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0th post man or 1st, I don't give a rat's ass
It is official; HP confirms: Algerbraic is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Algerbraic community when HP confirmed that Algerbraic calculator usage has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all professionals. Coming on the heels of a recent hpcalc.org survey which plainly states that algerbraic notation has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Algerbraic is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent HPcalc.org speed trials.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict alberbraic's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Algerbraic faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for algerbraic because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for algerbraic. As many of us are already aware, it continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
TI's algerbraic calculator development team is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core engineers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time algerbraic's developers Casio and Sharp only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Algerbraic is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
RPN supporter Jean-Yves Avenard states that there are 70000 propfessional users of calculators. How many users of algerbraic are there? Let's see. The number of RPN versus algerbraic posts on comp.sys.hp48 is roughly in ratio of 500 to 1. Therefore there are about 70000/500 = 14 algerbraic users. Sharp DAL (Direct Algerbraic logic) posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of plain algerbraic posts. Therefore there are about 7 users of DAL. A recent article put DAL at about 50 percent of the algerbraic market. This is consistent with the number of DAL Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of mismatched brackers, excessive keystrokes and so on, algerbraic went out of favor with TI and was taken over by Casio who sell another troubled calculator. Now Casio is also dead, its corpse turned over to cheap chinese calculator manufactures.
All major surveys show that alg has steadily declined in market share. Algerbraic is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Algerbraic is to survive at all it will be among vintage calcululator collectors. Algerbraic continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Algerbraic is dead.
Fact: Algerbraic is dying
you don't generally hjave to be a kreskin to predict the future of bsd. bsd is in truoble. the sign is on the wall. walnut greek filed a chapter four bankcrupty. njetscape has lost. internjet exploder will not take you where you want to go tomorrow.
So, why not buying slower hardware and less wine (I like it too so I won't advise you to buy bad wine) and help them ?
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Take a loan why do you begg?
No pain no gain!-qtod
If you keep you ass down and watch them leap,you will never get up to it!
It's the output of my emotional distress
quote:port 17 udp
Die Grammar-Nazi !!!
I salute you.
to create a bigger beowolf cluster!
and helping them will make them suck even more.
That you got modded Flamebait is just exquisite
Wow. She's actually hot!
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Good, less competition for the rest of us. The female on the right is pretty hot.
(Well, except I'm practically married to an intelligent hottie already:)
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
So, you really liked that guy on the left, eh?
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
In related news today, Italians are planning an "Adopt a Prostitute" campaign in City of Padova, where people could give prostitutes a home and food.
The aim is to get rid of the annoying street prostitutes by giving them new start to life.
Maybe the "Adopt a Geek" campaign has a similar motivation?
look at the other pics.. the one on the left is a girl! EW
omg, stfu. or else i'm gonna whip out aged person and start trolling :X
I'm also, as you put it, practically married to an intelligent hottie, but I'll put it this way. If I were female, this might just "turn me lesbian" (though personally I don't believe someone can be "turned", just commenting on what was already said.)