ITT: /g/ memes you fell for
>"why arent you using an archaic programmable graphing calculator /g/?"
>"it only requires memorizing 1764 pages of reference manuals split into 3 textbooks"
>programming it involves learning 3 domain specific and completely obsolete programming languages in order to get maximum flexibility
>"and don't try to use it in algebraic mode! you have to learn RPN!! RPN IS LIFE!!!! R P NNNNNN!!!!!"
Just watch, the HP autist is gonna come out of the woodwork and call me a retard despite ignoring all my points.
true
import numpy
import scipy
import gmpy2
import mpmath
import matplotlib
all I ever needed
I felt for it and I love it
>>54173832
What's the fucking point of these things when you can just buy a cheapshit tablet
>>54173850
Why buying a cheapshit tablet when you can buy a cheapshit laptop?
That calculator has more battery than any tablet (I'm getting 3 to 4 weeks of usage from one charge) and the UI is designed exclusively for mathematics purposes with nice buttons instead of on screen keyboard, that's why.
>>54173883
>muh hardware buttons
autism
>>54173730
Call me autist, but I simply can't trust any math I haven't written out longhand and solved myself.
SSD
>Overall responsiveness is smoother
>Contrary to popular belief it does improve games, loading times and loading maps (such as EU4, CK2) improve FPS
>HDD with UEFI would take 12 seconds to turn, 3 with SSD
>Loading programs are instantaneous
>Eveything feels so fast, now I can multitask more effectively since I don't have to wait a minute+ to load the browser while a intensive app is open
Feels great m8
literally all of them
>>54173897
Are you fucking retarded?
>>54173730
Is RPN really a joke? It sounds kinda like Dvorak, where it's probably better once you learn it but learning it sounds like more effort than it's worth.
I fell for the thinkpad meme
it hurts so much
spent like 1000€ for t440s
people at uni all have either asus, macbook or surface pro that are 30x lighter, thiner, just work and are not as loud as an airplane
>>54173730
I understand that the 50G has its problems, but nigga, reading a manual isn't going to fucking kill you. RPN is fantastic, and algebraic mode on any calculator is clunky as fuck. There's plenty of third party programs for everything that you don't want to program yourself.
Complaining about the 50G and calling anybody who likes it autistic is like saying that GarageBand is good enough and everybody who uses ProTools needs to fuck off.
>>54174089
The thinkpad meme is buying 6 year old thinkpads, you stupid fuck.
I have 5 of them and I spent less than $600 for all of them put together.
>>54174087
If RPN clicks for you, it will be significantly easier and will have a minimal learning curve almost immediately. It's not for everybody but it's very possible the RPN workflow would make a lot more sense to you.
>>54173981
Also the KOSS Porta Pro
>>54174139
I'll have to download a calculator program for my computer and try it out then, thanks. I just don't want to buy another calculator I'll barely use because of a /g/ meme.
>>54174089
>chinkpads
ibm or die
>>54174153
And of course the Microsoft Intellimeme
Are there any programmable calculators that use Lisp? Scheme, Racket, a minimal CL, whatever. I'd love a programmable calculator if all I needed was a cheatsheet function list. Seems like everything uses Basic, though. Which...meh. Calculators these days are powerful enough to host a Lisp compiler, are they not?
linux
>>54174212
That actually sounds cool as fug.
>>54174212
i'm pretty sure RPL is a lisp-like
>>54174139
>>54174179 here
Just tried out an RPN calc on my phone, it does seem a lot faster. Guess I'm gonna fall for the 50g meme before they all go outta stock.
>>54174183
is that a meme too? looool
i've been using mine since 2006
>>54174212
you can definitely write a lisp interpreter in Basic if you have three days off
>>54174529
Welcome to the world of memes
>>54173730
the "if i stay faithful she won't cuck me" meme
50g crew checking in. It's great
>>54173942
You are an autist. Computers are better at arithmetic than you will ever be, and don't make mistakes. Could you imagine high level applied mathematics doing every single calculation by hand?
50g is a good example of a device designed by engineers and not by marketing.
It's very capable, but the initial "quick start" guide spends a lot of time reassuring you that "just don't get it yet" and that you should read the 1000 pages of downloadable documentation if you have any problems.
>>54174657
*you just dont get it yet
>>54173730
Master race checking in
>>54173730
>RPN
>learn
Are you retarded OP?
>>54174089
That's a really bad deal, ThinkPad or not. You should have shopped around better, man. You definitely could have gotten the same ThinkPad for like 700.
>>54173730
I literally just got my 50/g/ meme a few days ago.
