I don't know enough to answer the mp3 format bandwidth, but your second response is not quite right. An ADC which has a sample rate of 44.1kHz has an unaliased bandwidth of 22.05 kHz. Aa analog signal which is greater than the 22.05 kHz, with the absence of a filter will alias into the baseband bandwidth (0 Hz to 22.05 kHz). Using the 25 kHz and a sample frequency of 44.1 kHz should mean that the signal would be audible at 19.1 kHz. The signal would not be distorted, as you put it. It would just be stored digitally at a different frequency (ie. aliased).
I know you are kidding, but part of the problem is that they may still not be using that type of solder. With the RoHS initiative, they may be required to use a different blend of solder (ie. one with less or no lead). I imagine they have not figured out a good manufacturing process in this new RoHS world of electronics design.
My upbring is that of Catholicism. To start off most of the Catholic priests that I have talked to do not take Genesis literally. Also, in the most general sense, sin is something which weakens our relationship with God.
Now to answer your primary question about Adam and Eve. This is nothing more than a story describing how God handles those who sin. Since this is Slashdot, I will summarize what happened as well as I can without a Bible in front of me. The devil tempted Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. Doing so, she lost her naivette. She also told Adam to eat the fruit and the same happened to Adam. Later God appears in the Garden, but Adam hides from God since he is now aware of his nakedness. God asks "Why are you hiding?". Adam responds "I am naked". Surmising Adam ate from the tree,God asks "Why did you eat the fruit?". Adam says, "The woman you gave me made me do it." In short God then kicked out Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden because he was upset with them.
Now how do I interpret this? First off, Adam did not man up and confess his fault. Instead he tried to blame Eve for why he sinned, even though God told them earlier not to eat from the tree. In other words, they did not obey God. Imagine if you told your children to do something because you know it is in their best interest, but they did it anyway. I imagine you as a parent would be upset. In this case, God is upset with his children (Adam and Eve).
Do I believe Adam and Eve existed? No. Is the story any less relevant because to me they don't exist? No.
Your other question about Jesus is not as simple to answer and this post is already quite long so I will allow someone else to try and answer that one.
Most Catholics that I know actually believe in evolution. In general, those that take the bible literally are those that tend to believe in Creationism. Catholics tend not to have a literal interpretation of the bible.
If employers were really concerned about productivity, then why do they place people in cubes (aka anti-productivity pods where I work)?
The cynic in me definitely would see this used by Evil Corp(tm) to monitor productivity and not for perceived health benefits.
1) They are going to "use heat from equipment to manage temperature on board the ships"? Huh? Unless these things are parked in the Arctic, "temperature management" in a data center always involves getting rid of the heat, not using it. The heat is a problem, not a solution.
Yes, what would they use for cooling? I don't know...What are they floating on? I can't remember...Oh yeah! It's water!
All kidding aside, the Navy has no problems cooling it's own electronics and other larger heat generating hardware (think nuclear reactors) at the pier; they use seawater. However, the Navy is at least smart enough to use distilled water, which comes either from their own distilling plants or from the pier, in the water that runs to the electronics. They then use the seawater to cool the distilled water.
Sounds like this game would be similar to 'Cooking Mama' for the Wii. If that is the case, then this game would still not be very good. Cooking Mama was only funny because they had very bad english translations; 'Betta dan momma' and 'wondofo' will always stick in my head now that I have played that game. Otherwise, the game play was pretty boring. That's not to say the developers couldn't make it better. It just seems limiting.
Sorry, when I first read your subject line I couldn't help but think of Monty Python
[clop clop]
ARTHUR: Old woman!
DENNIS: Man!
ARTHUR: Old Man, sorry. What knight live in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!
ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'.
DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'.
ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'
DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind
you looked--
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By
exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma
which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society!
If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous
collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.
A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives
in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take
it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified
at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,
[angels sing]
her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur
from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I,
Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.
