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News / Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« on: January 20, 2012, 11:10:20 am »
(Above post is obv. spam.)


So all you care about is how changing avatars on calculator forums will change a thing?

Also stopping SOPA won't help. It's a bit more than blacking out one single day and you are not cool, because you are "against" it. Do you really care? Or did you just jump on the bandwagon for fun? See what you can rwally do to stop SOPA: http://goo.gl/ZErh8

Opinion grabbed from here: http://maddox.xmission.com/

I've done everything short of contacting my Senator (though that's because I'm too nervous to). I don't think there are very many people who are against it, "just to be cool".

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Calculator C / Re: C Q&A Thread
« on: January 19, 2012, 10:01:10 pm »
It works. Thanks :D

I honestly feel I should hit myself over the head hard for something so obvious :P

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Calculator C / Re: C Q&A Thread
« on: January 19, 2012, 09:14:48 pm »
How do you use the show_msgbox function?

I have the following code:

Code: [Select]
#include <os.h>

int main()
{
    void show_msgbox("Hello World", "Hello Omnimaga");
    return 0;
}

And it's not compiling with the error:
Code: [Select]
Tom@AdmirableCoffee /c/Users/Tom/Desktop/Programs/Ndless/Hello_World
$ make
nspire-gcc -Os -nostdlib -Wall -W -marm -c main.c
main.c: In function 'main':
main.c:5:10: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string const
ant
main.c:5:10: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string const
ant
main.c:5:10: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric cons
tant
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

Tom@AdmirableCoffee /c/Users/Tom/Desktop/Programs/Ndless/Hello_World
$

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News / Re: Fill your CX with Doom!
« on: January 19, 2012, 07:56:09 pm »
I mean the 5 wads you host on tiplanet

I think it's right now considered abandonware. They say if they're told to remove the files they will though.

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News / Re: Fill your CX with Doom!
« on: January 19, 2012, 04:10:23 pm »
Huh, when I try to play them on my CX, I get the error, document format not supported doom1.wad.tns.

Yet the demo programs work fine :S

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News / Re: Fill your CX with Doom!
« on: January 19, 2012, 01:57:58 pm »
Downloaded them all. Thanks! XD

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Humour and Jokes / Re: 9001 signs you're addicted to calcs and Omni
« on: January 19, 2012, 12:21:46 pm »
2583: You look at Xeda's avatar and think she's a calculator Goddess! O.O

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News / Re: Ndless 3.1 coming soon?
« on: January 19, 2012, 12:17:55 pm »
XD 4 HOURS TILL LAUNCH?!!!!!

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News / Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« on: January 18, 2012, 10:04:23 pm »
Curious that Facebook didn't though :/
Yeah, they would be adversely affected too. They probably didn't do it so they could let people share and spread the anti-SOPA stuffs, just like Twitter.

Perhaps. It might've been more effective to change the layout and colors though. The iconic blue-white changed to all black XD

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News / Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« on: January 18, 2012, 09:40:43 pm »
xkcd, Cyanide and Happiness, Brentalfloss, and VG Cats were participating (For those that don't know, these are web comics) :P

Curious that Facebook didn't though :/


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Miscellaneous / Re: Rube Goldberg Machines
« on: January 18, 2012, 08:41:37 pm »
These are nice. I watched all of them. As to the last one, thanks for getting that stuck in my head <_<

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Humour and Jokes / Re: 9001 signs you're addicted to calcs and Omni
« on: January 18, 2012, 07:05:04 pm »
2573 - You protested against SOPA

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Other / Re: Knex Ball Machine Catastropha
« on: January 18, 2012, 02:41:02 pm »
How often do parts fail?

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Computer Programming / Re: Best language for beginners?
« on: January 18, 2012, 10:14:17 am »
I'm going to take the opposing viewpoint and suggest that you should not use a calc language as the first language. Here's my reasoning:

I first learned TI-Basic and it was pretty easy as well as whet my appetite for coding. However, when I started to transition to computer languages I found that it nearly crippled my ability to do so. Among my inability to properly understand functions, the biggest issue was, in TI-Basic, you're basically given a collection of different shaped blocks to make stuff with. Pretty simple and not in need of much creativity overall. In computer languages, you're given a bag of sand and told to create your own blocks to use, which being used to having the prefab blocks, I could not easily do at first.

Now that's TI-Basic. I will also suggest not learning Axe, because from my experience with it, it's not similar to C-style languages which make up a majority of computer languages. Axe, to me, is very weird feeling, honestly. I would also assume that users would hit the same "block" problem as in TI-Basic, albeit on a smaller scale.

Lastly I'd like to point out that with both languages, as this happened to me and still is, the programmer might start to feel paranoid about the speed of their code. They start to doubt they could do things fast because they're used to calc speeds, not computer speeds.

I would definitely suggest Ruby or Python to learn the basics then immediately switch to C++ or Java asap.

Just because it's fun to do, here's my roadmap:

TI-Basic -> C++ (failed attempt) -> Ruby -> AutoIt (failed Attept) -> C++ -> Axe (failed Attepmt) -> Z80 (I know the basics, need to practice) -> Haskell (Need to practice) -> PHP (Learning, really cool language) -> Java (Taking college courses this semester)

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So far on what I've read, SOPA's been shelved indefinitely until there's consensus on the bill, not killed... Yet.

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