Was eliminating this functionality another effort on ti's part to indicate clearly that they don't want our business? Or just another one of their stupid mistakes.
And the problem is, serial communication definitely has valid uses for classrooms, so by crippling their Lua (intentionally or not) and by fighting native code, they're doubly hurting themselves...
And the problem is, serial communication definitely has valid uses for classrooms, so by crippling their Lua (intentionally or not) and by fighting native code, they're doubly hurting themselves...
Why do I keep thinking that the only effective way to deal with TI is to hurt them financially such as a boycott on buying new nspires (used is ok because ti doesn't get that money) and pressure on teachers to put the toys away and go back to teaching/learning math again?
Besides, who says we need to fight TI. We can't really beat them anyways, we're only a minor portion of their profit margins, sadly enough. The best we can do is help Casio grow to surpass TI and not make them dislike us in doing so.
A good argument to convince teachers would be to tell them that the TI-Nspire is a major PITA to use, because of the complex interface, mouse and confusing menus compared to standard models like the Prizm or the 84+. Another argument would be that the calc is way too expensive compared to other models (although that doesn't work if they lend calcs). Even if you disagree with my first point, you can still tell them the calc is overly complex compared to others.
I do not think people should boycott TI by stopping TI calc programming or something, especially that it still has the largest userbase for your games, but encouraging people to get a Prizm is a good move.
Also I hate how high they charge for their calcs outside United States and France. Here a TI-Nspire CX, not even the CAS, costs $194.99! I saw the PRIZM and the 83+ for $99.99 a few times and normally the PRIZM is $149.99, the same price as their monochrome 84+.
- Some bugs are quite annoying (like when the mouse appears, a weird square is displayed for a few seconds)That might be fixed in 3.2. I don't remember.
- The file explorer is really slow to loadYep, when you have a lot of files, it's quite slow to load. I think they should change it to load whenever you open a directory, and not "prefetch"/"precache" all the hierarchy...
- The text editor is way too slow tooThat's true for long texts indeed. It's completely linked to their crappy internal XML structure (http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/Notes#Raw_exemple)... Maybe one day they will make it better...
- There is no official on-calc lua script editorWell, nope, but it's not really easy to program 'big' things with Lua on-calc anyway (since it's more complex than Basic). LuaCS 2 provides, though, a really awesome editor with Syntax-Coloring, templates, etc.
But the Nspire is still better than the prizm, IMHOSame for me ;)
and they (the Nspires) are extremely good for education.And they could be even better if they were open development platforms, like the TI-Z80 and the TI-68k series :)
Agreed. :)Quoteand they (the Nspires) are extremely good for education.And they could be even better if they were open development platforms, like the TI-Z80 and the TI-68k series :)
Quote from: Chockosta on Today at 18:01:46Where can I find that program?
- There is no official on-calc lua script editor
Well, nope, but it's not really easy to program 'big' things with Lua on-calc anyway (since it's more complex than Basic). LuaCS 2 provides, though, a really awesome editor with Syntax-Coloring, templates, etc.
The price is mostly defined by the store that sells it. I've seen prices of a CX quite low, and basically the same as a 84 in that store.I agree with you that TI has made a great calc with the CX and that some people seem to not see the good things about it. But that they support the community every year a bit more is only half-correct since the z80 and 68k were open for programming in asm and everything, and their strategy to lock their calcs down was new with the nspires.
Also, in term of hardware and mathematical features the CX blows the Prizm away.
Also, I personally found quite some of your remarks rude and would have down rated them if I could.
Something that many seen to forget is that the TI-Nspire series are incredible calculators. TI really has done a great job, and they are extremely good for education.
Maybe they don't support the community (which they actually do, every year a bit more and more), but they make excellent calculators which help many students of year again and again.
The only, and also ONLY downside I see is that they keep locking the calculators down. They have given reasons why, and I can understand them. I still think that it's not the correct thing to do (I'm sure Ndless can co-exist with TI), but I also understand there concerns.
I really like my CX, and I never though it was something horrible.
Also, I personally found quite some of your remarks rude and would have down rated them if I could.
Btw, do you work for TI?Yes and no, in that he isn't on their payroll, but it's no secret that he is under NDA for Nspire OS 3.2, works on EEPro (though he's got lots of homework at the moment) and sends some Lua-based content to TI.
I think I can answer for him:QuoteBtw, do you work for TI?Yes and no, in that he isn't on their payroll, but it's no secret that he is under NDA for Nspire OS 3.2, works on EEPro (though he's got lots of homework at the moment) and sends some Lua-based content to TI.
Indeed, I work quite close with TI.Well in my view they're still kinda greedy in a way, because there's no other excuse to charge $194.99 for a calculator, when you can buy a dual core computer for that price on Boxing Day/Black Friday at Best Buy.
Also, downrating is not a personal attack. I said it to show how I thought about your post(s).
In my opinion you made TI much worse then what they are.
I agree that blocking ndless is wrong, but they are not greedy bastards.
They have spend quite some money the past year to be more involved with the community (mainly through TI-Planet).
I got my CX CAS from them, together with expensive teacher software. You might thinks thats the reason I'm so pro TI, but thats not true. I've seen how they really are.
I think he was rude to you because your messages themselves were rude (especially the ones in another topic). Also it'S generally a bad practice to accuse someone of making personal attacks towards you in response to a reprimand about being rude, becuse it sounds like you are trying to act like you are perfect and never do anything wrong or trying to shift blames on others. Also knowing you as member, you are not a troll, but actual trolls often use the blame shifting tactic on others who defends themselves or someone else, and I don't think you want other forum members to see you as a troll.
Also, I personally found quite some of your remarks rude and would have down rated them if I could.
Jim, I would like to respectfully make a couple of points.
First, I don't know you and I've never said any thing negative to you or about you so to make a personal attack on me like that is strange unless you have a personal or business reason for supporting TI that way.
Second, my experience with TI has been very unsatisfactory so I view them much differently than you apparently do.
Third, I call it the way I see it and you need to understand that attacking the messenger because you don't like the message doesn't change reality one bit.
So have a good day and Btw, do you work for TI?
Maybe there's a problem with your RS232 adapter. If you can see something in nspire_emu's console, you can be sure its an hardware issue.isn't it supposed to show some text on the screen?
print("hello world")
print(1, 2, 3)
print(FOOBAR)
No. UseMaybe there's a problem with your RS232 adapter. If you can see something in nspire_emu's console, you can be sure its an hardware issue.isn't it supposed to show some text on the screen?Code: [Select]print("hello world")
print(1, 2, 3)
print(FOOBAR)
on.paint(gc) gc:drawString("Hello World", 0, 0, "top") end instead.