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Choice Votes   Percent
Mid teens, might get through secondary school 2 1.1%   
Late teens, as soon as college starts 15 7.9%   
Early twenties, a couple years into college 61 32.3%   
Late twenties, the spouse insisted on it 22 11.6%   
Thirties, my kids are embarassed to talk to me on #tcpa 8 4.2%   
Forties, my kids have more downloads than me 3 1.6%   
Fifties, I need to retire at some point 4 2.1%   
Five months after death, when my last file is processed posthumously 74 39.2%   

Survey posted 2005-03-02 07:03 by Jon.

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Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Jonathan Katz  Account Info
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Survey idea by Morgan.

And I will never retire.

Reply to this comment    2 March 2005, 07:04 GMT

Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Timmc Account Info
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You could've put "I will never retire." as an option. ;-P
Hopefully by the time I have to consider that, the internet will be free.

Reply to this comment    2 March 2005, 07:53 GMT

Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
KermMartian Account Info
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I voted "Five months after death, when my last file is processed posthumously", which is pretty much "never".

Reply to this comment    2 March 2005, 13:24 GMT

Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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Hey just take what you get and stop complainin, I was sure I covered all bases considering I went to 5 months after death. It after all is pretty hard to be apart of a community if you have passed on!!

And to quote several ticalc staffers in the past..."You don't like it, then submit your own" :-)

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 03:28 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Timmc Account Info
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Heh, I think I've submitted a few in the past. =P
Here's one:
"If a HP49G+ had Omnicalc like the Ti-83+SE should it be banned from VCE Exams too?
- Yes, I don't care about HP
- Yes, it gives students an unfair advantage as they can switch between Virtual OS'
- No, any calculators should be allowed
- No, I love HP calcs!"
*some thing can be said for 84+SE. They seem to be slowly allowing us to use any calc, but not until next year. No offense, but it was all thanks to Omnicalc.

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 06:10 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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Do said exams allow the usage of the TI-89 or 92?

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 14:39 GMT


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tdavis07 Account Info

Probably Not the 92. Most exams don't allow Calcs with the Qwerty keyboard (92,92+,V200)

Reply to this comment    6 March 2005, 18:00 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
BlackThunder  Account Info
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Which is an outrage.

Reply to this comment    6 March 2005, 19:59 GMT


Outrage?
Jake Griffin  Account Info
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Why is it an outrage? First of all, why would you even buy the V200/92(+) when there's the 89? It has everything they have, except the larger screen (and the extremely small "keyboard"). If you are gonna say "because of the bigger screen," then you need to seriously think about this: If you got the calc for the bigger screen, then you most likely wanted the bigger screen for the games. So, when are you going to start complaining that they won't let you use your gameboy on the test?

Reply to this comment    7 March 2005, 17:25 GMT


Re: Outrage?
Coolv  Account Info
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It has a very big advantage with games...

Reply to this comment    7 March 2005, 20:42 GMT


Re: Re: Outrage?
Jake Griffin  Account Info
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My point was that if you get it for the games, don't complain when you can't use it for the math...

Reply to this comment    8 March 2005, 06:34 GMT


Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Jonathan Katz  Account Info
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Well, "I will never retire" is really only an option for me, since I plan on merging myself with the server. Hopefully I won't be the bottleneck in processing, that would hurt my pride :\

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 17:04 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Jake Griffin  Account Info
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Hey, I can program in my sleep; why couldn't I do it while I was dead?

Reply to this comment    7 March 2005, 17:27 GMT

Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
JfG  Account Info
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That's a pretty interesting poll.

(Probably early twenties, a couple years into college)

Reply to this comment    2 March 2005, 15:49 GMT

Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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I like the survey options. :-P

I suppose for me, it will be when I get into college. I bet I'll have a lot less free time then so I won't hang around here as much (my free time is already decreasing with harder classes in high school). However, "retire" could be taken more than one way. If by retire, you mean to stop publishing programs for calculators, then I've already done that, more or less. (I just keep all the stuff I make to myself) If you mean leaving entirely, then the answer is when college comes around.

