Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.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: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:04:09 -0500 Message-ID: <56189C4D.9DB@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 22:04:13 -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,sci.math Subject: Re: green stars References: <560E3D7D.3AA6@ix.netcom.com> <560E3D7D.3AA6@ix.netcom.com> <5K2dnZbXR87wN4jLnZ2dnUU7-TmdnZ2d@giganews.com> <5616252A.60FB@ix.netcom.com> <5616D6E2.10FC@ix.netcom.com> <5617408D.5FEE@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 51 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-uVAeT1qjE+C3+tRYYejaaA9fnsp58Yb4g4txyVJnbdjiNatFf1pcT/VnhGpEdpFsI6osKmpOd8tohEb!jTsOUKaWzlrD+FTUIID01lJ1VI6OxW3E/QyHcsnrbzR5Vpn02CChGPNLSV5pNCnR6tqLIK8DT7XI!xXgIGts= 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: 3525 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:424476 sci.physics:525563 sci.math:318123 The Starmaker wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote: > > > > The Starmaker wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > after I figured out the + and the - sign on the calculator.. > > it took years before i figured out what the * was for...nevermind the / > > sign... > > > > i mean...hows is one suppose to know it's giving the right answers???? > > > > i know i must have press the CE button a million times!!!! > > the problem with these little devices is that it is doing the thinking > for you... > besides...those calculators..make mistakes.