On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:03:07 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>>> To be fair, if there were a few more items, you'd probably need to
>>>> write it down just to keep track of it all. But two pencil sharpeners
>>>> which are £1.95 each shouldn't trouble anybody...
>>>
>>> I blame the education system. I don’t know what for but something is
>>> to blame.
>>
>> Technology.  Why should one have to figure out how to do sums when
>> everyone has a phone with a calculator built into it?
> 
> Heh. My phone has a calculator, but it'll take you five minutes to
> figure out which submenu it's burried under. And then to remember which
> key you have to hold for 3 seconds to make the various mathematical
> operators appear...
> 
> (Then again, it'll take you 20 seconds just to cancel out of the random
> submenu that the phone has opened in your pocket for no defined reason.)

Well, that's why I put a shortcut on the screen for it. :)

> It still amuses me when I see people in the lab sitting in front of a PC
> with a 3 GHz dual-core 64-bit processor, and using a desktop calculator
> to work out what numbers to key into the computer. ;-)

It's all about familiarity.  They probably are much faster on a 
calculator keypad. :)

Jim

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