What kinds of questions in particular? I assume it has to be something interesting to the TI community, but it would be good to at least see an example or something.

Presenting BlueCalx's horrible example of the day(TM):

What do you see as the roadblocks or problems that programmers face in creating TI programs (besides the obvious bugs and software-based problems)?
And my answer boiled down to a few bullet points:
-- Flames from others
-- Can't think of really good ideas for games
-- Afraid of releasing buggy program

etc. Note that both the question and answer that I just fabricated both suck. :)

--BlueCalx

Not that this has any signifigance, but I just thought I would point out ticalc.org got this idea (most likely) from slashdot.org's "Ask Slashdot" section... (and don't get on my case if they weren't the orginal owners of that idea either!)

Well...... yeah, but Slashdot didn't actually answer the questions - they left it up to the people in the comment system. *shrug*

--BlueCalx

Okay, are we now going to get into the origin of question-and-answer sections to newsletters? Because I can guarantee you, slashdot did not invent any such thing.
BTW don't you just love it when multiple people think they got the first comment because the system takes a couple minutes to make them visible? Not that I'm saying that that happened on this article, but...I'll just shut up now...

ticalc.org got most of their ideas from Slashdot. Who cares? :)

This seems to be a cool idea.
Here's my question:
Where can I get a copy of TI-89 v1.00 ROM?
My 89 came with 1.05

EMAIL scraft@ti.com )!&#(*@&#$)@*&#@)($#@*$
You can tell that I get this question often. :)

--BlueCalx

Wow! that response was quick!
Great service around here.
Thanks for the help

ps - sorry about the dumb question

About damn time. Maybe I can start `whipping' out the ASM coding questions....

Don't press your luck. :)

As many have noticed, I posted many, many items realating to the recent "crisis" that was in total opposition to programmers. I would like to tell you all of those statements, ideas, suggestions are the complete opposite of what I actually believe. My "experiment" was to see how idiotic people can be other another's opinion. My results are in outstanding. I have concluded that some people just hate anothers opinion and so flame it or other wise deconstruct it to the very sentence structure only to prove their point right. I feel sorry for everyone who responded to my posts in this experiment. I feel especially sorry for Patrick Davidson who wrote a very long essay on why I was wrong. So what did we learn from this? Well I can't speak for you but you should have learned the following:
-People are biased no matter what they say
-People hate to be wrong
-Some must go to great lengths to prove another's opinion invalid.
-Opinions are opinions. SO what if they are different from your, live with it. No need to write a novel over it.
-Everyone is stupid in some subject or another.
-This site is dedicated to ti calculators so its prone to solicit the "newbies" who only want games and know nothing about calculators.

So, You are asking "Why?" right now, huh? Simple question. Simple answer. To prove a point that as a whole people are dumb but individually people are smart. ( relate this to the 83+ newbies )

You'll here my cries no more. I'll post only funny items from now on.

"To clarify, we're looking for questions that the ticalc.org staff will be able to answer. We are not looking for questions on how to use a calculator or how to program calculators."

Does this imply that the ticalc.org staff doesn't know how to use a calculator? :)

PS - If you can't take a joke, don't reply to this comment.

What's a calculator?

I thinks its a games boy but not...

Obviously (I hope) you aren't serious.

But I can tell you agree with me that it was worded /very/ poorly, because the wording has since been changed.

don't you mean abacus?

No I don't.

get a sense of humor!

I think its really stupid you guys won't answer any questions relating to CALCULATORS at all. You only want questions relating to the site?

Won't the users get more use out of this feature if the newsletter actually explained how to do something cool with THEIR calculator, instead of telling them some fact about this site which isn't that important in the first place?

Its just my opinion the newsletter should be informative and useful to the user, and not a method of just hyping the site up more.

I agree with you.

Chris

Then why isn't it that way?