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Humour and Jokes / Motivate! (something i found on UTI)
« on: January 29, 2007, 03:07:00 pm »
Ok. I'll bite.
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| QUOTE (Radical Pi @ 15 Jan, 2007, 10:54) |
| You could combine all those ideas you like so much |
OK.
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| You're Bob. You're a powerful knight. You're in a Royal procession (with fanfare. Think Parade) to escort the heroic Sir Adam to the king so that he can send this decorated war hero to defeat the ultimate evil. You of course dream of one day doing heroic deeds just like Adam. As you walk Sir Adam to the throne room, he sees the princess, and says he's going to greet malady before being given the King's Royal Decree. He walks into a different room (say the left or the right instead of straight up where the throne room is). Suddenly, the King walks up to you from the off the screen throne room, seemingly furious that Sir Adam Hasn't arrived yet, so he asks you (since you were in charge of bringing him here) where he is (Complete with Yes or no dialog). If you answer No, he threatens you with death until you say yes. If you answer yes, you tell him what just happened. In a rage the King rushes off into the other room. You hear a struggle with the princess screaming things (think "it?s not his fault! He didn't do anything!" Typical cover up stuff) then silence. Suddenly, the Blood stained king comes out, somewhat in a stupor. Eventually he comes out of it and realized he just killed the only savior of his Kingdom! Realizing that the populous may riot if word gets out that he killed their only hero, he blames you for dereliction of duty, (since you didn't bring Adam to him first) changes your name from Bob to Adam as punishment and decrees that you go defeat the Ultimate Evil or die by his own hand! You now literally live your dream of living Adam's Life, and not only go to defeat the ultimate evil, but hide the fact that you're not the true hero everyone thinks you now are. |
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Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas / Death to Adam contest
« on: January 11, 2007, 09:46:00 am »
When you start the storyline, make it out so it sounds like he is the true hero. Then something bad happens, and the main character takes his place.
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Other Calculators / TI-Nspire CAS
« on: January 02, 2007, 09:16:00 am »
Don't quote me on this, since I don't have the PDF in front of me, and really haven't read a lot on how the interface works since I focused more on the index at the back of the manual, but i believe the button in the middle of the directional star acts as some sort of trackpoint similar to how IBM does the mouse on some of their laptops. EDIT: handbook says it's a pressure sensitive directional pad for cursor movement. sounds like a trackpoint to me.
Although I'm sure it's not a graphing calculator by the way we define one, it is an interesting device nonetheless. It looks like Ti is trying to compete against PDA's in the classroom with this thing, but instead focusing on making a PDA specific for math and science learning. If it has a solid price advantage, it just might take off.
There's some images in the manual of it having test questions, reviewing notes from teachers already programmed in by the teacher, complex data capturing and analysis, as well as breakdowns of complex equations. I'm almost thinking of getting one with the CBL/CBR set just to see if it can replace the antiquated Logger Pro probe software we've been trying to kill here.
Although I'm sure it's not a graphing calculator by the way we define one, it is an interesting device nonetheless. It looks like Ti is trying to compete against PDA's in the classroom with this thing, but instead focusing on making a PDA specific for math and science learning. If it has a solid price advantage, it just might take off.
There's some images in the manual of it having test questions, reviewing notes from teachers already programmed in by the teacher, complex data capturing and analysis, as well as breakdowns of complex equations. I'm almost thinking of getting one with the CBL/CBR set just to see if it can replace the antiquated Logger Pro probe software we've been trying to kill here.
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Other Calculators / TI-Nspire CAS
« on: January 01, 2007, 01:34:00 pm »
QuoteBegin-graywolf+1 Jan, 2007, 16:58-->
Thats Exactly what Ti wants to do with this calc I believe. They don't want you to get an Nspire. They want Your School to get one. or two, ETC.
Looking in the manual, there's a introduction to the Nspire. It sounds a lot like what you would find in a marketing brochure for the calc, and from the way it's worded, It sounds like it's being marketed as a learning platform to benefit teachers learning experience. (I'd post it, but the PDF's are encrypted to disallow text copying. I don't feel like breaking the DMCA) It also talkes about a "Cradle Charging Bay" that will charge up to four 4 "connectivity sleds" (my guess: they mean Nspires, but I could be wrong. It doesn't refer to connectivity sleds anywhere else in the manual.)
