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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    10/19/09

    In reply to New Bluetooth Runs for a Year Off a Watch Battery
    What is it with Bluetooth and battery drain? The Apple BT keyboard uses 3 AAs and those last maybe a couple of months at best. My Logitech RF keyboard goes over a year on to AAs. #newbluetooth
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    Image of Uncletwitch001 Uncletwitch001
    10/19/09

    In reply to New Bluetooth Runs for a Year Off a Watch Battery
    Too bad they can't figure out a way for battery current to charge the battery at the sametime... Sort of a perpetual battery
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    Lizard_King promoted this comment Uncletwitch001 was starred Uncletwitch001 was unstarred
    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    10/19/09

    @Uncletwitch001: Google "conservation of energy" and "perpetual motion machine". Thanks. #newbluetooth
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    Image of chocolatebanana chocolatebanana
    10/19/09

    In reply to New Bluetooth Runs for a Year Off a Watch Battery
    I'm not sure I'd want something that I "don't need to recharge", because that means I'd have to go buy replacement batteries. That doesn't seem like an improvement to me.

    What would be much better is to use this technology in existing devices with existing batteries. #newbluetooth
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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    10/19/09

    @chocolatebanana: The implication here is that the more efficient BT devices COULD be run off a watch battery, not WILL. The new devices are not going to need an endless supply of watch batteries.

    Example: turning off BT on a laptop would be irrelevant, as the new device only needs a fraction of the power of the current BT, all powered by the laptop's battery. #newbluetooth
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    10/19/09

    In reply to New Bluetooth Runs for a Year Off a Watch Battery
    So now we will have to block out the sun for longer to stop the terminators from communicating with each other. Great. #newbluetooth
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    Image of Brdf Brdf
    10/15/09

    In reply to Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
    I don't think it's that TI is philosophically opposed to hacking, as that, should it become common knowledge that their calculators can run homebrew, they'll be banned from classes and standardized exams like the iPhone is, and suddenly, whoops, there goes 75% of TI's calculator business.
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    dingus promoted this comment Brdf was starred Brdf was unstarred
    Image of dingus dingus
    10/15/09

    @Brdf: I'm pretty sure the iPhone is banned because it has access to the internets.
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    Image of BLToday BLToday
    10/15/09

    In reply to Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
    HP and RPN forever!!!
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    Don Nguyen promoted this comment BLToday was starred BLToday was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    09/23/09

    In reply to TI Turns $30 Calculator Into $15 iPhone App, Swears People Still Pay for Real Deal
    Um. No. I love my 3GS, but any field which requires a nice TI calculator (83's....89's....) will also require the ability to look at your paper full of numbers and type digits into your calculator without looking at it. GG TI.
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    Image of Odin Odin
    09/23/09

    In reply to TI Turns $30 Calculator Into $15 iPhone App, Swears People Still Pay for Real Deal
    Plus yknow as much as Giz may like to think so not everyone under the sun has an iWhatever.
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    Image of Twanzio Twanzio
    09/23/09

    In reply to TI Turns $30 Calculator Into $15 iPhone App, Swears People Still Pay for Real Deal
    But can it play Drug Wars?
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    Image of djchaser djchaser
    09/23/09

    In reply to TI Turns $30 Calculator Into $15 iPhone App, Swears People Still Pay for Real Deal
    You're kidding right? Back in 9th grade, like 15 years ago, I used my TI-82 to cheat on math tests...as did everyone else in the class! How the teacher didn't realize that you could store all the formulas you were supposed to memorize as programs, I will never understand. And we even had time left over to play some Drug Wars before handing in our papers!
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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    09/23/09

    @djchaser:

    Then I guess they've upgraded from the dumbass teachers of your day to the dumbass, cheating-conscious teachers of today.
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    Image of TeriPolydorus TeriPolydorus
    09/23/09

    In reply to TI Turns $30 Calculator Into $15 iPhone App, Swears People Still Pay for Real Deal
    Give me a TI83 app and I'm sold
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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    09/22/09

    In reply to TI Turns $30 Calculator Into $15 iPhone App, Swears People Still Pay for Real Deal
    "TI suggests that people still buy actual calculators because test givers prohibit students from whipping out their iPhones. So there's at least one strike against well-executed convergence."

    Oh, gee, you think? It just so happens that test givers also don't even allow TI-83 and up calculators. So no shit that they wouldn't allow iphones.
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    Edited by NeoAkira at 09/22/09 11:20 PM NeoAkira was starred NeoAkira was unstarred
    Image of spenc938 spenc938
    09/22/09

    @NeoAkira: Who are you referring to when you say "test givers"? The ACT and SAT both allow 83s, 84s, and 86s.
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    NeoAkira promoted this comment spenc938 was starred spenc938 was unstarred
    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    09/23/09

    @spenc938:

    Many high school teachers and almost all Math/physics/chemistry professors in college. So yeah, just most of the test givers we'd end up dealing with.
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    Image of Joe Rider Joe Rider
    09/22/09

    In reply to TI Turns $30 Calculator Into $15 iPhone App, Swears People Still Pay for Real Deal
    they will, because A) 9th graders for the most part don't have an iphone and B) there is no way in hell any teacher, any grade will let a student use their iphone on a test.. graphing calculators are pushing it as is
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    Image of appletoad appletoad
    09/22/09

    @Joe Rider: Times are changing.
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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    09/23/09

    @appletoad:

    No, they're not.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    04/20/09

    In reply to Old School Computer Band Rocks Bohemian Rhapsody (Poorly)
    Pfft. They should have used a Commodore 64. Those things knew how to rock.
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    04/20/09

    In reply to Old School Computer Band Rocks Bohemian Rhapsody (Poorly)
    I thought the oscilloscope shredded pretty hard, but the flatbed really failed to impress. Vocal and time signature lessons could be of use.


    3 stars.

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