Hmm, did'nt Tinews.net have that out for a while?
I'm glad they are free, because I think all apps should be free.
I think Catalog help is long overdue, 89 has had that since day 1, and I know it is in the handbook, but who carries around thier handbook? HEY! That would be a great poll! Do you carry your handbook? Yes/No/I lost it.
Why Chinese language help? I didnt know that many chinese used/needed 83+help. Maybe this is just one language they will introduce of many. Maybe others are on the way, huh? (French, spanish)
Flashcards is good idea. Maybe we will see it on other calcs soon.
FC!
--R

Personally I think it's a great idea that TI has released the Chinese Help because I am chinese and although i'm not a beginer, begining TI users might want this program. The Vocab program i love alot because it helps people study,llike for the sats.

I happen to be chinese too...
I speak Mandarine so im glad they decided to make a chinese help :)

- Jason Ho

I too think that the study cards are a good idea, and I have been waiting a while for em.

No offence, but don't all of you speak English? Or is English your second language?

--Nathan Buda

No offense taken, however, I'M A FULL-BLOODED AMERICAN.

Sorry, I accidentally clicked yours and not the one above. ;)

Whether a person speaks English or not, it is nice to have a program in their own, preferred language. Although a lot of Chinese people speak English as a second language, they still feel more comfortable with Chinese, and read it faster. Also, you cannot read your second language as fast as your first language.

Possibly most important is the fact that mathematics is fairly technical, and you are not likely to learn the second language equivalents for mathematical term as well as you learn them in your first language.

And even if English is your first language, you may prefer to work in another language. English is my first language, but I feel more comfortable using a Russian text editor (yes, all menus and messages in Russian).

I think it's great that TI is catering for the non-English speaking population of the world. Let's hope this is followed by more non-English flash applications.

Vasantha Crabb

Ashes to ashes, clay to clay
If your enemies don't get you, our own folk may

Yes, in some cases, such as when their first language is Chinese, this is a nice program, but if you were born in America, you already know English, therefore, it being your first language. In this case, this is a worthless application. I am not trying to tear it down, but I'm just trying to get my point accross.

--NATE

What reason do you have to believe that the people who posted these comments are American anyway? ticalc.org has users from all over the world. I've seen people state in comments that they live in countries as diverse as Bosnia, Sweeden, Japan, UK and India, just to mention a few.

Vasantha Crabb

Yeah. I guess you're right... :P

HUH? Dude, I was born in China and came here when I was about 4 or 5. I am now 13, can speak, write, and do what ever else that needs to be done in PERFECT ENGLISH. Unfourtuatly, I am illitarate in chinese (well, I have the reading power of a pre-schooler.). So your comment that your second language can't be read as easily as your first language is not completely true.

Well, thats my two cents.

The person who submitted the news to ticalc.org was the same person who posted it on tinews.net.

-- ALL YOUR BOXEN ARE BELONG TO US

Some of these files have been out for a long time such as the Catlog help I hve had it for at least a month.

This is true. The only 'new' ones are the study cards and the probability simulation app. Apparantly someone visited the site for the first time and thought it was all new :)

-Corey

this is a little off the topic but which one has more memory, a 83+ silver edition or a 89? I wanna know bad but I dont understand the 572k and 1.5 megabyte.

The new 83+ Silver Edition will have about twice as much raw flash/archive space at the TI-89 with current OS installed. However, the TI-89 provides an enormous amount of ram over the 83+SE.

It depends on what you want to use it for and what you want to have while waiting for other programs from TI to be released. 83+SE programs and 89 programs are not compatible.

-Corey

Does that go for the 92+ as well?

http://www.ti.com/calc/

Check out the 'Graphing Calculators' link on the bottom left.

-Corey

Thanks Corey.
89 or 83+ SE
still to close to call.

Wait a minute. Aren't you the one who says his programing group is going to make millions off of internet on a calc and you don't even know what 572k and 1.5meg are? Can you say full of shit?

onefastfiveoh

Who says you need to know about kilobytes and megabytes to sell calculators and/or run a site?
I get your point though...

--Nathan Buda