[singing stops
While I agree with your comments about the US consumer's desire for large automobiles, it will not change most US consumer's minds.
My own mother will not buy a small car anymore. Even though when I was younger my mom drove a Toyota hatchback (circa 1981), she now insists on buying an SUV. The larger automobile gives her the impression of being safer. (larger mass => better chance of surviving an accident)
Now this being/., I know a sample size of one is simply anecdotal and statistically irrelevant, but I think that if you ask a lot of SUV owners, you would get a similar answer. "Why should I drive in a smaller car, when I would get pulverized by the in the SUV next to me?"
To me, this is one of the larger impediments for US consumers to get over in buying an economical automobile (ie smaller and more fuel efficient). The other largest factor would be paying more for our gas. But since the US is doing everything it can to keep its gas prices low for the consumer, that means the mindset needs to change. And most people will not change the way they do things unless there is some other external force to make them change.
I think that it is a pretty easy transition. I hadn't played team fortress for at least 3 years before starting TF2. It was a pretty quick transition. The biggest difference is that they made the maps more stylistic, so you may not alway be able to go to areas that you can see in the game. The best example of this is the map 2Fort. This map is exactly the same that was in TF1, but in the basement near the intelligence room (ie. flag ala TF1), it might look like you can get to other points.
After that, it's just a matter of finding what class you like the most.
There you go, trying to apply logic to this argument. I believe it is a conspiracy of those that play the pyro to have easy pickings! And there you go ruining it!
I would like to take this opportunity to complain about those lousy camping pyros hanging out around the respawn points. Yeah, you know who you are! Knock it off! How is a medic to defend himself?
The fact that heavies have the most kills could be misleading. How many of those kills were while the heavy was being healed simultaneously by a medic? A heavy does have real killing power, but because he is so slow he is easily killed by pretty much anyone outside of his rain o'bullets. Also, I usually see a good spy or soldier consistently at the top of the leader boards when I play. This could just be an artifact of the server that I frequent though.
Has anyone actually read any of Brandon Sanderson's books?
I too gave up on the Wheel of Time because of Jordan's neverending story, but does this new author have the ability to wrap it up? Does he get more to the point of the plot than Jordan?
Anyone's insight would be appreciated.
What else does Kucinich carry around?
On October 15, 2007, Kucinich emptied his pockets onto The C-Desk revealing:
* The Communist Manifesto
* a pocket Magna Carta * His lucky charms
* a tea cup, tea pot with water, and sugar (or more likely some type of communist sweetener)
* A pocket Rosetta Stone
* the Pocket Stephen Colbert
* Pocket I Am America (And So Can You!) (after Dr. Colbert gave him a pocket-sized copy)
I know exactly what you mean. My personal pet peeve (as an electrical engineer) is when people refer to 'bandwidth' as to how much work load they can handle. I feel like my head is going to explode when I hear that!
"Does not compute, Will Robinson!"
I always at least listen to the sales pitches because it might be in my best interest.
I think therein lies the problem. How many times does a person hear a sales pitch in any given day/week/month? It gets old. However, I definitely recognize when the salesperson is trying to push a product/warranty/etc. My normal reaction is to not buy that product/etc at all. I will also at least listen to what the person has to say. To me, that is just being a decent person. But maybe I have too high of standard of how people should act. Some people will not change and will be bitter no matter what. They will have a grudge against salespeople, because they have been burned elsewhere by other salespeople. It's just a defense mechanism which overrides civility.
The things that you seem to despise about the US system are what I like about it. After high school, I didn't have any idea what I wanted to get into. Also, I didn't have high enough standardized test scores nor enough money to go to college. I still graduated in the top 10% of my class though, and that was without really applying myself. After high school I went into the Navy and worked as an electrician. This gave some more time to think about what my interests were. By the time I left the Navy, I knew that I wanted to continue working with electronics so I went to college and benefited from veteran programs like the GI Bill. (For those who don't know, the GI Bill is to help people pay for post high school education at an accredited learning institution.)
