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OMG -Today's XKCD!
« on: July 19, 2010, 12:59:24 am »


Wow!  And its so true too.  The sad part is they've actually gotten even worse over time!
« Last Edit: July 19, 2010, 01:03:25 am by Quigibo »
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2010, 01:14:39 am »
oh my god...

...They got the screen dimensions wrong :P

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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2010, 01:25:11 am »
Lol nice XD

I wonder if that is inspired from the /. news?

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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2010, 01:34:57 am »
LMAO that, is awesome! :D

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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2010, 02:29:53 am »
Lol :)
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2010, 03:03:33 am »
That is so great haha.
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2010, 03:44:14 am »
Hahaha. I love xkcd. LOL at the mouseover text.

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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2010, 08:13:28 am »
They got the speed wrong too. :(
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2010, 10:22:42 am »
"around 10 Mhz" i think is supposed to be a compromise between 6 and 15

and aren't the dimensions correct....?

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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2010, 10:26:17 am »
That is so true.  ;D


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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2010, 11:29:48 am »
and aren't the dimensions correct....?
i think they're referring to the only 95x63 pixels that are available to the non-assembly user
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2010, 11:36:26 am »
I've always wondered why TI never dropped the price on these things...
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2010, 11:39:46 am »
Haha, I lol'd when I saw that! ;D
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2010, 11:50:06 am »
its because ti can get away with whatever they want.  we all need these calculators for our friends and for math at school. we keep buying :P.  i love geting ti-84+ silvers on ebay.  i can usually get them for under 40 if i try hard enough.
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2010, 12:21:51 pm »
lol :D
And, random "I know too much about calcs" thing: Today's comic is no. 768, and 768 is the size of the screen buffer in bytes :P
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