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This is a fair point. CyanogenMod's strength is that it offers an upgrade path to a great many devices that have been abandoned by their manufacturers.The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, for instance hasn't seen an upgrade from my carrier in well over a year. CM also offers a clear way to de-googlify your phone, for those worried about Google's monitoring their activity. If you want the benefits of (say) Google maps and navigation, you have to consciously download and install the gapps.
Yeah, but he's used to RPN so he's pretty much stuck with HP models.
IIRC there were some Russian-made devices that used an RPN interface, though I've never come across one.
But if I were doing it all over again (without slide-rules) I think I would have opted for an HP-15C. That was, and still is, a stupendously elegant piece of hardware.
The converse is that you'll still end up with the popular tools if you ask people what their preferred tools are and why...
OK, so I'll offer something different.
During my first year at uni, I used to own an HP-48G+ which I loved for its nice keypad and the RPN interface, but the actual device was hopelessly unreliable and had an unwelcome tendency to let me down by throwing hissy-fits during assessments. I eventually got around that particular limitation by replacing it with a TI-89, which (although lacking keypad quality and RPN) was, and still is, a vastly superior device on many levels.
But since this doesn't answer the OP's question, here's my take on it in the light of years of experience since my university studies...
The best calculator for examinations is: NONE AT ALL.
You will get much more kudos for arriving at any kind of solution (however incomplete) if you can show how you started from first principles. Also, you might actually remember how to use these skills years later if you do this.
I would like to be able to say this is what I did, but it would be a lie. I was not a brilliant maths student, since I relied too much on gadgets to help me through assessments. However, I have since revisited the subject and learned how to do it with more insight, and now find a certain pride in being able to "do" maths with no more hardware than a sheet of paper, a pencil and my brain.
Oh, and FWIW, although I still have my TI-89, most of the routine mechanical calculations I perform these days are done on the RealCalc Plus app on my phone.
I'm gonna call BS on this. You mentioned a 'heavily edited' Slashdot submission.
Look for yourself.
And no, I don't have a girlfriend. I've been married for nearly 30 years...
..not a non-profit. Using the tech in this way is hardly immoral.
Agreed. I'm not sure why Google should be obliged to provide free WiFi to all and sundry, but I'm sure there must be some logic that will appeal to the zealot freeloader.
OTOH, Google appears to be proposing offering a service in underserved (maybe they mean undeserved?) areas, and I recall a (heavily edited) Slashdot submission I made some time ago to that effect. At that point, the notion of implementing the idea in Tasmania was mooted, which would be welcomed by yours truly, since this state is wilfully neglected by telcos who consider it their right to charge full price for a service they are prepared to offer only patchily.
If Google is prepared to offer access to the internet even on a non-free but competitively priced model, such an option might well be preferable to the single, crappy option available to me right now. If nothing else, it might provide an incentive to the local carriers to pull up their game.
We all become worse drivers than we could be.
Just playing devil's advocate for a moment: if 25% of traffic accidents are caused by drunk drivers, then it follows that 75% of accidents are caused by sober drivers. Therefore, you're safer driving drunk than sober.
If there's some dumb retarded chick applying mascara while talking on her phone while driving--BAM!!! Bullet to the forehead!
Where I used to live (Perth, Western Australia), that would eliminate an awful lot of dumb "ladies", but such a scene is common enough to barely raise a digitus impudicus.
The best I have yet seen (for sheer chutzpah, if nothing else) was a guy in the driver's seat of an open-top sports car with one foot on the steering wheel, cruising while playing a fricking trumpet...
The fear has been around for just about always.
I have heard it mentioned (most prominently during the Cold War, which while fresh in my memory might predate some readers' lifetimes) that America collectively has to always be fighting the "last war". Sometimes the notion that you're the "good guys" can distort your perspective.
...and now the Obama Administration is either unable or unwilling to change it.
Given how fundamentally dishonest Obama has turned out to be, I would count on the latter.
[Opinion of a non-American observer, FWIW. Give a politician a bit of power and money, and it won't take him long to show you how much of an asswipe he is.]
IOW they're either disabled, dumb or idealistic.
Or some of us just love our jobs, despite the fact that the pay sucks.
Too complicated to learn, english language is.
It's not that hard, Master Yoda. Just remember to capitalise "English". As for the rest, most of your readers are 1ll1ter8 ba5tard5 anyway...
I'll keep my fangs, and damn the government. And, damn the mindless sheep as well.
Perhaps the sheep will damn themselves, given time...
Hackers of the world, unite!