I currently have my MS in electrical engineering. The reason that I bring all of this up is because I had options after high school. I was not railroaded into a career that might have been interesting when I was 14, but ended up loathing it for the remainder of my life. I am not sure if such luxuries are possible in countries, such as the UK. I am curious. Is it possible to go from a trade job in the UK and later decide that you want to go to the university and get a degree?
Ironically (at least to me), the cartridges is one of the reasons that I purchased the N64. I watched someone play the PS1 (I think the game was resident evil),and you had to wait about 10 to 20 seconds for the next stage to load. The read rate of CD-ROMS at the time were not that good. With cartridges, the load times were much shorter. Only after a while did I realize that the limited size of memory on the cartridge would limit you racing game upon racing game (my one major gripe about the N64)!
I do not regret buying my NG4. I thought that it was the technologically superior hardware at the time*, and at a better price ($199 vs $299)**
* this is an objective remark. I did not actually do a side by side comparison of specs in 1996. ** Prices found from wikipedia
I think you are missing the point of the parent's argument. He mentioned the sim card could easily be removed. From the pictures, it does not look * like an easy operation to change the sim card. The cover had to be removed, then the battery, then a ribbon cable, and finally an EMI shield. That is not easy!
* this is speculation, since I do not have anything to go by other than the pictures.
We cannot become a nation of businessmen/women and lawyers, because the world will quickly wake up to the fact that they already have all the smarts and physical resources to make whatever they need and can provide their own businessfolk and legal team.
I couldn't agree with you more. It is actually pretty close to some of the things that I am pondering now. I currently hold an MSEE and am pondering going back to school for either my PhD or an MBA. The hardest part is deciding whether to follow my true desires (the PhD) and potentially have diminished future prospects in employment due to the trend in outsourcing of engineering/R&D, or do I sell out and get my MBA to 'be closer to the money' and try to be higher in the production chain?
The company that I work for has already said that they are trying to remove themselves from circuit design engineering (my current job) and would like to become a more systems oriented. This follows about 2 years after we outsourced our PWB manufacturing. Seeing this trend continue in all hardware companies is a little disconcerting. 'Being closer to the money' sounds like a way to ensure future employment in today's culture of outsourcing.
While I agree to some extent with your post, I would have to think that MS would not add $200 blindly to the cost of the system to compensate for the addition of the HD-DVD drive. They would make the additional price only $150, for example. That way the budget shopper would see that they could buy the XBox 360 + HD-DVD player = $600, or they could buy them as a single unit and only pay $550. The $50 dollar price difference would probably get people that were on the fence to buy the elite or not to actually buy the elite.
I can see this have a few benefits. First, the XBox + HD-DVD would still be cheaper than the PS3. Also this would help HD-DVD get a larger market share.
There is still the option to not buy the XBox with the HD-DVD drive, so they will still be better than PS3, which forces you to buy Blu-Ray, no matter what model you buy.
First I noticed that everyone says that the HP48GX is the way to go. However, you will have troubles finding this calculator since they stopped producing them. This means on high schooler's budget you will need/want to buy a more affordable calc. You could probably buy a 49GX on ebay, but be prepared to shell out some loot.
But I digress...I have owned both of these calculators mentioned in the subject. Each has their pros and cons. The hp49 does have some nice features. It has a larger screen, has some more robust features, and of course it has RPN. If you don't want to learn RPN, then there is an algebraic mode. I would still most likely be using it if it wasn't BROKEN. once when I replaced the batteries, it just didn't turn on again. I tried some of the hard resets, but I was unable to succesfully resurect it. There were some other features which were obnoxious. For example, real and imaginary numbers were always formated as '(re,im)' which is ok when looking at a single number, but when dealing with a multy layered algebraic expression (ie many other parenthesis) it could be hard to read.
