ahhgg!!!! Wow! Another comment criticizing this parody that is just so obvious! Wow, never seen one of those before! How original and funny! Folks, if you're going to write another stupid comment like this one, please do something original that no one has EVER done before! (BTW, Mr. Anonymous Coward up there looks like an idiot. DON'T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU!)
Perhaps they tried an early version of win 2000 or some different version of NT. When M$ switched their website to w2k, netcraft identified it as solaris. But it was fixed shortly thereafter.
Well, they need a name so they can put a trademark on it. If you notice, every time AMD says Athlon, they put TM all over the place. Plus they wanted to make this CPU sound different. Call it what you want, but Athlon should be fine.
I agree that calculators should not be the main focus of reliance for mathematics students. However, I think that math without calculators is just as destructive. In my AP Calc class, we didn't really use calculators for all that much. However, use of a calculator like the TI-89 (which I use) on the AP does NOT give the user any advantage over someone who uses another calculator. That is simply because the test is made so that all people will have an equal opportunity to answer questions. They really changed the way in which they asked questions on this test, so almost no direct computation with a TI-89 or other calc could be used.
I am dissappointed with my teacher this year, though. He was very opposed to the use of calculators to do anything. I think it is importatnt to learn concepts and understand where formulas and ideas came from and how to derive them, but I think that never using a calculator is a mistake. In my class, we spent well over two months just learning different methods of integration, something I thought was a near complete waste of time, since it is nearly impossible to learn ALL methods of integration, and most integration we did had no real-world applications. It's somewhat similar to learning multiplication. Many teachers would argue that it is important to do multiplication without a calculator--and I agree. But it is unrealistic to try to do all multiplication without a calculator--it's just a waste of time and is not teaching the student any concept.
I would definately get a TI-89. I currently have a TI-89, and it basically does just about everything I want it to. And, of course, it has a 10MHz processor and a decet os. The games are really good on it, and yes, they are in greyscale, even though the os doesn't have native support for it. There are libraries which support greyscale which are used for programming in assembly. I only used HPs a little, so I'm not that familiar with the features they have or how they operate, but I would definately go with a TI-89.
Umm....you realize that this is NOT a random access drive. It's just a stupid tape. That is the writing speed, not the reading speed. If you've ever had a tape, you would know that you could not use it as a mass storage device to read off of; you can only use it back stuff up.
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ahhgg!!!! Wow! Another comment criticizing this parody that is just so obvious! Wow, never seen one of those before! How original and funny! Folks, if you're going to write another stupid comment like this one, please do something original that no one has EVER done before! (BTW, Mr. Anonymous Coward up there looks like an idiot. DON'T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU!)
Perhaps they tried an early version of win 2000 or some different version of NT. When M$ switched their website to w2k, netcraft identified it as solaris. But it was fixed shortly thereafter.
Well, they need a name so they can put a trademark on it. If you notice, every time AMD says Athlon, they put TM all over the place. Plus they wanted to make this CPU sound different. Call it what you want, but Athlon should be fine.
I agree that calculators should not be the main focus of reliance for mathematics students. However, I think that math without calculators is just as destructive. In my AP Calc class, we didn't really use calculators for all that much. However, use of a calculator like the TI-89 (which I use) on the AP does NOT give the user any advantage over someone who uses another calculator. That is simply because the test is made so that all people will have an equal opportunity to answer questions. They really changed the way in which they asked questions on this test, so almost no direct computation with a TI-89 or other calc could be used.
I am dissappointed with my teacher this year, though. He was very opposed to the use of calculators to do anything. I think it is importatnt to learn concepts and understand where formulas and ideas came from and how to derive them, but I think that never using a calculator is a mistake. In my class, we spent well over two months just learning different methods of integration, something I thought was a near complete waste of time, since it is nearly impossible to learn ALL methods of integration, and most integration we did had no real-world applications. It's somewhat similar to learning multiplication. Many teachers would argue that it is important to do multiplication without a calculator--and I agree. But it is unrealistic to try to do all multiplication without a calculator--it's just a waste of time and is not teaching the student any concept.
I would definately get a TI-89. I currently have a TI-89, and it basically does just about everything I want it to. And, of course, it has a 10MHz processor and a decet os. The games are really good on it, and yes, they are in greyscale, even though the os doesn't have native support for it. There are libraries which support greyscale which are used for programming in assembly. I only used HPs a little, so I'm not that familiar with the features they have or how they operate, but I would definately go with a TI-89.
Umm....you realize that this is NOT a random access drive. It's just a stupid tape. That is the writing speed, not the reading speed. If you've ever had a tape, you would know that you could not use it as a mass storage device to read off of; you can only use it back stuff up.