Survey posted 2004-06-01 22:02 by Jon.

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Heck no! It is MY PRECIOUS!!!!

Now that that is over...

My brother asks all the time, but I always tell him there is a walmart in town, all he has to do is save the money...

No...It's my PRECIOUSSSSSSSS!!
We LOVESSESSSS The Precious!

tricksy studentses steals our precious...

steupid, fat teachers! lol

Slinker: No, not Bobby. Bobby's nice. He just wanted to use-
Stinker: BOBBY STOLE MY PRECIOUS!

Anyway, why are we all responding with our own text-only Smeagol expressions?

Ummm... Why not? We're geeks and nutso anyway, so we can only reinforce that suspicion. I myself am famed at my school for calculators (I AM tech support), Gollum imitations, Elvish (on the inside of my class ring), and general Mac-fanaticness.

Look to the North. I shall come on a calvary of 89-Titaniums to save the day!

Those ghost guys were sweet!

Speaking of Walmart...isn't the TI-89Ti out by now? I need to get to Target to spend the $35 I earned at the MathCounts competition for one...

I have yet to see one anywhere.

Hmmm...someone told me it came out today

Yes, I've just checked the TI web page, and TI-89 Titanium is indeed out. It wasn't in stock at Target yet though. Now I'm just waiting for the ticalc.org news article about it to pop up.

Oh, sweet-ass. I was going to use my first pay check to pay back debts, but not now. Definatally going to buy the 89ti. Now, to find a job.

-W-

Dude...it costs more than $35. It is out I'm pretty sure. Could have sworn there was a news post saying 84plus/silver was out along with 89titanium.

It does cost more than $35 dollars. But I gotta use that gift card before it runs out...so why not on a new calculator?

There was a news post ANOUNCING them and a diffrent one that said that the 84+/SE was out but nothing about the 89Ti.

Well, before, the TI-89 Titanium site on education.ti.com said that it was "coming in Summer 2004" in bright orange text below the words "TI-89 Titanium". Now, that little message is gone, so I assumed...

Also, several people have informed me that it was due to come out June 1st.

Same here. Ever since somebody stole my TI-89... well, I've become much more protective over my calculators. I will let somebody that I trust borrow the calculator if they really need it, but only if I can supervise them with it the whole time. Also, I don't like to have somebody who knows a lot about them to use it because they could get into my files and stuff.

Hehe, but everybody now knows, if you touch my calculator, you die. *evil laugh*

You should get a calc alarm. *chirp chirp*!

That would be fun. :-)

Hey! That would be a great idea! Unfortunately, I wouldn't have a clue about how to set something like that up, but that WOULD be a very good idea. :-D

You can do sound on calcs, like in Music Station. Just write a password-protect program that beeps if the password is wrong twice in a row. I've never used music station or programmed with sounds so I don't know how loud they are, but it could be done.

Don't you have to hook up headphones or point your calc at a radio?

How do you hear sound on a calc anyways? Are there special speakers or headphones you buy, or a convertor or something?

Yeah. You can get a head phone jack that will fit in the port or you can hold it near an AM radio.

You can put in internal speakers, hook a mini am raido to the back... etc.
I got it all worked out *chirp chirp*
-KaibaFan321

Or duck tape a AM radio to the back of it. :)

its duct tape, unless youre talking about the brand Duck Tape, in which case it should be capital. And no im not being a grammar/spelling nazi (i think), im just pointing out a common misconception.

Actually it was originally duck tape as it was meant for waterproofing ammunition boxs. Then someone discovered it was good for ducts and the name was changed. I think that the Duck Tape people just named themselves "Duck" to be different or something like that.

my uncles band wrote a song for a company called duck that makes "duct tape". It 3was for an ad, though they did not win, they got 30 rolls of Duck^TM Duct Tape!!
Now to mention my wallet that is 100% duct tape (that is except for the money :-D )

I make duct tape wallets for people at my church! For a small ($5) fee of course...once I even made a duct tape purse, and also did one of those clear "window" things for a drivers license in a wallet using saran wrap. I loved that...made sooo much money. But not as much as at my new job...

Heck! I made a glove like the ones the Ringwrathes in the Lord of the Rings have our of black duck (yes I continue to say "duck") tape. Beat that!

Just lend an old z80 calculator. it doesnt matter if they get stolen. at school; people always sell them for about 20 dollars or so. if they get stolen rip somemore off people.

QUESTION: is anyone elses teacher not letting them use 68K calks on the exams?

My chem teacher won't let us use any graphing calculators on the final (because you could store the whole periodic table on there if you wanted, lol). But for everything else math-related, yes, we can use any calc (even 68k).

Oh, and yeah, I'd be mad if somebody stole my TI-82 :( Even though it does fit the description of "old z80 calculator."

Dude, our trig teacher has a bunch of 82s in the back of the room...and this is trig! Those things are ancient.

My teacher lets me, but I must admit he probably shouldn't. I got through the entire first half of my algebra final using factor( solve( expand( and just using the magic of AMS.

By the way, I dont think I could use a non-graphing calc any more. I just cant grasp the non-equation format and the lack of variables. (then again, I can barely use a z80 anymore) :)
-TB

ON TAKS? (texas assessment on knowledge and skills) NOO! It ticked me off 'cause TI has not made a calc guard for the school to put on my calculator to use. So what I had to do? USE THE SCHOOLS CALCS! Luckily they were 83+'s. Another thing to keep in mind, they install Calc Guard , right? Well the teacher just blows the calculator away anyway.... so no test guard because the Texas Education Department says to CLEAR THE CALCS! So what is the gay idea! I SHOWD MY MATH TEACHER EVERY FILE AND THE RESET AND NOTHING WAS THERE!
So at times, I do regret i got a TI 89. Of course, I did e-mail TI how upset I am... ;(

I am lucky because there are only two 68k calculators in the school...

And my teachers don't even know how to reset it....they just hit [2nd][+][7][right][right][1][2] really quickly, because they think my TI89 is a TI-83+.

My teachers just say clear the ram. SO I ARCHIVE EVERYTHING, THOSE MORONS! Also, I made a screenshot that says ram cleared... lol.
-KaibaFan321

So all they basicly do is put "a2" on the screen? How inconveinent. :)

Yes, I know my spelling is bad...