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I know a TI staff!
« on: February 28, 2011, 03:53:10 pm »
That's right. An employee of our beloved texas instruments works at my school as a tech guy and I had no idea about this until today. My math teacher got the notion I knew more than the average person about calcs and I told her about a new Nspire calc coming soon (CX ofc). She told me she herd of that when she was at lunch. I didn't know how this was possible when she barely knew how to figure out graphing and basic Nspire functions (we use Nspire in our classes). Today when I got back from my lunch period she told me that she had gotten ahold of a TI-Nspire CX and she saw it with her own eyes. I figured this was impossible. I asked her how this was possible when she told me that Mr. <someone> works for TI! I was very excited to hear this. Last block of the day he was not in his office, but I will go and meet him and talk to him FIRST THING TOMORROW MORNING!! I will ask him about future programming capabilities, OS 3.0, and 3 other questions you all have to ask.
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edit: I mean the teacher saw the nspire she doesnt have one herself but the staff guy does.
« Last Edit: February 28, 2011, 03:55:28 pm by Snake X »
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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2011, 03:55:35 pm »
DOOOO IIIIITTTTT!

BTW, I totally forgot to check with the person in our school who works for TI :(

sorry... I was caught up in losing my calc

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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2011, 03:55:36 pm »
Hand over the Nspire keys! :D (j/k)!

I would like to know about the TI-84 Pocket on TI's French website.  What is the thing???


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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2011, 03:55:42 pm »
O.O

This is awesome. That said, if they are not allowed to reveal stuff, maybe you'll be out of luck, though, since they could get fired otherwise. However if the person can answer some questions it would be nice. :D
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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2011, 03:57:28 pm »
That's pretty cool.  I wonder if this could be a pipeline of information... :D

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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2011, 03:59:21 pm »
:D im glad this could potentially mean less 'ti-cares' about our questions :P

edit: if you guys have questions you want to ask i will pick 3 questions from you guys
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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2011, 04:39:00 pm »
Ask very innocently - "What number can divide into this one? [Give nspire public key]"
Seriously, ask for a valid reason why TI doesn't support asm on the nspire.
Or, ask for USB port documentation.

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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2011, 04:58:19 pm »
Or, ask for USB port documentation.
For the Nspire? We already found that, actually.
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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2011, 05:01:10 pm »
That's right. An employee of our beloved texas instruments works at my school as a tech guy and I had no idea about this until today. My math teacher got the notion I knew more than the average person about calcs and I told her about a new Nspire calc coming soon (CX ofc). She told me she herd of that when she was at lunch. I didn't know how this was possible when she barely knew how to figure out graphing and basic Nspire functions (we use Nspire in our classes). Today when I got back from my lunch period she told me that she had gotten ahold of a TI-Nspire CX and she saw it with her own eyes. I figured this was impossible. I asked her how this was possible when she told me that Mr. <someone> works for TI! I was very excited to hear this. Last block of the day he was not in his office, but I will go and meet him and talk to him FIRST THING TOMORROW MORNING!! I will ask him about future programming capabilities, OS 3.0, and 3 other questions you all have to ask.
 O.O  :angel:


edit: I mean the teacher saw the nspire she doesnt have one herself but the staff guy does.

3? What about 20! This is awesome.

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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2011, 05:11:43 pm »
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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2011, 05:22:23 pm »
well I don't want to make it look like I am a part of anything. That might change his perspective of me for the worse.. and the fact that I can only remember 3 lol..

I don't wanna print anything and do a q & a even thought that would be great
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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2011, 05:29:31 pm »
I would start pretty innocently with the questions until you talk with him more and more, then once you've gained his trust we shall infiltrate TI...oh the possibilities...oh wait...did I say that out loud? Um...*whistles innocently*

Anywho, seriously though, I would hold back on more serious questions until you get to know him better and he feels better about maybe releasing a few things he isn't quite supposed to or something. Who knows. But that's really cool he does.
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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2011, 05:44:01 pm »
My question for him is this: will TI continue supporting older Nspires after the release of CX, and will future support include any kind of native assembly/C support?

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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2011, 05:45:38 pm »
thats good, although maybe start without that last part...

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Re: I know a TI staff!
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2011, 05:50:36 pm »
Ask him if he wants to join this forum, apparently we have no official TI members, asking him to join would benefit us all. Who knows, maybe if he joins, more and more TI members will join, participate in projects with us, give us upcoming information, ask us to beta test new projects, ask us to beta test new features, ask us for suggestions, you name it.
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