Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcilzb!daves From: daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: New poll Message-ID: <1310013@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Date: 13 Jul 88 18:51:55 GMT References: <6198@aw.sei.cmu.edu> Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA Lines: 24 >>>;-) I doubt if the various snake-oil designs popular on wreck.audio are >>> included. I also doubt if more than three or four wreck.audio readers >>> can even understand what nonlinear optimization and finite element >>> analysis means. :-) >>> >>> Barry L. Ornitz >$ >$ Smileys or not, I'll take the wager. I am quite familiar with both. I >$ presume you include youself, so that makes two of us. My guess is that >$ there at least 8 more of us. Let's hear from you... > > >Count another person. I use these tools in _electronics_ applications, >though.... presumably B. Orintz was thinking of mechanical uses like >speaker cone design... > Add one more to the list. It's been a while since I've done anything with it (like since college), so I'd need a refresher. It was part of my major however. Actually I think Barry was thinking about the many verbose inane postings by several unnamed people. Dave S.--