That isn't to say that you'll never see me again. As much as some of you would like to get rid of me (:-)), I'm sure I'll drop by every now and then to post a comment when I get the chance. I mean, I've been coming here since I was 12. I have a bunch of great memories of the stupid stuff I did (*coughPARADE!cough*), so completely leaving the site and never coming back might be impossible.

Reply to this comment    2 March 2005, 20:51 GMT

Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
KermMartian Account Info
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w00t! Parade! Those were the good ol' days, all right. You and I and rctParrotHead and Lord_Nightrose flaming each other... :D

Reply to this comment    2 March 2005, 22:52 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
tifreak8x  Account Info
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dangit Kerm, you really need to get this double posting under control... (Inside joke...)

I probably will never quit, since I keep finding cool projects to work on, and it takes me forever to finish the ones that I have.

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 02:01 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
amateur Account Info
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kerm, dude I am amazed by the amount of progress you've made (against all odds!) in your calculator endeavors since I last checked out your stuff. Keep up the great work! You have pretty cool stuff & some great ideas.

I am presently pretty much retired from the TI community. I programmed a few basic progs, a few Assembly, wrote a few tutorials and now i guess my time's done with that. I'm on to the big gunz now (PC coding) - where the money is ;)

Ticalc is a still an interesting read now and then though.

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 03:11 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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*laughs* Yeah, Kerm, you have come a long way. :-D Remember the original TI-BASIC DoorsXP? Hehe, that's okay though, just look at some of the awful programming in my author profile. I remember when I was so proud of that BASIC Baseball game I made. Ahh yes, those certainly were the good ol' days.

On the flip side, programming for BASIC stuff, even though it was bad, did give me a nice "boost" into more complex things outside of the calculator spectrum.

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 05:48 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
KermMartian Account Info
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Yeah, those BASIC programs did help me to realize the limitations of the language and prompt me to move onto ASM. Would you believe that I have a completely-assembly Doors CS 5 release nearly ready? Remember this:

<<<
Doors XP is a **MULTITASKING!!** GUI interface that autodetects ASM, SOS, Ash, and BASIC programs. It includes an incredibly fast mouse program and drivers for connecting a real (!!) mouse through the linkport. It is very similar to Windows XP, with a start menu, My Documents and My Pictures folders, Word XP and Excel XP, and many other incredibly cool programs such as Media Player XP that can play music! This program will be a major breakthrough in TI shells, and can be used as an alternative to the TI-OS. Once run for the first time, it can shutdown, restart, and includes the option of a secure, integrated, uncrackable password protection program. It allows multiple usernames with separate preferences for each user. Respond or email me at Kerm_Martian@yahoo.com if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions. It can multitask up to 4 programs at once! It can even make temporary interrupt programs so that a number crunching program can run while you are playing a game!

I need beta testers to test it out. I especially need skilled porters to convert it to TI-83+ ASM and Flash.

Please email me at Kerm_Martian@yahoo.com if you can help.
>>>

All of this is actually true now, except for the multitasking.

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 17:31 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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YES! I remember that quote! "I especially need skilled porters to convert it to TI-83+ ASM and Flash." <-- That part always cracked me up. It sounds like it's some huge shell and then at the end, you realize it's all BASIC (and of course, almost none of that is possible in BASIC). Then you eventually did get the mouse to work and I didn't believe it at first, lol. I was kinda rude with the flaming...

Speaking of which, I don't think I ever apolgized to Michael Vincent for all the stuff I said way back then about the post deletion. I was really immature. So, I'll take this time now to publicly retract all the brainless statements I made because I do feel bad about that. Thinking back, I'm actually surprised I was never banned. I made more spam than anybody else here. So thanks for putting up with my stupid childish behavior. You can be sure I'll never do that again.

