Survey posted 2005-03-02 07:03 by Jon.

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By the time I am that old, TIcalc.org will be probably be a holographic page that is displayed in my viser-glass, but who knows, maybe good ol' webpages will still be around then. :)

True...maybe graphing calcs won't even be around then and will have been replaced by cheap PDAs...no ticalc.org! :'-(

Like all great systems (& most not so great ones), people will still run emulators of the calculators for nostalgia. :)
Interesting, as of right now the options (except the last) seem to form a bell curve...

You're right, a decent Gaussian...

I voted for the last option, but after more thought, I realized I'll probably "retire" a couple years into college when I won't have time to do anything but study, sleep, and get a part-time job to pay for all those expensive books.

All surveys such as this should form a bell curve. The fact that it jumps way out is because he didn't extend it to 60's, 70's, 80's, etc. Although I'm sure a lot of people also voted 5 mos after death just to be funny (I know I did...) Although I think I may never entirely stop coming here...it was DuckHunt that brought my interest to calculators, calculators led to BASIC programming which led to programming in general which led to all the different languages I now know: BASIC, Java, C++, 68K ASM (not calc specific...I don't know rom calls or how any of that works), a little Perl, and quite a few others. I also picked up Flash MX from a friend of mine and have started to enjoy that too.

www.pdagraphingsoftware.org? LOL.

FYI That is not a real website as far as I know...

Although I think last answer is the funniest, and 30s is a possibility, it's most likely that I won't "retire" until I have something better to do, like a wife. Perhaps I will be around beyond the grave....
Offtopic, but anyone think the internet will be around that long? I mean, my natural death is about 60 years away (most of the ppl in my family die in their mid-eighties), the internet will probably be in a form much more strange and complex than it is today. I'm going to finish my time machine so I can figure out what it'll be like. And in an effort to force myself back on topic, I'll use my time machine to contribute to the calculator community after my date of death. No longer will I be posting nonsensical babble in only this decade, but I shall be in the 2060s also. Besides, I want to see first contact between Earth and Vulcan in 2064.

And we will finally learn whether or not Cochrane used a souped-up Voyage 400 Plus Plutonium Edition or the TI-89 Plus Ultra Technetium Edition to translate Vulcan to English, neither of which will have a color screen (but the v400PPE will have the 3D Geometry APP, availible for purchase for the TI-89PUTcE).

(Don't be surprised if the ASCII art doesn't work.)
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Trying Again:

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Ah, well, you get the point.

Ok.. no I don't get what that was supposed to be...

Hint: Live long and prosper.

Still don't get it.

Me neither...

That's the V the Vulcans do...

And you call yourselves nerds ;)

You didn't get it even after he said "Live long and prosper"?!?!?!?! What kind of nerd do you think you are?!?! You're almost...dare I say it...like a jock!!!! ;) j/k

Personally, I'm a computer geek, not a Star Wars or wherever that's from geek. I had no clue what that meant. It takes a certain mindset to be a jock. My 93 mph fastball doesn't mean I'm a jock, for example.

Star Wars?!?!?! It's Star TREK! Stay at home and eat all the chips, why don't you, Kip! Gosh!! j/k I was just joking about the jock thing. I understand that you wouldn't know that...I don't watch Star Trek either...I just know it because my dad watches it. The show I love is Alias. And, in one of the episodes, one of the terrorists said his password into some weapons thing was the first four digits of pi (1415). It was so funny to me because I started using pi for my password in tons of things...

Shit. I've been using that for as long as I can remember...
EOL

I kinda worded it wierd now that I look at it...I meant that it was funny because I already used it as my passwords for some things...not that I started using it because I thoguht it was funny....I also use Fibonnaci's sequence for some pw's...

Visit the link.

WWKD???

I Want My En*ter*prise!!!

Porthos for President!!

Archer / T'pol 2008!!

Don't Give up the Ship!!

