Yeah right, like anyone will buy a network operating system for a server based on shiny pictures and huge features like "mail server" and "calendar server".
It's like they think their regular starry-eyed customers are their target audience with that cute little website they're showing off.
I preemptively beg mods not to bury this comment. We all know that Linux is great on hackers' workstations and on servers and in computing clusters, but not so great as a desktop system for average users.
Well large managed networks is two miles away in the distance on the scale of things Linux is awesome at. Active Directory, Exchange, Terminal Services... Windows really does have a very impressive offering in this area, while Linux stays behind the scenes and rarely faces the user.
To be honest, if one cannot do 2X2 or 3X3 linear operations using small integers by hand in the same order of magnitude time it would take to type into t TI-8x and get a result, then one needs work on row operations.
Not when you have to apply multiple transformations to the same matrix
On a more serious note, if one cannot quickly do row operations, then how do you know the answer is correct?
More like, if you're not using a calculator to check your work how do you know the answer is correct:)
Government regulation wat? I can't think of any artificial regulatory factors visible to admins that are from the government and not from internal policy or the market.
In high school, I was able to get perfect scores every time because I would begin every problem by finding the answer with my TI calculator, then I would start to think about what kind of solution might lead to that answer. Easy stuff.
And did you turn out as a dumb sack of bricks or did you learn it?
I have a TI-89. I don't think it's all that incredibly powerful. There are just a lot of simple functions that are a great platform for doing complicated things.
The "power features" like the CAS are just flaky compared to other modern computer algebra systems. I admit the symbolic calculation functionality is awesome though.
Sounds reasonable enough until you start to pick it apart. TI calculators are more valuable because they provide less functionality? What about engineers and mathematicians? Their market should be about making calculations as easy as possible, not about educating little children.
TI should just sell the Playskool-branded calculator for middle school students instead of crippling their real calculators.
Yeah why would you want to overwrite the OS when you can just write your programs from within Windows?
This opens the door for an open-source TI operating system. TI releases minor OS updates every few years and doesn't add much new functionality. Now we can do whatever we want and have it integrated completely with the home screen.
Heck yes I call that acceptable. Like I said, consumer electronics failure rates are more than 10% for almost all devices: see the Consumer Reports report.
PS3 and Wii failure rates are supposed to be around 3%
I'm a lurker in that community and I have to say I'm extremely disappointed with TI. The community has had to reverse engineer every component of the hardware with no help from TI, and has done an amazing job writing development tools and mapping out which memory addresses do what.
Yeah I grimaced through it too, especially at "as easy as clicking a mouse!"
And I'm not sure what decade they're from talking about blue screens of death and rebooting after installing software. Or are we still criticizing XP RTM three service packs and two new releases of Windows later?
I'm hoping he's trolling that he thinks it's a good idea to bring libel laws into parliament.
I don't even think it's possible to explain this sentiment if you don't already understand it. It's just.. well to Americans at least it sounds insane.
I think you'd be disappointed with games against high school gamers paid to practice the game. Even against normal high school gamers you'd probably be helpless:)
It's pretty sad though that you're so boring you can't even think of interesting things to do. Even if you just look at consuming, you have so much excellent television that you couldn't watch it all in your life, thousands of hours of excellent anime, millions of volumes of good literature, at least thousands of hours of really really excellent video games that at least someone claims to be the best ever, countless works of art... almost every one of those accessible from your computer
That's useful... probable primes are much easier to test for than true primes, and the error is small enough to be acceptable for RSA. There's a whole branch of complexity theory dedicated to probabilistic algorithms.
I don't know about you, but I'm not throwing my billion dollars into some bonds- that's ridiculous. Making sure you stay a billionaire isn't as easy as stuffing mattresses with cash. Do you keep your money tied to the US economy? I wouldn't- I'd probably invest in Euros. Actually, I'd hire a team of specialists to manage my assets, and I'd hire the best, and I'd keep them on indefinitely. They'd pay for themselves. After acquiring a billion dollars is not the time to play internet-trained armchair investor.
What happens if the recession starts spiraling downward and your banks close? Bonds aren't insured by the government, not that you'd want to be depending on the government in an economic crisis anyway. What happens if credit markets stretch to their limits when there's just not enough value being created to go around? Paranoid ramblings maybe but it's your money.
You'd really be able to peel yourself away from the tropical island with 10 servants on the clock 24 hours a day to serve you 200 year old wine, your private library larger than Google's (except all in hardcover first editions), baths of gold coins, a private jet with built in casino, and your 200 square foot bed covered with silk sheets and priceless animal furs and dotted with down-fluff pillows to just browse slashdot?
OK I probably would too. I'd do it with the processing power of my private botnet which I paid Microsoft to build into every NT-based OS since NT4.
Nah that isn't right either. TBH I think I would buy a nice, small house in some suburb with FIOS. It'd be mostly bare except for ludicrously expensive art I liked which I'd hang inconspicuously in my bedroom. And I'd have a couple of machines which I'd keep updated. Maybe I'd buy some of those $50,000 cisco clunkers to play around with occasionally. I'd browse slashdot, read wikipedia, and learn everything there is to learn.
And for some reason when I imagine myself rich I see myself doing daily tasks (mail, slashdot, irc) on the very latest MacBook. I just might.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah right, like anyone will buy a network operating system for a server based on shiny pictures and huge features like "mail server" and "calendar server".
