Well, I take picture of my calcs...does that count? I avoid the link port most of the time :p

Well, usually when my 89 gets its picture taken, I tell it to keep it's cover slide on, but you know how those calcs get... you know... yeah...

My 89 is a free will. It has a translucent red cover on it...

No, it HAS a free will. *sigh* NOT HARD TO GET THINGS RIGHT, IS IT?

Mayhaps he meant free 'spirit'??

Thank you. Three 15 hour days of running to hell and back messes with your mind. I'm all good now.

My calculator doesn't care about being nearly-naked in public (no cover slide). But when I take the battery cover off the back... I always do it in privacy.

Okay, this is a weird conversation ;-)

Did you ever take pictures of it during a ROM upgrade?

hey now, that's just rude. we don't want to be cruel to the things that give us life... or give us *a* life... or take away our life... well, it has something to do with life, loving what you do, and being rich...
don't be rude to the calcs!

Hey, adding a clock is pretty good, I think.. it certainly brought new life to my perpetual calender.

Now, filling it with programs that constantly rewrite to the archive memory as though it was RAM, that's something I consider cruel and wouldn't do to my TI-89 if I could avoid it.

Me too! I have several pictures of my '86! (I also have pictures of the computers in my house.)

I've altered some of the pics into art to go onto T-shirts for the calcgames.org store btw.

Yes. My Windows XP logo is a picture of me with my TI-89.

XP? Macs are infinitely better AND you can customize the logo AND they are compatible with TI-connect. I use mine with a TI-89.

U Need XP... everone does. the problems you suffer while using Windows XP simply highlight how not-terrible the rest of your life really is in comparison. Without Windows, I would probably be dead or in an institution by now :)

<flame me, I won't change my mind, though>
No kidding. Without Windows, you wouldn't make it anywhere. p00p! to Linux and Mac.
</flame me, I won't change my mind, though>
(even though, I think Windows 98 is sufficient enough for everything that you want/need. Besides, no blaster virus! Did anybody get that? I didn't! Win98 rocks! :-D

i got no viruses, because i'm on nobody's e-mail lists. it's great not to know people that well! and my dad is on thousands of poeple's lists, but he takes so many precautions in virus seasons that he gets none. and we have xp...

LOL... you're lucky... I get so many freaking junk/spam/virus e-mails in my inbox every day. I get so much that it fills up my mailbox quota every single time I check my mail. I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT... I noticed how MV blocks spam mail
michaelv@ticalc.orgNOSPAM
michaelv@tic[remove this text]alc.org
michaelv@ti(I hate spam mail)calc.org
michaelv@tica (remove spaces) lc . org
stuff like that. I guess that's helpful for the ones that scan txt/html for e-mail addresses, but it's probably a pain for n00bs who can't understand why their mail doesn't send... lol

Why not just do:
michael AT ticalc DOT org
??

Maybe he has, I don't know. It's interesting, if you "onmouseover" his mailto: link, you can see it in the status bar.

(I'll apologize in advance for starting this flame war to MichaelV) If macs are so much better, then why does Microsoft dominate the market? Why doesn't everyone see that macs are better?

because they want to have nothing to do with those idiots on the mac comercials... you know... the ones like, "i'm too dumb for windows, so i use a mac"

I just thought of the funniest comic when you said that... it was one of the ctrlaltdel online web comics... just a sec, I want to find it.
Right... here, it is. This is GREAT. :)
http://www.ctrlal
tdel-online.com/?
t=archives&date=2
002-11-26
(copy+paste lines together, or click weblink)

Nice.

That's what I thought... that was probably the most I'd laughed from a comic LOL

There is aproblem with that comic, it should say windose. If you talk exclusively about hardware (excluding the G5), Mac beats Intel/PC. On the motherboards, the RAM is almost smack dab against the proc, the procs are RISC (I forget the difference between RISC and CISC) so when you campare them to Intel or AMD (better than Intel) MHz means less do to a much more efficient design. When it comes to software Mac OS X is based off of Unix, now that is more stable than Windose anything. Also the OS is besigned for multiple procs so if runs more efficiently (I've tested them), and Macs rarely if ever have viruses made for them. One more thing there is no freakin BSOD!

with the arrival of xp, the bsod no longer plagues me, either. unfortunately though, now, windows skips the recovery/termination phase and goes straight to restarting the whole dang blasted thing! we lost the bsod but lost control as well...

I haven't had any BSODs with XP either but I hate how MS/Bill Gates takes advantage of the common Windows user's ignorance. If you go into My Computer where Visual effects or Preformance is and select "Let WIndows choose what is best for my machine" it turns all the stuff on! That is definately not the best option because to have all visual effects. If you want efficiency you only have a couple things on. When I saw that I wanted to shoot myself or get a Mac ASAP!

well, the reason you don't get the bsod with xp is because it's not even in the code anymore (... so i'm told, and it seems to be true)

I heard the same. XP only emulates DOS now :(

Hey... I was wondering... a lot of old DOS games... the sound doesn't work on them. Is there not an internal speaker anymore in computers or something? Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp :'(

or maybe yours is broken or something...

Yeah, I think they all have one, it might look like a modem speaker and it usually located on motherboards. Check yours out.

<inside joke>Hey! The BSOD turns me on! Don't make fun of it!</inside joke>

Actually, I made a fake QBASIC BSOD, and it looks... EXACTLY like it... and it also does the "WARNING! System has become unstable, blah blah" one...
It even kind of flickers the screen before it goes into the DOS mode to display it (looks cool)

And anyway, Windows is better LOL :) I like that comic. Ctrl+Alt+Del online is funny! :D

Actually, Windows XP is based upon Windows NT, which I think is based upon either Unix or Linux. This was done because NT's initial purpose was to make server usage easier for the user and save companies the money and hassle of having to teach their employees to learn Unix (or whatever server language they were using).

Actually, Windows XP and Windows NT I think were based off of Unix as well. Because XP was developed from NT, and because NT was designed to provide employees using LANs or other server-related connections an easy alternative to Unix or Linux (which are harder for the average Joe to learn to use)

Everyone, please ignore the my top post. The bottom one is the one I meant.

Because macs are so much more expensive, and have some rumor of limited software, but with the darwin OS, it is easy to port apps from linux to mac, and I hear of ports of X11 to mac! Now, with linux, it is just hard for the begginer to use. I am having troubles updating glibc to 2.3 or whatever on my redhat 7.2, first I had to update gcc, and find glibc's configure was still reading it as 2.96 rater than 3.03, what fun I had, untill using some autoupdate broke X, I tried to fix it, machine would freeze on load of X, didn't bother with init levels, reinstalled and gave up. Sorry for the lack of brevity, but in the end, windows is used because it is easy to use, comes with the cheap machines, despite the fact that it lacks in all other categories.

about updating: use a better package manager than straight rpm... I believe there's an APT that works with redhat rpms available... there's another one someone mentioned at slashdot a while ago on sourceforge that seemed better, but I can't remember the name of it... zero something or other...

the program was zero-install... check web-link...

Thank you!!! rpm-get kinda sucked, thanks a lot!! will try it next time I log back into linux.

Microsoft dominates the market because they siezed many opportunities and had (have) a great marketing division. MS bought the rights to DOS, and eventually distributed DOS with all "IBM-clones", leading to the über-corporation seen today. Apple didn't have the mass market appeal, and -despite having a better GUI, OS and computer- didn't ever really become popular outside the graphic artist/designer loop. (Boy I NEED to get a life.)

"(Boy I NEED to get a life.)"

But your absolutely right.