I do hope you bring back the post update feature; that was really nice.

in IRC it's there, Omnom is just not online yet.

Also, is there a way so Jarvis doesn't remind you of the rules every time you join?  Not a big problem, but it's kind of confusing when this bubble pops up and I think it's an error or something

You would have to talk to Tribal, but I think that it is good to have it remind people every time they/we/I join

As announced by TI-BANK, Datamath has posted pictures of the real TI-Nspire CX calculator models, although per TI's request, they were asked to not show the inside of the calculator yet.

http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/NSpire_CX_P1.htm
http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/NSpire_CX_CAS_P1.htm
http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/NSpire_CX_EZ.htm

According to people who tried the prototypes themselves, the screen is not as dark in person as it was from photos posted on TI-BANK a few days ago, and even from weird angles, the calculator screen looks pretty readable:


(image found on TI-BANK forums)

The dark screen was most likely due to the calculator pictures being made with a scanner or the back-light being disabled. This means the screen doesn't have the problems some of us feared. Unless it's a passive, blurry LCD like some MP3 players, the screen quality should be on-par with the Casio Prizm.

Also, according to TI-BANK, the OS 3.0 found in prototype models has a size similar to OS 2.1. With nothing installed on the CAS mode, there is about 101.7 MB free. The CAS OS seems to be 13.5 MB large and the regular model one 15.2 MB. We do not know if the TI-84 Plus emulator is included in the latter. If it is, then there is a possibility that both TI-Nspire and TI-Nspire CX models use the same OS file.

Now that we have an idea of how the LCD brightness is and how big the OS is so far, we do hope that battery power usage will have been improved as well. Some people reports that good batteries lasts about two weeks on a TI-Nspire running Ndless programs on a regular basis, while a Casio Prizm running several SH3 assembly programs still use the battery set that came with it when bought 2.5 months ago.

Also it appears the calculator is already for sale for teachers and school at http://www.calculatrices.ch/Info.cfm?modell=TINCXCASTE&e=1

Quote from: willrandship on August 18, 2010, 06:37:49 pm

Could we host it on here? That would be nice, in case eem's server crashed and he lost it. It might be the only copy left!

Er... his host is still up for me. I can browse ASM In 28 days mirror fine. Freehostia just have crappy uptime when it comes to free hosting (as they say, you get what you pay for )

It's no longer on freehostia, although freehostia will redirect you It's now on eeezor.ec3club.tk which is much faster

Maybe a timelimit on bans?

The #omnimaga IRC channel has gone to -i so people can now start rejoining again. It will remain +m though so we can work with a possible new system which we may or may not be keeping.
Feel free to drop in again and chat.

I'm pretty sure that we patterned out app store after cydia's model, only some of the apps are being sold, the rest are free, at the creators digression. Most of the proceeds go to the developer. Maybe have some sort of libraries for third parties too? This would help ease the bad rep, and it would be based off of a practical and proven method. If a developer wants to sell their hard work instead of go open source, it's up to them. A demo system might be nice, or required screenshots or something, so people don't feel rippe of if it's not as good as they thought.

I usually prefer open sourced software, but I also appreciate the fact that some people want something back for their work other then just appreciation. Who are we to call it wrong, people do it all the time in the computer software world. It is a little hard fo our community to get use to though after so long with everything being free.

This shirts and stuff idea is also cool

Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on March 16, 2011, 02:36:17 pm

If the Google ads are discrete, less people will click on them and you will get less money. Besides DJ_O said that you don't earn much with that.
Paypal donation probably will come, but if we get a cheaper hosting plan its even better.

You get a few cents per click, all we have to do is click

I agree with a cheaper hosting plan too, and I don't mind having to archive older parts of the forum (threads really old)

Hmm, well maybe. No decisions are going to be made yet. I still have to talk to the rest of the admins.

I'll not be able to for at least 40 minutes, but when I get home I will. Unless someone else does.