>Why would I buy a calculator that I don't use?
Nobody asked you to buy one. Fuck off.
But not you, OP. Buy a newer calculator. Don't pay for outdated shit made for the SATs.
>>54173730
>mfw I waster 200 buck on an Nspire
>I never used it since I bought it
>>54174632
>and don't make mistakes
>>54175112
*wasted 200 bucks
typing in the bed is fucking hard
>>54173981
>>54174153
Did you just get that Clip+ yesterday?
>>54173883
>uh teacher my tablet has a calculator app on it!!!
>cmon prof let me use my laptop for the test, Google search has a calculator built in!
>>54175198
Fug meant for >>54173850
>>54175161
No, actually I got it a few years ago and the battery died already.
>>54173730
i'm pretty sure I fell for all the /g/ memes at this point
I must look like a cyberpunk tryhard out in public, with my thinkpad and portapros.
I even have 2 copies of K&R.
>>54175237
Ah okay. Thought you might've been someone else who recently said they were getting one soon.
>>54175112
I flashed some custom firmware on mine and put a gameboy color emulator on it. Shit was cash in highschool math classes until jaqual stole it
>>54175273
>i bought a $200 overpowered homework machine to play games on it
should have gotten a psp m8
>>54176849
It was $100 and a graphing calculator is required for the math tests.
I prefer the nspire series over the older ones
My HP 12C came in the mail yesterday, soon I'm buying either a HP WP-34S or a 50G
>>54173730
HAHAHAHA
he bought a programmable calculator and he didn't mean to learn how to use it. Here, have a piece of software for the hp50g«
"DERIVADA PARCIAL MULTIVARIABLE"
{
{ "F:" "'F'" }
{ "AVARS:" "{ 'z'...'w'}" }
{ "POINTS:" "{{a,b..},{a1,b1..}}" }
}
{ 2 0 }
{ }
{ }
INFORM
IF
THEN
OBJ DROP
F AVAR POINTL
«
AVAR SIZE IDN 'HESSM' STO
{1,1} 'INDEX' STO
1 AVAR SIZE
FOR i
1 AVAR SIZE
FOR j
F AVAR i GET DERIV AVAR j GET DERIV
'VAL' STO
HESSM INDEX VAL PUTI
'INDEX' STO 'HESSM' STO
HESSM 'HESSEV' STO
NEXT
NEXT
@EVALUATING POINTS
@AGREGAR VALIDACION SI SON MAS DE 3 VARIABLES
{1,1} 'INDEX' STO
1 POINTL SIZE
FOR i
POINTL i GET 'POINT' STO
1 POINT SIZE
FOR j
POINT j GET 'VALUE' STO
HESSEV AVAR j GET VALUE = SUBST
'HESSEV' STO
NEXT
HESSEV HESSEV DET
HESSM 'HESSEV' STO
NEXT
»
END
'VAL' PURGE
'POINT' PURGE
'INDEX' PURGE
'VALUE' PURGE
»
>>54173730
I have three 50g's. I still prefer the 48GX, which got me through grad school, but the 50g is still best calculator available right now. (The prime sux.)
I'm not going to argue the virtues of RPN with you OP. If you really learned RPN and don't like it and cannot see its obvious inherent superiority I won't hate you OP. I pity you too much to hate you.
>>54173832
>>54173730
if they had batteries I'd be whipping out my $5 TI-89 Titanium, $7 TI-83 and $3 TI-85. I had a Casio FX-somethingorother I got for $2 I gave my mother's boyfriend for the financial shit because he does taxes for people, and printed out the appropriate page PDFs for those functions.
I do have this wonderful beauty though. I love it.
>these were all thrift store pick-ups
>>54177525
oh and I have this baby straight out of 1976. turns 40 in July.
>I also fell for the Model M meme, I still own 12 of them (all were free) and need to clean them to sell off still
>>54173730
you autistic NEETs buying these calculators meant for actual engineers/mathematicians etc is like the shitty basketball player in high school who would buy the fancy shoes etc even though he sucked and didnt need them.
>>54177255
there he is
>>54173832
>TI
>>54177099
>12C
>not 15C or...16C
>>54173730
The Thinkpad™ meme, except i bought a brand new one instead of an archaic dictionary tier size DIY ebay special piece of shit. You know what, I'm actually really happy with it and with the corporate discount, i think i did well. Thanks /g/.
>>54177685
>HP 12C
Just because your to dim to use functions other than + or - doesn't mean other people are
>>54177805
>archaic dictionary tier size DIY ebay special piece of shit
DELET THS
>>54173730
I once had one of these, it was slower to use than my $10 casio on account of the stiff buttons that somehow had less tactility despite being much harder to press
i returned it
>>54174089
Do you run Linux? My X220 is loud as hell under Windows 7 but almost totally silent under Xubuntu.
