Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's a difference between using a tool and knowing the process by hand that the tool is using to make a job easier vice simply plugging in data and automagically having the job done for you. So your "Hitorical Old Fart" status lends the credibility of having used a slide rule and done the math by hand countless times. Learning and work forced your brains' abilities to calculate to become more honed. I'm in school for engineering right now and feel significantly less intelligent than when I was in the Navy actively solving problems for real world applications (submarine hunting and weather). The job forced me to think far more abstractly than I do now. So just because slide rules were the order of the day it doesn't hobble you at all in my opinion (I used to have to use slide rules almost every day back in the Navy and miss it). Us "Upstarts" have a lot to learn from whatever you may call yourselves. I respect age, experience and knowledge immensely. I wish I could learn by having things just poured into my brain. There's not enough time to learn it all. Phil Forrest PS: If you can use photoshop, you can definitely use a CAD program with a decent graphical interface. In fact, it's probably boring in comparison to photoshop. On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:52:54 -0700 "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: > The truth is that we are Old Farts. We learned on what is now > outmoded calculating devices, did our work to spec using these > products, and still know how to add etc without electrical power. > > The new generation would be lost...... > > However, we too are lost.. I can not use computer generated design > aids.... > > So we are Old Farts > > We are HISTORICAL Old Farts. > > Maybe the LUG should split into 2 groups..... Old Farts and Upstarts? > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information