OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

[Drew Van Zandt]

At college (1995 or so in specific) I noticed a definite correlation between
engineering students whom I would actually trust to design something my life
depended on (bridges, pacemakers, etc.) and the ability to do math without a
fancy calculator.  The newer graphing calculators doing all the systems of
equations etc. for you just made the divide all the more apparent.

Naturally, as a *nix geek, I had only a reg'lar old calculator  (TI-35X
4-eva).  I'm cutting-edge like that.

I still think graphing calculators are dumb.  A regular calculator because
carrying around sine and cosine tables is easier that way, and then
MathCAD/Matlab/etc. for serious number crunching.
</caneshaking>

--DTVZ

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:

> On Wed, April 28, 2010 12:07 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
>
> > It is the same thing as learning how to add, subtract, multiply and
> > divide before you start using a calculator.
>
> In '76, my grandfather -- a mathematician -- bought me my first
> calculator.  (A 7-digit red LED Commodore, no less.  And, yes, that's the
> same Commodore.)  My next-door-neighbor predicted the demise of all
> abilities to compute when our brains went soft because of calculators.
> Fast-forward to high-school physics, and our teacher decided to force logs
> on us... by way of a sliderule.  I was the fastest in my class -- but it
> still made me wonder if similarly-dire Luddite-esque predictions hadn't
> been made when they'd come along.
>
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