Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 03:11:18 -0500 Message-ID: <5616252A.60FB@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 01:11:22 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics Subject: Re: green stars References: <560E3D7D.3AA6@ix.netcom.com> <560E3D7D.3AA6@ix.netcom.com> <5K2dnZbXR87wN4jLnZ2dnUU7-TmdnZ2d@giganews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-tHQieCtIlRKzV1gQpUVAjAsNGRTQqr8AFRA9mxxVfhq9gERiCQBZhPur1bnpJzxthL22RHWxlTukSsF!jcv9tKWII+5N4DXNYKLHIF0MAK0yendhqTg4fKySq1tJxWSYdBrT0DLnsVghV7H9wXPpTWM25i1+!JeX7807m X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2712 X-Received-Bytes: 2824 X-Received-Body-CRC: 692658454 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:424299 sci.physics:525246 Greg Goss wrote: > > Yousuf Khan wrote: > > >I think all of us who went through engineering in the 80's and 90's had > >to deal with brain-dead method of teaching. The teachers weren't ready > >yet for the new world of calculators and computers, and they were > >actively resisting it. People in the late 90's and beyond probably > >didn't have to go through this problem. > > 80s and 90s? I got a scientific calculator in grade 10 in 1973. > There was resistance to using it up to 75. I never ran into any > objections to using it in college after 1975. > > The "rubber book" I got cheap in 1975 because it was the previous > edition was, I think, the last edition to include log and trig tables. > The next edition was a fifth the size because you were expected to do > trig on your calculator. > > Was there still resistance in the 80s to calculators? Really? Where? > -- > We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current. you don't have a resistance if you don't know how to calculate... people who didn't know hot to add 3+2 were very happy with calculators.. Now, those other symbols on the calculator...had no use for it. a waste of space if you ask me.