if you have a ti-89 titanium, would you buy this program?

Would you buy it?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • No

    Votes: 5 83.3%
  • Total voters
    6
Beyond

Beyond

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http://www.islands.vi/~shawn/ti_89.htm

scroll down and look at the screenshots. it REALLY looks like it would be handy. if it were $20 or less i'd buy it no questions asked, but $60 is pushing it for me. as of now i grasp everything we've done but it'd also be nice to have a backup :P

my problem is that i never get done with my tests, and i'm thinking something like this could come in handy...

and i meant to put this in off-topic.. whoops :(
 
geoff5093 said:
It looks like you can download a trial version of all of their software.
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yeah.. i haven't done it though because what you can do with it is obviously limited, and i feel like it'd be a waste of time.
 
Beyond said:
yeah.. i haven't done it though because what you can do with it is obviously limited, and i feel like it'd be a waste of time.
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Are you sure it's limited? It may just have a time or use limit, that way you can try it out and see if it's really as good as it seems.
 
geoff5093 said:
Are you sure it's limited? It may just have a time or use limit, that way you can try it out and see if it's really as good as it seems.
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pretty sure it's limited. oh well, maybe i should just try it out..
 
I don't have my 89 or my link cable with me, but the software looks like crap. The 89 can basically do everything shown there without extra software!
 
The_Other_One said:
I don't have my 89 or my link cable with me, but the software looks like crap. The 89 can basically do everything shown there without extra software!
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one thing i noticed right off was implicit differentiation..
 
vortmax said:
you need a calculator for that?
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nope, but for me typing something in on my calculator and getting the answer is sometimes faster than doing it myself :eek:
 
well the 89 can do all the things that program can I'm sure, it just isn't as simple to type the stuff in. And besides, starting with Calc 2, the amount of stuff you can actually use a calculator on vastly diminishes, it really hates limits at infinity and zero when you get into all that, and it costs almost half the price of the calculator. I never had good luck putting any programs on my titanium, but I did get it like a month or two after it first came out so maybe the kernels weren't very good for it yet, everything would lock it up and I'd have to do the pressing the four buttons at the same time restart thing
 
suprasteve said:
well the 89 can do all the things that program can I'm sure, it just isn't as simple to type the stuff in. And besides, starting with Calc 2, the amount of stuff you can actually use a calculator on vastly diminishes, it really hates limits at infinity and zero when you get into all that, and it costs almost half the price of the calculator. I never had good luck putting any programs on my titanium, but I did get it like a month or two after it first came out so maybe the kernels weren't very good for it yet, everything would lock it up and I'd have to do the pressing the four buttons at the same time restart thing
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that's a really good point about the program costing nearly as much as half the calculator..

by limits involving zero and infinity, give me an example of what you mean. are you just talking about asking the limit of a function that approaches infinity and zero?
 
that program looks like garbage. There's a program that you can get which will let you type out notes, problems, formulas, etc. on your computer and then download them onto your calculator, which would be stored under your apps. folder in your calculator I believe. I forgot the name of it though.
 
dbleoh7 said:
that program looks like garbage. There's a program that you can get which will let you type out notes, problems, formulas, etc. on your computer and then download them onto your calculator, which would be stored under your apps. folder in your calculator I believe. I forgot the name of it though.
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Notefolio?
 
I never had any problems with my Ti89 in Calc 2, I used it quite a bit :D

Most programs don't need additional kernels. Some do, but most the programs I ran worked just fine without anything additional on my 89. As for this program, it really should work fine as it's just BASIC, not even ASM :P
 
The_Other_One said:
I never had any problems with my Ti89 in Calc 2, I used it quite a bit :D

Most programs don't need additional kernels. Some do, but most the programs I ran worked just fine without anything additional on my 89. As for this program, it really should work fine as it's just BASIC, not even ASM :P
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man.. you know something.. people in class call me crazy for having the 89.. spending so much money for it, but if only they knew what it's capable of................in some cases it REALLY takes a LOT of work out of things.
 
Beyond said:
man.. you know something.. people in class call me crazy for having the 89.. spending so much money for it, but if only they knew what it's capable of................in some cases it REALLY takes a LOT of work out of things.
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I bought by TI-89 in 1999... I only needed about 3 or 4% of its functionality for the math classes I took.. but all of the memory is taken up by this crazy sports program I created with TI-BASIC... The TI-84 and 89 were the reasons I got into programming... which was well worth the $200+ I spent on both of them!
 
it was the best thing ever in calc 1, but thus far in calc 2 and 3 it hasn't been all that beneficial, half the time I can't use calculators on tests anyways, and the other half of the time they're basically useless
 
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