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Old 02-01-2004, 12:01 PM   #1
Griff
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Cellar, Big Thought of the Day

Sometimes folks say stuff here that should be pondered and bounced off other things out of their original context. So why not a free form big thought thread?

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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
I deal with that every day. Complicated drawings, drawn in 1959/60 by a draftsman that was sweating every line and it's implications on the whole. And computer drawings that somebody put into the computer in the form of a bunch of parameters, a bunch of lifeless numbers. The result is a complacency that the computer will do the right thing. It does, but it has no practiced eye, no gut feeling and no ability to say "something doesn't look right". Garbage in, garbage out.
In the ever quickening pace to the improve the coveted bottom line, the errors become annoying, often expensive and in some cases tragic.
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