From lparkinson@mindspring.com Tue Oct 31 21:00:12 2000 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN: Educational software for adults From: lparkinson@mindspring.com (Laura M. Parkinson) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 02:00:12 GMT mlk@klio.org (Mike Kozlowski) rhapsodized in blue: >In article , >Kenneth G. Cavness wrote: >>I'm getting increasingly annoyed; I'd love to find worthy >>educational software for mathematics (especially >>Trig/EA and Calculus), physics, and a few other things, >>but I can only ever find stuff for children. Are there >>no software companies out there that have continuing >>ed software for adults? > >Screw the software, and just buy textbooks. There are just SO many responses here... 1) But depending on the size of the disk, couldn't that hurt? 2) Isn't that a great way to pick up a virus? 3) I hope you're using copy protection. 4) When they said how much "RAM" it takes, I didn't realize THAT's how they meant it... 5) Well if you're screwing it, it probably isn't all that "soft" anymore, is it? 6) Well THAT's gonna be difficult if you're using a "floppy." 7) I don't think that's on my list of proper cleaning solutions. 8) And they said that computer geeks find it hard to get sex... I think that's enough for now. -- -'-,-'-<<0 Trickster 0>>-'-,-'- lparkinson@mindspring.com http://lparkinson.home.mindspring.com "Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." -Richard Adams, Watership Down