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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Humour and Jokes => Topic started by: saintrunner on February 22, 2012, 08:17:15 pm
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I walk down the hall in my high school programming on a chunky, color lacking TI-84+ se calc.......people laugh and stare at me
I walk down the hall in my high school programming on a thin (ner), shiny, new, colorful CASIO PRIZM fx-CG10 calc....people drop there jaws in awe, quickly run over and ask "WHAT IS THAT!?" and say "that is one kick butt calc man"
This ^^ happened to me today lol, not sure how to respond but it made me laugh
Both are amazing calculators in my opinion.....but when you judge a book by it's cover
edit: how would you respond?
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Imma try that out at school tomorrow... >:D
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Exactly what happened in my school. Every day in pre-calculus I programmed or did something on my 84 because I didn't feel like paying attention to stuff we already learned (we're still reviewing things from last year -_-), and though no one made fun of me, no one cared. Now I come to school with my Prizm and everyone's all googly-eyed over it because it has colors and displays sin(60) as root(3)/2 lol.
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I just tell them I can put Internet on the 83+ and it works.
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I get kind of the same reactions, except in some of my situations there's been speculation about NASA and stuff. Normally I tell them it costs the same amount as the 83+s that the school lends out, then watch the minds=blown XD then pull the 84 put of your other pocket
(tho I did get some classic reactions with zStart's image viewer...)
If you ask me it's more impressive to take an old, junky calc (read: TI) and make something amazing with it than to do something with the Prizm, because it's harder. Nothing against the Prizm, just my opinion.
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That is exactly what happened to me and my TI-84+ SE and my PRIZM. Now they all want one. HAHA!
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Lol nice. Now if only it had more games lol. :P
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^^ same I also hope the Prizm game coders community grows more now that we have more prizm owners. I'm trying my best to achieve this as you may all have noticed my newly found interest in the prizm and its language :)
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I get kind of the same reactions, except in some of my situations there's been speculation about NASA and stuff. Normally I tell them it costs the same amount as the 83+s that the school lends out, then watch the minds=blown XD then pull the 84 put of your other pocket
(tho I did get some classic reactions with zStart's image viewer...)
If you ask me it's more impressive to take an old, junky calc (read: TI) and make something amazing with it than to do something with the Prizm, because it's harder. Nothing against the Prizm, just my opinion.
I agree with you, although my junky old calc is the hacked fx-9750GII. ;)
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It is kinda like that at my school, i got a CX CAS befor school started and then got my free prizm last week.
there are basicly two groups of poeple here...
the ones that are in complete awe, and the ones that are completely jelouse and cant stand the fact that they cant play tetris or doom, or just the fact that they dontt have a color calc
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And there's the kids who make fun of you for having a graphing calculator...
Seriously, most of the kids in my school (in 7th grade :P) don't know what a graphing calculator is. They call it a "nerd calculator". :( Also, at least 10 times a day, kids ask me these exact questions:
"Are you playing games on that?"
"Can you play pacman on that?"
"Can you text with that?"
"Can you get on the internet with that?"
"How much did that calculator cost?"
Yup. Exactly. The. Same. Questions.
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It is kinda like that at my school, i got a CX CAS befor school started and then got my free prizm last week.
there are basicly two groups of poeple here...
the ones that are in complete awe, and the ones that are completely jelouse and cant stand the fact that they cant play tetris or doom, or just the fact that they dontt have a color calc
lol...
it's the same way with me :P
I pointed both groups to the casio survey.
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And there's the kids who make fun of you for having a graphing calculator...
Seriously, most of the kids in my school (in 7th grade :P) don't know what a graphing calculator is. They call it a "nerd calculator". :( Also, at least 10 times a day, kids ask me these exact questions:
"Are you playing games on that?"
"Can you play pacman on that?"
"Can you text with that?"
"Can you get on the internet with that?"
"How much did that calculator cost?"
Yup. Exactly. The. Same. Questions.
Those are the same questions people ask me. Over and over.
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And there's the kids who make fun of you for having a graphing calculator...
Seriously, most of the kids in my school (in 7th grade :P) don't know what a graphing calculator is. They call it a "nerd calculator". :( Also, at least 10 times a day, kids ask me these exact questions:
"Are you playing games on that?"
"Can you play pacman on that?"
"Can you text with that?"
"Can you get on the internet with that?"
"How much did that calculator cost?"
Yup. Exactly. The. Same. Questions.
Those are the same questions people ask me. Over and over.
Those are quite similar to the ones I get too. :P
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The only two questions I got with my prizm are:
- Can you go on the internet with that? <-- Multiple, multiple times
- How much did that cost?
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The only two questions I got with my prizm are:
- Can you go on the internet with that? <-- Multiple, multiple times
- How much did that cost?
KermM is working on CalcNET for PRIZM... ;)
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And there's the kids who make fun of you for having a graphing calculator...
