Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news4 From: Michael Wojcik Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:30:17 -0400 Organization: Micro Focus Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p3e72352eb0df54435ecb486e911b4e906589f019fe9ff0f3.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5110 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message , Joshua Cranmer wrote: > >> On 06/06/2011 02:52 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> No, what you mention are themselves just technologies, not domains. >>> Engineering is just a collection of technologies; finance is technology >>> (insofar as it is mathematically-based); health is nothing without >>> technology these days; same with education, aeronautics, etc, etc. >> Health is just technology? Then go analyze this brain scan image for me >> and tell me if the patient has a brain tumor or not. > > How did you get that brain scan? I believe Joshua was contesting the former word in your phrase "just technology", and not the latter. Health - even if by that we mean just "systematized health care" - is not "just" technology. We do not have mechanical doctors. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University