>>54173730
It's such a load of crap. Did you even see this fucking button layout? Holy shit! It's almost like they forgot it's a calculator and wanted to make a pocket computer instead.
>>54178138
it's literally a pocket computer, and it used to be marketed as such until HP fell for the education meme in 2003.
>>54174089
>buys new thinkpad instead of the good old ones
>regrets it because he spent a grand on one
you have only your self to blame
>>54178045
Probably since the fans dont have the ability to run using loonix.
Enjoy your quiet laptop with a melted cpu
did anyone replace the case on their 50g?
the stock case sucks ass
>>54178193
too bad the layout is inappropriate for both use cases. it's a calculator layout positioned as a pocket computer keyboard, basically. Unusable for computing, unusable for calculating.
bought an hp 39g for school a long ass time ago for $15.
Read the manual and it seemed easier to use than the TI calculators. Had no problem using it in class.
An idiot friend of mine bought a 50g brand fuckin' new. Said he would use it in college. When he went to college he dropped CE and became a philosophy major.
Get the tool you need for the job at-hand.
>>54177099
Fuck man I own a 15c but I paid dearly for it. (One of my more expensive /g/ memes) so I could see why you'd buy the 12c first because it's cheap and more accessible.
>in uni
>would manage fine with a cheapass casio
>>54173730
You retard.
If you installed HLP49 like I told you to you would have full documentation for all functions onboard the calc.
Pleb.
>TFW RPN is not a meme
Feels good anons.
OP is a retard.
>Just watch, the HP autist is gonna come out of the woodwork and call me a retard despite ignoring all my points.
Fuck that man, it did symbolic integration and was cheap as all get out.
Was beyond useful for everything I needed
is there any reason you people don't just use Matlab / Maple / Mathematica on your craptops
>>54177099
Get both. Each will be gone soon anon.
>>54174212
I am getting my PocketCHIP soon and I will do this.
>>54180042
is the button feel between the hp50 and hp48 series different, or are they all stiff and clicky?
>>54180114
No. Most people on /g/ work outdoors in rugged environments which necessitates the need for portable music players with long battery life, a pocket calculator, a thinkpad and a knife.
>>54178218
>>54174756
I don't even care about the money
or that its not super light or thin
its just that I can't even really use it
it's way too loud at uni (fans and touchpad click) and the touchpad is making me want to kill myself
there is this annoying Fn button where crtl should be
and there isn't even a LED or something like that that tells me if caps lock is on or off
fn keys are buggy
the screen randomly changes the brightness even tho I've disabled it
drivers and shit like that are buggy as fuck
//first world problems
keyboard is fine tho
and screen too
>>54173730
I used a TI-89 back when I needed a graphing calculator. The fucking thing broke high school math. Never opened the user manual.
>>54174744
What is this strange and mysterious beast
>>54181653
If I had to guess, I would say it's an HP 41 CX 17.
>>54181657
Names don't stand for anything but the way the fat hung off your neck as a babe.
I'm asking, what IS it.
>>54181310
>>way too loud at uni
if it's still under warranty get it checked, fans shouldnt be that noticeable
>> touchpad is making me want to kill myself
your own fault, you dont buy thinkpads for the trackpad, use trackpoint instead and disable trackpad
>>Fn button where crtl should be
same layout as in apple keyboards, you can swap fn and ctrl in BIOS settings tho
>> screen randomly changes the brightness
shouldn't happen, check warranty/drivers/config
I'm glad I fell for this meme in highschool.
>Can store notes as the basic it comes with in "programs" and cheat
>Teachers for other classes that are math related (like chemistry, earth science, and physics) let you use any calculator you want because they don't even know what they can do and you can cheat on those tests too
>can use its graphing to cheat on equations by using intersection
>Can program basic shit in the middle of a test to cheat especially with sums of series
>impress some people one day for knowing how to program a while loop and making it count to 100 then saying some girl's name
>Gaymes
motha fuckin fasttunnel. pheonix III
>LINK CABLE
>trading shit all the time
>other kids are programmers too and we come up with the best programs to cheat on tests and trade them and sell them for like $1 to a few people and include a lesson on how to use it
>Literally get offered $5-10 from random people to borrow the calculator for a day when I don't have a math/whatever test but they do
>Graduate and it held 80% of its base value and sell it
I think I made money off this deal. Imma go quit my job and start selling cheating packages via link cable to kids on the playground
>>54181741
you could even rice them up with sick mawdz
>>54181672
It's a calculator.
as much as i like the design of the HP calculators, I'm not spending $100+ dollars on used garbage for the sake of hipsterism
>>54173730
I love my 50g
>>54177781
>15C
$120+
>16C
$250+
>12C
$20
why is the sansa clip a meme? is it a maymay or actully a good product shit on by iFags?
