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In article <43tf45$dsv@parsifal.nando.net> dav@nando.net   (dav coleman) writes:
>From: dav@nando.net   (dav coleman)
>Subject: Foolish EE? was: Duke Forest/House Arrest
>Date: 22 Sep 1995 04:47:01 GMT

>In <43rt5b$f5i@news.duke.edu>, Dave Briggman <paradigm@mercury.interpath.net> writes:
>>One of the departments I am contracting for has a fourth year EE who 
>>doesn't know what formatting a hard drive does and doesn't know what the 
>>operating system of a computer does for the computer...yet he's going to 
>>be designing microchips - makes sense huh? Most ten year olds know what 
>>that does - my daughter knew when she was five - as do most children 
>>nowadays.

>actually the ability to design microchips does not necessitate much knowledge
>of current operating systems. your statement would have been only slightly
>more invalid if you chastised this EE for not knowing how to uuencode a
>zip file.

>as mankind progresses towards more complicated and powerful technology
>it becomes increasingly important to specialize; otherwise we impede progress.
>certainly at some point in development (project-wise, not time-wise) someone
>most manage the meshing of hardware and software, but not every electrical
>engineer involved.

>aloha
>dav coleman

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And Einstein did not fully understand algebra, but he could definitely wail in 
physics!
Jon