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TI Launches Three New Graphing Calculators
confusedneutrino writes "Texas
Instruments has announced 3 new graphing calculators to be available later this year. The TI-84
Plus and TI-84
Plus Silver Edition will be available this spring and are essentially the TI-83 Plus/SE, respectively, in a new case and with USB support. (The TI-84 Plus does sport a 15 MHz processor, compared to the TI-83 Plus' 6 MHz, though.) The TI-89
Titanium will be available in the summer and features 3x the available ROM of the 'old' TI-89 and will also have USB capability. Looks to me like a Voyage 200 minus QWERTY. I personally don't feel an inclination to upgrade at all..."
Who's their marketing department? AOL?
The TI-84 Plus, the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition, the TI-83 Plus/SE, the TI-89 Titanium, this is all too confusing. Just tell me hich one of these looks like Kristanna Loken, and where can I pick one up.
I need to do me some computin' on a beautiful calculator bent on the complete destruction of mankind. And I want USB support, too, dang it!
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I'll happily buy one or both of these calculators for my school-age children, provided that they can run TI Linux. Frankly, I have grown weary of the proprietary, closed-source interfaces that plague graphing calculators. They're essentially small computers; can't they run a real OS?
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Linux on Calculators Expert
I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
Bloody hell, why must the urge to change the numbers of those calculators like that?
WHY CANNOT THE NEW ONE BE LIKE 94?
I don't want to remember that 83 is older than 86, but 83 plus silver-balls is never, and also faster.
I hate this. Same thing with everything. Hell, we couldn't stick to mhz, but we had to begin with 2200+ and so on.
At least those keep on incrementing.
That they can have my HP 48GX when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers. And even then, I'm not so sure...
Buffer underrun? Your TI-92 had a CD burner?
Back in *my* day, we were only allowed to bring in some beans on strings. And only the yuppies could affor that. The rest of us had to carry a bucket of dirt, and make little piles on our desks. And we were THANKFUL!
Have you any idea how hard it is to compute logarithms by counting grains of dirt?
Kids these days! Sheesh!
The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
What you do today will cost you a day of your life
Ahh, the good old days...
Back in High School, the teachers didn't necessarily understand the technology. Some profs would ban them altogether to prevent cheating. Others had no idea things like, say, ANSWERS and FORMULAE could be stored in them.
I remember writing little programs that played cute little games. (And happened to have useful test information in the comments of the code.) I remember playing pong over that crappy link cable in the back of Calculus class.
Best of all, I remember when the TI-86 came out. Sure it had more memory, but my parents just didn't understand a geek's needs. ("You already HAVE a calculator.")
Of course, geekery knows no bounds. Scant weeks later I'd overclocked my 85. Sure, it went through a whole set of batteries a week, and the games wouldn't work anymore, but it was FAST! (Faster than everyone else's 86 at least ^_~)
GeekNights!
Late Night Radio for Geeks!
This is illegal according to the monopoly and shortage exploition act. Might also be private accumulation fraud but IANAL.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
Also includes new feature to calculate the number of years it'll take me to afford the 40gb iPod...
16C - awesome calculator for programmers, especially embedded work. There is no better number system converter available at any price. No I can't do bin/dec/hex in my head faster than the 16C and neither can you. Expensive due to relatively low numbers produced.
Umm, the best calculator for programmers is... the computer. Last I checked, any reasonable language lets you enter numbers in any base and does the conversions for you. My PC's a ton faster than your 16C, and whenever I'm programming it's right there with me.
Most reasonable debuggers will convert numbers to whatever format you want. Even Strings can be converted to hex, and let's see your 16c do that for even a 15 byte String. Not to mention character encoding...
I haven't owned a calculator in 10 years. Only reason I'd by one is to help with fractional math in the wood shop. Fucking imperial measurements.