Best debater award

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
The difference between a technician and an engineer is a technician is trained in low-level tasks and mostly as someone who fixes things or sets things up. An engineer is the person who designs such things.

That good that you understand the difference.

Have you designed and built anything? Putting together Wintel boxes doesn't count, that's more of an assembly job than anything else.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
That good that you understand the difference.

Have you designed and built anything? Putting together Wintel boxes doesn't count, that's more of an assembly job than anything else.

Yeah, many things.
In the summer I was the sole designer/software engineer for a small business who wanted to automate most of the administrative aspects of the business. It keeps track of customers, models, workorders, etc. It also has a Wizard where the user types in a bunch of measurements, with the type of stair he wants, and it'll generate cutting lists, material usage reports, etc.

Then in school we've done car rental management software, pay-at-the-pump gas systems, algorithmic music-genre classification, basic operating system (interrupt handling, driver development, basic multi-tasking, I/O, GUI), ADC, DSP, and DAC drivers, etc.

For hardware I've designed a VERY basic arithmetic engine in hardware (I refuse to call it a CPU...) and a DSP.

[Az]

ooh, computer prowess penis comparison.

[mindseye]

It's simply impossible to narrow it down to even three. There are far too many great debaters, with different strengths and styles.

Thus, I am left with no way to register my frustration but to vote:

(1) Ned
(2) Ned
(3) Ned

The best debater ... in the entire Nedaverse!

I am assuming that I can give all three votes to one person, right?

[Dr Strangelove]

Ted Striker
GePap
Drogue

I'm not sure that I should be in contention here because I cheat.


I use real facts.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I'm not sure that I should be in contention here because I cheat.


I use real facts.

HAVE YOU NO SHAME!

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Ted Striker


These are the worst kinds of debates.


Philosophical clan wars.

Too categorical.

Too "sophomore in college getting first taste of independence and smoked too much before coming to class and is starting to reshape world view based on limited amount of new knowledge" annoying.

Yeah, I SPECIFY that I am not Hobbesian, and that makes the debate 'CATEGORICAL'?

When you have a debate about rights of nature, you will almost certainly, in some way, be referencing Hobbes.

I also defy you to point out where it is that we pretended to change the world on the basis of a few chapters in some book.

Then again, I might say that you are an old bastard, who can't get a screw with any half-decent woman, and whose topic of interest is how familial subsidies will affect payment on your wife's car- but wouldn't that be too sophistic for you?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

This is why I love threads like this one. It's a superhighway to little squabbles. Just watch the wounded egos circling.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
This is why I love threads like this one. It's a superhighway to little squabbles. Just watch the wounded egos circling.

Yup, the Jaws theme just rings in my head as I see you post....

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Trolling or Chumming?

[Ned]

Originally posted by mindseye
It's simply impossible to narrow it down to even three. There are far too many great debaters, with different strengths and styles.

Thus, I am left with no way to register my frustration but to vote:

(1) Ned
(2) Ned
(3) Ned

The best debater ... in the entire Nedaverse!

I am assuming that I can give all three votes to one person, right?

Mindseye, I really don't know what to say.

[alva]

Originally posted by Ned


Mindseye, I really don't know what to say.

I love Kerry ?

[Brundlefly]

Another circle-jerk popularity thread in the OT forum.

If you want to find the best debater, set up a topic and have people debate and let everyone vote on the winner. If you want a popularity contest, you set up a thread like this...

[GePap]

Originally posted by bfg9000
Another circle-jerk popularity thread in the OT forum.

If you want to find the best debater, set up a topic and have people debate and let everyone vote on the winner. If you want a popularity contest, you set up a thread like this...

How do you chose the participants?

[Imran Siddiqui]

I haven't

Don't you have a wife? In that case you've lost many debates in your lifetime .