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Postby Antony » Thu 10 Jul, 2008 11:16 pm

My latest new gadget:
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Postby Don_HH2K » Sun 13 Jul, 2008 11:30 pm

I got a headset today... Sort of.

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I got it for free in December of last year, except I couldn't use it with standard equipment since it used an RJ25 connector instead of 3.5mm heads. So today I got around to buying proper connectors at Radio Shack (to Antony: they were only $7.98), slashing the RJ25 connector off, and soldering the six wires to the 3.5mm heads. The duct tape is for stress relief, so that the individual wires won't come loose if I pull on the cable.

The vocal quality is pretty amazing, I have to say, but running music over these is out of the question. Still, everyone so far has said that these blow my laptop's integrated mic out of the water.
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Postby beanboy89 » Mon 14 Jul, 2008 8:48 pm

New gadget:

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Magnavox ZC352MW8 DVD Recorder.
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Postby Antony » Thu 17 Jul, 2008 5:56 pm

beanboy89 wrote:New gadget:

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Magnavox ZC352MW8 DVD Recorder.
Nice new gadget. Just a suggestion, remember to convert (dubbing) you VHS tapes to DVDs. Although DVD is not lossless format, but it is worth the converting for the benefit of space saving and longer lasting.
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Postby Antony » Thu 17 Jul, 2008 6:00 pm

My new gadget bought about two weeks ago.

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Postby iJohnE » Thu 17 Jul, 2008 8:34 pm

Antony wrote:My new gadget bought about two weeks ago.

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Very nice, I got the White DarthVader PSP Slim for Christmas, and I was very happy.
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Postby Antony » Mon 18 Aug, 2008 10:18 am

My latest new gadget...

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Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit.

I know the Wii is nowhere as powerful as PlayStation 3, but the games are good.

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(To Don: Antony is poor)
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Postby Antony » Fri 22 Aug, 2008 3:05 am

A few accessories for Wii:
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I guess I have more accessories for Wii than for PlayStation 3.

Still, I only have two video game consoles (PlayStation 3 and Wii). Don has three video game consoles. Antony is poor.
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Postby Mandrake » Fri 22 Aug, 2008 12:03 pm

Mandrake only has an Xbox 360 and PS2, not even connected via HDMI. I am too poor to buy an HDMI cable. :cry:
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Postby Antony » Wed 17 Sep, 2008 8:08 am

My new gadgets:
1TB STAT hard drive:
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and an enclosure (features eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 connections):
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and the setup:
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(the thinner one in front)
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Postby beanboy89 » Thu 18 Sep, 2008 8:46 pm

New gadget: Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus.

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And here it is next to my TI-89 (which I can not use in the Math Department here because it is banned).

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Postby Antony » Thu 18 Sep, 2008 10:10 pm

Nice new calculator. Why was TI-89 banned?

We were not allowed to use graphic calculators in the school and university. We simply learned to draw graph by hand in most math classes.

In Physics and Applied Math, we draw graph by MATLAB.
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Postby beanboy89 » Fri 19 Sep, 2008 7:15 pm

Antony wrote:Nice new calculator. Why was TI-89 banned?



Because of the TI-89's "Advanced Mathematics Software," most likely because of the "solve" feature which can be used to solve equations.

Enter something like: [tt]solve(4x+6=2,x)[/tt].

And the calculator will let you know [tt]x=-1[/tt].
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Postby Don_HH2K » Fri 19 Sep, 2008 8:00 pm

beanboy89 wrote:
Antony wrote:Nice new calculator. Why was TI-89 banned?



Because of the TI-89's "Advanced Mathematics Software," most likely because of the "solve" feature which can be used to solve equations.

Enter something like: [tt]solve(4x+6=2,x)[/tt].

And the calculator will let you know [tt]x=-1[/tt].


I think that even the TI-84 and even the TI-83 (same thing with less RAM and different casing) are capable of that on a lesser level, one of the main differences being that you need to set the function equal to zero first.

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I don't know if the TI-89 is capable of solving for variables other than [tt]x[/tt] or if it's capable of handling more complex equations.
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Postby Antony » Fri 19 Sep, 2008 9:07 pm

When I did my university entrance exams (bursaries), they allow scientific calculators without graphic functions.

During my university years, some courses allows calculators in the exams, and some even supplied calculators (a basic scientific one). No calculators allowed in Calculus, I remember well.

In Australia and New Zealand, Casio is the most popular scientific calculators in schools. When you see students using powerful Texas Instruments graphic calculators, you can be sure that they are exchange students from States. (I discovered that when I was tutoring in the lab.)
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