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« on: May 18, 2011, 02:41:14 pm »
And Rex did not come into every discussion that strayed from the official line of thinking 
True. I've been reading that site since it came up years ago and amazingly your posts there were not stopped.
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« on: May 18, 2011, 01:54:08 pm »
But yeah it seems like they try to hide some bad stuff TI did, to make them look good. Plus it sucks they censor it because some teachers would like to be informed if the calcs their students use contain bugs.
yeh, like here: http://groups.google.com/group/tinspire/browse_thread/thread/239ac185698d3da4TI still posts the message that they will have an update available for the 3.0 os before mid May and the nspire google group blindly spews the same thing even though we are past mid-may. Then if someone there takes issue with that Rex the moderator will step in and stop the discussion. That kind of censorship kills any possiblility of those people will ever start living in the real world.
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« on: May 15, 2011, 09:09:27 pm »
Don't expect it to be online in a few hours, according to informations made publicly available in the official french forum.
The tests took more time than expected, and the OS has to go through the validation process (which is long with TI: one week to remove the 3.0 OS...).
The person who wrote about this was mentionning next week, or even the week after.
I guess I shouldn't be surprized by what you say and I shouldn't be surprized that TI's announcement of mid-May is still on their site because they clearly have no respect for the people who read their site and TI obviously ignores them when it is convenient to do so. No wonder everyone are so upset with TI! In my mind, TI deserves all the criticism that has been directed at them and even more. It is clear to me that TI's nspire products are vastly over rated, that TI has shown that they cannot be trusted to do what they say they will do, that the quality of their software is unacceptable, that the performance of their products is lacking, and last but not least their keyboard design is terrible. Sadly todays TI is not of the quality that it used to be, nor is it's products, and I am going to warn the people I know to think twice before buying a CX or CX cas before they know what it's problems are because that is a lot of money to waste.
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« on: May 15, 2011, 03:40:29 pm »
Anyway, people aren't going to download it if they don't link to it. Your average student/teacher doesn't try to guess URLs for a OS that nobody wants 
The average student or teacher has no clue, they just buy a calc and use it. Even the people at the tinspire google groups believe everything that ti says and they blindly defend everything that ti does and the moderator won't allow any discussion that could fix that ignorance.
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« on: May 14, 2011, 09:13:27 pm »
I just noticed that Underwood Distributing says they can ship the nspire cx and will be able to ship the nspire cx cas starting next monday. I wonder if it contains the desolve bug and similiar unwanted goodies?
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« on: May 13, 2011, 10:45:22 am »
I found what is was. It was just the exe button getting stuck some times. No bugs [/quote] How do you fix that? So that the button stops sticking. I have a similiar problem with my voyage200.
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« on: May 13, 2011, 09:57:20 am »
@Dingus: It boggles my mind as well. TI could have made a remarkable product, yet they made a device with a horrible display, cheap interchangeable keypads that are prone to wear and tear, and software that has been continually plagued with bugs. Not to mention that their older models that have been around for years are more programmable out of the box than their newest and most advanced calculator.
* Art_of_camelot sighs. It really is a shame. 
Yeah, I would have bought a new ti-89 or voyage with a color screen and 3d graphing in a heart beat.
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« on: May 13, 2011, 01:09:56 am »
Yeah I saw a few days ago. Also the calc bricking issue that is mentionned lies about when the bug is triggered. They claim if we used our calc and it worked fine, then we should have no problem. Yet, it's after the next reboot that problems can occur.
What I find truly amazing is that including development time for the original nspire ti has been pouring money down the nspire rathole for about five(!) years now and they still can't get the product right. From the marketing insanity of turning their back on the developers who helped them become successful, to not being able to produce quality software, to having a keyboard thats the shitz, and now OS 3.0 which in addition to the bricking, by ti's own admission has screwed up solving differential equations, symbolic integration, solving limits, the cZero function, the cSolve function and the linear algebra library. Wow! All these screw ups taken collectively is a monumental disaster that can only be produced by truly incompetent people making terrible decisions. Surely TI corporate head quarters can not continue to fund this disaster much longer and it's unbelievable that the teachers on the google site still have some sort of commitment to this sinking ship! Spending and perhaps wasting the publics money on nspire equipment is probably going to be a career ending decision for some of those teachers.
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« on: May 10, 2011, 01:28:54 am »
I will as soon as I get the student software thingy set up, the CD keeps crashing my comp for some reason... [/quote] Is the student software cd still crashing your comp?
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« on: May 09, 2011, 09:38:02 pm »
"by the way, some times random squares of color appear on the screen until you click something. but otherwise, the screen's quite nice.  " By random squares do you mean pixel size or something larger? 
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« on: May 09, 2011, 07:29:36 pm »
Did ti fix the desolve bug or is it now in the cx also?
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« on: May 08, 2011, 11:59:06 pm »
EDIT: Darn... the main calculator improvement, which is a color LCD, is so much underused it seems...
Yeah but they can still claim that they have a color screen. Right? Even if all you see is black and white they can still claim that they have a color screen. Right? It's just like their 3d graphing. They claim 3d graphing but you can't even graph a damn line with it! Next they are going to go into the toilet paper business. You get one little square with a hole in the middle of it.
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« on: May 08, 2011, 03:52:07 pm »
They'll probably lock it up a little more. add some problematic lines for more random crashes, make it slower, take away necessary functions, and release it as their next OS
We shall know any day now. The ti web site says: "An update to TI-Nspire version 3.0 will be available by mid-May." which is just a week away.
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