Nice, you all actually decided to say where you got the information from. I congradulate thee, ticalc.org. May such occurances be repeated.

Yep. I didn't see anything on TI's website about it, so I thought that we ought to give credit to the people who posted it... The only reason they knew is probably because they received a shipment.

The reason that this hasn't been done before is that, quite simply, there was no need. Whenever there is a news item, it is generally either from an email sent to news@ticalc.org . In the past, however, when someone informs us of an important event, we have not cited their name as the source, and we will try to do this in the future.

Why don't you guys go into the calculator selling business? Just another good geasture to add to this site. Dim-TI is really shaping up. I've been going there more and more often and here less...

this is basically what's happening here. there's nothing that's really drawing people in. unfortunately, that's the way of the web.

it's hard to introduce an idea that another site (like dim-ti) has come up with without people crying copy cat.

-KAKE
IP
"pulled out his chrome 45 and %#^& wound up dead"

mmmm....i like dim-ti screenshots where are you're screenshots? they also have a nice new layout.

Remember that aritcle posted a while back.. a few hours at least... about respect? Well that also applies to website-related issues. As a general rule, we try to keep our own ideas and not take others' (please don't start replying to that...). We never took ticalc.org's "comments" ideas or other ideas, so I would hope that they wouldn't take ours. To avoid a site-war, please do not respond to this. Particularly, dont respond to anything relating to which site "steals" ideas. This comments section is about the TI-83+, Dimension-TI was just a source :)

They just needed someone to blame in case we were wrong :) Well, I'm not complaining.

Nope, that's not it. Really. Over the past few days we have been discussing a change in this policy, and we'll try to be a lot better in specifying the source for our news items from now on.

Adam, your last comment doesn't show us that you don't want a ti-site war...
Well... about the ti83+, i saw today a flash upgrade for ti82+ on the TI site:
(click URL to see it)
It seems that Dim-TI is right...

There is no such thing as the 82+!!!!

it was a typo.

yes, it was a typo. Sorry.

Um, For your information, Dimension TI posted this information at least a day ago. So if you're wondering about ticalc.org "keeping up with the industry", um well, it's more like "we can copycat the better ones." They're giving credit to Dimension TI so they can build up brownie points. Dimension TI is keeping up with the industry, because they had the information first.

-Fil

Quit trying to start a site war, give some positive comments for christ's sake. If you think so little of ticalc's site and feel the need to bash them, do it on dim-ti's message board and don't ever use this site again because you waste people's time and space on this server.

Oops. I don't want to start a site war. I think it would be good if ticalc.org admitted to blatently firing Bryan, and just suck up to what they did and take the blame. Instead, they've been trying to hide it under a pile of useless news updates and the like.

-Fil

Hmm. We have admitted to firing Bryan (or however you would like to put it). We don't consider it an embarassment, but something we did to help our site in the long run, and that's where it stands. There is nothing to hide, and we are trying to get on with things as best we can -- as should everybody else. We use the same criteria for posting news items as we have all along.

Please let the subject drop -- future comments about this will be trashed, since it is most certainly irrelevant and has been discussed and debated ad nauseum. If you don't approve of how we run our site, then maybe it's not for you.

Chris

My gosh a day before...

The first shipments went out today??? How can that be if I saw a few of them hanging on a hook at my local Best Buy a couple of weeks ago (and yes, I am POSITIVE that they were TI-83 Plus's)?

"Texas Instruments has released"... That implies no time frame at all. It could have been a decade ago. However, coming back to reality, I know that _I_ haven't seen them around anywhere around where I live...

True, but the news item certainly gives you the impression that TI had just released their new calc, with the key words being "...sent out their FIRST shipments..."
Oh, well...perhaps this is the fault of Dimension TI for not posting the article at an accurate time?...

Dimension-TI posted the article as soon as we got our first shipment in. We could not be sure that it was true until then. We specifically said that we had gotten a shipment, not that TI had JUST released it. I don't see how you can blame us for this "problem." I know how you like to blame things on us, but this one just isn't legit.

I'm sorry. :-)





P.S. I love Dimension TI, but that new archive system has been giving me a lot of problems...and what's with the lack of games (only 10 games under ZShell?!)?

What problems? Please E-Mail me a response - you didn't leave your E-Mail address.

Their is a slight problem with the Ti-85 Archives.
Whenever they where updated from the old format to the new format some of the games where updated wrong. Some of the Usgard games asre listed under ZShell games and the same vice versa. So until I change the game to the correct classification they will not show up on the archives pages. I am currently working on this problem right now as fast as possible. But I want to make sure everything is perfect how it should be before I make changes that could make the archives worse.

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Matt Pereise
-->matt@calc.org
http://matt.cc.st
-->Dimension-TI, TI-85 Archiver
http://www.calc.org

How much was it selling for?

If you check Dim-TI's website, you'll see they are selling it for $92.00. I'd add on between $5 to $20 for a store price :)

I saw a TI-81 for sale for $89! I got my TI-83 for less than that. I would rather spend $90 on a current calculator.

What is your point? A TI-81 is worse than the other calcs. $89 is a terrible price.

Well, that was my point. I thought it was funny.

81s are only bad if its the only calculator you have. I own a 92+ that I use for my math and engineering classes, but I also have an 81 that I'm having fun programming an RPG on.

TI-81 is a great calculator; its just lacks the new features. Office Depot sells them for $30.

What a current price for a 85, i got mine a pawn shop for $50 . did i get ripped