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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #30 on: July 21, 2010, 01:40:44 pm »
This is a funny XKCD!  Nice find! ;D
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #31 on: July 21, 2010, 03:21:52 pm »
Yeah, I saw. Pretty sad, really.

On Cemetech the comic was received negatively, too, but they did not defend TI and the like, like Nelson did. People were more upset at the bashing of graphing calculators, I think, and probably did not get the joke. What was posted on the TI group is sad.
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #32 on: July 21, 2010, 03:28:07 pm »
I found it amusing. Just because it bashes something I'm for doesn't mean it can't be funny ;D
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #33 on: July 22, 2010, 03:59:41 am »
Quote from: Lionel Debroux on July 21, 2010, 01:37:20 pm

But don't even try wasting your time with the people on the tinspire group: most of them are North-American-minded (copyright, licensing, etc. - instead of encouraging creativity) teachers who hate games, and are happy to stay undisturbed together among like-minded individuals... You aren't going to convince them that their opinions suck.

I initially subscribed to this group for the hacking talk, but I soon noticed that most of the convo was 'teacher spam' or similar stuff. The tinspire group sucks, it really  does. </rant>
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #34 on: July 22, 2010, 04:05:54 am »
Well, this group is mostly aimed at teachers, so it's not quite surprising that most of the conversation is teacher-oriented :)
That said, being a teacher doesn't necessarily mean be anti-users and anti-games (most people there seem to be), critor is living proof of that.
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #35 on: July 22, 2010, 04:06:03 am »
Quote from: Lionel Debroux on July 21, 2010, 01:37:20 pm
But don't even try wasting your time with the people on the tinspire group: most of them are North-American-minded (copyright, licensing, etc. - instead of encouraging creativity) teachers who hate games, and are happy to stay undisturbed together among like-minded individuals... You aren't going to convince them that their opinions suck.

North America's a big place, not all of us think like that.
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #36 on: July 22, 2010, 04:08:54 am »
Quote from: Lionel Debroux on July 22, 2010, 04:05:54 am
Well, this group is mostly aimed at teachers, so it's not quite surprising that most of the conversation is teacher-oriented :)
That said, being a teacher doesn't necessarily mean be anti-users and anti-games (most people there seem to be), critor is living proof of that.

That's obviously true :)
Well, subscribing to the group was a bad assessment of mine. I thought it was created by Nspire hackers, but it turned out differently.
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #37 on: July 22, 2010, 04:30:22 am »
Netham: I know that, sorry if you thought I was making a generalization :(
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #38 on: July 23, 2010, 10:49:34 am »
XKCD is popular. This was cited in almost all forums and sometimes more than 1 thread per forum.
It is without funny. It is a comic, it should be funny so don't worry too much about technical stuff.
Sorry the around 10 MHz, he says around so it is not incorrect and actually not far from the average of 6 and 15MHz. Plus 10 seems a 10x less than  the 100 MHz.
The resolution, ram, etc. were corrected.

Quote from: Lionel Debroux on July 21, 2010, 01:37:20 pm
This XKCD cartoon got mentioned on the tinspire Google group. By merely posting a link to the news on /., the probable trigger for the XKCD cartoon, mentioning that most commenters on /. missed the point, and later explaining some of the points that had been missed, I eventually triggered a post full of flamebait, cluelessness, disrespect and even slander from someone with tremendous blinders: Nelson Sousa. And you haven't seen his private mails, where he kept top-posting twice after I explained him that it was bad and that avoiding it was a basic netiquette rule...

Full topic at http://groups.google.com.au/group/tinspire/browse_thread/thread/2978472efdd30e01 .
But don't even try wasting your time with the people on the tinspire group: most of them are North-American-minded (copyright, licensing, etc. - instead of encouraging creativity) teachers who hate games, and are happy to stay undisturbed together among like-minded individuals... You aren't going to convince them that their opinions suck.
Relatively interesting read. Shows the other side (opposite of open community).
I did not read the entire topic but too bad no one noted that was released a fractal program by Levak and a better TI-84+SE emulator to Nspire so development to Nspire is not game oriented. They see ticalc news and Nelson admits don't visit TI-Bank.

Side note: For some reason I thought I would not be comfortable if I met Nelson Sousa. :-\
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #39 on: July 23, 2010, 11:09:54 am »
I hit the random button on xkcd, and this is what popped up: http://xkcd.com/351/
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #40 on: July 27, 2010, 11:43:57 am »
I just got around to looking through recent XKCD's since being grounded, and ZOMG CALCS
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #41 on: July 27, 2010, 12:18:23 pm »
Quote from: Galandros on July 23, 2010, 10:49:34 am
Quote from: Lionel Debroux on July 21, 2010, 01:37:20 pm
This XKCD cartoon got mentioned on the tinspire Google group. By merely posting a link to the news on /., the probable trigger for the XKCD cartoon, mentioning that most commenters on /. missed the point, and later explaining some of the points that had been missed, I eventually triggered a post full of flamebait, cluelessness, disrespect and even slander from someone with tremendous blinders: Nelson Sousa. And you haven't seen his private mails, where he kept top-posting twice after I explained him that it was bad and that avoiding it was a basic netiquette rule...

Full topic at http://groups.google.com.au/group/tinspire/browse_thread/thread/2978472efdd30e01 .
But don't even try wasting your time with the people on the tinspire group: most of them are North-American-minded (copyright, licensing, etc. - instead of encouraging creativity) teachers who hate games, and are happy to stay undisturbed together among like-minded individuals... You aren't going to convince them that their opinions suck.
Relatively interesting read. Shows the other side (opposite of open community).
I did not read the entire topic but too bad no one noted that was released a fractal program by Levak and a better TI-84+SE emulator to Nspire so development to Nspire is not game oriented. They see ticalc news and Nelson admits don't visit TI-Bank.

Side note: For some reason I thought I would not be comfortable if I met Nelson Sousa. :-\

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.
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #42 on: July 27, 2010, 12:21:19 pm »
And lets not forget he SUPPORTS ticalc on his site.




lol "OMFG BETTER SLIDING!! YAY"  still makes me laugh and cry, silly tinspire group
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #43 on: July 27, 2010, 12:24:36 pm »
Quote from: Lionel Debroux on July 21, 2010, 01:37:20 pm
This XKCD cartoon got mentioned on the tinspire Google group. By merely posting a link to the news on /., the probable trigger for the XKCD cartoon, mentioning that most commenters on /. missed the point, and later explaining some of the points that had been missed, I eventually triggered a post full of flamebait, cluelessness, disrespect and even slander from someone with tremendous blinders: Nelson Sousa. And you haven't seen his private mails, where he kept top-posting twice after I explained him that it was bad and that avoiding it was a basic netiquette rule...

Full topic at http://groups.google.com.au/group/tinspire/browse_thread/thread/2978472efdd30e01 .
But don't even try wasting your time with the people on the tinspire group: most of them are North-American-minded (copyright, licensing, etc. - instead of encouraging creativity) teachers who hate games, and are happy to stay undisturbed together among like-minded individuals... You aren't going to convince them that their opinions suck.
did someone on there say that jailbreaking iphones/itouch/ipad's is illegal? Well have we got some news for them :P as of yesterday, it is completely legal in the states :P
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Re: OMG -Today's XKCD!
« Reply #44 on: July 27, 2010, 12:30:46 pm »
Oh yeah!  I heard that on NPR!  I was like yes!  It may be the reason I'm getting an itouch!
About the link from MRide, did you notice if you click the comic it goes to a rickroll?  That's the 4th time I've gotten rickrolled today!
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