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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2011, 02:10:16 pm »
I cannot believe I fell so completely for this.
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #31 on: April 06, 2011, 02:11:50 pm »
;) at first we all fell
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #32 on: April 06, 2011, 02:18:09 pm »
I fell too.

Well, everyone fell at first because large companies leaking things is really plausible.
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #33 on: April 06, 2011, 03:04:53 pm »
Yeah. Some people felt surprised so many people fell for it, but the thing is that it's TI that was involved there. With everything they did before, it was believable that they could do such thing to a certain extent at one point, even if less likely. Not everyone knows ASM and how to disassemble files, so not everyone will understand the stuff about RabbitSign, especially that the post got lost among many others. Also there were the people that played along too.
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #34 on: April 06, 2011, 03:07:31 pm »
I guess if you would have posted this a few years ago we wouldn't have fell for it.
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #35 on: April 06, 2011, 03:08:45 pm »
True, or before OS 2.1 came out.
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #36 on: April 06, 2011, 03:10:15 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on April 06, 2011, 03:04:53 pm
Yeah. Some people felt surprised so many people fell for it, but the thing is that it's TI that was involved there. With everything they did before, it was believable that they could do such thing to a certain extent at one point, even if less likely. Not everyone knows ASM and how to disassemble files, so not everyone will understand the stuff about RabbitSign, especially that the post got lost among many others. Also there were the people that played along too.
One thing that kinda revealed it for me was the Nspire CX ad. I can believe that TI inserts something like that, but I wouldn't believe that they removed the alpha menu hint in order to make room for it.
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #37 on: April 06, 2011, 03:13:27 pm »
Well it depends. On the Quebec TI-84 Plus packages, on the back they encourage people to get a TI-Nspire instead. That said, removing the advice completely about the F1-F4 shortcuts are probably one thing that gave it away for non-ASM coders, since they would have at least kept one of the message or parts of it.

By the way, is it true that ThePenguin77 fixed Singapore in that fake OS? I heard he did but I'm not sure anymore. ???
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #38 on: April 06, 2011, 04:03:58 pm »
This was mine with critor on the TI-Nspire :
Don't forget to see the making off :

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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #39 on: April 06, 2011, 04:14:08 pm »
DJ, the packs I saw had from the 83+ to the nspire, including 89 and 92, but not the old 86 and 85, listing mostly genuine advantages, like the Memory space, screen resolution, ACT/SAT allowance, etc. but I wouldn't be surprised :P

For the hardware, the nspire is a better value by far, though, than any of TI's other calcs. Can't say about Casio's, since I'm unfamiliar with the hardware.
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #40 on: April 12, 2011, 12:06:57 am »
The Prizm has lower hardware than the TI-Nspire, but much better than the 84+/89T calc. The Casio FX-9860G hardware is as good as the Prizm, although by default the processor is clocked at half the speed of the Prizm and the screen is much smaller.

@Levak haha nice stuff :D
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