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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

sfbloodbrother said:
Use my tablet. Why is there no Ti-84 calculator App? Seriously, I would rather pay $4.99 for an app on my tablet, rather than $120.00 for the physical calculator, hell, im sure they can charge $9.99 for that calculator app.
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$120 bucks for a calculator? :confused:

How about $13? FX-300ES..designed for college level math, including vulgar fractions. :)
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Want to use your tablet SF, there's this.. paid version does vulgar fractions.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.nickfines.RealCalc
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Graphing? Matrices? Things like that? Remember I'm going in for computer engineering. That requires a high level of math.
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And calculus as well more than likely. SF you're a first year college level student? They'll be concentrating on algebra, trig, geometry and probably basic logic for math. You'll be doing plenty of the higher level stuff later on in university, for your major. What I'm saying is you don't really need an expensive high level calculator for the time being, just a straight forward inexpensive college level scientific one will do IMO. My personal favourite is Casio.

I've already done what you're likely to be doing. :) My major was computer science. Although I teach English now, anything from kindergarten to university level.
 
mikedt said:
Almost definitely no computers in exams, which would be laptops and tablets. Programmable calculators are usually banned as well. I know it's like this in the UK and China.
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Same here. We used a plain old scientific calculator in class (around $20)
 
wyndslash said:
Same here. We used a plain old scientific calculator in class (around $20)
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Sure the best thing to do is to check with the teachers, see what they recommend and advise for calculators, and see exactly what one is allowed to use in exams. If the exams only allow the use of a basic scientific calculator, probably be worth getting used to it sooner rather than later, that's what I think. When I did my maths exams, they actually had a list of calculators that were specifically approved for use during the exams, which was certain Casios, Sharps and TIs. If your calculator wasn't on the list, you couldn't use it, period. Almost certain they will not allow the use of a tablet, especially if it's on the internet as well.


BTW this is the calculators in math policy for University of Leeds.
http://www.mathsstudents.leeds.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/Calculator_Policy_Semester_1_201213.pdf
"Standard models which will be approved are
Casio fx-83, fx-85, fx-350 series
Sharp EL-531 series"

That's plain old scientifics, nothing fancy here. Also worth noting...
"Calculators not carrying an approval sticker by the School of Mathematics will be removed by the invigilator and no replacement will be provided."

What they're after is that you can work the problems yourself without cheating. That's why there's no programmable devices allowed, e.g. the TI-84, which is very much a computer.
 
I paid over $300 for my HP48SX in 1992. Worked my first job starting the summer before after graduating high school and moving 250 miles away to the city. My first tax refund then came in 1992 and was about $350 so it was just enough to buy the latest and greatest after drooling over the engineering magazine ads and centerfolds of HP calculators for years. There was a fancy store called Service merchandise where expensive items like that were behind glass in a jewelry counter like display so you had to have the salesman in the suit get it out and let you see it then pay for one and go to a counter and pick up one. They had a conveyor belt in the back and I kept watching as other peoples boxes would come out then finally mine came and I almost shed a tear.

My college math teacher allowed anything in the classroom that you could fit through the door, he made his exams tough enough that calculators/computers/etc didn't give an advantage.

Anyway, rant for the day. When your standing at the workplace cafe waiting for the worker behind the counter to stock the shelf, watching for the item you want to slide down when some old guy walks beside you and grabs what you wanted as it just slid down the rack. Old people are always complaining about kids these days having no manners yet they are the ones who will cut in front of people in line or shove kids out of the way or blow smoke in their face when outside. Kids learn from example.

I still have my HP48SX too.
 
Getting the flu three times in three weeks, and not understanding why this incompetent drunk housekeeper hasn't been fired yet!

RedBear's Evo 3D
 
Eugene said:
There was a fancy store called Service merchandise where expensive items like that were behind glass in a jewelry counter like display so you had to have the salesman in the suit get it out and let you see it then pay for one and go to a counter and pick up one.
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I bought my Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64 at Service Merchandise! Damn, I hadn't thought about that store in eons...
 
MoodyBlues said:
I bought my Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64 at Service Merchandise! Damn, I hadn't thought about that store in eons...
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You know, I have been racking my brains for no less than three months, off and on, trying to remember the name of that store...

I bought my first watch, with my own money, at that store. I only got a dollar a week in allowance, and saving up $18 for a watch seemed to take forever.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
I feel that. I don't think I would like it on the West Coast, like, seriously. NO SNOW????
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No snow? Where'd you get that idea?! :eek:

The beauty of our weather is that you can CHOOSE which type you want! I'm down here in the beautiful San Gabriel Valley [of Los Angeles], where it's generally hot and sunny. BUT! I can look at the San Gabriel Mountains from my house and see snow on them. If I feel like freezing my butt off, I can drive up there, or drive over to Big Bear, Wrightwood, Lake Arrowhead, or many other areas. There's great skiing and snowboarding and general 'playing in the snow' fun. For those inclined to enjoy that! I had enough ice and snow to last a lifetime when I lived in Dallas. Now that I'm back home, I hope to never see another snowflake up close and personal.

Here in SoCal, we can swim, surf, ski, and hike in the desert--all in one day. :D
 
ah haha :)

Could you guys please send some cold THIS WAY? :D

It was a high 35 - 38 degrees yesterday... :(

Well at least my hair didn't catch a light!

:-D
 
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