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Zehn Vhex, Grey, myself and a few others discussed almost (but not quite) everything (weapons giving abilities the only thing we missed) that went into the design document for EQNext in an FoHguild.org circlejerk thread circa 2007 or so and then had almost the same conversation again after...

Time is a flat circle.

Good example of Smed's incompetence. He bought Vanguard as a favor to his buddy Brad (Nepotism = idiot star). Found out it was buggier than chicken farm in August (No due diligence prior to a major purchase = idiot star). Then proceeded to ignore it for a few years until he got the Freemium...

Good. He was an twit who let personal feelings fuck up his design decisions (to whit: killing off the trinity for EQN because of God knows what relationship tragedy).

Smed was never competent. He got lucky with EQ in 1999 and milked that for years and years. In any other industry someone who took the number one selling product/IP and turned it into an also ran would have been fired long, long ago.

If you cancel every game in development, SOE would still be worth purchasing for the EverQuest IP. That said, while I loathe Landmark with the white hot passion of a Kurdish separatist, Landmark, unlike EQN, HZzzz, EQ or EQ2, has multi-platform breakout potential if the new owners make it more...

She has admitted to masturbating in bed with her sister when she was 17 - and the grooming the little sister sexual predator bullshit happened long after Dunham was 7. With respect to the 7 year old checking out her sister with the pebbles in the vagina thing. Her sister was 1 year old...

I gather you are trying to rickshaw the thread. Eh okay.

The Decline of Western Civilization.

Either your professor didn't make you solve word problems or you completely misunderstand me when I differentiated (pun intended)above between problems that required numerical solutions (which includes word problems) and problems that didn't (what's the second derivative of y= e^(x tan theta) *...

Then you guys are fucking geniuses and God bless you for that. Me I don't have log tables memorized like you guys clearly do so when I get a word problem on (for example) Newton's Law of Cooling if we're say covering Exp Growth and Decay and it turns out that the k in dy/dt = ky = (ln...

Because I already proved my point about Stevens and Graphing calculators. If you can't figure out why I linked the AP Calc requirements that you have to have a graphing calculator I don't know what to say except stop smoking weed. @Mario and when was that?

Nope. Better switch it out for an astrolabe.

Dude, there are hundreds and hundreds of graphing questions early on and hundreds and hundreds of CAS questions later. Stewart even has a little graphic for it. Some perspective: AP Calculus AB Calculator Policy @Joeboo - Unfortunately, it may be a while. Abaci don't really count as...

You don't know what you're talking about:

Drafting tools are very cool - no clue how to use them beyond a compass for circles/arcs. I've been meaning to buy a set from ebay for a while, just keep getting distracted by other things. Two big things missing from the list of paleotechnology are records (and record players) & vacuum tube...

Lol. Have you not been following the original thread? Every calculus class everywhere, AFAIK - maybe Caltech and MIT do it differently, and in most cases graphing calculators - have you never seen James Stewart's Calculus textbook?

It's good to be appreciated.

Since you asked (spoilered for length): Title reflects the fact that slide rules are just part of a the whole range of paleotechnologies which are dead or dying because of progress and rational laziness. Film is an example of a current technology that is rapidly becoming a paleotechnology...

But it has to be running ontop of some kind of mini-CAS. In any event rational laziness is winning the day. @Sabbat I want to wax philosophical about slide rules for a second - and I'm paraphrasing someone who I can't find on the web right now - not my idea originally, but I agree with...

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No but if they had the climate orbiter probably wouldn't have crashed. The thing about computers and calculators is they are GIGO - we've come to trust the numbers. Whereas with a slide rule (as pointed out in the NPR audio) you get a better feel for whether the answer you just got is right or...

I'm just leading change: just out today. The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put A Man On The Moon : NPR Ed : NPR And this thread has already gone full slide rule. You are indeed missing out. Listen to the soothing voice of NPR speaking to your soul: "The most amazing thing about...

More likely elemental sodium placed on the kindling. Good for you - hopefully a nice Versalog - unfortunately a lot of overinflated rulers for sale on ebay by shitty sellers who don't understand that no one is going to buy a slide rule with a broken cursor or in otherwise crappy condition...

Another anti-slideruleite I see trying to shut down me speaking truth to power. Science thread is that way Buddy if you want derp talk about fusion -> By my count this is the third thread discussing the Lockheed press release. @Selix No. But using your analogy - calculators are like...

Doing homework on Mathematica is going to lead to them not understanding the Math they're doing. The whole point of homework, as you should know, is to help the student find out his weak spots in understanding the subject matter. You say dead. I say sleeping, like King Arthur. And like King...

This is beyond bullshit and shows a lack of understanding of how most people learn math. I will assume that you are some kind of math genius - maybe not Gauss-level, but a genius. Math geniuses exist and they have a completely different relationship with math than the rest of us. For the...

And I posted evidence that the teachers and the NEA massively support the Democratic party. I take it you totally ignored all the news about the AP US History Changes and the fact that Common Core Science insists that carbon dioxide caused global warming is factual?

Exactly. You're not going to learn math if Mathematica or your graphing calculator is doing all the work.

Mathematica is even worse. Thanks to Mathematica we know have engineering students trying to cheat their way on their complex variables test because they have no fucking clue how to solve anything, since they used Mathematica to do all their homework. No bullshit. I was talking to a retired...

Lol. You brought up Vietnam buddy - I'm just pointing out reality. LBJ micromanaged the war in Vietnam which is a big reason we lost. Always a problem when a President thinks he's a "Better General than his Generals". If you want to think that teachers and the NEA are conservative, I don't...

Unless of course, you take the time to explain what you're handing them. As with TheBeagle, I really think you should at least spend some time trying them out. The ISRM actually has a slide rule loaner program - the few classes that have used the loaner program seemed to have done alright...

Go buy yourself a slide rule from ebay (I highly recommend you start with a Versalog I and associated Versalog manual The V2 is the better slide rule but usually way more expensive. Pickett is a good, much cheaper option if you just want to screw around) or play around with the link (not that...

/aside I honestly don't know which is the better movie Office Space or Idiocracy. One is true of our time, one seems prescient of our future. All hail Mike Judge

Well specifically with Vietnam, LBJ basically hogtied the Generals in the DoD and limited what they could do. If we had gone all-in in Vietnam we would have won. Anyone who says different is smoking something. Our public education system is now a feeder system for fat little liberal idiots...

At this point kids are getting scared off math - the reason why I push slide rules is that you can give a kid a basic 6 or 7 scale Darmstadt (or simpler) slide rule and tell him (or her) that he can calculate anything. Take your calculator most blow up after 1^99 or 1^-99- doesn't happen with a...

If we had fought North Vietnam using WWII philosophy of war we would have won: regardless of whether we used WWII era weapons or Vietnam era weapons.

Funnily enough my first response to Khalid initially mentioned that - that people are rationally lazy in MMOs as well. But I cut it, and I'm glad I did, or I wouldn't have seen the mind blown jpg. @Beagle You can do all that with slide rules - that's how the cool kids did it in the 1960s...

Nope. Slide rules force you to learn about orders of magnitude are the best way to learn logarithms/introduce students to isomorphisms - let me elaborate: most people learn better visually and you actually see the translation in front of you when you are using your slide rule to multiply 557 x...