Today, in the bus to work...

Oh don;t ge me started... The computing teracher I had at school was sufficiently clueless that I failed the exam (at the tiem of taking said exam I could progrom in BASIC, pascal and forth and had hand-wired my own Z80-based computer). Now I'll happily admit to not knowing all sorts of areas of computing, but this was not an advanced exam.... I also never had a signle maths or physics teacher who I regarded as clueful. Fortunately I did a rather better job of teaching myself the good bits of those subjects. What I find suprising is that the books I have on telephony, going back over 100 years, don't mention them either. [...] I once looked at a physics syllabus and my first comment was 'Well, most of the things here are downright wrong'. I don't mean things like Newtonian mechanics. We all know that's an apporximation, but it's a darn good approxiamtion for normal-sized ogjects moving at normal speeds, and I would not call it 'wrong'. -tony