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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #30 on: December 21, 2012, 12:57:06 pm »
People usually just ask me if I am playing games or if I have games.
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #31 on: December 21, 2012, 02:19:57 pm »
When I connected earphones to a calc and played some games with sound, some people came standing around me and they first thought I just pretended it could do sound. Then I let them listen to it themselves and then they walked away with blown minds.

Also when I was playing portal on my calc after an exam, some guys from my class asked me: "WTF is that portal?!"
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #32 on: December 21, 2012, 02:22:56 pm »
I came to school with an xbox mic plugged into my claculator. Everyone though I had serie or something XD
Then I told them I was making music for a game and they were still mind blown...

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Re: Re: Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #33 on: December 21, 2012, 02:39:26 pm »
People always joke about the fact that I would be able to put PDF in my TI-Nspire CX. Where they get stunned is when I answer them that in fact, yes, it is possible.
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #34 on: December 21, 2012, 02:40:14 pm »
I came to school with an xbox mic plugged into my claculator. Everyone though I had serie or something XD
Then I told them I was making music for a game and they were still mind blown...


When I connected earphones to a calc and played some games with sound, some people came standing around me and they first thought I just pretended it could do sound. Then I let them listen to it themselves and then they walked away with blown minds.

Also when I was playing portal on my calc after an exam, some guys from my class asked me: "WTF is that portal?!"
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #35 on: December 21, 2012, 03:24:35 pm »
People always joke about the fact that I would be able to put PDF in my TI-Nspire CX. Where they get stunned is when I answer them that in fact, yes, it is possible.
How _do_ you read PDFs on Nspire?
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #36 on: December 21, 2012, 03:34:54 pm »
or use linucx and evince :P (or something more lightweight, because evince carries a slew of dependencies with it).
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #37 on: December 22, 2012, 08:42:58 pm »
Sometimes when people notice me typing into my calculator, they come over and look at the screen...  which gets more people to notice me... which gets a small mob around me... which gets the attention of the teacher.  Then the teacher tells me he does not want to see my calculator out again :mad:
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #38 on: December 22, 2012, 09:09:21 pm »
I've been put on calculator banishment in classes before, too :P
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #39 on: December 22, 2012, 11:34:23 pm »
I have gotten calculators banned at schools
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #40 on: December 23, 2012, 01:09:38 am »
Then the teacher tells me he does not want to see my calculator out again :mad:
Take this particular calc away and take another one out of your bag. Each time I do that, they give up :P
(They mostly give up because I only use my calcs outside of the class time except when I need to make a calculus) so they don't have a particular reason to ban my calcs since I use them reasonably)
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #41 on: December 23, 2012, 03:20:27 am »
My math teacher once tried to ban me from using my 84+ during class, even though it was the required calculator for the class, and I was only calculating stuff x.x
But yeah, at my old school, people's minds were blown with a Snake game I slapped together in about 15 min for a friend :P

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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #42 on: December 23, 2012, 04:41:54 pm »
I go onto people's calculators and type
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #43 on: December 23, 2012, 04:51:43 pm »
They are surprised that I made a chess game and a pong clone.
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Re: People react to your calculator...
« Reply #44 on: December 23, 2012, 05:30:33 pm »
People always ask me if I can get WIFI on my Nspire CX CAS.

When they see the color screen they are usually like "What is that?  Is that a calculator?" Then I say yea and give it to them then they are all like "And it has a mouse!?".

Then when I play Pokemon on it they usually react with a "You can play Pokemon on your calculator!?" .  It's pretty fun amazing people.  Thanks everyone for the awesome programs. :)
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