How old do you think engineering is?
granted this term existed, yet the definition has changed
post-industrialization.
Here are a couple sites which seem to be fairly accurate
historically -
http://www.creatingtechnology.org/history.htm
http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/192894/careers_and_job_hunting/a_brief_history_of_engineering.html
Also, what you described would not have been necessary until the age
of middle-managers - ca. mid 20C, post WWII
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/16/2012 10:50 AM, anne-ology wrote:
>
>> brilliantly said.
>>
>> And may I add this use of acronyms is silly ... are we supposed to
>> memorize each new one ???
>> here's supposedly a complete listing -
>> http://www.all-acronyms.com/
>>
>> Yes, growing up pre-computers was different from you post-computer
>> youngsters, but bear in mind that using acronyms confuses the
>> communication
>> since many of these are duplicates ;-)
>>
> I should have noted that RFC and the related RFQ (request for quotation)
> are very old engineering acronyms (pre PC) used to describe stages in
> project development. RFC is asking the reviewers to review a draft
> proposal/design/specifications prior to formally finalizing the design.
> Reviewers may be any interested party involved in the project. There may
> not be a formal RFC issued of the complete design/proposal/specifications
> but various interested parties are often asked to review at least parts of
> the design. RFQ is formally asking vendors to bid on the finalized
> specifications.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi :)
>>
>>> Bottom posting is a good way to alienate most of the target
>>> market-shares that LO needs to break into. Many new people are
>>> completely unaware that there is any other way of posting other than
>>> top-posting because top posting is so widespread.
>>>
>>> Also there are a ridiculous number of rules, such as how and when to
>>> snip,
>>> that
>>> makes it more time consuming and difficult for new people that have
>>> only joined the list to deal with one or 2 specific questions, not to
>>> change their entire life-style.
>>>
>>> How about we 1st get the world using LibreOffice and THEN start opening
>>> people to new ways of doing things?
>>>
>>> Oh and this new way of having to use "Reply to all" instead of "Reply" is
>>> brilliant! It makes it more difficult to keep things on-list and more
>>> difficult for new arrivals to the list. Perfect!!
>>> Regards from
>>> Tom :)
>>>
>>>
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