It's like they think their regular starry-eyed customers are their target audience with that cute little website they're showing off.
I preemptively beg mods not to bury this comment. We all know that Linux is great on hackers' workstations and on servers and in computing clusters, but not so great as a desktop system for average users.
Well large managed networks is two miles away in the distance on the scale of things Linux is awesome at. Active Directory, Exchange, Terminal Services... Windows really does have a very impressive offering in this area, while Linux stays behind the scenes and rarely faces the user.
Taking it apart yourself is worse than paying somebody else $400/hr to take it apart for you?
Not when you have to apply multiple transformations to the same matrix
More like, if you're not using a calculator to check your work how do you know the answer is correct :)
Government regulation wat?
I can't think of any artificial regulatory factors visible to admins that are from the government and not from internal policy or the market.
Leaving the door wide open for the rules to be challenged in court.
FCC, tread lightly.
Actually, they don't sell apps anymore: all of them are free (gratis) to download.
Even eepro
And did you turn out as a dumb sack of bricks or did you learn it?
I have a TI-89. I don't think it's all that incredibly powerful. There are just a lot of simple functions that are a great platform for doing complicated things.
The "power features" like the CAS are just flaky compared to other modern computer algebra systems. I admit the symbolic calculation functionality is awesome though.
Matrix transformations? Solving linear systems? If these take you longer on the calculator then you're doing it wrong.
Sounds reasonable enough until you start to pick it apart. TI calculators are more valuable because they provide less functionality? What about engineers and mathematicians? Their market should be about making calculations as easy as possible, not about educating little children.
TI should just sell the Playskool-branded calculator for middle school students instead of crippling their real calculators.
Yeah why would you want to overwrite the OS when you can just write your programs from within Windows?
This opens the door for an open-source TI operating system. TI releases minor OS updates every few years and doesn't add much new functionality. Now we can do whatever we want and have it integrated completely with the home screen.
Heck yes I call that acceptable. Like I said, consumer electronics failure rates are more than 10% for almost all devices: see the Consumer Reports report.
PS3 and Wii failure rates are supposed to be around 3%
I'm a lurker in that community and I have to say I'm extremely disappointed with TI. The community has had to reverse engineer every component of the hardware with no help from TI, and has done an amazing job writing development tools and mapping out which memory addresses do what.
Here's the wikileaks link to the keys.
Yeah I grimaced through it too, especially at "as easy as clicking a mouse!"
And I'm not sure what decade they're from talking about blue screens of death and rebooting after installing software. Or are we still criticizing XP RTM three service packs and two new releases of Windows later?
wrong
No you have it backwards.
I'm hoping he's trolling that he thinks it's a good idea to bring libel laws into parliament.
I don't even think it's possible to explain this sentiment if you don't already understand it. It's just.. well to Americans at least it sounds insane.
...which I acknowledged in my next sentence.
I think you'd be disappointed with games against high school gamers paid to practice the game. Even against normal high school gamers you'd probably be helpless :)
No he didn't, although that would have been awesome.
I guess I'm happy that you're happy..
It's pretty sad though that you're so boring you can't even think of interesting things to do. Even if you just look at consuming, you have so much excellent television that you couldn't watch it all in your life, thousands of hours of excellent anime, millions of volumes of good literature, at least thousands of hours of really really excellent video games that at least someone claims to be the best ever, countless works of art... almost every one of those accessible from your computer
That's useful... probable primes are much easier to test for than true primes, and the error is small enough to be acceptable for RSA. There's a whole branch of complexity theory dedicated to probabilistic algorithms.
It's not as bad as YouTube. You weren't a spam bot 15 seconds ago, but let's double check..
And the captchas are inscrutable. Someone should write some automated software that can solve captchas for you.
I don't know about you, but I'm not throwing my billion dollars into some bonds- that's ridiculous. Making sure you stay a billionaire isn't as easy as stuffing mattresses with cash. Do you keep your money tied to the US economy? I wouldn't- I'd probably invest in Euros. Actually, I'd hire a team of specialists to manage my assets, and I'd hire the best, and I'd keep them on indefinitely. They'd pay for themselves. After acquiring a billion dollars is not the time to play internet-trained armchair investor.
What happens if the recession starts spiraling downward and your banks close? Bonds aren't insured by the government, not that you'd want to be depending on the government in an economic crisis anyway. What happens if credit markets stretch to their limits when there's just not enough value being created to go around? Paranoid ramblings maybe but it's your money.
You'd really be able to peel yourself away from the tropical island with 10 servants on the clock 24 hours a day to serve you 200 year old wine, your private library larger than Google's (except all in hardcover first editions), baths of gold coins, a private jet with built in casino, and your 200 square foot bed covered with silk sheets and priceless animal furs and dotted with down-fluff pillows to just browse slashdot?
OK I probably would too. I'd do it with the processing power of my private botnet which I paid Microsoft to build into every NT-based OS since NT4.
Nah that isn't right either. TBH I think I would buy a nice, small house in some suburb with FIOS. It'd be mostly bare except for ludicrously expensive art I liked which I'd hang inconspicuously in my bedroom. And I'd have a couple of machines which I'd keep updated. Maybe I'd buy some of those $50,000 cisco clunkers to play around with occasionally. I'd browse slashdot, read wikipedia, and learn everything there is to learn.
And for some reason when I imagine myself rich I see myself doing daily tasks (mail, slashdot, irc) on the very latest MacBook. I just might.