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No but if they had the climate orbiter probably wouldn't have crashed. The thing about computers and calculators is they are GIGO - we've come to trust the numbers. Whereas with a slide rule (as pointed out in the NPR audio) you get a better feel for whether the answer you just got is right or...

I'm just leading change: just out today. The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put A Man On The Moon : NPR Ed : NPR And this thread has already gone full slide rule. You are indeed missing out. Listen to the soothing voice of NPR speaking to your soul: "The most amazing thing about...

More likely elemental sodium placed on the kindling. Good for you - hopefully a nice Versalog - unfortunately a lot of overinflated rulers for sale on ebay by shitty sellers who don't understand that no one is going to buy a slide rule with a broken cursor or in otherwise crappy condition...

Another anti-slideruleite I see trying to shut down me speaking truth to power. Science thread is that way Buddy if you want derp talk about fusion -> By my count this is the third thread discussing the Lockheed press release. @Selix No. But using your analogy - calculators are like...

Doing homework on Mathematica is going to lead to them not understanding the Math they're doing. The whole point of homework, as you should know, is to help the student find out his weak spots in understanding the subject matter. You say dead. I say sleeping, like King Arthur. And like King...

This is beyond bullshit and shows a lack of understanding of how most people learn math. I will assume that you are some kind of math genius - maybe not Gauss-level, but a genius. Math geniuses exist and they have a completely different relationship with math than the rest of us. For the...

And I posted evidence that the teachers and the NEA massively support the Democratic party. I take it you totally ignored all the news about the AP US History Changes and the fact that Common Core Science insists that carbon dioxide caused global warming is factual?

Exactly. You're not going to learn math if Mathematica or your graphing calculator is doing all the work.

Mathematica is even worse. Thanks to Mathematica we know have engineering students trying to cheat their way on their complex variables test because they have no fucking clue how to solve anything, since they used Mathematica to do all their homework. No bullshit. I was talking to a retired...

Lol. You brought up Vietnam buddy - I'm just pointing out reality. LBJ micromanaged the war in Vietnam which is a big reason we lost. Always a problem when a President thinks he's a "Better General than his Generals". If you want to think that teachers and the NEA are conservative, I don't...

Unless of course, you take the time to explain what you're handing them. As with TheBeagle, I really think you should at least spend some time trying them out. The ISRM actually has a slide rule loaner program - the few classes that have used the loaner program seemed to have done alright...

Go buy yourself a slide rule from ebay (I highly recommend you start with a Versalog I and associated Versalog manual The V2 is the better slide rule but usually way more expensive. Pickett is a good, much cheaper option if you just want to screw around) or play around with the link (not that...

/aside I honestly don't know which is the better movie Office Space or Idiocracy. One is true of our time, one seems prescient of our future. All hail Mike Judge

Well specifically with Vietnam, LBJ basically hogtied the Generals in the DoD and limited what they could do. If we had gone all-in in Vietnam we would have won. Anyone who says different is smoking something. Our public education system is now a feeder system for fat little liberal idiots...

At this point kids are getting scared off math - the reason why I push slide rules is that you can give a kid a basic 6 or 7 scale Darmstadt (or simpler) slide rule and tell him (or her) that he can calculate anything. Take your calculator most blow up after 1^99 or 1^-99- doesn't happen with a...

If we had fought North Vietnam using WWII philosophy of war we would have won: regardless of whether we used WWII era weapons or Vietnam era weapons.

Funnily enough my first response to Khalid initially mentioned that - that people are rationally lazy in MMOs as well. But I cut it, and I'm glad I did, or I wouldn't have seen the mind blown jpg. @Beagle You can do all that with slide rules - that's how the cool kids did it in the 1960s...

Nope. Slide rules force you to learn about orders of magnitude are the best way to learn logarithms/introduce students to isomorphisms - let me elaborate: most people learn better visually and you actually see the translation in front of you when you are using your slide rule to multiply 557 x...

I said I wouldn't derail the thread again - but since you asked: Abacus is fine too. Still big in China, which seems to be doing okay in the math department. Nobody should be using calculators or CAS to learn math - slide rules, log tables, abacus, pen & paper: all good. Calculator...

Last derail on this. But if you want your eyes to bleed for a reason other than Ebola here's a link to a Texas High School Slide Rule Competitive Mathematics Test from the early 70s. Early problems could probably be solved as quickly or quicker with a calculator than a slide rule but by...

For those who don't know what a log-log ruler can look like ->

You say that like slide rules are weaksauce. There is a direct relationship to the decline of American High School math scores and the introduction of the cheap electronic calculator. We should junk calculators for High School math and force the kids to use log-log slide rulers - gives...

For better or worse, best memories were of Vanguard. I had already been accepted into law school when EQ came out so I knew I couldn't get hooked and stayed away for the better part of three years except for the occasional "playing a friend's alt account like a newb when visiting scenario."...

Life is full of hard choices Keg.

Eliminate one name from the pair: Araysar Zyyzyzzy Fanaskin Abebisi Luminati Gavinrad - I'm rooting for you buddy! lurkingdirk Iannis TJ Lazer Duppin Oneofone - feels wrong to vote for myself Sean Screamfeeder - neither but Screamfeeder wants it more...

Also this.

You've got a bet on Araysar with a Vegas bookie.

Final Four: Me, Araysar, a_skeleton_03, Gavinrad. Also my bracket with Duppin, a_skeleton_03 with Dumar and Gavinrad with Chaos/Lurkingdirk is far harder than Araysar's.

Lum and Antony. Meh on the others.

Alpha signups on the site. Link gave me a reply in Chinese so no idea if I managed to sign up for the NA Alpha or not.

Is there a No Bush?

Pirates. Fuck yeah! Annoying it's been in a year since the Trion announcement and no beta in sight.

Pretty damn good. I need to rewatch.

Too much Slash!

In the episode at grandpas, the girls are out on the lake they're fishing or wtf. Maise says something like "lets ask grandpa for help", Audry immediately replies something like "Not grandpa". Maise asks for help from grandpa anyway. So yeah he's a pedophile, only question is whether he is...

27 dead in knife attack at SW China train station Fuck gun control. We need knife control. Stat.

For you buddy, the world.

I don't give a fuck what you or the rest of the Aryasar idiot brigade thinks, I do however get annoyed that y'all fuckers shit up every thread, all the time. Classic liberal bullshit - yell something loud enough and long enough until the other side says fuck it and gets a beer.