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Calculators vs. PDAs
Posted by Nick on 13 June 2002, 01:22 GMT

CNN has recently put out an article (discussion also on Slashdot) regarding the slow but definitely palpable convergence of graphing calculators and PDAs. Since TI has essentially cornered the graphing calculator market (others would be quick to debate that, but it's what I think), the article places major focus on their business strategy (FLASH on the 83+, Voyage 200, and so forth) and its relation to Palm's inclinations towards mathematical applications and suchandsuch. This is definitely worth mulling over and discussing. Go!

 


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Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
RCTParRoThEaD_  Account Info
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TI-83 Silver Edition?!? The Clinton-News-Network has screwed up again! And everyone at /. says that calcs should be banned. Screw them.

     13 June 2002, 04:23 GMT

Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
CalcDrone

You idiot, it's not the Clinton News Network. Go shoot yourself. You deserve it.

     13 June 2002, 04:51 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
scott_shortonideas Account Info

I know this is way of subject, but I was just wondering what ever happened to www.detacheds.com???

     13 June 2002, 05:09 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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www.detachedsolutions.com

I'm getting sick of discussing this, it should be up soon.

     13 June 2002, 05:57 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
rcxAsh  Account Info
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BTW, www.detachedsolutions.com doesn't work for me...? And www.detacheds.com doesn't go to Detached Solutions' site anymore. Just by any chance, do you know anything about what happened?

     13 June 2002, 15:06 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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That's why I said "up soon". Simply stated, Andrew let the domain name expire in an attempt to register with a different registrar. This is A) insane, B) stupid, and C) fatal. Thus the domain name was registered immediately upon expiration by some search company, and we had to get a new domain.

     13 June 2002, 16:58 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Chickendude  Account Info
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Boy, some people...
We Michael's must be ahead of our generation!
w00t!

     13 June 2002, 19:09 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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I'm not too sure about that...it's "Michaels" :)

     13 June 2002, 21:39 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Chickendude  Account Info
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I know! Some people...
w00t!

     15 June 2002, 22:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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I was thinking of porting prgmBAD to the TI-89. Okay, I'll go do that after I'm done with this posting thread thingy.

     14 June 2002, 01:37 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Wow! That's harder than I thought it was! I just finish all the menu things (home screen, options menu, erase high score, etc) and it took me over an hour! Of course, I'm a slow typer and I kept making errors in my C programs. :( Hopefully, it should be fished by today, but I don't know when the archive people will put it up.

Which reminds me, I have a program that I submitted well over a week ago, and it's still not showing up. I think I'm going to re-submit it again.

     14 June 2002, 16:25 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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I FINISHED IT!!!!!

     14 June 2002, 23:48 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
slimey_limey  Account Info

fished

     15 June 2002, 03:58 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
rcxAsh  Account Info
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Oh sorry, I mistook what you said. When you said, "I'm getting sick of discussing this, it should be up soon." I thought that you went back on topic and that you were talking about PDAs vs. Calculators saying that the discussion should be over soon.

Sorry about that, anyways, thanx for the info!

     13 June 2002, 21:14 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Chivo  Account Info

The same seems to have happened to ti-files.org. There's now a search engine. p00p.

     14 June 2002, 16:37 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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That's not what it was before. LOL

     14 June 2002, 23:49 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
lord_nightrose Account Info
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Wow. You're a real pest, you know that?

     13 June 2002, 07:51 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
RCTParRoThEaD_  Account Info
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i listen to imus...

     14 June 2002, 04:16 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
garyanddepleatedteamup  Account Info

IMUS IN THE MORNING!

     15 June 2002, 21:56 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
RCTParRoThEaD_  Account Info
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QUACK-QUACK!

     17 June 2002, 23:09 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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You know why your signature was annoying and PARADE! isn't? It's because your sig. was all about complaining, when PARADE is something fun and enlightening to do.

     14 June 2002, 01:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
RCTParRoThEaD_  Account Info
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PARADE! that CalcDrone is annoying!

     14 June 2002, 04:15 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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PARADE! that CalcDrone is annoying!

