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Re: Interesting speed test

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Originally Posted by Molten View Post
An interesting story:

One day in drafting class, the teacher suggested that Inventor was superior to AutoCAD. A student in the class disagreed. He challenged the teacher to a duel. The rules were set. The first person to draw a front, side, top, and isometric view of a cube would win.(cube due to time limit) So, the two of them agreed to the terms and started. AutoCAD loaded pretty quickly and the student had an early lead. Once Inventor had finally opened, the teacher was off. The student drew the basic square around the time the teacher opened the ipt file. The student had the three views done in the time it took for the teacher to extrude. Before the teacher could open the idw file, the student was finished with the isometric.

This happened my Sophomore year. The class was shocked by the outcome. However, it wasn't the better tool that prevailed. It wasn't the better draftsmen. It was the better team. You see, when person gets to be one with their tool, they can do amazing things. Its almost as if the two work in perfect harmony.

The same can be said for this race. The reason the two men beat the texters didn't have to do with the technology. It has nothing to do with the people. It has to do with the way the men and the machine work together.

Please visit the link that Vikesrock posted. The numbers there suggest that the record holders for CW could possibly even beat your camera or qwerty pad. Depending on the rules.
Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.
The real rules to the real game are those of the market place.
The market place has spoken: if speed is most important, the loud and annoying push-to-talk feature on cellphones is currently the fastest way for the masses to "get more done now". http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...arch&plindex=0

Most savvy message senders do not view their urgency is worth annoying everyone in hear shot of the recipient, and graciously decide to use txt or e-mail: the message is faster and more convenient to be read at the recipient's discretion as opposed to leaving an audio message on an answering service. I can't wait til some jokester decides to add audio Morse code to my voicemail.

But don't despair: the market place still includes the commerce of winning free drinks at the local bar with contrived competitions.

One nice thing about FIRST competitions is the rules aren't intentionally slanted to "prove" one technology is better than another one. Or are they and I just have not realized it yet???
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