Wow! That's pretty cool! They should patent it and sell the patent rights to TI. Then, in a few years, the linking system could be commercially produced for users like us!

Sell the patent rights to TI? Are you mad? What would TI do with it? No, just keep it within the ti community, that way it won't be Microsofted.

>> Microsofted

That is one intereting verb.

Shouldn't that be "Microsoftened"? ;-)

LOL

Hey, for all of you guys who are anit-Microsoft, you should make a software group called Macrohard. :)

LOL! That's good! Did you think of that on your own?

Actually, my friend did, but he's not into the "calculator world", so none of you would know him. I thought it was pretty funny too :)

I kinda like Megahard, but actually Macrohard has the Micro type of sound. Macro, Micro......wow

I like it, but I have one question. Is "microsofting" when you:
a) Steal some idea from your rival and market some underpowered version of it as a big breakthrough
b) Run some other company into the ground
c) When you take something good and remove everything that was good

I just had to know.

d) Become amazingly successful.

PSSST... the word was used in a negative way...

But Microsoft is COOOOOOOOOOOOL!

How can you call yourself a nerd, and actually LIKE Microsoft? Sure, I run Windows on my primary computer, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I've had a Linux box running in my closet for months, and it hasn't crashed once. Plus it's free, and I can do anything I could do on Windows. Wise up, boy. ;-)

Because Microsoft is COOOOOOL!

LOL... I actually do like MS, but I mostly do the "MS is cool" thing just to annoy anti-MS people. There seems to be so many of them, and usually, you can get funny reactions out of them by saying stuff like that. :)
And as for the OS thing... yeah, I like Windows better [than Linux or Mac]. It's all a matter of opinion, but to me, Windows 98 is the best.

OMG!!! HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT? Windows 98 is the worst (except for 3.1), Bill Gate$ is a rich jerk, he stole everything he's ever done from hard working people! I prefer Windows to Mac, but only because nothing works on Macs. Actually, the best OS I've found is Doors CS. It works on all systems, just sometimes requires an emulator, and since it does nothing, it never crashes. Just ask the "hardworking" author, Kermmit teh Martian.

Nothing runs on a Mac? TIGCC runs on Mac OS X, all the stuff I use runs on a mac...

If you want to argue about Macs, IM me.

I was going to ask about that because I plan on getting a PowerBook soon and I wanted to know if everything worked on it.

Not everything works on it from Windows (assuming that were talking about a Mac version of the software) but *NIX apps that use the X Windows System, Carbon, Cocoa, Classic (the 3 types of mac apps), Java stuff, and probably some other scattered stuff works on Macs runing OS X. Most major non-game Windows apps work on Macs. The only major Windows app that doesn't run on a Mac that I can think of is Sonic Foundry's Acid, and thats probably got some equivalent on Mac...

Well I'm not a gammer so no problem. I plan on getting the Adobe Design Collection dicounted to $375; the Microsoft Office v.X (unless you have some better programs) for $199; and I have Bryce 5, which is compatible with Mac. I probably will get some games but this computer will primarily be for school and my business that I'm getting back up a running.

Don't get Microsoft Office X unless you really need to or if its still discounted. There are substitutes for all the programs and Microsoft Office X gets bad reviews. It's ok for someone who isn't a true power user, but for true power users, you can get better software. Now I realize the price you get it at. @ that price, definatly get it.

Adobe, kicks ass. :) I'm a big photoshop guy.

I'm not a big gamer either. I'm audio and design. Hell, I can DJ on my computer. www.dekstasy.com

What would your recomendations for supplements in Word Precessing, Speadsheets, and Presentations be then?

And on a side note, if you're gonna invest in a tower, buy the new G5. If you're getting a laptop, I'd wait at least a month to see if Apple upgrades the PowerBook line to the G5 processor.

And I'd also get an account @ the macaddict forums ( www.macaddict.com/phpBB/index.php). The people there (me included) really know their Macs.

ya, wait like a month on the pb, but if you want a tower, and you dont mind dishin out the cash, get the G5... but youll have to preorder, they dont ship till August 29th :(

Thanks to you both. Right now I just going to use the laptop for school and business so portability is the key. In about a year or so, maybe sooner, I'll be getting a desktop, which definately will be the G5. BTW is there a 64-bit version of OS X?

10.2.7, which is for G5s, and 10.3 will be both 32 and 64 bit in one copy.