Seriously, most of the kids in my school (in 7th grade :P) don't know what a graphing calculator is. They call it a "nerd calculator". :( Also, at least 10 times a day, kids ask me these exact questions:
"Are you playing games on that?"
"Can you play pacman on that?"
"Can you text with that?"
"Can you get on the internet with that?"
"How much did that calculator cost?"
Yup. Exactly. The. Same. Questions.
i get TONS of those from the poeple who arnt jelouse
i also get:
Put Kirby on it
That looks expensive, why did you buy it
Put doom on my calculator *they dont get the fact that they have an 84
why do you care so much about calculators
my answers:
Because
the 84 was the same price 2 years ago *if you go on vernier.com
you calculator has a diffrent processor, and it only runs at 15MHz
i dont, but i also dont get bored like you do and i enjoy looking smarter than you* this seems to be a steriotype
hmm, gossamer could be ported too, and i bet it could support images
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And there's the kids who make fun of you for having a graphing calculator...
Seriously, most of the kids in my school (in 7th grade :P) don't know what a graphing calculator is. They call it a "nerd calculator". :( Also, at least 10 times a day, kids ask me these exact questions:
"Are you playing games on that?"
"Can you play pacman on that?"
"Can you text with that?"
"Can you get on the internet with that?"
"How much did that calculator cost?"
Yup. Exactly. The. Same. Questions.
YES. Those same questions. :P
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Last year I got the nspire with the 84+se keypad and everyone was like WTF is that? Keep in mind that my school is mostly (98%) 84's, and at that time nobody else had or even knew what an nspire was. Now I have the CX CAS and its the only one in the entire school ;D. Some people ask "why did you buy that instead of an 84?" My reply, it'll run circles around you're 84 (overclocked to 222mhz vs 15mhz), crystal clear screen, color, lighter/thinner, mouse/touch pad, rechargeable battery, CAS, and its just plain bad-ass. And now with Ndless, it kicks even more butt 8) Only problem is I can't use the CAS on the state tests, but my non-cas nspire comes to the rescue! Sorry if I offended any 84 fans, I'm just an nspire fan. :D
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wow, that is entirely true but my school is about 99% 8x and i own the only two color screen calcs, in probably a 40 mile radius, i also cant use the CX CAS on the act, but my old handy clickpad i can, or i guess now i could use my prizm...
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My school is 98% basic calc or no calc, 1.8% is 8x, then 0.2% (me) is cx
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I used to have an old 83+ when everyone else seemed to have an 84. Then I got my first Nspire and everyone thought it was a computer. XD
Now I have my 83+, CX, and Prizm but no one seems to notice in College, which is all very well and good imo. :)
Not as many people bothering me now. ;) :P
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Everyone at my school has an 84+ SE. it's the recommended calc for classes
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@thydoluways What is your answer to question #1? :P
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Lol, when playing doom on meh Nspire cX, had a guy watching over my shoulder the whole way to class
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When a couple of girls at my school got a hold of my Nspire they were so amazed that it had a file system and text editor. They were like "OMG! It's like a freaking computer!" My school uses 84+'s and not one person in the entire school can program them besides me. So I make a lil money sending little math programs and games.
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And there's the kids who make fun of you for having a graphing calculator...
Seriously, most of the kids in my school (in 7th grade :P) don't know what a graphing calculator is. They call it a "nerd calculator". :( Also, at least 10 times a day, kids ask me these exact questions:
"Are you playing games on that?"
"Can you play pacman on that?"
"Can you text with that?"
"Can you get on the internet with that?"
"How much did that calculator cost?"
Yup. Exactly. The. Same. Questions.
They usually ask about Mario and Pokemon for me. Especially on the Nspire CX. But otherwise, the EXACT same questions. It's unnerving... :P
So I make a lil money sending little math programs and games.
I don't charge any money for transfer of games, but I could make quite a bit. I am the transferer, giver of games, eradicator of ennui in my class. ;)
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Yeah I'm known for this at school and when we were doing factoring quadratics quite a few people asked me to give them my quadratic factoring program(84+SE). I didnt have a cable and I'm too lazy to retype it so I said no :P
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I used to be the guy that you Never, under Any circumstances, trust your calculator with. Doing so would result in a virus that locks up your calc for up to five minutes, or a really bad rickrolling. :P :trollface:
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really, guys?
All I hear is:
"Of course. It's YOU."
D:
The game
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If i would have charged money right off the start, advertised my skill a little, and poeple didnt find out about TiCalc or any of the other free software sites, i could be making alot of money.
@Homer-16, lol i used to make those when i first started programming and i didnt understand the commands, i would just change settings
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From my experience, you aren't allowed to sell or anything like that in Public Schools, or at least in my district. So I would advise against loading and programming calcs for money, especially since a lot of the programs are available free anyways and were authored by other individuals.
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one day, I'll bring my ancient casio to school for the lols ;)
I'm expecting responses like:
"you can actually program that brick?"
or "that pile of junk is a calculator?"