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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Subject: Re: Fabrication (was fast track failures)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.191226.26107@cs.ucf.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.ucf.edu (News system)
- Organization: University of Central Florida
- References: <ewright.726192136@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:12:26 GMT
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- In article <ewright.726192136@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V.
- Wright) writes:
- > In <1993Jan4.202421.11388@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- writes:
- >
- > >> In article <ewright.725666125@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com
- (Edward
- > >V. Wright) writes:
- > >> >
- > >> Most engineering *is* paperwork, or workstation work today. Otherwise
- > >> it's just tinkering on a wing and a prayer. You have to bend metal to
- > >> *test* your engineering, but bending metal *isn't* engineering. It's
- > >> fabrication done by tradesmen.
- >
- > Wait a minute, I never wrote that! That was Gary Coffman!
- >
- Oops. Must be a glitch in my newsreader (right !;)
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- Aside to John Neff: your use of "The FSU" confused for a second
- - Former Soviet Union - right? How about USSW - USS Were -
- a joke I heard somewhere:-)
- --
- Thomas Clarke
- Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
- 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826
- (407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu
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