My wife teaches fifth grade and tells me that her kids can't tell time on an analog clock. They grew up in a digital world! Most analog devices are more accurate than their digital counter parts. Take the clock, there is an infinite number of places between the 12 and the 1. -------------- Original message from Thomas Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: --------------
> ====== Robert A. Rosenberg ====== wrote 2008-08-09 06:29: > > At 11:43 AM -0500 on 8/6/08, Rick Fochtman wrote about Re: California's > > COBOL payroll system: > > > > When second-graders are permitted to use calculators for arithmetic > > > > Something predicted over 60 years ago in a story by Science Fiction > > Author Isaac Asimov. In his story, set in the far future, everyone uses > > a Hand Calculator and the concept of being able to do arithmetic by hand > > is not even imagined until a mathematical genus reinvents arithmetic by > > studying the results produced by his Hand Calculator. > > That story is hilarious ! :) > > > Thomas Berg > > -- > > __________________________ > > Mundus Vult Decipi > __________________________ > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety > deserve neither liberty nor safety. > - Benjamin Franklin > > Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. > - Groucho Marx > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