     14 June 2002, 16:25 GMT


PARADE! that CalcDrone is annoying!
RCTParRoThEaD_  Account Info
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PARADE! that CalcDrone is annoying!

     14 June 2002, 17:02 GMT


Re: PARADE! that CalcDrone is annoying!
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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PARADE! that CalcDrone is annoying!

     14 June 2002, 23:49 GMT


Has anyone thought about getting a permit?
slimey_limey  Account Info

I got a PERMIT to PROTEST against PARADES without PERMITS!

     15 June 2002, 04:00 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
RCTParRoThEaD_  Account Info
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Clinton cheese eating democrat butt-boy! I thought you said you were leaving forever! fah q!

     14 June 2002, 04:13 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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I, personally think that someone should shoot YOU!

     14 June 2002, 23:48 GMT


Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Torael  Account Info

Its not Clinton News Network, its umm.......somethign else, I can't remember what the heck it stands for. But really, ignore the guy who called you an idiot. You just gave me the best laugh I've had in a LOOOOONG time.

     13 June 2002, 08:51 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Nick Disabato  Account Info
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Cable News Network. And calculators have been banned in every class I've taken for the past two years. You get to college, you deal with it.

Higher math - that is, the higher math you do in college for problem sets and exams - doesn't require calculators very often anyway, if at all: they make the numbers easy enough that it's not a problem.

     13 June 2002, 17:51 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Torael  Account Info

yeah....okay....great.

I'm pretty sure that most of us are talking about HIGH SCHOOL, not COLLEGE!

     13 June 2002, 17:58 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Or, people like me are talking about Kindergarten.
Kindergarten teacher: Okay, class, we will start our math work for today.
no_one_2000_: YAY!
Kindergarten teacher: We will be adding numbers.
no_one_2000_: Can we use TI-89s?
Kindergarten teacher: What the hello?
no_one_2000_: Last night I made an assembly program to add numbers, even though the calculator can already do that. Should I set it to add integers or non-integers?
Kindergarten teacher: Uh...
no_one_2000_: Oh yeah, are we going to be doing alegbra? I was practicing last night and I just figured out how to solve equations with exponents...
Kindergarten teacher: SHUT UP! *whacks no_one_2000_ with stick*

None of my teachers like me..

     14 June 2002, 01:42 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
343GuiltySpark  Account Info
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Poor no_one_2000_ ....
WE like you!!!

     14 June 2002, 02:28 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
rmohr02 Account Info
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I don't--I can't get my car across town with all these parades he's having.

     14 June 2002, 03:34 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
RCTParRoThEaD_  Account Info
(Web Page)

lmwao! PARADE! to block his car!

     14 June 2002, 04:21 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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PARADE! to block his car!

     14 June 2002, 16:26 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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PARADE! to block his car!

     14 June 2002, 23:50 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
343GuiltySpark  Account Info
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PARADE! to block his car!

     15 June 2002, 02:13 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
slimey_limey  Account Info

This is getting off-topic.
BTW: Does he have a permit?????

     15 June 2002, 04:02 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Justanotherprogrammer  Account Info

yes yes yes, we all do AS A FRIEND, not sexually

     15 June 2002, 00:03 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
343GuiltySpark  Account Info
(Web Page)

Sheesh ... restrain your perverted mind from reading that deeply into things!!!

     15 June 2002, 02:14 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Chivo  Account Info

So, no_one_2000_ is in kindergarten? And shouldn't the teacher whack him with his own TI-89?!
*cough w00t! cough*

     14 June 2002, 16:40 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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They put me back in Kindergarten because all the Highschool teachers didn't want me.

     14 June 2002, 23:50 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
slimey_limey  Account Info

they couldn't get him to stop using his 89 - he had it surgically implanted in his head. his highscore in Phoenix is 35295729. in tetris he has 4382 lines. same thing for all other games he has been able to get ahold of.

     15 June 2002, 04:05 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Calculators vs. PDAs
Justanotherprogrammer  Account Info

BANNED?! EVEN THE LITTLE FLIMSY ONES THAT DON;'T DO GRAPHING?! THIS IS INSANE!

     17 June 2002, 21:37 GMT

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