Save Star Trek Enterprise!!!

Leonard Nemoy, the actor for Spock, a half-Vulcan and the science officer on the Star Ship Enterprise (NGC-1701), is jewish. When called upon to perform some kind of distinctive gesture to be the Vulcan equivalent of a hand shake, he chose the hand sign used in the priestly blessing in judaism. The separation of the fingers into two sets of two is acompanied by the words "Live long and proper."

Now, "Live long and prosper." is just as famous as the FSNP, or Famous Spock Nerve Pinch.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki / Gesture#Live_long_and_prosper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ V-sign

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Leonard_Nimoy

http://www.startrek.com /imageuploads/200502 /new-050225-salute/120x90.jpg

remove the spaces

>>Besides, I want to see first contact between Earth and Vulcan in 2064.

I'd rather wait until 2101. I think that date will be pretty exciting too. ;-) (Couldn't resist)

The year 3141 will be the best!
EOL

EOL = Eating out loud? Exhaling out loud? Exercising out loud? Never seen that abbv before.

END OF LINE --->|

I thought that was EOF, oh wait...

Watch 'Tron'.
EOL

I saw it like 5 years ago. What a boring and inaccurate movie.

A Disney Blooper

TRON is a classic!

BUT IT'S WRONG!!!

Who cares? I'd watch it again just to see the evil supercomputer say 'EOL' after each conversation!
EOL

I forgot that it was in TRON. I was just making an ASCII joke. ("End of line is here --->|")

Waht's in 2101?

It was a Zero Wing joke. I'm sure you've heard "All your base are belong to us" before. It comes from that intro.

"IN A.D. 2101 WAR WAS BEGINNING."

The link has the music video, story, etc.

That website rocks!

Woops, I'm wrong, first contact is in 2063. 2064 is the year Q used as a model for a courtroom in trying John Luc Picard for the crimes of Humanity.

>>but anyone think the internet will be around that long?

That is a good question. In many ways the internet is comparitable to the first public librarys, which have become all but obselete thanks to the internet. The question is, what will come next?

>> The question is, what will come next?

Instead of a network of machines, the "internet" will become a network of minds, with instantaneous access to everybody else's thoughts and feelings. It's not until then will we be able to answer life's biggest question: [insert life's biggest question]?

:-)

"When will TI start to make better calculators instead of better <i>looking</i> calculators?"

Hmmm...that sounds like the people of Kakrafoon, except with no Disaster Area concert to remove it. ;-)

>>[insert life's biggest question]

Well, "what do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?" of course!

42 ofcourse ;)

(I *do* know a rhetorical question when I see one, it's just I simply couldn't resist. :D )

That is my favorite typo of any publication ever. The first editions of "Hitchhikker's Guide To The Galaxy" made the statement that 6 x 9 = 42 (in explaining the meaning of life).

In base 13, it IS 42...maybe I'm missing the inside joke part of it...

It wasn't "6 x 9 = 42", it was "what do you get if you multiply six by nine". And it quite definitely is *not* a typo, Douglas Adams did this on purpose.
If you want more information (or you simply don't want to take my word for it), check out the wiki (as always, remove the space (between "Answer" and "_to_Life")):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Answer _to_Life,_the_
Universe,_and_Everything
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_13

Arggh, something went wrong. Here's another attempt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe, _and_Everything
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_13

Using DNA as a storage medium, data will become so compact that we can do a RAID across countries. (India + China on RAID5, 100GB per person, hot damn!) DNA has a storage capability of several gigabytes per cell, so space will be zero problem. And there are enzymes that read down the whole base chain in less than a second. It's a lot faster than mag tape.

But then, wel will have games that take up thousands of terabytes of memory! That will probably take up a lot of DNA. A possible game: imagine GTA 100, where you can do ANYTHING that you can do in the real world! I can't wait! *EXCITED*

That's a great idea! I would really like to see that "mind-link"...