My first "real" calculator was an HP 11C, and I have an HP 28S that I still prefer for personal use. When I teach high-school chemistry and physics, however, I use my TI-84.
Disclaimer: I am an HP calculator fanboy. Perhaps the differences are more philosophical? TIs graphics have always had an educational bend to their design, whereas the HPs were traditionally marketed as professional tools. The manual was written in TeX — this was built by scientists and engineers for scientists and engineers. (You could probably do real damage to someone with a flying HP 48, and the HP would survive.) Of course that changed a few years ago when the likes of the 39G, 40G and 49G came in looking and feeling a bit like TIs and with a manual that looked like it was written in Word. Still, the 49G+ and 50G with the ARM CPUs (upclock to 200MHz, anyone?) are nice pieces of kit and there's enough of a software community built around them to keep them a firm winner with anyone who needs to do mathematics.
I still use my trusty HP 48. Many other people I know in my Physics department also love theirs and wouldn't dream of using another calculator. Back at Sixth form all I'd ever hear was "TI this", "TI that"; they were educational units. My HP is a professional's tool — they were always leagues ahead in terms of robustness and features. All that live object orientation was astounding given the hardware limitations. HP got there first.
I think you should be allowed to cheat at gambling. That way, everyone — casino included — gambles, not just the punters. Casinos can't complain that this isn't fair, because (1) life's not fair anyway, someone out there will always be fitter/smarter/stronger than you and be at an advantage; and (2) they make a dumptruck off of idiots anyway.
Of course, being private establishments, casinos should also be free to eject anyone they don't like from their premises.
I remember once Quark had a teacher at Lobeling's (or somewhere) who trusted him to look after a room in his absence (or something). Only this teacher had pictures in his draw. Pictures of said teacher, romping with fully-clothed females! Needless to say, Quark did what any responsible young Ferengi would do in those circumstances: blackmailed his teacher into an A grade.
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Actually, isn't Lego a collective noun, like "play with the Lego" and "play with the sheep"? I personally prefer the term "Lego pieces" for more than one of the individual plastic components.
Slashdot Mirror
Good idea to protect the system, but what about all the valuable personal information that flows through browsers these days?
My "there" is technology.
Which is precisely the point.
Flash drives on a calculator, you say?
But what about snakes on a... nah, it would never work.
Indeed. I think RPN could do with an overhaul at some point, e.g. add user-defined object types, and why can't you mount an SD card as a directory?
Disclaimer: I am an HP calculator fanboy. Perhaps the differences are more philosophical? TIs graphics have always had an educational bend to their design, whereas the HPs were traditionally marketed as professional tools. The manual was written in TeX — this was built by scientists and engineers for scientists and engineers. (You could probably do real damage to someone with a flying HP 48, and the HP would survive.) Of course that changed a few years ago when the likes of the 39G, 40G and 49G came in looking and feeling a bit like TIs and with a manual that looked like it was written in Word. Still, the 49G+ and 50G with the ARM CPUs (upclock to 200MHz, anyone?) are nice pieces of kit and there's enough of a software community built around them to keep them a firm winner with anyone who needs to do mathematics.
I still use my trusty HP 48. Many other people I know in my Physics department also love theirs and wouldn't dream of using another calculator. Back at Sixth form all I'd ever hear was "TI this", "TI that"; they were educational units. My HP is a professional's tool — they were always leagues ahead in terms of robustness and features. All that live object orientation was astounding given the hardware limitations. HP got there first.
I think you should be allowed to cheat at gambling. That way, everyone — casino included — gambles, not just the punters. Casinos can't complain that this isn't fair, because (1) life's not fair anyway, someone out there will always be fitter/smarter/stronger than you and be at an advantage; and (2) they make a dumptruck off of idiots anyway.
Of course, being private establishments, casinos should also be free to eject anyone they don't like from their premises.
The time of CPU-intensive processing the geek fills with sex.
Yes, all of it.
I remember once Quark had a teacher at Lobeling's (or somewhere) who trusted him to look after a room in his absence (or something). Only this teacher had pictures in his draw. Pictures of said teacher, romping with fully-clothed females! Needless to say, Quark did what any responsible young Ferengi would do in those circumstances: blackmailed his teacher into an A grade.
Tanks.
Fuck you and your dirt, we had dog shit.
Over what? Those rival companies running Linux or BSD? Pull the other one!
Does it run NetBSD?
Oh, t3h 1r0n4y! It's ensure. Unless standards compliance has some sort of liability associated with it these days.
That's fightin' talk!
Hee bor shteer, bom bor shteer doo,
A dish-pi-doo.
Bor bor shteer, lum bor shteer doo,
Bork! Bork! Bork!
Shteer!
Sheeba shleeba goo, dish mooga hacken PC. Ung gish libo hacken PC, mish gee looder bouffer ooverfloo. Gee pish der bouffer ooverfloo mish der leety scripty in der shellcode mik joo inken Intel assoumbler. Fish, ung gish leeber scannen porten mooga funky nmap, bish der open port shif lish der foorwoll. Dish skel loder mish der leety scripty, spur gifor der bouffer ooverfloo, ung desh ooger morgen der stackenschmoosher! Ung gesh, mooga dish spur lorger hacken PC!
You have got to be joking.
Actually, isn't Lego a collective noun, like "play with the Lego" and "play with the sheep"? I personally prefer the term "Lego pieces" for more than one of the individual plastic components.
My dog caught fire.
From TFA:
when I clicked on the link flames..LITERALLY came out of my head and into this text area. I was like, F**K, Dude?!
OMGWTFSATAHDD!!!!11! Tubular!!!!1111one
Ughnnn...
Ann Coulter, get the fuck away from Slashdot. It's already bad enough around here without your type adding to the misery.
And Theo de Raadt. Although he's a BSDer, some involved with Free Software projects could learn a lot from his no-bullshit approach.
"Nothing for you to see here, please move along." How very apt.