I can't wait until
20:02 02/02 2002!

The perferct palindrome time!
Sounds neat...

When I said "sounds neat" I meant the time, not the news item. A site that is shutting down isn't good.

<<A site that is shutting down isn't good.>>

Which site? Good thing it is shutting down, if it isn't a good site.

Hey, stop making fun of my grammar mistakes!

I MEANT

It's not good that the site is shutting down. :-þ

at first i thought the headline stated the ticalc.org was shutting down. i fell out of my chair.....

sorry about the double post

I know! Same here! It scared me too, but I quickly remembered the real news. Scary.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;=) agh hahahahaa hahahahahhaha Hahahahahaha hahahhhahahahahahhahahahahah ;=)

"Is it in you?" ;=X

at first i thought the headline stated the ticalc.org was shutting down. i fell out of my chair......i was more freaked than i was at a haunted house last halloween

Calc.org ->totally messed up

Ti-fr.org ->dead, due to excessive traffic

Ti-cas.org ->forget about them.

Ti-philes.com ->new porn site!!!, haha

<survivors>
ticalc
tinews

lol the prophecies are true, the time of judgement is near, hahahaahahahaaahhahahah

;=);=);=);=);=);=);=);=);=)
AOUOUoououuuUUUOooUUuouuou
AWwwwWwWOoOuouoUUouuououou

haha


wohooo


long post


very long


very looong

Below is a translation of the previous post for european users with azerty-keyboards
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Cqlc.org ->totqlly ;essed up

Ti-fr.org ->dead, due to excessive trqffic

Ti-cqs.org ->forget about the;.

Ti-philes.co; ->nez porn site!!!, hqhq

<survivors>
ticqlc
tinezs

lol the prophecies qre true, the ti;e of judge;ent is neqr, hqhqhqqhqhqhqqqhhqhqhqh

m=)m=)m=)m=)m=)m=)m=)m=)m=)
QOUOUoououuuUUUOooUUuouuou
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hqhq


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very looong
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It's a tough job, but somebody got to do it...

Okay, that was messed up too. :)

i hope you're not serious.

what if I am ? :-)

About what?

there being a different character map in europe.

well, uhm, yes, but not that we see 'a' like 'q' or something, the only problems that could happen is when you forget to install the correct keyboard driver, so when you type something (ex: the windows login screen) that Windows uses the default qwerty keyboard layout, and that some keys are mixed up. But only when you type, not on websites or something :-)

Okay, that was messed up.

Messed up but true. ;=)

Spect
Just a little bit
Baby
Just a little bit

shutup S.G. (So Gay). ;=X

Aw.... I'm telling...

haha ;=X

At least my name isn't misspelled. "Depleated?" What the hell does "depleated" mean?

Oops, I meant

20:02 02/20 2002 (military time)

I think it's supposed to be 20:02 20/02 2002.
February 20th, but with the day first.

yeah, that's what I meant

Boy, that's confusing!
w00t!

"Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl."
-Bill Peterson-

That quote reminds me of a dan quayle quote-

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'." -- Vice President Dan Quayle 12/6/89

Am I the only one on this site? I think they should have an online chatroom or something on this site.

How about irc? Does ticalc.org have an irc channel?

And another thing: does anyone else think that ticalc.org should have a meta-forum (like /.) where we can discuss the site itself and not any specific piece of news?

Yeah, that'd be cool. :)

It used to have an IRC channel but it's now filled with a bunch of trolls and lamers.

And yes, there should be some kind of forum system alternate to ticalc, but they are probably too lazy to add one.

They used to have one. It was #ti on efnet. But now the ops hate anyone speaking of ti calculators. Any ticalc.org being the lazy bastards they are, have kept their irc page up on this web site. Now anyone thinking they are joining ticalc.org's channel, gets a kick ban. Yeah I'm sure those people think highly of ticalc.org after that.
The TCPA has a irc channel on efnet, #tcpa i believe it is the most frequented ti calculator channel.

I'm on the site! I'm on the site! Don't forget about me!

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
-Dan Quayle-

I have a page of Quayle quotes at http://www.mathjmendl.org/quayle.html and http://www.xmission.com/~mwalker/ DQ/quayle/qq/quayle.quotes.html has some more. That guy has said some really funny things, and not on purpose lol.

Off-topic post ... hypocrite

Hey, I noted that some things were offtopic, I didn't note that there was anything wrong with it. :-) Thus I'm not a hypocrite.

All this offtopic chatter points to the fact that ticalc.org _needs_ a forum or discussion area where users can freely discuss topics of interest to them. This needs to be separate from the news discussions.

Actually, you are. You commented on off-topic posts and then made a couple yourself.

Anyway, ticalc.org should have a general discussion board.

I think a general discussion board or chatroom would be nice.

There is no month 20. I believe you meant 20:02 20/02 2002.

Well, could have been backwards, Europe and America do months and days backwards from eachother I think.

Most other countries do dates in DD.MM.YY format. Note the decimals used instead of slashes. I find it to be easier to understand. America measures everything differently from other countries, and most of our unit conversions seem to be completely arbitrary. 12 inches in a foot. 5280 feet in a mile. 360 degrees in a circle. It makes no sense.

Does the rest of the world use radians? Jeez...

Depends what level math class you are in.

I think both are used all over the world. For instance, aircraft headings are in degrees clockwise from North.

But then again, English is the international language of aviation, and, last time I checked, most of the world doesn't speak English.

Actually, most (at least Europeans) foreigners has english as a secondary language. Just my experience. But, that, agian, isn't true for everyone but...

et al,
Glenn Murphy

LOL Radians! LOL

2*pi=BAD

360=GOOD

343GuiltySpark = best

Go gradians go!