Now the TI 89 on the other hand has a smaller learning curve than the TI 89. It's programming language I feel is not as robust as HP's. As such, I have written few programs for the 89. Comparing the TI89's complex number display is not even close. The TI 89 will display complex numbers in multiple formats (such as a+i*b and A*e^(i*phi), where the second form would actually use superscripts instead of the carrot). The display would format depending on how you set the options. I also found that the TI89 would perform some integrations faster than the HP. Also, some of the algebraic manipulations are better with the HP.
The final verdict for me would be for you to get a TI-89 since it has a smaller learning curve and has a better display of the algebraic results.
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I don't know enough to answer the mp3 format bandwidth, but your second response is not quite right. An ADC which has a sample rate of 44.1kHz has an unaliased bandwidth of 22.05 kHz. Aa analog signal which is greater than the 22.05 kHz, with the absence of a filter will alias into the baseband bandwidth (0 Hz to 22.05 kHz). Using the 25 kHz and a sample frequency of 44.1 kHz should mean that the signal would be audible at 19.1 kHz. The signal would not be distorted, as you put it. It would just be stored digitally at a different frequency (ie. aliased).
Who hasn't seen Britney's female parts yet?
I will go with the Natalie Portman option, please.
I know you are kidding, but part of the problem is that they may still not be using that type of solder. With the RoHS initiative, they may be required to use a different blend of solder (ie. one with less or no lead). I imagine they have not figured out a good manufacturing process in this new RoHS world of electronics design.
My upbring is that of Catholicism. To start off most of the Catholic priests that I have talked to do not take Genesis literally. Also, in the most general sense, sin is something which weakens our relationship with God.
Now to answer your primary question about Adam and Eve. This is nothing more than a story describing how God handles those who sin. Since this is Slashdot, I will summarize what happened as well as I can without a Bible in front of me. The devil tempted Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. Doing so, she lost her naivette. She also told Adam to eat the fruit and the same happened to Adam. Later God appears in the Garden, but Adam hides from God since he is now aware of his nakedness. God asks "Why are you hiding?". Adam responds "I am naked". Surmising Adam ate from the tree,God asks "Why did you eat the fruit?". Adam says, "The woman you gave me made me do it." In short God then kicked out Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden because he was upset with them.
Now how do I interpret this? First off, Adam did not man up and confess his fault. Instead he tried to blame Eve for why he sinned, even though God told them earlier not to eat from the tree. In other words, they did not obey God. Imagine if you told your children to do something because you know it is in their best interest, but they did it anyway. I imagine you as a parent would be upset. In this case, God is upset with his children (Adam and Eve). Do I believe Adam and Eve existed? No. Is the story any less relevant because to me they don't exist? No.
Your other question about Jesus is not as simple to answer and this post is already quite long so I will allow someone else to try and answer that one.
Most Catholics that I know actually believe in evolution. In general, those that take the bible literally are those that tend to believe in Creationism. Catholics tend not to have a literal interpretation of the bible.
If employers were really concerned about productivity, then why do they place people in cubes (aka anti-productivity pods where I work)?
The cynic in me definitely would see this used by Evil Corp(tm) to monitor productivity and not for perceived health benefits.
Yes, what would they use for cooling? I don't know...What are they floating on? I can't remember...Oh yeah! It's water!
All kidding aside, the Navy has no problems cooling it's own electronics and other larger heat generating hardware (think nuclear reactors) at the pier; they use seawater. However, the Navy is at least smart enough to use distilled water, which comes either from their own distilling plants or from the pier, in the water that runs to the electronics. They then use the seawater to cool the distilled water.
Sounds like this game would be similar to 'Cooking Mama' for the Wii. If that is the case, then this game would still not be very good. Cooking Mama was only funny because they had very bad english translations; 'Betta dan momma' and 'wondofo' will always stick in my head now that I have played that game. Otherwise, the game play was pretty boring. That's not to say the developers couldn't make it better. It just seems limiting.
