Pretty well, aside from this totally off-topic thread about an incident which has already been resolved on Omnimaga.

Anyway, I'd just like to point out that someone with a "clear bias against TI" wouldn't exactly be the type of person who would be expected to have 20+ calculators manufactured by them, n'est-ce pas? If he were biased towards Casio, Cemetech would probably have had a Casio discussion board added sometime in the decade before it was actually added.

Thanks Qwerty; that's exactly right. I've been a strong defender and proponent for TI for over a decade; it's taken a lot to turn me againts them.

A wild Troll! get the net!!!

Anyways, yeah my approach wasn't really a good one, but I'll use the excuse that they were just getting on my nerve for the last time and I exploded My bad.

I love how I posted this and forgot about it -- I just read through them all. Times I be called stupid >50

An epic necropost has fired across your bow! Ashbad, you were mentioning something about TI disowning TI-Nspire OS v3.0; can you tell us more about that? Or even better, would you mind post a topic about it for our discussion? If you could also mention some of the key points and flaws of 3.0, that would be equally appreciated, because no one has really done so yet.

An idea occurs. Could TI release a separate OS for programmers that unlocks all it's features? It could have a very obvious splash screen differentiating it from the education OS, and only the education OS would need to be accepted by teachers and schools if they want that strict control over their calcs and the calcs used by students.

DShiznit, I think that that's a very very reasonable idea, and it has indeed been suggested several times before if I recall correctly. Unfortunately, I think that it's highly unlikely that TI would ever do something like that, for various reasons including the man-hours it would take to make such a version (and recent releases show that their coding quality is going swiftly downhill anyway), the increased development time due to branching and source fragmentation, and most importantly, the fact that they have more or less disowned third-party developers.

Why not outsource production of this separate OS to some of the programmers who would use it? Just make them sign a few non-disclosure agreements and your source code is safe.