Sentences with phrase «with pocket calculators»

That happened with pocket calculators in classrooms in the 1980s, and connected multimedia mobile devices are now cheaper (in real terms) and far more powerful than calculators were then.

Prophecy buffs clicking away with their pocket calculators, and premillennial preachers who spin a Camp David peace summit in such a way that it appears to rise right off the pages of Ezekiel.

No fumbling with the safe in the back office, or trips to the bank with that zipper envelope, double checking your math with a pocket calculator after closing up shop.

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Initial prototypes are not dissimilar to crude displays on pocket calculators, but electrochromics promises ultra-thin full - colour displays complete with integrated microprocessors, batteries, photovoltaics, wireless antennas and other components, printed out much like paper documents.

If you were one of those engine nerds — who are like fireworks enthusiasts with really, really good pocket calculators — you'd be feeling all excited and sweaty by now.

The chart above shows you how printing your book with Mill City Press puts money directly back into your pocket, and our book printing calculator can help you create a ballpark budget for your project.

This calculator compares two alternatives with equal out of pocket costs to estimate the change in total net - worth, at retirement, if you convert your Traditional IRA into a Roth IRA.

Most market vendors in the more touristy parts of the country (Bangkok, the islands, Chiang Mai and so on) will usually speak enough English to haggle with you — or they'll use a calculator to punch in their asking price before handing it to you to press in a more pocket - friendly price.

Using our model, anyone with a little knowledge of math and physics can determine climate sensitivity relative to CO2 concentration changes not unreliably by using nothing more complex than a pocket calculator.

If you going to get into philosophy of science with climate models, you may as well invoke Occam's Razor and go with Monckton's pocket calculator model that only contains 8 parameters and outperforms all of the more complicated climate models.

For example, if we always have a calculator app right at hand, or a spellcheck feature, working on our basic math and spelling skills isn't exactly a high priority for us, and if we always have access to a game or our newsfeeds, or basically the entire internet all the time, we don't ever have to just sit there and look at the scenery, or connect with other humans, because we have an instant distraction device right in our pocket.