Shake My Head

[CADplans]

Us old guys can do math in our head,,,
the Millennials can program the new Samsung S7 phone,,, which,,, I would bet,,,
fewer than 10% of the OCC members could do,,,

Did I mention that I love my S7,,, because I have two Millennials to program it for me,,,

Yea,, I can count to 22,,,,,

[DoubleO7]

karma is a bitch ain't it?

Nothing changes, does it?

[bocephus1991]

Yeah and what's worse is these people vote!

[dbuck]

Originally Posted by zippy1

Why "most" can't count is because they have calculators to do the figuring for them. Don't need to use their fingers as I did.

Zippy 1, how true that is. My very first basic engineering math class, in college. When you walked in the classroom door, their was a table beside the door the Prof. stated everyone that has calculators/slide rules put them on the table. The question was asked, why. The Prof. stated that every problem would be worked out by hand. The reason being, what if your in the field and the batteries die, how are you going to solve the problem. Half the class walked out the door. Not me.

[ol'George]

Originally Posted by bocephus1991

Yeah and what's worse is these people vote!

AND REPRODUCE!

[RedOnes]

the Prof. stated everyone that has calculators/slide rules put them on the table. The question was asked, why. The Prof. stated that every problem would be worked out by hand. The reason being, what if your in the field and the batteries die, how are you going to solve the problem.

Don , you should have told the Prof. that slide rules dont take batteries...

But slide rules were only good for approximations .I remember seeing my first calculator in about 1970 which cost around $100.
I think that was about my weekly salary back then.

[ol'George]

My slide rule cost me $39.95 @ sears with a real leather case
that was back in '66

[RedOnes]

Originally Posted by ol'George

My slide rule cost me $39.95 @ sears with a real leather case
that was back in '66

In some ways we have seen great advances but when I was a kid I expected to see flying cars for daily travel and robots to do my housework by the 21st century.

[Terry C]

Originally Posted by CADplans

Us old guys can do math in our head,,,
the Millennials can program the new Samsung S7 phone,,, which,,, I would bet,,,
fewer than 10% of the OCC members could do,,,

Did I mention that I love my S7,,, because I have two Millennials to program it for me,,,

Yea,, I can count to 22,,,,,

I have a little sympathy for the computer age kids.
When I started programming CNC machines I solved geometry by
hand. Then we got AutoCad and I used it to solve tool paths.
Now I use Mastercam that is both drafting and writing G-code that the
machine understands.
Every once in awhile I will solve some geometry by hand just to remember the old days. I know the kids coming out of tech school will probably not know how to use trig tables or even write their own G-code. But they probably will never have to. I will never go back to writing my own code. CAM packages are faster at it and don't make mistakes.

[dbuck]

Originally Posted by RedOnes

Don , you should have told the Prof. that slide rules dont take batteries...

But slide rules were only good for approximations .I remember seeing my first calculator in about 1970 which cost around $100.
I think that was about my weekly salary back then.

It did not make any difference to the Prof., you were not going to use it in his classroom. Sometime around the mid 80's I seen a slide rule that used two batteries. My first engineering calulator was a TI, I think I paid around 125$.