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2004 / Sunday Funny
« on: February 08, 2004, 09:56:59 PM »
The Evolution Of Math Assignments

Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?

Teaching Math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set "L" of lumber for a set "M" of money. The cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set "M." The set "C", the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set "M." Represent the set "C" as a subset of set "M" and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set "P" of profits?

Teaching Math in 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

Teaching Math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? What's wrong about it? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? (There are no wrong answers.)

Teaching Math in 2000: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $120. How does Arthur Andersen determine that his profit margin is $60? And how many documents were shredded to achieve this number?

Teaching Math in 2010: El Loggero se habla con el truckero y se ponen de acuerdo con otro driver de la competencia de su "Boss". Entonces, tomen una siesta. Como se puede ganar dinero in este manera?

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2003 / Xfer OS 9.2.2 to new partition?
« on: June 13, 2003, 09:20:23 PM »
It should work fine but one thing you should probably do is to make sure you're booted from something other than the OS 9 volume you plan on copying over to the new partition. It's generally not a great idea to copy an active System Folder, at least not an OS 9 System Folder (although it will usually work this method is frowned on by Apple).

Jim

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2003 / TechTool 4 email
« on: May 24, 2003, 10:12:39 PM »
You're way ahead of me if you received an email from Micromat. I ordered Tech Tool 4 as soon as they announced it but I haven't gotten squat from them so it's nice to know what the status is.  thanx.gif

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