Degrees are used all over the world, hence earth coordinates are in degrees. Why they chose 360 is a matter of making life easier. 360 has a lot of denominators, so you wouldn't always have to calculate with fractions.

About the other measure, they're indeed quite bizar, but they still exist because used in daily life. Scientists normally use the SI unit system and thus the metric system.

Yeah, like
1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12...

The international ISO date standard is YYYY-MM-DD though.
It is a bit close to the swedish way, YYMMDD. (wich actually also is covered by the ISO 8601 standard)
in 1998 I started to write all my dates in the ISO standard though, to be Y2K-safe :)
But I seem to be the only one using the ISO standard in everyday life :)
the palindrome date/time:
2002-02-20 20:02

whats with all these organizations that set up and claim themselves rulesetters and whatnot for whatever theyre representing. like movie ratings, why does only that organization have the power to decide what content is appropriate for whom? there shouldnt even be a rating system for games anyway. do you really think a kid is going to go around causing mass destruction and violence all because of a simple video game? get a life, start accepting reality, give up your pathetic views (i bet im gonna get a lot of crap for this post)

poop

Dude! I got first comment! Yay! Oh well. Should brag about this. Anyway to the real meaning of this post...

I clicked on the link and the site was still up, I thought the news poster said it was shut down?

>>Dude! I got first comment!<<

No, you didn't. I commented first.

Actually, unless ticalc.org deleted your post in the few hours that this news item has been up (highly unlikely considering that they haven't deleted some things that have been up for days but shouldn't be), you did not get first post. But no_one_2000 did.

I said that I _commented_ first, not that I got fr0st p0st. "Fr0st p0st" posts are redundant.

Even if it were just first comment, Benjamin Esham got a comment in about 5 hours before you.

Untrue. I commented days before him. It might have been attached to a different article though.

Really? This news article was posted on February 19 ... today is February 20. How did you post a comment to this news item DAYS ago? It's only been up for ONE day. Sheesh ... exactly how long are your days?

he said he commented... he said on another article... he did NOT say that it was under the topic of sites shutting down...

... Huh? ?:-?

yeah, Huh ?:-?

yeah, yeah, Huh ?:-?

yeah, yeah, yeah, Huh ?:-?

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Huh ?:-?

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Huh ?:-?

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Huh ?:-?

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Huh ?:-?

<no_one_2000_ smiles>

Nu-uh! :)

lord_nightrose would probably be interested in palindrome time ... he posted a HUGE post filled with palindromes in the previous news item.

But who started it? No_one_200 did. Then I followed up, then no_one_200, then...

"I've told you a thousand times already to stop exaggerating!"
-my dad-

So THAT'S why no_one_2000 mentioned it in his first post. I just thought he was bored.

I'm popular! :)

LOL true...

even better (in europe) 2002:2002:2002 (20:02 military time, 20th day, of the 02nd month, 2002)or..... 20:02.2002200220022002 military time, 20/02/2002 so 2002/2002/2002/2002/2002/2002/2002

Oh my... :)

well...... any sane person who realizes that you don't write '0''s before other numbers if there's nothing before the '0' would write the 22nd of febuary, 2/22/2...or 22/2/2.....or 2222...... this is better than the '1' incident with 9/11

Hey, how about this one...

2112 2112 2112
Dec. 21, 2112 at 9:12 pm

hey, there's a good one!

Hello!

For those which do not know me, you must know that Ti-cas is the only site to propose a

teaching support.
This site is very important, because contrary to U.S., in France, the mathematical level is

much more important.
For example, to become professor of mathematics in the large schools, one needs as many time than to become doctor.
(...)

In France, the integrated CAS and the CALCTOOLS application are not sufficients, and sites

like Ti-cas are thus important.
Since 1995, I bring ideas and councils.
I take part in congresses for TI-France, and am the editor of a review for the students.
Ti-cas is sponsored by TI-France.

I decided to close the site, because Texas Instruments reproaches me for having disseminated

confidential information concerning the TI-V200.
I am not at the origin of this diffusion.

(...)

So that all the visitors understand quickly, here a short history on information which you

found on TI V200:
- Texas Instruments carried out a considerable error while letting appear a code name on a

page of the official site: Sylvester.
- I had immediately contacted TI-France and TI-Dallas, which a few days later had withdrawn

this mention.
- This code name was thus known by certain visitors, and circulated on forums of discussions

and sites of students.
- At the time of the official advertisement of this future calculator, some sites

disseminated confidential information, like the name of the next operating system (v2.06)

and other rather precise details.
- to defend the interests of Texas Instruments, I had taken the initiative to warn these

sites.
- One week later, this information being unfortunately largely spread, I decided to make

them public.
- Error, since it is that which one reproaches me.

(...)

I'm worn, tired, of having to beat me with commercial which cannot evaluate with its right value what I bring since so many years.
I also do not understand really why these things (which do not have serious impacts) become such extensive.
Most important for Texas Instruments would be to maintain a privileged contact with characters like me, rather than to tire them.
(...)

Many visitors also point out to me that TI-France disseminates distort informations (page1: " TI-93 Plus", page2 : not brought up to date infos since 2 years, page3: false memory size ... ... ... ...)

page1 : www.ti.com/calc/france/france.htm
page2 : www.ti.com/calc/france/89appsf.htm
page3 : www.ti.com/calc/france/89f.htm


I would be happy to receive messages of support.
These messages are sent to TI.

Olivier Miclo

I don't believe it's your fault. :)
<Chickendude sympathizes with you>

It really is too bad the site is shutting down, it was a great resource.