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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #45 on: February 08, 2011, 05:21:01 pm »
That's something you would expect them to know.

I'm talking about stuff like "the merits of doing the doggy style over the missionary position" type of thing.

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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #46 on: February 08, 2011, 06:15:53 pm »
I doubt the teacher knows what the word "Programming" means though :P unless it's a comp. sci. teacher

Thing is, maybe the teacher confused it with something else or misheard it, like "New Color Nspire!" with "Your house is on Fire!"...

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taht is a little insulting. the techer knows a heck of alot basic and some, hint on SOME, asm

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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #47 on: February 08, 2011, 08:34:11 pm »
I'm talking about stuff like "the merits of doing the doggy style over the missionary position" type of thing.
like....?
lol jk.
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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #48 on: February 08, 2011, 08:57:57 pm »
I'm talking about stuff like "the merits of doing the doggy style over the missionary position" type of thing.
like....?
lol jk.
Please don't as we don't want to drive away younger members.
Actually, it would be safe enough to explain...that was one of the weirdest discussions ever in biology class that semester...we were talking about the differences between asexual and sexual reproduction and the teacher used those terms as metaphors for those concepts. My class never allowed her to forget that day, either.

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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #49 on: February 08, 2011, 09:10:37 pm »
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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #50 on: February 08, 2011, 09:16:02 pm »
! You said the 6 word! Anywho, your teacher is obviously a spy bent on getting community hopes up in anticipation of a non programmable calc :P
No, I hope it is a good thing for us ^-^

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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #51 on: February 08, 2011, 09:18:05 pm »
haha, me too. Luckly, it could mean something along the lines of more programmibility. Ah well, know telling until after my Winter Break...

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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #52 on: February 08, 2011, 11:11:45 pm »
Teachers always get excited about the wrong stuff. Last year my math teacher made a big deal when OS 2.53 came out, but knew nothing of the Axe Parser. Whatever TI planned, either we don't care or it will just make our lives worst.

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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #53 on: February 09, 2011, 04:01:45 am »
Built-in Axe Parser maybe?? Because its the best calc language ever!!
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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #54 on: February 09, 2011, 10:20:50 am »
I'm having a hard time to think that "something big" could be a good thing for the open development community...
For a start, further lockdown of the Nspire platform (unless one wishes to use the official tools - should they wish to release some after years of boo-hissing about ASM) is to be taken for granted.
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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #55 on: February 09, 2011, 10:57:21 am »
yes, i think teachers would like that... but we wont. D:
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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #56 on: February 10, 2011, 02:09:52 pm »
Hey! Hey! Hey! Gues what?! Check this out!!!!
http://www.unitedti.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=9649&pid=143381&st=0&#entry143381
So apparently a few weeks ago NETWizz over on UTI emailed TI-Cares and finally a letter was received... Check it out!

But it doesn't answer the question... It does however seem to have a more positive spin to the speculation!

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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #57 on: February 10, 2011, 02:15:08 pm »
That'll sure be interesting to watch, but keep cool everybody ;)
Herb Foster is the high-level manager at TI, on whose behalf the bogus DMCA takedown notices were sent to BrandonW, chronomex and several others. He may well have gotten a clue since then (for a start, about the fact that opening a calculator platform to decent programming does increase sales - for one, that's exactly why I bought a TI-89 instead of a Casio Graph 100 ten years and a half ago, and I know I'm far from being alone in that case), but we cannot hold our breath on it.

Five years after the initial release of the platform, it's bloody high time they opened the platform to programming :D
Decent BASIC programming is the very least we can expect from them.
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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #58 on: February 10, 2011, 02:17:46 pm »
Yeah, I'll try to keep my cool, but it is still nice to know that they are open to doing something that benefits the community (which of course--as you mentioned and I am sure they know--will benefit them).

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Re: Oh dear, what could this mean? Let us speculate!
« Reply #59 on: February 10, 2011, 02:25:20 pm »
I think that some people at TI do know that openness will benefit everyone :)
But I also know for a fact that 3 or 4 years ago (i.e. before the signing keys' factorization), Herb Foster did consider open development as a threat to TI's business, much more than as an opportunity to increase sales.
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