It really scares the crap out of me that there are people who read a comic (that only complained about TI graphing calculators remaining at a high price despite the fact that the hardware hasn't really been changed in years) as "everyone is mad about TI's new OS" and then go on to actually argue about it.

Really? Just because the comic happened a bit after the new OS? Seriously, that whole discussion was a joke and not the funny kind of joke, the stupid kind.

From Nelson Sousa: "ticalc.org's forum is almost near to useless"   Uh....ticalc doesn't actually have a forum, and he didn't mention omnimaga, cemetech, or TIBD.

Nelson Sousa actually has some good Nspire stuff himself in ticalc.
Not sure too, what is tical.orgc's forum for him.
I doubt he is referring to http://www.ticalc.org/community/articles/ as a forum because few people today know about it because the articles are completely inactive.

I wonder if this will eventually be extended to such devices?

As soon as Ndless was published the first thing that appeared (and so far
the only one that is not a proof of concept or demo) was a Gameboy emulator,
just a port from other gameboy emulators, and ported versions of gameboy
games. Besides the skill required to hack Nspire OS and create Ndless and
the skill required (in a much lesser extent) to port the gameboy emulator,
where's the skill in getting yet another gameboy game running on an
emulator? And yet, that's all you see showing up out there from the
programmer communities that keep saying "give us programming power and we'll
change the world": games. Games, games and more games. All different
platform games ever invented, all shoot-em-up games ever invented.
Unfortunately, you almost never see a really original game ever being
developed or a really original tool that is not simply a port from something
else. And that's where the true skill is. Programming is much, much more
than knowing how to code and port.

Argh. I did not port that Gameboy emulator. *facepalm*

Awwm poor calc84, no one understands his gb emulator....


I think someone needs a hug!


That aside, I want to facepalm too, you *didnt* port the gb emulator, Nelson should go back to his troll cave

Argh.
Uninformed rants are a lot worse than just rants

lol, nelson's trolls were a riot.  I can't believe he put this in his post:

just a few remarks (I don't want to start a flame war, just expressing my
point of view, as biased as it may be; it's not my intention to convince
anybody I'm right):

He needs to stop being such a hypocrite. (Linking to the "useless" ticalc.org on his own website)

fb39ca4: agreed, that's what I wrote him too.