If this was a calculator that student's would buy, why would the intro focus so much on how this benefits the learning experience instead of ease of use and functional power like previous calc's were marketed? Also, why would it need a charging bay for four calculators?
The more I read these docs, the more I think Handheld Powerpoint presenter, data collector for labratory work, new age interactive learning device, and less graphing calculator.
| QUOTE (graywolf @ 1 Jan, 2007, 16:58) |
| If the thing I heard about a non CAS version is true, why get N-spire at all. |
Thats Exactly what Ti wants to do with this calc I believe. They don't want you to get an Nspire. They want Your School to get one. or two, ETC.
Looking in the manual, there's a introduction to the Nspire. It sounds a lot like what you would find in a marketing brochure for the calc, and from the way it's worded, It sounds like it's being marketed as a learning platform to benefit teachers learning experience. (I'd post it, but the PDF's are encrypted to disallow text copying. I don't feel like breaking the DMCA) It also talkes about a "Cradle Charging Bay" that will charge up to four 4 "connectivity sleds" (my guess: they mean Nspires, but I could be wrong. It doesn't refer to connectivity sleds anywhere else in the manual.)
If this was a calculator that student's would buy, why would the intro focus so much on how this benefits the learning experience instead of ease of use and functional power like previous calc's were marketed? Also, why would it need a charging bay for four calculators?
The more I read these docs, the more I think Handheld Powerpoint presenter, data collector for labratory work, new age interactive learning device, and less graphing calculator.
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Other Calculators / TI-Nspire CAS
« on: December 31, 2006, 10:33:00 pm »
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| QUOTE (graywolf @ 30 Dec, 2006, 20:40) |
| I heard from a guy who heard from separate source weeks ago that NSpire will be three versions.
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News / Kinda back but...« on: November 16, 2006, 08:20:00 am »
i've been here for this long, and I got Bluecrimson for another 9 months, so I'm probably gonna be sticking around.
Of course, if you ask around, people think I left sometime around 2000   As for the Nspire draw functions, thats what I'm seeing from the beta manual. This could change by the time final hardware ships. 42
Other Calculators / My take on TI community« on: November 13, 2006, 08:48:00 am »
Ti shouldn't have let the 85 series die like they did. It was a nice calculator to program for, at least in ti-basic, although I would program a 92 series calc over any other calculator. Their focus on the 82 series has basicially sucked the base dry. All they did is add more ram and a USB plug. Their doing the same thing with the 89 series,
And from the looks of it, the Nspire is going to be an ASM'ers dream, but good luck programming a Ti-BASIC Nspire game with http://www.bluecrimson.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?b-tinspire/m-1161633215/. 43
News / More spambot problems« on: November 10, 2006, 01:55:00 pm »
well that explains why i'm not getting the e-mail spam.
address is still set to calc.org, and frankly, if I still was getting mail from there it would be lost in the 200 something a day I was getting anyway. I probably should change that. i'm apparently missing all of the fun does Invisionfree support Akismet spam protection? E-blah does But I haven't set it up to see if it actually works or not. I know Ikonboard didn't have it, but back when I had an ikonboard awile back in 2003 it never seemed to be an issue 44
Other / Introduce your computer...« on: October 31, 2006, 08:28:00 am »
I'll have to post one of my pictures of Project Dinosaur if I can find them once i get home. Basically, Project dinosaur was something I cooked up to see how low I could go spec wise and still get a PC to connect to the Internet. It had a 2400 baud external modem that it used for dial-up, and used arachne as the browser. Next thing I want to try is getting it on broadband. I got a parallel to Ethernet adapter I'm going to try on it one of these days.
Anyway, it's based on one of http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Zenith-Laptops.htm, so it's portable at least. 45
News / E-mail spammers« on: October 30, 2006, 05:12:00 am »
does invisionfree support http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha and mail verification?
That tends to keep a good amount of bots out of the system. |
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