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To: TobagoJack who wrote (51027)	6/7/2009 4:03:16 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217822

TJ, no slide rules anymore. just point and click. Meet CAE. Computer Aided Engineering Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) systems which are now applied for testing a design’s perfor-mance and manufacturability of complex chips will percolate to the design of other products. Computer-based systems can detect flaws and warn on the CAE’s screen and alert an engineer when some element of a planned design would generate too much heat or cost too much to manufacture. Such system are already marketed or being developed by Mentor Graphics Corp. and Cadence Design Systems Inc. Low Cost Supercomputers “Supercomputers will become the wind tunnels, test tracks, and materials laboratories and chemical laboratories of the future. The wings of the Boeing 767 aircraft were designed and tested in just a few weeks by engineers using a $15 million supercomputer. Previously, the process would have required thousands of man-hours and many months of research in huge wind tunnels that cost $150 million a year to operate. Automobile makers are redesigning cars and engines without building a single prototype, gaining efficiency and fuel economy. By “crashing” their designs on a computer screen they are learning to make safer cars...” Lewis, P. H., The Race for Supercomputers cited in Noble, H. B. (ed.) The Coming Era in Science, Little Brown and Co., Boston, 1988. High speed number-crunchers for engineering and science labs that can’t afford $10 million supercm-puters can buy Convex minisupercomputers. They can do everything from design drugs to simulate car crashes, but they cost as little as $300.000. Businessweek International, Apr. 22, 1991. And Cray Research promised last year to unveil its first mini-supercomputer by summer. We make a parallel between factory of the future with desktop publishing. Think about what cheap computing muscle did for publishing. The workstation, the laser printer, the scanner, the $10.000 color separation software for the Macintosh which beats the $250.000 machines from Hell Graphics and Scitex, etc. .... Elmat book to end all the other books. Circa 1989.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (51027)	6/7/2009 4:31:36 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217822

The man who dissecated wastrelism: "conspicuous consumption" often came "conspicuous waste," which Veblen detested. Much of modern advertising is built upon a Veblenian notion of consumption. en.wikipedia.org Veblen is one of my gurus when I was studying on the 'life university. Sergio Bittencourt would send some money for me to buy books. He is the long haired guy in front of me in 1975 photo. In 1999 I paid an one hour flight above Stockholm as a token of my appreciation for the books. He no longer has hairs. Works for Swedish-Swiss ABB building a steel mill (CSA) in Rio de Janeiro. The president of the steel mill CSA just died in the AF plane crash