18 pm
Finally!  Dyson has posted much video, pic's and related telling his, his companies, his fellow inventor/engineers/designers stories and pays tribute to many others too.

4 pages worth...
http://www.dyson.co.uk/insidedyson/#
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CarmineD


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Reply #403   Dec 24, 2008 8:36 am
DysonInventsBig wrote:
Finally!  Dyson has posted much video, pic's and related telling his, his companies, his fellow inventor/engineers/designers stories and pays tribute to many others too.


Finally an answer to the progress of the dyson high school for engineers:

Dyson School

Most people think engineering is about greasy overalls and repairing things - it's probably why so many young people choose not to study it these days.

For James Dyson, engineering is all around us: the cars we drive, new technology and thinking. His idea was for a new type of school to get young people involved in engineering and create a new generation of inventors - the Brunels of tomorrow.

Our aim was to build a school for young engineers in Bath, a city close to Dyson's base. There have been a number of obstacles to overcome and unfortunately the biggest hurdle - government bureacracy - has held the project up for too long. Reluctantly we've decided to move on from our original Bath site and hope to announce a new project shortly. If a school proves impossible we'll find another way. 

Carmine D.

[PS: highlight added by poster for emphasis].

DysonInventsBig


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Reply #404   Dec 24, 2008 10:10 am
As I understood it, 2 primary things happened...

1)  Small men and women in big chairs who love their old buildings had much control over Dyson building his school or not.  They won by attrition.
2)  As Dyson feared (publicly mentioning) that the city of Bath with its many delays would cause the British government to pull out of this school and invest in another school, and that's what happened.  The subsidy was given instead to a business school spearheaded by Peter Jones, that is said to get up and running with 1 year.

The Guardian gave the city of Bath the Turkey [award] over it’s decision to dismiss/deny the Dyson school. 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/14/year-in-design-2008

DIB



M00seUK


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Reply #405   Dec 24, 2008 11:29 am
Although I'd personally prefer a 'Dyson school', the Peter Jones' headed National Enterprise Academy does sound very positive and encouraging the next generation of entrepreneurs in the UK.

http://www.peterjones.tv/index.cfm?fuseaction=PeterJones.News_Article_Detail&content_id=84

For too long there's been the feeling that the government here pays lip service to helping entrepreneurs and spends more resources towards impressing corporate employers with a qualified, if un-outstanding workforce. People who might show great potential for building their own business are herded in to higher education, only to remain a life trapped in middle management.

CarmineD


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Points: 5894


Reply #406   Dec 24, 2008 3:34 pm
Well Mr. Do Gooders:

Having spent some time in Washington DC, I learned that being right and doing good is often low on the totem pole for guaranteeing a done deal.  You have to schmooze the powers that be who control the power strings.  You do it with business savvy and smarts.  Not by impugning, demeaning, and mocking the powers with the authority to rule on your wishes any way they like.  Dyson dumb and arrogant.

Carmine D.

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DysonInventsBig


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Reply #407   Dec 24, 2008 4:41 pm
I believe the world is in greater need of strong inventors vice strong business persons.  My guess is (emphasis on guess)...  the ratio of strong inventors to strong business persons is probably 1 to 50.

Getting an engineering degree in of itself never moves life forward, it is the realistic dreamers with wealth creating ideas/inventions that move life forward (with or without a degree).  One of Sir James’ fondest inventions comes from a farmer (no education) who is first credited for putting wire inside his clay pots for strength.  To focus on or say wealth creating inventions come only thru an education is not historically accurate.  I was hoping the Dyson School was going to be more Walt Disney like where these young and moldable students could see first hand how they too could contribute “big” by allowing themselves to dream.  Yet much focus or messaging was about getting an education and to a much smaller degree - to invent.  I read many comments from the “This Is Bath” site where folks posted their friend or family member had an engineering education and was unable to find employment.  To dare to say Dyson or anyone is opening a school for inventors or an incubator for inventors is radical and may be met with much criticism and I say so let them criticize and prove them wrong once the “invention factory” begins to pay dividends.

DIB

Merry Christmas!


CarmineD


Joined: Dec 31, 2007
Points: 5894


Reply #408   Dec 24, 2008 5:17 pm
It's nice to be an inventor but useless without business smarts/luck and/or both.

WRT dyson school, politicians aka bureaucrats, get the pulse of the people and act accordingly.  There  is a clear message in the local government's decision to nix the dyson school.  If dyson and his fans don't get it, they need a reality check.  Even if they do get it, they need a reality check to win on the second go around else they will lose again!

No dyson bonuses.  2 legal loses from the ASA.  Nixed by the Bath government on the dyson engineering HS.  Worse global economy in over 50 years.  Dyson sales down 30 percent from the previous year.  Not much good news.

Merry Christmas, DIB!

Carmine D.

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DysonInventsBig


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Reply #409   Dec 26, 2008 5:37 pm
CarmineD wrote:
Well Mr. Do Gooders:

Having spent some time in Washington DC, I learned that being right and doing good is often low on the totem pole for guaranteeing a done deal.  You have to schmooze the powers that be who control the power strings.  You do it with business savvy and smarts.  Not by impugning, demeaning, and mocking the powers with the authority to rule on your wishes any way they like.  Dyson dumb and arrogant.

Carmine D.


Carmine,

It is clear you know little to nothing of this Dyson School saga or how Sir James was asked by the British government for help, led on, and then later to be mistreated.  After spending $6m of his own monies, promoting the school around the world, spending years of his life on this dream... in the end, he held his composure remarkably well, as good men do.

DIB
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