Subject: Re: Sanity check Author: Terence Frankland Date: 2001-05-17 11:42:00They can spell anything, KO! ;-) Terry Frankland Elliott Company
"May, Gordon" on 05/17/2001 10:47:05 AM
To: "'xansys '" cc: (bcc: Terence Frankland/elliott)
> They used to do this down South. Literacy tests for voting. If we only > had George Wallace on the Ansys Inc. board of driectors....
How did that work then? Just put up a big sign saying
This way to the Polling Station >
and those that where illiterate couldn't find their way? A cruel thought has just occurred to me: is dyslexia the only word sufferers of the condition can spell correctly? :-)
Regards, Gordon May Principal Technologist - Stress Methods Compressor Key System Tel.: +44 1332 2 44041 Fax: +44 1332 2 44874 e-mail: Gordon.May@r...
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> From: Dan Bohlen[SMTP:dan.bohlen@a...] > Sent: 17 May 2001 14:50 > To: xansys > Subject: Re: [xansys] Sanity check
> I agree. We should make the Ansys program harder to use. It would be > like an IQ test. If you can't figure out the KAY commands then you > shouldn't be trying to do a modal analysis.
> They used to do this down South. Literacy tests for voting. If we only > had George Wallace on the Ansys Inc. board of driectors....
> Christopher Wright wrote:
> > >The more ANSYS can do to protect unsophisticated users, the safer it > > >is for all of us! > > That's roughly analogous to selling unusable ladders to prevent falls. > > The ability of an idiot to avoid idiot-proofing is well beyong anyone's > > ability to provide sanity checks. Is ANSYS supposed to drop modal > > analysis capabilities just because ignorant newbies get their fingers > > burned trying to run it?
> > Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant from > > chrisw@s... | this distance" (last words of Gen. > > ___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864) > > http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw
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