Doesn't that make more people buy Nspires and earn them more money? :(This line of thinking, shared by pretty much everyone in the open development community, is a sign of being reasonable, thoughtful and paying attention to history and basic common sense :)
Sadly, the fact is that standardized testing regulation authorities in multiple important countriesIMO as long as PTT exists and noone tries to hack it they are OK with Ndless (unless someone tries to bring a non-CAS calc with nLaunch to have a CAS OS).
and TI EdTech's top-level management, are lacking common sense.For these stupid guys I do agree. :P
Sadly, the fact is that standardized testing regulation authorities in multiple important countriesIMO as long as PTT exists and noone tries to hack it they are OK with Ndless (unless someone tries to bring a non-CAS calc with nLaunch to have a CAS OS).
So you want the next exploit to be released only as a binary?
But explanations, how it works, should be hidden and maybe even removed.That's what the author(s) of nLaunch did: the source code does not explain what any of the patches do. For adding CM OS support to nLaunchy, I reverse-engineered several of the patches, to find out what to patch (it was a filename), so as to be able to efficiently find the same data in other OS versions. Not that it was hard.
As far as I know, PTT hacks are currently only available on cncalc.org for registered users with several posts (else, you can't download). And of course, only if you manage to find them in chinese...Well, PTTcopier is still available and findable with a simple google search.
So easily?... :oin our defense, those tools were made after TI locked the Nspire down and tried to prevent downgrading Z80 models, partially as an act of revenge against TI's actions. I am fairly sure that similar tools will take much longer to arrive on the HP Prime or if the PRIZM gets a teacher mode but still unofficially allows ASM/C, simply because the community won't be as angry against them.
Ok, then TI is right if Ndless PTT hacking tools haven't disappeared and can be found so easily with Google - we can't complain... :(
I hope we can get someone like anonymous to f*** up TI's website. But that's not what I am commenting about.
My nspire cx cas says "P-02131" on the back. What hardware revision is that?
And didn't extended mention in one of his posts (@ ndlessly.wordpress.com) that ndless may be possible through lua?
Also, as long as an nspire has a serial port, it should be hackable right? I don't know much about nspires, but couldn't a new version of ndless be made as a modified boot2 (send to your nspire through serial port)?We thought so and were wrong.
BTW, I am running OS 3.3.0.538 on my nspire CAS, with boot2 3.2.4.5. Could I downgrade my boot2 through RS232 and then use nlaunch CX?
If TI makes games (or at least used to), why do they go through so much trouble to prevent them? (ex. TI Invaders for the TI-99)They don't try to prevent games, but rather cheating tools such as PTTKiller, but by doing so, they pretty much harms the entire development community. Also they might not realize it, but some students learned programming with a calculator, since they had limited computer access when they were young or it was too complicated. By locking the Nspire down, TI severely limits those kids' chances to learn programming to its full potential. BASIC on that calc is extremely limited when it comes to interfaces and interactivity and Lua isn't as accessible if you have no computer to grab an on-calc Lua editor from.
Most people (I, at least) got an nspire because they had to buy one. So boycott wouldn't work.They could simply argue with their school (or get their parents to) that the Nspire is just too expensive and that the TI-84 Plus can do the job as well for the most part (as it did before the Nspire came out). And if the school lends TI-Nspires as an alternative, then there's still a brand new Nspire that the student will not be buying, since he'll be using an used model instead. Also apparently some people saw plenty of 82/83/83+ users in their schools. Also, if TI decided to get every school to switch to the Nspire, then why did they just release a new color TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition and why are they still selling older models?
In grade 9 we can choose whether we want to make Math-Abitur with or without CAS.Well, if it states "older model", then this pretty much means any older model from 1990 until today, so you could argue that you didn't have enough money to afford a TI-Nspire CX and bought a TI-92 instead :P.
It also states something like "The calculator which is going to be used is an Nspire CX CAS or older model".
I don't know if it is allowed to use other calculators, but the nspire CAS is the most powerful and feature rich (yet), so it would be stupid not to use it.
When sending an old os to the nspire, what causes it to be rejected? The software or the nspire itself? It's probably the nspire, but just making sure.
Also, the annoying upgrade message could be removed, and the force update option could be also.
Oh, at my school most teachers don't even know that the PTT mode exists.Yeah, like probably most teachers outside of USA actually :P
The older clickpads don't even have an LED and also don't have a PTT mode (?).The CAS Clickpads don't have LEDs, and the OSes < 2.0 didn't have the PPT mode yet IIRC.
My math teacher was quite surprised after I showed him my calculator playing music over the speakers we have in every classroom and he doesn't even care about the wires I soldered onto the dock connector.Eh :P
He calls me DJ now ;)QuoteMy math teacher was quite surprised after I showed him my calculator playing music over the speakers we have in every classroom and he doesn't even care about the wires I soldered onto the dock connector.Eh :P