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Re: How do you feel about the programs featured by ticalc.org?
Dustin Kimble  Account Info

I think that TiCalc should make the Program Of The Month again. Allthough they have new people that are on the staff, they still can't update the page at least once a day. Its not that hard to update a page. They should have POTM everyday again. They shouldn't have changed from the way they used to do.

Reply to this comment    18 January 2001, 18:15 GMT

Re: Re: How do you feel about the programs featured by ticalc.org?
GForceII  Account Info
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i would also like to see something like the POTM again... mabey this time make the rules and stick to them if people don't like them too bad! You can't make everyone happy.

Reply to this comment    18 January 2001, 18:59 GMT


Re: Re: Re: How do you feel about the programs featured by ticalc.org?
86er

I would too. I don'tknow why they don't have it anymore. It shouldn't have been voted off!

Reply to this comment    18 January 2001, 22:17 GMT


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Daniel Bishop  Account Info
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"I don't know why they don't have it anymore"

POTM became a "most-hyped program award" instead rather than a measure of program quality. The authors of nonhyped programs frequently posted "POTM is a joke" complaints on the message boards and pretty much everyone else agreed.

Last October, when the ticalc.org staff was running out of good survey ideas, I suggested that they should have a survey on whether POTM should continue. Andy Selle posted it on 2000-10-05. The URL above shows the results of that survey.

"Users should nominate the finalists" got the most votes, but the ticalc.org staff thought that user nomination was impractical, so they went with the next best choice, "It should be terminated."

That's probably more than you wanted to know, but at least you know why we don't have POTM anymore.

Reply to this comment    19 January 2001, 00:28 GMT

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Jon Hughes  Account Info
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that sucks

Reply to this comment    19 January 2001, 02:57 GMT


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GForceII  Account Info
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It did seem that the user nomination thing didn't work very well. Mabey a better way is to set up a system that works with the most downloads for a given week/month and then vote. It could even be restricted so a given program could only recieve a potm once every 2 or 3 months...

Reply to this comment    19 January 2001, 03:12 GMT

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MathJMendl  Account Info
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Ack, not this discussion before...

Anyway, as I said previously,

"When you think about it, aside from the news items, the only reasons that programs will get downloaded more than others is mostly their titles and a bit because of their screenshots (which are all that are posted when they are shown on ticalc.org). You'll have no way of knowing whether the programs are good because you won't be able to tell until after downloading them. I think the only way to accurately measure how good a program is is to have a little dropdown item that lets people *who have used the program* to give it a rating from one to ten."

Reply to this comment    19 January 2001, 06:36 GMT


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Lars E.  Account Info

If the program is the most downloaded, it doesn't make it the best. It makes it the most hyped.

Reply to this comment    21 January 2001, 01:35 GMT


Re: Re: How do you feel about the programs featured by ticalc.org?
T:-:T  Account Info
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Hey, man... I totally agree with you on that thing about POTM... By the way, would it be cool for me to make a device out of a small LCD screen, 3.5" disk drive, GraphLink, batteries and some other things, that would be like a portable graphlink??? How many times have your teachers erased your memory at school, and you want your stuff back, but have to wait till you get home to do so? Well, the portable graphlink would solve that... HOPEFULLY. It would probably atoumatically send all calculator files ont the disk to the calc when plugged into the calc. Who thinks that sounds cool? Please email me at dexter23dexter23@cs.com to reply. Thanks a lot!
-Paul

Reply to this comment    18 January 2001, 22:59 GMT

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Michael Vincent  Account Info
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Portable graphlinks already exist....It's called a laptop! Just bring one to school with your graphlink cable.

Reply to this comment    18 January 2001, 23:07 GMT


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MSC Account Info

Not all schools allow laptops, plus most people have already lots of heavy stuff, so laptops are not the best divices to have at school. I think portable GraphLink is a great idea.

Reply to this comment    18 January 2001, 23:52 GMT


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EV9D93  Account Info
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yep, a laptop that has games, internet, and all that stuff is so much worse than carrying a slightly smaller, and much harder to use, chunk of badly made spare parts.

Reply to this comment    19 January 2001, 00:27 GMT


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MSC Account Info

If you have a laptop with all that fancy stuff why do you even need a calculator?

Reply to this comment    19 January 2001, 14:16 GMT


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Daniel Bishop  Account Info
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If you can afford it, buy two calculators. Use one for games and the other for school. Or, do what I did and convince your teachers that since calc memories don't have to be cleared on AP tests, there's nothing wrong with not clearing your memory.

Reply to this comment    19 January 2001, 00:31 GMT

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Samir Ribic  Account Info
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Hehe, when I was student I had less expensive solution. I glued one label over my Casio FX-8000 reset key. If someone really wants to unglue label to reset calc, on the label backside was written something like (translated to English) "Who reads this, without dick will piss!". Fortunantelly, no professor ever unglued label.

Reply to this comment    19 January 2001, 08:58 GMT


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benefreako89 Account Info

You can also use doors explorer to hide your files. I have conducted a few experiments in which my hidden files survived a reset(AMS 2.03) and were still hidden. The var-link looked normal and I was still able to retrive all files!

Reply to this comment    20 January 2001, 01:51 GMT

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MathJMendl  Account Info
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I'm guessing your hidden files were archived, but that's still pretty cool. Only problem is if they notice that and push 2nd - Mem.

Reply to this comment    20 January 2001, 02:15 GMT

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stewman  Account Info

oh, u must be sub-TI89

Reply to this comment    20 January 2001, 08:18 GMT


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MathJMendl  Account Info
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I don't know what you mean by that, but since you recently posted a baseless post against mine I'm guessing you're trying to insult me by saying I don't have an 89 (although if I didn't it wouldn't be an insult, especially coming from you). If you look at my url, though, I do have an 89.

Reply to this comment    20 January 2001, 23:33 GMT


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stewman  Account Info

comment was meant for someone else

i dont bother with urls

Reply to this comment    22 January 2001, 06:31 GMT


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nyall  Account Info

With the magic of event hooks it would be very simpe to overide that key combination.


-Samuel

Reply to this comment    20 January 2001, 18:13 GMT


hidden files
Vector

An alternative solution is to rename all the files to invalid names, which would render them invisible by the mem/explorer screens.
I've seen this done on an 86 (asm, of course); my guess is it is also possible on 68k calcs.

Reply to this comment    21 January 2001, 04:00 GMT

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