Re: LYNX Central Station in Orlando FL

"Dave Anderson"
> The computer and software are simply tools.

Are they? What do we call them when they replace people yet seem to somehow
manage to remove little work for people, add other work and make the economy
run yet faster? What are people? Are they tools? Wetware? Meat machines?

> If you still do all your design and engineering by hand and manage to make
a living of it, my hat's off to you. Most of us see the value of automating
some of the work.

What's work? Is it like play?

> TekCAD 2 Pro... only makes it easier for architects to do the work,

Easier? How so? So then presumably, they have more leisure time on their
hands and can go home early, and kick back with a cold one?
Or does it mean they just get more work that simply happens to be easier to
get done faster, and so on? Easier to go faster to do more faster?

> it does not do the work for them.

Well thank Dog for that. Hell forbid we'd all have time on our hands to
*gasp* Play. Oh my Vishnu! I said a dirty word! Play. By the blood of Allah,
I said it again!

> Any serious architect (ie. one who works for a living) knows that good
design and
> profitability are both important - it is a business - and *that* is
honest,
> dignified work.

What kind of work do you see as undignified?
Is TekCAD open source/free software? Sorry, that's TekCAD Pro. Damn-it, I
keep forgetting the 'Pro'.

Here's a suggestion: Change the name of TekCAD Pro to something like FunCAD
Play.

> If you've got robots who can do creative architectural design

I think we already do. They're called people.

> - Dave
>
> "Private" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "brudgers"
> > > Interesting that there is no mention of the architect who actually
> > designed
> > > it.
> >
> > That's a good point, brudgers, but apparently it's Starnet Corporation-
> > perhaps an affiliate of TekCAD- that did the roof- using TekCAD 2, by
the
> > way.
> > (Which looks alot like Per's H3D, by the way- plus the triangularity.
> Sorry,
> > Per.)
> >
> > People are just necessary evils of running a business in the interest of
> > making money, and yet they require money to buy the stuff that spits off
> the
> > assembly lines, and ultimately, like a used Swiffer cloth, into the
> > landfill.
> >
> > Architects need to be replaced by robots so that they may be employed
for
> > more mundane, if more difficult to do by robots tasks, such as
> > garbage-collecting, assembly-line garbage recycling and custom kitchen
> > deliveries. Immigrants sign up.
> > Now there's honest, dignified work, and we all know that Jobs are
> priorities
> > for the health and well-being of the Economy.
> > The Economy comes first.
> >
> > ...Where was I... Oh yeah...
> >
> > A quote from the site:
> > "The covering for this facility is a 85,000 square foot roof being
> developed
> > by Starnet Corporation of Longwood, Florida. Using a custom-enhanced
> version
> > of TekCAD 2 Pro and bringing in TekStar's creative, design and
engineering
> > services, Starnet has produced this roof design as tribute to
> > transportation - a 'moving wave' undulating over the station... The
> > versatility of TekCAD 2 is a perfect fit for the building system."
> >
> > Wait a minute, sorry, that's TekCAD 2 Pro. I forgot the 'Pro' part, as
you
> > can see.
> >
> > The Software Is the Professional.
> >
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > > "Dave Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > The roof of the structure represents a "moving wave" - four
> spaceframes
> > > > combined to provide coverage to the city's newly designed bus
> terminal.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.tekcad.com/email/
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> > > > David J Anderson / Chief Technical Officer
> > > >   TekStar International Corporation
> > > >   www.tekcad.com
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