Survey posted 2005-10-30 17:49 by Jon.

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It's always someone else's fault. ALWAYS!

I know, tell me about it. We are in denial, all of us!

i would recomend NEVER running asm programs made by sum1 else unless they test it on their calc first...

Microsoft was my answer

Has anyone seen the new G5 Quad?
check it out at www.apple.com

Pictures, yes. Real life, no. They haven't even finished bugfixing them. THey won't be out until at least mid-November - trust me.

yes, i watched the video presentation looks really cool

Back in the day when everything was kernel programming for the 68k calcs I used to blame DoorsOS. (Plushell and teOS were much better replacements)

This was before the ti89 had archive recovery built in. Some months later Third party software was released that modified AMS 1.00's file system to build in archive recovery. And eventually AMS 2.03 was released and TI provided the archive recovery. Now a days crashes are acceptable.

Then I became a serious developer so I blame crashes on myself.

Blame Microsoft for their corruption of the modern software industry!...or just because I don't like Windows.

True, Windows can be a pain at times. If IE and MS Office were corporeal beings, I'd have them shot...(use Firefox and OpenOffice instead...). However, I have observed Windows XP to be the most stable MS operating system to date; it does work quite well. But that's all the Microsoft anyone should use...

Xp = stable???? are you kidding???
i've had more bluescreens on XP than on every other version of windows combined! its so annoying#^$%(*^&!@$&

Linux is the wave of the future!

My turn: XP = blue screens????
I have to say, I have only had one blue screen so far, and that was a looong time ago (~2-3 years).

I have had 0 blue screens with XP. I have had 0 crashes with XP. I have only encountered 1 problem when using XP, and it was no XP's fault. I ran out of memory because I had my computer running for 3 weeks, AIM for 2 weeks, and WC3 on and off for the whole time, as well as some toolsets that rape RAM hardcore.

Yeah, in other words, XP is darn stable!

Microsoft's lousy OS and other software really has nothing to do with the people at TI and their OS. To blame a problem with the TI OS on Windows/Microsoft is to ... well, it's not right. It's pretty rare for the TI OSes to just crash when you're doing normal work, at least in my experience. The only instances in which my TI-89 ever crashed, and there were many such instances, were when I was running an ASM program which did something wrong.
An aweful lot of people voted for Microsoft, which surprised me, because my initial reaction was "Microsoft!? Putting Microsoft and Texas Instruments together is an insult to TI... even as a joke -_-" Oh well. I never blame myself, because at least for me, the programs I've written have never crashed on mine (I wouldn't know about anyone else's cause the only program I released generated zero feedback), and when I'm doing my math/science homework, it runs perfectly.
In short, I blame faulty coding.

Of course anything that happens to TI's calcs isn't Microsoft's fault, we just like blaming them for everything anyways! :-)

whatev. they both have monopolies in their industries.

Microsoft is definately the true scource of any crash on any equipment including if your Mac crashes because of Virtual PC

Or MS Word.

have you ever noticed how microsoft has to have "microsoft" in front of every application? that alone would make me buy an apple computer

Windows Mail, Windows Media Player, and Windows Movie Maker being the exceptions :-).

But seriously, how asinine does "Apple Pages" sound. Or "Apple Keynote". That's just sacreligious - it's the "Steve Jobs" Keynote, duh. Or "Apple Terminal". Sounds like an Apple // emulator.
(Don't forget AppleWorks. Good riddance.)

have you noticed how many games for the TI calcs have "TI" in the name? Most of the programmers here don't even work for TI. It's just a sort of standard that people use when making something that only runs on 1 platform or platform group.

examples? i've never named any of my programs with ti in them.

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 287/ 28753.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 295/ 29579.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 244/ 24437.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 58/ 5897.html

http:/ www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 132/ 13246.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 138/ 13841.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 137/ 13758.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 158/ 15815.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 91/ 9130.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 158/ 15879.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 162/ 16270.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 213/ 21358.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 261/ 26108.html

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 267/ 26721.html

..just to name a few.. I have even given in to temptation and used TI in one of my programs:

http:// www.ticalc.org/ archives/ files/ fileinfo/ 354/ 35424.html

Enough examples?

ah, glad you got my back :) didn't notice you already posted examples for me

was it fun wasting your time? that is only a few out of all of them total

the point was proven. listen, how many programs out of all programs written for windows have windows in the name? a very, VERY small percentage. several, but out of thousands. same with TIs. same with Apples. same with HP calcs. it's the way it is. you can't deny it. some people name programs with the name of the platform. sorry if it's hard to accept the truth.

TI-89 section programs: TI-Pang, TI-Chess, TI Fighter, TI-LIDS, TI-TiltMaze, TI-TimeWaste, TI-Minesweeper, TI Pinball, TIRayX, TiRogue, Ti Tetricon, Ti Tron, TI-Dictionary, TI-HIP...
TI-82: TI-Menu,
TI-83: TINuke, TI-Word, Ti-Rally, TiDoc, TI-Linux

Clearly the 89 has more than the others, and the 89 is what I deal with almost exclusively, as it is what I own, which may explain why you aren't familiar with the "ti-" names. However, there are clearly several which do name their programs with TI in them. I mean, maybe I made it seem like there are more than there really are, but I found these after about only a minute of scanning the archives. It's just what some people do.

Horray for OpenOffice.org!

I'm with you there. Yay for PortableOpenOffice!!

wait, what? Where?

Try the above link. Or below:

http://johnhaller.com/jh/

That sure would be better than typing RTF code into the TI-92+'s built-in text editor (which I have done before). :)

....which can be abbreviated POO!! :-D

Yeah! And Linux! And GNU! And...