While I agree with your comments about the US consumer's desire for large automobiles, it will not change most US consumer's minds. /., I know a sample size of one is simply anecdotal and statistically irrelevant, but I think that if you ask a lot of SUV owners, you would get a similar answer. "Why should I drive in a smaller car, when I would get pulverized by the in the SUV next to me?"
My own mother will not buy a small car anymore. Even though when I was younger my mom drove a Toyota hatchback (circa 1981), she now insists on buying an SUV. The larger automobile gives her the impression of being safer. (larger mass => better chance of surviving an accident)
Now this being
To me, this is one of the larger impediments for US consumers to get over in buying an economical automobile (ie smaller and more fuel efficient). The other largest factor would be paying more for our gas. But since the US is doing everything it can to keep its gas prices low for the consumer, that means the mindset needs to change. And most people will not change the way they do things unless there is some other external force to make them change.
I think that it is a pretty easy transition. I hadn't played team fortress for at least 3 years before starting TF2. It was a pretty quick transition. The biggest difference is that they made the maps more stylistic, so you may not alway be able to go to areas that you can see in the game. The best example of this is the map 2Fort. This map is exactly the same that was in TF1, but in the basement near the intelligence room (ie. flag ala TF1), it might look like you can get to other points.
After that, it's just a matter of finding what class you like the most.
There you go, trying to apply logic to this argument. I believe it is a conspiracy of those that play the pyro to have easy pickings! And there you go ruining it!
I would like to take this opportunity to complain about those lousy camping pyros hanging out around the respawn points. Yeah, you know who you are! Knock it off! How is a medic to defend himself?
The fact that heavies have the most kills could be misleading. How many of those kills were while the heavy was being healed simultaneously by a medic? A heavy does have real killing power, but because he is so slow he is easily killed by pretty much anyone outside of his rain o'bullets. Also, I usually see a good spy or soldier consistently at the top of the leader boards when I play. This could just be an artifact of the server that I frequent though.
Has anyone actually read any of Brandon Sanderson's books?
I too gave up on the Wheel of Time because of Jordan's neverending story, but does this new author have the ability to wrap it up? Does he get more to the point of the plot than Jordan?
Anyone's insight would be appreciated.
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I personally would miss the weighted companion cube the most.
I know exactly what you mean. My personal pet peeve (as an electrical engineer) is when people refer to 'bandwidth' as to how much work load they can handle. I feel like my head is going to explode when I hear that!
"Does not compute, Will Robinson!"
I think therein lies the problem. How many times does a person hear a sales pitch in any given day/week/month? It gets old. However, I definitely recognize when the salesperson is trying to push a product/warranty/etc. My normal reaction is to not buy that product/etc at all. I will also at least listen to what the person has to say. To me, that is just being a decent person. But maybe I have too high of standard of how people should act. Some people will not change and will be bitter no matter what. They will have a grudge against salespeople, because they have been burned elsewhere by other salespeople. It's just a defense mechanism which overrides civility.
We will take the RAM as long as we can pretend that we are stealing the RAM.
The things that you seem to despise about the US system are what I like about it. After high school, I didn't have any idea what I wanted to get into. Also, I didn't have high enough standardized test scores nor enough money to go to college. I still graduated in the top 10% of my class though, and that was without really applying myself. After high school I went into the Navy and worked as an electrician. This gave some more time to think about what my interests were. By the time I left the Navy, I knew that I wanted to continue working with electronics so I went to college and benefited from veteran programs like the GI Bill. (For those who don't know, the GI Bill is to help people pay for post high school education at an accredited learning institution.)
I currently have my MS in electrical engineering. The reason that I bring all of this up is because I had options after high school. I was not railroaded into a career that might have been interesting when I was 14, but ended up loathing it for the remainder of my life. I am not sure if such luxuries are possible in countries, such as the UK. I am curious. Is it possible to go from a trade job in the UK and later decide that you want to go to the university and get a degree?