Exactly. No games work on a Mac. Thats the big problem.

_Nothing_ works on a Mac. Not even viruses.

Their character set also doesn't match Windows' ASCII character set.

The Windows ASCII set is a bastardized ASCII character set, and standard ASCII is better than Windows ASCII.

actually with the exception of one character I believe all the rest are exactly the same...

Actually I think your both mistaken. Unless you mean natively. Click my Link to find out more.

True enough. lol

Everything that is PPC or x86 can run on a Mac via emulation. :p SUCKA!!!!!!! :p

I just registered with the forums. Thanks again. I'll start browsing them within the next 24 hours.

I would never use ACID, I would either go with Vegas Video, or Pro Tools, and Pro Tools does run on Macs.

Nah... Win ME is the worst. 98 is actually okay, but I switched to XP recently because networking is roughly 325989436 times easier with XP. I still run Mandrake Linux in my closet, so it balances out... :-)

you should rephrase that, as everything written for mac works pretty much perfectly, but yes, there is a shortage of Mac software, mainly on the game front. I find the mac does everything else fine, but I wish that I could get some games for it, so that I could bury my compaq in the back yard...

Correction: Windows ME is worse than 98 by a power of ten. BSOD sightings year to date on my computer alone: 27. Yes, I did tally that. No, I don't run any illegal programs or cracked versions of anything.
FYI, your view of Apple Computer Corporation is skewed. Almost every software release for IBM compatibles re-releases 2 to 6 months later on Mac. Wozniak and Jobs built the first Apple out of wood, and processors scrounged from those behemoths once heralded as pocket calculators (TI had its first calc out weighing around 6 pounds, and it performed four basic functions). The paint job was atrocious. By the way, Macintosh had the computer industry cornered until they diverged from the path of selling the schematics for all their parts, unlike IBM. Yes, they shot themselves in the foot when they did that.
And, yes I realize this isn't related at all to the original post, so I'm going to shut up and go away.

Actually Win XP has worked generally better for me. For all you out there that think I'm narrow minded :) I have tried a lot of the major operating systems (mac and linux) and considering that linux crashed on me more than win XP I kept XP. (That was madrake linux 8.0)Mac I've used but don't own. No comments there. I'm interested in this so if you want to recommend a certain system, do.
-Diptichasmic

Technically, Windows has the most built in app support, but LINUX has all the free developers, and Mac OS X can run all Mac apps and many *NIX apps.

Mac OS X definatly has the best GUI of any form of all OS's.

LINUX is generally faster if I am correct, but that may change with the newest Apple hardware.

But then again, Linux also runs on Apple hardware and is even faster than Mac OS X.

Besides, the G5's performance is not much better than commmodity x86 hardware, despite Apple's "benchmarks".

Actually, it doesn't. It runs on the same processor, but the Apple computers firmware's are made so that only the Mac OS can be run nativley on it. Almost everything else can be emulated on it.

That really depends on what you use your computer for and what you consider "much better".

actually, NASA benchmarked the results, and theirs are better or the same as Apples in general... we got the P4 by quite a bit... google it for proof, or go to macrumors.com, I tthink they had an article on it...

e: all of the above

d) ...
e) PROFIT!

You visit /. regularly, don't you?

and yet even with all the restricions on Microsoft it still blows Macs out of the water.

English is my favourite language for this reason:

Words are position-dependent in English. That means you can turn a noun into a verb simply by using it as a verb.

By the way, I am using Lynx right now.

Lynx is pretty sweet, if you don't mind having no pictures. It is convenient for reading stuff like bash.org.

All nouns can be verbed. :-)

Verbing weirds language.

Amen to that, buddy. Personally, I think Bill Gates should be made to read his error messages as a sort of personal purgatory, but I live in an idealist's world.
Anyhoo, if someone could miniaturize this, they would be regarded as geniuses. I would try it myself, but the schematics make zero sense to the mind of the programmer. Sure it could tell you how the firmware worked if there was any, but the connections might as well have been described to me in Greek.

Microshafted you mean.

No, thats not a word, is it?
(yes, its on urbandictionary.com, but that doesn't mean anything)

Someone could really make a serious killing on e-bay if they could figure out how to make a lot of these!

yeah but i think he should come up with a way to make a lot and market them himself. then he could start his own buisness! id probably buy one (if its reasonably priced) because i cant make my own, im skilled at that kind of thing.