>>54173981
is that Moto G ?
>>54183020
It was a cheap, Rockboxable player with expandable storage and good sound quality. It was a great PMP for its price, but now that they're discontinued and people are asking retardedly high prices for then there are much better players available for the price
>>54180823
Sounds about right
I don't get why people tend to leave /g/ decide their purchases, honestly you people can't be trusted. You're better off teaching people what things to avoid and look out for. What has been happening instead for a while now is making fun of products with "memes", instead of pointing out the real flaws.
Don't let people who are at the mental age of 15 command you; you're smart enough to make decisions on your own, /g/.
>>54173981
>Adblock
Not all of them.
>>54183165
Because they're consumer sheep and will baah anything.
Better get the latest meme phone bro
>>54181741
>>LINK CABLE
>>trading shit all the time
Totally forgot about this but yea if you carried your link cable on the day before a test you were the boss.
>>54173832
Nigger please.
>>54178492
Then explain how I've been using it efficiently as a calculator for over a year now?
>>54183462
You haven't, but you're deluding yourself to think otherwise because you have to validate your purchase.
>>54173730
>something gains popularity on /g/
>people who like it are vocal about it for a while
>idiots like OP get mad either at the fact that something is popular that they didn't know about or that they are too stupid to use it (despite the low difficulty of usage), and then make terrible threads like this with false information to try and quell the popularity
Every time.
HP calculators will be the new Arch on /g/.
>>54183692
Nope, I definitely have. Couldn't imagine going to back to my old TI-84 from my HP due to significantly faster calculation times resulting from less required keystrokes and an overall more sensible notation.
You can't disregard facts as delusion.
Are you having a difficult time coping with the fact that there might be something better than what you were told in highschool was the best?
>>54184393
I lol'd
>>54184409
OK.
>>54180114
Ain't nobody got time 4 dat
>>54181327
I felt bad for the gentiles that couldn't into TI-basic
>>54173981
Why do people like that watch so much?
is it just because of that bomb image?
Fuck off faggots
Just because you're not studying mathematics as a major doesn't you can critizes people from getting graphical calculators
In fact in our college and yo-kirjoitus <-- Finnish
It is highly recommended to get on
such as: ClassPad fx-CP400,TI-Nspire CX CAS or other symbolic calcs
>>54174153
how does the portapro sound? is it really a meme?
>>54177685
Projection at it's finest.
>>54184727
>>54184593
It's the great value meme. Koss Porta sound great for their price and the f91w is pretty much disposable but tells the time while not looking too much like a toy.
>>54173897
Kill yourself.
>>54173730
>>54173832
>>54183279
I fell for it too
They don't graph, but I love them.
>>54173832
I got myself one of those and haven't used it in around 2 1/2 years. It's pretty nice for physics homework but most of the stuff I had to do after the first three or so semesters was signal processing and RF electronics which is simpler to do in octave or by hand, on paper.
>>54173981
just end it m8
>>54180592
It is different, most prefer the 48's buttons.
I would have liked a large ENTER key but that (to me) is the only flaw of the 50g.
>>54181672
Pocket computer from HP back when HP was amazing.
>>54180592
The 48's buttons are not nearly as clicky as the 50's buttons. This is not a bad thing though, IMO, I definitely like the 48 buttons better because they are raised more and require less force to press, while still being tactile. I don't really want to say they are more squishy than than the 50 buttons because that sounds like a bad thing, but that's the only way I can think to describe it.
>>54173730
>thinkpad
>rockbox
Who even uses calculators after high school anymore for anything other than exams? Why is the choice of calculators such a big deal for some?
>>54185555
t. liberal arts major
Why would anyone buy a hp calculator now when you can get an emulator for 12c, hp48 series, etc on your phone and it doesn't even require downloading roms like TI emulators do?
>>54186703
My phone has a tiny screen and I prefer real things anyway
>>54186670
CS, actually.
>arch
>mechanical keyboard
I used these before i went to /g/ for the first time.
>>54184945
That Casio bottom right tho. I have two around here somewhere, would be Lord and Savior tier if it had mod or bitwise xor
>>54178460
I was sort of surprised when my 50g came and saw a non-slide case. Kind of gay since it's like twice the size of my ti-89 in my backpack.