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 21:10 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
KermMartian Account Info
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I actually did have a 28-page long ASM source code of "v0.1 beta" that had fun stuff like:

ld a,5000d

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 21:45 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info
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I had forgotten about the whole comment deletion business...yeah, I posted all kinds of incredibly immature and nasty things too, and I'd REALLY like to apologize (and MV, I truly don't blame you if you hate my guts, so to speak). :-[ It's embarrassing just thinking about it now...

Reply to this comment    5 March 2005, 02:17 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
W Hibdon  Account Info
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And all this being said, this thread will be gone in the morning. But, I remember it like it just happened.

-W-

Reply to this comment    7 March 2005, 02:05 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Lewk Of Serthic  Account Info
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speaking of which, there seems to be an unusual amount of mostly worthless 83+ BASIC programs lately.

Reply to this comment    4 March 2005, 04:47 GMT


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tifreak8x  Account Info
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I am glad that most of mine are not worthless. :)

One of my better programs is still sitting inside the blasted pending file. And I have restarted a couple of my older projects.

Reply to this comment    4 March 2005, 16:27 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
KermMartian Account Info
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:D Someone emailed me today asking to beta-test this.

Reply to this comment    8 March 2005, 23:33 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
W Hibdon  Account Info
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Oh, I see how it is. What am I? Chopped Liver? psht.

-W-

Reply to this comment    7 March 2005, 02:02 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Jake Griffin  Account Info
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As a matter of fact... ;) j/k

Reply to this comment    7 March 2005, 17:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
slimey_limey  Account Info
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I would talk more, but ticalc.org is blocked at school.

I've been doing lots of Linux C programming lately. Am working on learning raw assembly. (Converting it into hex for Exec "4E444E750000" using my M68000 manual during class, that's how _real_ men do it.)

For the curious, that statement executes trap number four, which allows you to turn off the calculator from a basic program.

Reply to this comment    4 March 2005, 05:02 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
slimey_limey  Account Info
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Of course, that's on a M68000 calc (89/92 series).

Reply to this comment    4 March 2005, 05:04 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Coolv  Account Info
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Blocked at school??? My school uses SonicWall and ticalc.org isn;t blocked... :/

Reply to this comment    4 March 2005, 16:32 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Andree Chea  Account Info

Our district is using Websense and ticalc.org isn't blocked also... come to think of it, I bet I'm the only one at my school who visits ticalc.org :P And I will stay with you guys for as long as I can :)

Michael V., your HS used Websense too, right? Just want to make sure if it's district-wide...

Reply to this comment    5 March 2005, 05:54 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Coolv  Account Info
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"Come to think of it, I bet I'm the only one at my school who visits ticalc.org :P"

I hear ya!

Reply to this comment    7 March 2005, 21:38 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
slimey_limey  Account Info
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Well, we use Bess from N2H2. They say "games". Feh.

Reply to this comment    6 March 2005, 20:51 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Exbzurg Account Info

just use thevirtualbrowser.com . just watch the ads though...

Reply to this comment    6 March 2005, 22:07 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
W Hibdon  Account Info
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Yeah, N2H2 sucks hard. We should DNS them until they give it up.

-W-

Reply to this comment    7 March 2005, 02:07 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
W Hibdon  Account Info
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umm... DoS attack

Reply to this comment    7 March 2005, 02:08 GMT

Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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HAHA...Jon I knew you were going to change the last one :-) ya little shit!! lol

Anybody interested in the original can email me, it was somewhat slanderish to ticalc.org :-)

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 03:26 GMT

Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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BAH...you changed the 'Fifties' option too...that one was gold! Ok now this is personal!

Reply to this comment    3 March 2005, 05:16 GMT


Re: Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
nicklaszlo Account Info
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Can former staff members have their posts deleted?

Reply to this comment    8 March 2005, 03:27 GMT


Re: Re: At what age do you think you will retire from the calculator community?
tim qiao  Account Info

I will never retire!!!

Reply to this comment    6 March 2005, 01:16 GMT

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