Down with the ads! Especially HP ads! I'm going to go to ticalc.org less now and go to calc.org more if these ads stay...

You guys have been here for like 5 years, and I've never heard a problem like this...

It sure doesn't look like a problem to me. ticalc.org seems to have a history of posting April Fool's stuff at exactly midnight on April 1. :-)

Two articles isn't that much of a history.

Steve Whittaker Seizes ticalc.org
Posted 2000-04-01 00:02Z

Program of the Month Award
Posted 1999-04-01 00:05Z

First off, its not an april fools joke. Second, Schools now adays barly have enough money to do shit with. So, heres the same problem. Ticalc.org isnt funded by the government, its funded by people like you. I think you should take any chance to get money, beacuse you dont know how much money you'll have when yer 80.

Third off, it is an April Fool's Joke. You've got to be a complete and utter moron to believe anything that happens on the internet on this day... April Fool's Day is a religiously celebrated holiday =)

There was some guy called H4X0R, and last year(NOT ON APRIL 1!), near the end of November, he claimed that he had developed his hacked flashapp called Gooey(pronounce GUI). The screenshots looked pretty impressive, but there were many inconsistencies that were quickly pointed out. I actually believed that it was true before H4XOR posted his apology letter stating that there was no such thing. After that he dissappeared forever off the face of the TI community. Perhaps he's still here, just as a different name.

Actually, h4x0r was originally known around the TI community as Juan Corral, but after a few hoaxes (Gnome for the 92+ with faked screenshots, and people actually fell for that), he was discredited, and switched to the h4x0r nickname. Then was the Gooey hoax (I can't believe how gullible people here are!), and the he reverted back to the Juan Corral name and worked at tinews for a bit. Haven't seen him in a while, so he's prolly just got another nickname.

-Scott

Whoa, I had no idea that was Juan Corral. He seemed pretty involved in the TI community (beneficially) for a few months before he just disappeared.

Don't forget when NickD took over Ti-files.org. That was the last time I actually saw TI-files before it DISSAPEARED FOREVER!!

Two years is quite a history for a site that's only five years old.

Who the hell cares? They're just ads and are only at the front page. What difference does it make if there are ads or not. As long as the site is maintained I, and all of you, should be happy!

Well, I suppose it's better to have ads than have the site shut down, isn't it? I certainly don't mind.

[First Post!]

bdesham

Oops. It wasn't first post. Sorry.

bdesham

First reply to your first post!

lol

The calc.org site was great today!

If this isn't an april fool joke, which I hope it isn't, I realize that there is a huge whitespace to the right of the TICALC.ORG banner, well at least viewed with 1024x768. Why don't they just put the ads there instead of right below the banner where it makes a huge whitespace, making the site look a bit more ugly. BTW, the ads just make the site look a bit more professional.

You are an idiot. Ads are a pain in the ass, and if you saw the one at the bottom you'd know that this is a joke.

Although it is unfortunate that advertising is needed, I would like to see it on the right side of the ticalc.org logo and have news at the top of the page. Just my opinion - but why not put that empty space to use.

People with 480x640 screens don't have that extra space.

People with that low of a resolution need to get a new computer. If we EVER want to go to higher levels of computing we need to leave old technology behind. 1024 x 768 should be the standard. And I think the HP ad is kind of lame, how bout an Alienware ad? Hehe, j/k, but that would be cool. Every four years computer companies need to agree on standards like lowest Mhz to code for and such, so we can truly use these ghz machines at their fullest, rather than being reduced to the lowest common denominator.

I am currently on a laptop that has a basically fixed resolution screen at 800x600. I personally abhor such low resolutions, but am stuck using it for internet at the moment because my computer (a desktop) has corrupted modem drivers, which I have not found proper replacements for. The aforementioned desktop is currently running at 1152x864@75Hz and 32bit color...on a 15" monitor (NEC MultiSync E500, if anyone cares). On that monitor, I would certainly have much spare whitespace to the right of the site logo, but on this laptop, the logo takes up 3/5 of the space above the navigation bar, leaving little room for banner ads, and I doubt ticalc.org would want to go to fixed table widths just so they could do advertising. ticalc.org has always strived for cross-platform compatibilities, which includes backwards compatability, not the backwards combatability that you seem to want.

As far as the Mhz/Ghz issue goes, Ghz machines weren't even out until 18 months ago. Right now, I'm using a 266Mhz P2 laptop. My desktop is a 200Mhz Pentium MMX. This summer I plan on building a much more advanced computer, but there are people out there that still have, and actually use, older computers. The real reason that software doesn't fully exploit the hardware capabilities of current bleeding-edge computers is that ever since the release of the Intel Pentium chip and its accompanying patenting, AMD has had to make its own chips, rather than just reverse engineering Intel's efforts. Different engineers are bound to think differently, and therefore produce different chips with different instruction sets, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The only instructions that remain the same are those from an archaic x86 standard that is older than TI's first production linkable calculator (the 85, released in 1992, IIRC). This is the "lowest common denominator" you referred to. Software can be coded to run best on only one release of microchip without substantial additional effort for limited returns, so most companies simply use the archaic x86 standard, instead of the specialized capabilities of the Pentium 3, Pentium 4, AMD Athlon (any of its 3+ versions and 800+Mhz range), AMD Duron, or Intel Celeron, to name a few.

One last thing: if we "leave old technology behind", what do you recommend we do with the mainframes, batch machines, and minicomputers from the 60s, 70s, and early 80s?

Then you won't have to see the ad!

I use 1024 x 768 instead of 800 x 600 on a little 14" monitor because I need loads of screen space for my applications! To make it safer I have a screen filter on top.

It's like when TI-83 Screen Display is blocky because it's 96 x 64 where as the TI-86 is 128 x 64. Therefore more room for text especially when doing to Chi Squared Test!

On my pocketpc, with JSlandscape, the maximum resolution is actually 640x480. I constantly access this site that way when I don't carry my bulky laptop with me. So go ahead and put the ads there, they will be far less visible with lower resolution screens :)

BTW, you shoulden't write the screen res as 480x640 because that means your screen is horribly mutated so that it's more tall than it is wide. If that is true, disregard this by the way thing.

maybe he likes to play gameboy games on it?
GB fan, you know...

480x640?

LOL!

Not to many people turn their monitors sideways.

hehe...

--arcades