Survey posted 2006-02-23 21:51 by Jon.

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My new Palm T|X is the greatest thing, that is the thing I use for homework, calander, etc...The TI apps are way too much of a pain to use to be very useful. Entering something that is non-numeric takes forever!
On a semi-side note, I dont even use my 84+SE anymore, what a shame...Gave my old 83+ to my dad for use at work, as he is a research scientist...My 89T is only used in classes for math work (gasp, what a concept! ;) ) and the occaisonal game during class.

you gave away 1 calc, dont use another, and use the last only for math?! ...and yet you still visit ticalc.org

I guess I was misunderstood there. I absolutely still use my 89T, jsut about every day in fact. It is very necessary in Physics and Calculus, it makes life quite easy. I actually hadnt used that 83+ in over a year anyway because of getting the 84+SE, which blows the 83+ out of the water. But the 89 kicks all of them, and I do use it frequently. And to say that I don't play many games merely means that I only play a few games a day, but I certainly play some of the great 89 games. Plus, I am writing a program for the 89, if it ever gets finished...

TICalc is the only place to get all the great games when they come out, so of course I still visit here...It's my homepage currently anyway!

I use a TI89 Titanium everyday, so naturally I experimented with the Calendar/Planner/Tasks/Contacts applications and found them to my liking.

The Calendar is great in that it reminds me of upcoming birthdays and will continue to do so year after year.
When I need to jot down a quick note, I don't always have a planner but I always have a calculator.
And wow! contacts. I lose my cell phone all the time, so when I want to call someone (or call my cell phone) or find the address to someone's house...

why pay for a PDA when a TI89 is so much more useful?

I just wish that someone could make an alarm-type program that makes use of the Planner app and time.
Just imagine:
thechessmaster88 is doing his calculus homework. He is about to call it quits and play Gunbound instead, but at 7:58pm his calculator notifies him that Smallville will start soon. Shocked that he almost missed an episode of Smallville, thechessmaster88 thanks his trusty calculator and runs to the pantry to find some popcorn.

problem is if you arn't looking at your calc you miss the alarm. I guess if you pluged it into speakers but unpluging it would make you miss your alarms.

<why pay for a PDA when a TI89 is so much more useful?>

I got mine 4 free ;)

might I ask how...

tell me

some1 gave me a pda for my birthday. i used it for a while, got my first ti calculator, and decided that anyone whe has a calculator but uses a pda is a heretic

Dito,

Now if only I had a TI Keyboard...

I'd get a keyboard, except for that they're large and expensive...

On the keyboard...I've always seen in pictures the keyboards with this gigantic link cable attached. Anybody have a clue as to where to get this cable? I bought one off of eBay for cheap, and I'm just waiting to get it because when my hand starts on the 5th page of notes, it starts cramping up...so I thought, why not?

And why does the box say, "Cable not included?", "Link cable required"? Seems somewhat annoying to include this very short cable...

i would get a ti-keyboard, except that the only place i know where to buy them is online, and my parents won't let me buy online merchandice.

My brain is the best, umm, organizer around. Yeah, that's it...

I find that the calculator that came standard with me (i.e. my brain) functions exceptionally as a planner; all I have to do is write down the assignment or what have you somewhere and then I remember it. Now, if only I could find a way to play Phoenix on my brain...

Well, in theory, if you played Pheonix all the time, eventually all the enemies, weapons, costs, effects, and possibly the frames would get melded into your brain. An,d if you really have too much time, you could memorize different difficulty settings. Then you could play Pheonix from memory.

I'd be tempted to cheat.

i actualy once played a vidoe game so much, that whenever i picked up a controller, i would start playing the game in my mind.
i got the !@#$% beat out of me by the ai.

My HP iPAQ is useful for this sort of thing. The only drawback is that I have to soft reset every time Windows CE feels like crashing, which is too often.

Whats Organization?

Organization is the little brown monkey that hangs upside down in everybodies head that throws feces at the back of your eyes. In some people it is the pink elephant that rides the unicycle. In me, however, it is the TI-89 Titanium spinning around and knocking out all the hard math problems. :D

Emacs -- the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display operating system. The Emacs calendar and diary are the only reason I'm able to keep track of anything at all...

I take notes on my calculator. Sometimes. Maybe. Yeah. If it's too far to walk for paper and pen.

Emac or Eniac? :D

Eh, I've tried emacs, and it's too hard to use. I stick with pico when I'm editing important system files in OS X.

But you have to admit, it's fun to take everything out on the "psychologist". I kept trying to tell it that it was a computer program, and it kept saying stuff like "You seem to be obsessed with computers" and "But it can only be assumed that I am a program" and one completely ridiculous question that made me quit immediately.

Unfortunately, the machine I run Linux on isn't working due to
1) Me forgetting Red Hat's boot password
2) Attempting to install Debian on it
3) Messing up the computer because Debian halfway formatted the hard disk before everything broke, and now it can't find the boot file thingies