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TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, Again
Deep Thought writes "Texas Instruments, already infamous thanks to the signing key controversy last year, is trying a new trick to lock down its graphing calculators, this time directed toward its newest TI-Nspire line. The TI-Nspires were already the most controlled of TI's various calculator models, and no third-party development of any kind (except for its very limited form of TI-BASIC) was allowed until the release of the independent tool Ndless. Since its release, TI has been determined to prevent the large calculator programming community from using it. Its latest released operating system for the Nspire family (version 2.1) now prevents the calculators from downgrading to OS 1.1, needed to run Ndless. This is TI's second major attack on Ndless, as the company has already demanded that websites posting the required OS 1.1 remove it from public download [PDF, in French], obviously to prevent use of the tool. Once again, TI is preventing calculator hobbyists from running their own software on calculators they bought and paid for."
This is a good thing for all concerned !!
You replace your phone every year so why do you play with that old toy?
Without math you don't have arithmetic.
It's entirely possible to add, subtract, multiply, and divide without set theory. Or did I just imagine the Roman Empire? Don't confuse the provable theoretical underpinning with the thing itself.
I know, but it's more fun to be snarky than to contribute meaningfully to the discussion, and I occasionally fall prey to the temptation to do so.
Does anyone understand what you just said, or are you so influenced by your own small-minded world that you lack the insight to see that you're incompetent? Let's review the unfamiliar (to everyone but you) terms used: DNF, peleton, transactional reductionist, generative learning potential, ostensibly, groused, as well as a bizarre strawman argument against libertarianism. I'm sure in your own tiny twitter world, these terms make perfect sense and are impossible to argue against. Heck, if you lived in the real world, you could hardly call yourself a Progressive, innit?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!