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« on: February 02, 2012, 02:36:11 pm »
I don't mean to be rude by saying that, but an iPad simply isn't my idea of a calculator 
I understand. Because of the lack of a mechanical keyboard the iPad wasn't my idea of a computer. Then I tried one and got hooked. It's hard to explain except to say that the user experience is far better than any other device ever gave me. The only draw back is that I can't make a regular phone call on it. I hope the iPad 3 changes that.
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« on: February 02, 2012, 02:15:41 pm »
I would rather have a classpad than an iPad.
Go buy it then if that makes you happy.
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« on: February 02, 2012, 01:38:07 pm »
If you read the newspaper you know that at this time, many schools have issued iPads loaded with textbooks to whole classes, and the trend is going to continue because the schools save a ton of money by not buying printed text books as a result. So the question is, will these schools also spend money on calculators when a five dollar iPad calculator app can be used? We are talking about a lot of money and it doesn't matter what the teachers want. They will be told what they will use and if they don't like it they can find a new job. No doubt the testing authorities will be required to adapt or find a new job also. Switching to digital books on iPads is a huge revolution in education. It is occurring at this very moment. It is occurring more quickly than anyone ever imagined and no one doubts that for economic reasons it is going to obsolete the use of calculators in math classes.
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« on: February 02, 2012, 11:17:20 am »
It's definitely not worth buying! Calculators without color screens are as obsolete as touch screens that require a stylus. It's junk and Casio knows it. If you want a good calc, get an iPad and down load the "Math Studio" app. Among other things, the 3d graphing that Math Studio gives you is totally awesome! My feeling is that schools are choosing to waste their money on obsolete technology when they buy nshit or classpads but that does not mean that I am going to make the same mistake. Take a look at the technology in your iPhone or droid and compare that to what you get for your money with a calculator. 
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« on: January 27, 2012, 08:49:18 pm »
If u need an nspire cas tomorrow, the solution is to go buy an nspire cas tonight.
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« on: September 07, 2011, 07:48:26 am »
IF pictures was the only problem it would be fine ... but the caracteristics are also cheated even if we replace each model to its place...
You can count on Apple to get it right the first time, Hp to get it right on the third or fourth try and TI to F-up everything that they do. That is just the way it is.
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« on: September 07, 2011, 07:39:33 am »
This chart makes the calculators look like they are all the same size and I don't think they are. The newer nspire ones look to big to be called portable.
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« on: June 26, 2011, 09:55:07 pm »
No, the bottom of the ramp is flat, so the air there stays still for the most part, with the bottom of the ramp just moving over it, while the air has to move up and over on top of the ramp. Though I still don't get how stunt planes can fly upside down, wouldn't a reverse-Bernoulli effect occur, pushing the plane down?
I've never understood this either. COuld someone please explain how planes fly if they can also fly upside down so the wing idea doesn't work
The shape of the wing cross section is such that lift is created by the angle of the on coming air on the wing. So roll over and establish the same angle and you get the same upward lift because aerobatic airplanes have some what of a symmetrical airfoil shape.
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« on: June 26, 2011, 01:43:31 pm »
I heard that one of the high level managers at ti is so greedy that he sold his mothers underware and it was in the middle of the winter and she froze her ass off.
I heard that they are going to sell invisible 3d implicit graphing on the nspire at a monthly rate?
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« on: June 25, 2011, 02:43:22 pm »
knowing TI, anything could happen.
How true, how true. I wonder if ti is sticking with their plan of selling the cover which costs them something like 25 cents for around five bucks? There is always a big risk when doing business with people like that.
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« on: June 22, 2011, 06:58:39 pm »
It's still really expensive...
It is, especially when you consider the official price for a Prizm is $129.99 (same as the official price of a TI-83 Plus lol).
Underwood Distributing is selling the TI-nspire CX CAS for $133.99 which is much lower than $159.99 and suggests that there is some price gougeing going on. If you buy this device becareful where you buy it.
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« on: June 14, 2011, 11:21:20 pm »
Darn this sucks, Well, well, well, TI is back to their same old tricks. They throw us a bone called Lua, and every body breathes a sigh of relief. Was that premature? I think so. Surely their intentions are to put those unwanted goodies on all new 84's, what then?
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« on: June 11, 2011, 07:05:29 pm »
I am at a total loss to understand how ti can stay in business and demonstrate again and again such incompetence and I am at a total loss to understand how ti can stay in business by not demonstrating never again and again such incompetence. Nice that they got caught in a lie for a change.
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« on: June 08, 2011, 12:50:27 am »
I agree. Also the CP330 series is old. I think an update would be nice. It would also make it attracting for people who like the ipod touch style, since the classpad had a touchscreen.
I wonder it they will come out with a color touch screen? That might be nice.
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« on: June 07, 2011, 08:18:17 pm »
[/quote]I don't believe that they're working on a color Classpad or a CAS Prizm... They don't really have any reason to do it so soon after releasing the Prizm, which was a huge step.
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Perhaps you are right but having completed the Prizm which is a non-cas calculator, what would be more appropriate for them to work on next? The cx cas has a color screen and the Classpad does not so I believe that Casio has to address this new competition with a color screen cas model of their own and I suspect they will do so around the end of the year or early next year which is not that far off. Am I missing something here?
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