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[OM] Re: [OT] Engineering, acoustical, electronic & otherwise.

Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Engineering, acoustical, electronic & otherwise.
From: Doug <dhsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:49:34 -0500
On Monday March 8 2004 4:59 am, you wrote:
> --On 05 March 2004 23:42 -0800 Tris Schuler <tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



> Here's a third given:  If an engineer tells you that something was
> engineered without compromise, tell them you want to talk to a real
> engineer, not a marketing spokesperson.  I'd go so far as to suggest that a
> good working definition of engineering would be "the art of making the best
> compromises".  Even allowing costs to rise without limit is a compromise.


> Ian Nichols, School of Chemistry

It's easy for people to forget there are compromises made by just deciding 
what product to make and what the product should be like. Just the decision 
that I'm going to make a loudspeaker instead of hiring the band, singer or 
whatever to come to my house or hall is already a compromise decision base on 
many things
-Doug

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