Re: People are too dependant on calculators
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Re: People are too dependant on calculators
Joseph Gaffney wrote:
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> At 12:04 AM 10/24/97 GMT, Scott Kidder wrote:
> >matter of understanding the concepts, which is what you lose when plugging
> >in values into the calc.
>
> You have to remember that we are now in a period of extreme laziness -
> everyone wants something done for them. Whether they take advantage of
> welfare, disability - whatever - this is the way people are. This is why
> they will continue to run other people's programs on a calc rather than
> write their own, using other people's work for their own profit (yet
> intellectual loss).
Glad to be on the programming side of this equation :-)
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