Ironically (at least to me), the cartridges is one of the reasons that I purchased the N64. I watched someone play the PS1 (I think the game was resident evil),and you had to wait about 10 to 20 seconds for the next stage to load. The read rate of CD-ROMS at the time were not that good. With cartridges, the load times were much shorter. Only after a while did I realize that the limited size of memory on the cartridge would limit you racing game upon racing game (my one major gripe about the N64)!
I do not regret buying my NG4. I thought that it was the technologically superior hardware at the time*, and at a better price ($199 vs $299)**
* this is an objective remark. I did not actually do a side by side comparison of specs in 1996.
** Prices found from wikipedia
I think you are missing the point of the parent's argument. He mentioned the sim card could easily be removed. From the pictures, it does not look * like an easy operation to change the sim card. The cover had to be removed, then the battery, then a ribbon cable, and finally an EMI shield. That is not easy!
* this is speculation, since I do not have anything to go by other than the pictures.
We cannot become a nation of businessmen/women and lawyers, because the world will quickly wake up to the fact that they already have all the smarts and physical resources to make whatever they need and can provide their own businessfolk and legal team.
I couldn't agree with you more. It is actually pretty close to some of the things that I am pondering now. I currently hold an MSEE and am pondering going back to school for either my PhD or an MBA. The hardest part is deciding whether to follow my true desires (the PhD) and potentially have diminished future prospects in employment due to the trend in outsourcing of engineering/R&D, or do I sell out and get my MBA to 'be closer to the money' and try to be higher in the production chain?
The company that I work for has already said that they are trying to remove themselves from circuit design engineering (my current job) and would like to become a more systems oriented. This follows about 2 years after we outsourced our PWB manufacturing. Seeing this trend continue in all hardware companies is a little disconcerting. 'Being closer to the money' sounds like a way to ensure future employment in today's culture of outsourcing.
While I agree to some extent with your post, I would have to think that MS would not add $200 blindly to the cost of the system to compensate for the addition of the HD-DVD drive. They would make the additional price only $150, for example. That way the budget shopper would see that they could buy the XBox 360 + HD-DVD player = $600, or they could buy them as a single unit and only pay $550. The $50 dollar price difference would probably get people that were on the fence to buy the elite or not to actually buy the elite.
I can see this have a few benefits. First, the XBox + HD-DVD would still be cheaper than the PS3. Also this would help HD-DVD get a larger market share.
There is still the option to not buy the XBox with the HD-DVD drive, so they will still be better than PS3, which forces you to buy Blu-Ray, no matter what model you buy.
First I noticed that everyone says that the HP48GX is the way to go. However, you will have troubles finding this calculator since they stopped producing them. This means on high schooler's budget you will need/want to buy a more affordable calc. You could probably buy a 49GX on ebay, but be prepared to shell out some loot.
But I digress...I have owned both of these calculators mentioned in the subject. Each has their pros and cons. The hp49 does have some nice features. It has a larger screen, has some more robust features, and of course it has RPN. If you don't want to learn RPN, then there is an algebraic mode. I would still most likely be using it if it wasn't BROKEN. once when I replaced the batteries, it just didn't turn on again. I tried some of the hard resets, but I was unable to succesfully resurect it. There were some other features which were obnoxious. For example, real and imaginary numbers were always formated as '(re,im)' which is ok when looking at a single number, but when dealing with a multy layered algebraic expression (ie many other parenthesis) it could be hard to read.
Now the TI 89 on the other hand has a smaller learning curve than the TI 89. It's programming language I feel is not as robust as HP's. As such, I have written few programs for the 89. Comparing the TI89's complex number display is not even close. The TI 89 will display complex numbers in multiple formats (such as a+i*b and A*e^(i*phi), where the second form would actually use superscripts instead of the carrot). The display would format depending on how you set the options. I also found that the TI89 would perform some integrations faster than the HP. Also, some of the algebraic manipulations are better with the HP.
The final verdict for me would be for you to get a TI-89 since it has a smaller learning curve and has a better display of the algebraic results.