Ah, if only that were true.  Then the TI cas would have competitive math capabilities.  For example, i have a ten year old Hp calc that I use for Laplace capability because TI won't put that capability on their calc's.  Also, there are a lot of customers that would like to use nspire technology on their iPad but TI ignores these customers and doesn't support that platform. 

I have been watching ti's antics for about fifteen years now and based on that experience there are a few things that I am certain of.  One is that today's TI caters to high school math teachers and only pays lip service to the rest of the market and that is not likely to change.  Two, TI doesn't seem to be able to put out good os software updates and I believe that is a symptom of a lack of technically competent management.  Three, TI makes some really big mistakes, for example the original nspire keyboard which was horrible, and at some point their mistakes are going to be their undoing because they think they know it all and they don't.
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But, if that were to be wrong anytime soon, I guess TI would revise its stategy plan... They obviously are aware of what competitors do, so they must adapt when they feel the need for it anyway...
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Yes. And that surely means incompetent management.  It seems clear that the high level management doesn't have the Engineering Background from which to direct the Software People properly.  Considering the big spin and sales effort, I have to believe that management lacks integrity and likely believes that spin and strategy, and not a great product is the key to sucess.  Makes me feel very comfortable to use their products.
 

That such major bugs as the slowness were not discovered, or fixed before the release, means that their beta-testing is severely inadequate, and/or that they don't care.

If TI tested 3.2, wouldn't it be apparent on some level that it is much slower than 3.1.  And if that is true, does that indicate that TI doesn't do much testing but counts on the customer to find their screw ups for them, for free of course.  That's the only way I can understand why the os updates are constantly flawed, and I wonder how math teachers have time to do things like develope lesson plans when they are constantly reacting to new os bugs and other hardware issues if they use nspires to teach.     

It is the Disp function that is the problem. How more arguments how slower. TI is aware of the issue and looking into it.

Do you mean new bugs caused by 3.2 or old bugs?  From what I read on the nspire teachers site, 3.2 has caused new bugs which is not good news.

I was just going along with the joke.  Please don't take my post seriously.  It wasn't meant that way.

Quote from: Dingus on April 19, 2012, 07:15:54 am

My impression is that you guys that control this site have lost your mind.  DJ_O is rightly concerned about the lack of activity but that is consistent with this kind of nit picking harassment.  If some one has good intentions and tries to make a post containing a URL why should his or her efforts be frustrated this way??  There are things in life that are important and in my opinion, how any spaces one puts in a post isn't one of them.

If you haven't realized (especially after the April 1st news text turned brown), any news posted in brown text is fake or joke article.

In some cases some brown news might partially be true, but not entirely. In the current case it was in response to a forum bug causing posts containing two spaces after a link to disappear completely.

Learn how to read before making any judgement on people.

The topic of this thread is "the future of nspire programming" and there has been a lot of info presented here.  I come away with the impression that because:
1.  Nspire calculators just aren't in great general use with students, like I thought they would be, and considering that end spires have been around for over half a decade that simply isn't good news for the future of that product.
2.  Ti's lock down efforts are working and the latest os may be the death of Ndless.  All of which means there is and will be less interest in programming for end spire.
3.  A few people have gone over to the dark side and paint a rosey picture of the future for nspire programming which doesn't seem to have any basis in fact and needs to be filtered by reality checks.
4.  LUA isn't the solution people are looking for.
5.  The motivation to program by people at his site is fragile because of the lack of rewards.
My conclusion?  There is no future for nspire programming and there may not be a future for EndSpire.  So where are the opportunities for the very talented people who post here? What do they tackle next? Where can they make their mark?

Power is about influence.  A small group can exert a lot of power if they can influence the buying decisions of the larger market.  To make that point keep in mind that TI sucks up to teachers because teachers influence what kids buy.  Also keep in mind that if kids want good games and if this group provides them for prizm then kids will want prizms and TI will definitely take notice and act accordingly.  The real question is how important are calculator games to today's kids?  Is the Big calculator game demand that occurred for the 8x series there for the nspire series?  Or maybe good games on a calculator is no longer important?

Quote from: Dingus on April 04, 2012, 06:46:35 am

The 3d graphing looks really good.  Can it be rotated?

Rotated, scaled, zoomed, you name it.

Super!