Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:32:28 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: TUXTYYqX1yG7hs3zxUg7ng.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5014 On 6/6/2011 4:05 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > >> On 6/5/2011 11:52 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> No, what you mention are themselves just technologies, not domains. >>> Engineering is just a collection of technologies; >> >> I think engineering is more than just technology. >> >> You have to understand things, like stress and strain, >> dynamics and control, how to solve differential and >> integral equations, and many other hard subjects. It takes >> many long years to understand some of these things. > > What did you think technology was about? > Good question. I guess I must keep forgetting that solving differential equations is a techology. I thought it was like math and physics and such thing. But may be these are technology also. >> Not everything in the world is a pointy and clicky >> technology thing ... > > Is “pointy and clicky” synonymous with “technology” to you? Another good point. Ok, you are correct. Engineering must be a technology. --Nasser