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« on: June 07, 2011, 02:04:20 pm »
Yeah that could work. Personally I am not confident the Prizm will take over TI, but there will still be a decent userbase online. Ti has the nspire cx and the nspire cx cas. Casio has the Prizm and the ? I think that when the ? is known then the TI and Casio offerings can be fairly compared. Surely Casio is working on an improved version if its Classpad with color screen. I am looking forward to what the Prizm CAS model will be and I suspect that it might come with some developer tools to.
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« on: June 03, 2011, 10:33:07 am »
I can't imagine why they'd sell a regular nspire-cas for that price. They'd have to be losing money on it
Obviously, it's a trap.
With the nspire cas cx being available any day now, the non-cx models are relatively worthless so this is probably just a attempt to clear out the old stock.
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« on: June 02, 2011, 08:56:15 pm »
We will all hope that pianoman, just some of us are unable to believe it after all TI had one
I have to wonder if this about face is the result of a change in management at ti? If so it will probably last. If not, then it may be just a temporary condition. Another consideration is will this change allow interesting games for the nspire that students will play in class the way it used to be? If teachers complain TI will have to do something to keep them happy.
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« on: June 02, 2011, 01:10:29 pm »
What goes around comes around.
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« on: May 28, 2011, 10:18:18 pm »
High school specifically yes. From what I understood the HP 50 was more geared towards engineering. True but keep in mind that it also has all the high school math capability. The same can be said for the Classpad. What the nspire series lacks, ti makes up for with sales stuff like spin, seminars, and others perks for teachers.
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« on: May 28, 2011, 02:50:04 pm »
@AGVolnutt: Teachers and students are the main user-base, that is why. This calculator was developed based largely on what the teachers wanted. Actually "high school" teachers and students are the main user-base and because high school math is quite weak, producing a calculator (the nspire) for high school math results in a second rate math device compared to the Hp50 and Classpad have had more math capability than any ti calc for many years. But I suppose that ti did do what they set out to do, i.e., produce a device that can be used for high school math.
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« on: May 28, 2011, 07:51:35 am »
Well a lot of ppl helped me, in fact in the past few months most stuff was brought to me by other moderators or they already dealt with most stuff while I was offline. It's just that I myself can no longer sustain the job.
Being a moderator is a high stress job and being a moderator when there is so much traffic is an impossibly stressful job that NO ONE can sustain that indefinitely. You are doing the right thing. Stay away from anything stressful for a while and you will surely bounce back. Don't worry, it will all work out because you are reducing the stress which would make any one sick after a sufficient dose. You have done a good job and no one can please everyone. So don't worry about it
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« on: May 27, 2011, 01:28:21 pm »
Dingus, remember, though, to not try to discourage people from making games for the Nspire on the forums, though, especially the ones who already own a TI-Nspire. As much as we hate TI in general, we need to continue supporting the people who contribute for the TI community no matter what calculator they use or program for.
I remember someone on United-TI who wanted UTI to close the entire TI-Nspire section of their site and delete all posts, even if some people were still posting there sometimes. I feel it was rather counter-productive for the TI community. I personally will encourage people to get a Prizm instead of a CX, but I will not try to badmouth people who decide to go otherwise.
I personally do not have plans to get a CX now, unless I can get one for cheap on Ebay. I'm fine with my other calcs, especially my Prizm and 84+.
Good point DJ_O. Sorry if my message came across as discouraging to the people who are making games for the Nspire. That was not my intent. I was just expressing my way of dealing with the frustrations ti has caused. There has been some extemely very valuable work done by the very talented people here who are working with the nspire and I appreciate the developments that they have achieved. I also do not have plans to get a CX as I am satisfied with my 84SE, Voyage200 and the Prizm for future programing efforts.
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« on: May 26, 2011, 11:48:04 pm »
The Nspire could be better if we could find a way to open it up to development
Yes, but ti is very persistent in only letting us do the programing that they approve of and I don't want them controlling me that way. Perhaps I am wrong about this but I just don't see butting heads with ti as being productive in the long run and my message to ti is: Ok, you are not going to completely open your nspire to programing, so fine, keep your nspire. I'll use something else.
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« on: May 26, 2011, 10:30:14 pm »
Lua seems our best bet for ndless right now though so we might soon see some problems
Can it hurt to go along with ti on this and buy their product for lua programing? Yes it sure can. The investment of time and money is all lost when they clamp down again. And I can't believe for a second that ti has all of a sudden become a bunch of nice guys that want to help us create games. As soon as their teacher clients screem NO! NO GAMES! Ti will screw us again. Mean while the Casio Prizm has provided programing opportunities that the nspire still does not provide. I think that it is clear that the Prizm, and not the nspire, is the platform in our future.
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« on: May 25, 2011, 04:54:25 pm »
I personally still think we need to remain a bit skeptical about them -- I have a feeling licenses will needed to develop anything, and only those who are beta testing on TI-BANK will get free ones. Though please, anyone who knows differently (hopefully) correct me.
I suspect there will be another os update that will allow nspire to only run lua programs that have been sanctioned by ti. That way they can keep their teacher customers happy. Interesting that this all came about after a lot of people turned their attention to the Prizm and got programs up and running there (ya gotta lov C). If I was ti, I'd be concerned to.
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« on: May 23, 2011, 06:11:11 am »
All things considered it gives the impression that ti is just keeping their options open. If they did open up third party programing they would have a fire storm to deal with from the teachers. Ti created a real monster by spoiling the teachers and with the teachers getting their way on everything, they (the teachers) are not about to peacefully accept games on nspires. On the other hand it is natural for calc's to go the same way as smart phones with sanctioned third party programs and the first company to impliment that wins the pot of gold.
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« on: May 23, 2011, 05:46:34 am »
Yeah my issue is more that some of the active Prizm coders has pretty much just moved their Prizm activity elsewhere. I think that is because Cemetech has shifted emphasis to the Prizm while the emphasis here is is still TI even though TI indicates again and again that they don't want our business. On the other hand Kerm basically said yeah, ti doesn't want us so screw em. We have a good alternative in the Prizm so we don't need ti. That sort of gives the impression that this is the ti site and Cemetech is the Prizm site. Just my impression.
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« on: May 19, 2011, 02:46:12 pm »
I wonder if it's possible to transfer tns documents from a TI-Nspire OS 3.0.1 to another running 3.0.2? Not that everyone have two TI-Nspires, though.
Perhaps it is better to buy one Prizm than two TI-Nspires
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