Gotta say, that's one hell of a speech, Ken!

Ken wrote:

> Anthony Bennett wrote:
>
> > I think Mr. Tyler is some sort of scientist...,
>
> Scientist ? Heavens no ! Scientists spend all of their time making
> guesses about how things work and then rely on their peers to either
> support the guess or tear it to pieces. Engineers hear about the guess,
> go down to the store, buy a few parts, and come back two hous later and
> show the scientist that not only is it possible but can be done cheaply.
>
> Scientist guess and dream - Engineers build and contribute.
>
>  I am an Engineer.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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I'm still a student too.  Not for long though.  I'm a computer science
major, so I don't know if I'd be an engineer or a scientist.  Other than
school I do the typical college stuff, and play hockey.  For you people
that follow college basketball, We(Michiagn State) are in the final
four.  And no I have not participated in any of the 'roits'.

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portelli wrote in message <36FA9EB6.AEE677AE@pilot.msu.edu>...
>I'm still a student too.  Not for long though.  I'm a computer science
>major, so I don't know if I'd be an engineer or a scientist.  Other than
>school I do the typical college stuff, and play hockey.  For you people
>that follow college basketball, We(Michiagn State) are in the final
>four.  And no I have not participated in any of the 'roits'.

Heh, I buy my groceries in the same store as Nolan Richardson! :)

If you don't see many games you probably have no idea who that is. I see him
on the news every night here, and then when I visit Florida they have 'know
the enemy segments.' It's great to hear my friends there curse Arkansas'
coach. LOL!

GrimDude
vos### [at] arkansasnet

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Markus Becker wrote in message <36F8EF50.D75C6375@zess.uni-siegen.de>...
>.... as I have difficulty just catching up with the posts here.
>
>Q: What do you guys (and girls?) do besides raytracing?
>Especially with Ken, I can't imagine where he takes all
>his time from....
>
>You surely must do something for a living. I understand
>that most of the people around here are students, but of
>some, I definitely know that they aren't.
>
>Markus


Software developer mostly database application is MS Access,
Oracle and soon ASP.  It leaves me with less hours to raytrace
than I would like.

Gail
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As for my 2 cents (1.33 cents after taxes) I am in technical support at one
of those large places that "outsources" tech support, and if I were to say
more "I'd have to kill you," as the party line goes. I want to move into
full time web design and I have a degree in graphic design. It's just a
damn hard field to jump into.

No family, few friends, and since I'm tethered to a phone and four
computers all day (talk about a rendering farm) I find there is lots of
time to play with POV-Ray.

Josh English
eng### [at] spiritonecom

Markus Becker wrote:

> .... as I have difficulty just catching up with the posts here.
>
> Q: What do you guys (and girls?) do besides raytracing?
> Especially with Ken, I can't imagine where he takes all
> his time from....
>
> You surely must do something for a living. I understand
> that most of the people around here are students, but of
> some, I definitely know that they aren't.
>
> Markus
> --

>  Ich nicht eine Sekunde!!!" H. Heinol in Val Thorens

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On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:57:36 +0100, Markus Becker <bec### [at] zessuni-siegende>
wrote:

>Q: What do you guys (and girls?) do besides raytracing?

A: Try to read all these postings!

Before retiring I was a mechanical engineer, and am now busier than ever and
don't do nearly enough raytracing. Hillwalking, amateur geology, cooking (and
eating!) all take time, along with holidays (just back from a geology expedition
to Tenerife and soon going to look at the Grand Canyon). Railway history is an
interest, hence my use of POV to try and accurately model historic steam
locomotives.  To justify this posting I have attached the tender for a
locomotive I posted last year.  The leaf springs are actually nicely detailed
but because of the resolution show as an unfortunate moire pattern.

While off topic, do any of you guys know about APT, a program and language
developed by Doug Ross of MIT in the mid 60's for defining geometry and guiding
a cutting tool on an NC milling machine?  I like to think of APT an ancestor of
POV-ray. It was one of the first computer applications using every-day english
words like CIRCLE, LINE, SPLINE, CUTTER etc. and had a good range of 3D
geometry.  Like POV the source was freely available. Also like POV you often had
to be quite ingenious to get it to produce what you were after. In those days
you needed a multi-million dollar Univac or IBM installation to run APT, whereas
nowadays, my humble PC could eat it.  What will the next 30 years bring I
wonder?
David
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On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:57:36 +0100, Markus Becker <bec### [at] zessuni-siegende>
wrote:

>Q: What do you guys (and girls?) do besides raytracing?

A: Try to read all these postings!

Before retiring I was a mechanical engineer, and am now busier than ever and
don't do nearly enough raytracing. Hillwalking, amateur geology, cooking (and
eating!) all take time, along with holidays (just back from a geology expedition
to Tenerife and soon going to look at the Grand Canyon). Railway history is an
interest, hence my use of POV to try and accurately model historic steam
locomotives.  To justify this posting I have attached the tender for a
locomotive I posted last year.  The leaf springs are actually nicely detailed
but because of the resolution show as an unfortunate moire pattern.

While off topic, do any of you guys know about APT, a program and language
developed by Doug Ross of MIT in the mid 60's for defining geometry and guiding
a cutting tool on an NC milling machine?  I like to think of APT an ancestor of
POV-ray. It was one of the first computer applications using every-day english
words like CIRCLE, LINE, SPLINE, CUTTER etc. and had a good range of 3D
geometry.  Like POV the source was freely available. Also like POV you often had
to be quite ingenious to get it to produce what you were after. In those days
you needed a multi-million dollar Univac or IBM installation to run APT, whereas
nowadays, my humble PC could eat it.  What will the next 30 years bring I
wonder?
David
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:40:20 GMT, dav### [at] cwcomnet (David Wilkinson)
wrote:

 To justify this posting I have attached the tender for a
>locomotive I posted last year.  The leaf springs are actually nicely detailed
>but because of the resolution show as an unfortunate moire pattern.

Timed out before it sent the attachment, try again :-)
>David
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Define real. :-)

Anthony Bennett wrote:
> 
> >  I am an Engineer.
> 
> Then how come you know so much about everything? (And what's up with some
> people thinking you're not real?) You have to be real, you've mentioned your
> wife and fishing and stuff, so you are real. Right? =)

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