What's the cheapest, decent scientific calculator that supports RPN? Can't use my 50g in an upcoming class.
>>54187444
The best used HP you can get
RPN isn't cheap senpai
>>54173730
Indeed. Graphing calculators were obsolete already in the early 90s when matlab and maple were readily available commercially. And if you needed a graphing calculator for your exams your school is probably third rate.
Otherwise /g/ memes I fell for was arch but this was back in 2006 or 2007. While they have a nice manuals it was just a chore to use and it was very unstable.
>>54187444
The 35s comes to mind. It's a remake of the original 35. People are generally happy with it I think but it has some bugs last I've heard.
If you don't mind spending a little more, look at Swiss Micros HP clones, I have heard good things about those.
If you don't mind spending a fuck ton, look on eBay for old HPs.
>>54180823
The truth is that the only kind of mathematics they do is simple addition and multiplication. The only time they whip it out is when they are going to split the bill.
People that actually do math use the programs in >>54180114. Or like me write highly parallel algorithms in Fortran with MPI or OpenMP and then run it on a supercomputer.
>>54187483
there's an RPN app on the android store that's free
>>54187800
You can also get emulators to emulate most HP's, but that's an emulator, not a calculator
Definitively best to try out RPN in one of those things before splurging for an HP or similar RPN calculator
>>54187823
OS X's got an RPN mode for the calculator app as well
>>54184561
But that is usually a lot faster than starting a calculator.
>>54188397
This is bait, right?
>>54173850
You can't use your tablet on the test.
>>54188544
If you are allowed to use a graphing calculator on a test you are still in high school and your high school sucks.
I fell for the Moto g meme and got the 4G a while ago
Piece of shit hardware with shit battery life and shit camera and shit update promises from Motorola that never came
At the very least I didn't buy the regular MotoG without SD or 4G
For nearly the same price I could have got (and later did) such a better phone
>>54174089
You did it completely wrong fuckface. The idea behind thinkpads is that you can get them cheap (200-300 USD) and they work much better than a brand new 200 dollar laptop. If you were going to spend around 1000€ you should have gotten an actually good laptop, such as Asus.
>>54189941
Fell for the Moto G2 myself
Moto G as well but it was ok. G2 was just a failure.
>>54173981
We should start a support group. Not depicted but I fell for the "dual boot gnu/linux and never use it" meme.
>>54190713
>I fell for the "dual boot gnu/linux and never use it" meme.
I fell for the "use linux as a VM host and run windows with pci passthrough for gaymen". I never use the linux part because honestly windows and its applications just works and looks better. So I kind of got a windows computer with reduced speed because I have dedicated 2 cores out of 6 to the host.
Whatever you can't do with a TI-36 you should do in Matlab, Python or Excel
t. A practicing engineer
>>54189393
you can use them in college senpai
>>54191609
We were only allowed to use FE approved calculators in college and half of the time we weren't allowed to use calculators.
>>54191609
im not that guy but I agree with him, if you can use that calc on exams you school sucks
>>54190779
I'm sorry for your effort.
I never really owned a calculator. Starting college this fall. Would the HP 50g be a good choice?
I have a Casio FX-something. Basically only use it for college tbqfhwymf
>>54191609
If your exams didn't state that calculators of any kind and slide rulers were forbidden then you went to a third rate college. And if you didn't use matlab and/or maple for assignments that required scripting then texas instruments had bribed your third rate college
>>54189952
memes are so confusing
>>54173730
Wouldn't RPN's stack feature cause more sigfig problems than putting everything into a large, single equation?
>>54191875
It's only $45 on Amazon. You literally can't get a better graphing calculator for that price.
>>54174132
>I have 5 of them
which ones? post them
>>54180114
>doesn't know R
ok bud.
>>54186793
like he said, liberal arts major.
>>54196733
haha epic bro! upboat 4 u
>>54173981
actually jealous
>>54187761
>Split the bill
>Implying we have friends to do that with.
Kek.
But no seriously, dem games yo.
I loved the games you could play on some of those old TI models. ^_^ So much fun.
>tfw your hp calc prints out smartass answers
>enter: cos(0.19)
>ans: cos(0.19)
>>54173832
we were required to buy one of these for school. they were the only calculator you could use in exams. pretty fucking useful and it's astounding how many things iy can do.
>>54173850
battery, testing, plus the math suite is actually really nice and easy to use
>>54187248
The fx-991/115s do have xor, but not mod.
when using RPN, are you supposed to use the space key for every number and then press the operator key, or do you push it up on the stack?
>>54199524
As you want.
