Topic: graphing calculators versus mobile/PC software: both suck in their own ways. they need to team up.
Sheila LaBoof started this discussion 6 years ago #88,854
The screens of graphing calculators are small enough to make you wish the screen showed more shit. The mobile/PCs may have nicer screens, but the interface between human and machine is ballsack awful: no thoughtfully lain out array of physical specified function keys.
What would be ideal is that you could have a swell mechanical keypad with all the buttons you could want, nicely arranged, and have it directly access your larger, better screened device in real time. You get the nice tactile experience of the handheld calculator with the nice visual experience of your preferred screen.
What would be ideal is that you could have a swell mechanical keypad with all the buttons you could want, nicely arranged, and have it directly access your larger, better screened device in real time. You get the nice tactile experience of the handheld calculator with the nice visual experience of your preferred screen.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 25 minutes later[^] [v] #1,015,794
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-emulate-a-graphing-calculator-on-your-phone-or-p-1835456320https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/15/test-approved-app-could-kill-off-the-graphing-calculator/
Sheila LaBoof (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 8 minutes later, 33 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,015,795
Right right, that's an example of nice screen (though still small for my taste) but lacking in actual buttons. Also, the simulated buttons that are there are not as numerous as you'd see on a graphing calculator. I prefer more buttons and less menus and less 2nd function necessity of pressing a button before another button.
Syntax replied with this 6 years ago, 14 minutes later, 48 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,015,797
@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
I posted as Anon B and meant to do so as myself.
Over the many years I sure have bought many a Graphical Calc - My HP was the very best - was programmable with magnetic strip. Anyway I truly understand what and why you want what you want but market for such is just not there anymore - The new Samsung Smartphone with double the display of course solves the larger screen problem and it folds up so it still fits in a business suit pocket.
What you could do as a hobby project is to make your own - With the new Samsung and I have viewed it full open gots wise You could take that keyboard from a graphic Calc and patch it in to the Samsung - This will probably not be a matter of just splicing wires but no doubt it will be doable.
Sometimes to get exactly what you want you have to Homebrew it - I kinda miss those days when I had the time to make something exactly the way I wanted it including a silk screen to make a perfect looking professional panel -
I posted as Anon B and meant to do so as myself.
Over the many years I sure have bought many a Graphical Calc - My HP was the very best - was programmable with magnetic strip. Anyway I truly understand what and why you want what you want but market for such is just not there anymore - The new Samsung Smartphone with double the display of course solves the larger screen problem and it folds up so it still fits in a business suit pocket.
What you could do as a hobby project is to make your own - With the new Samsung and I have viewed it full open gots wise You could take that keyboard from a graphic Calc and patch it in to the Samsung - This will probably not be a matter of just splicing wires but no doubt it will be doable.
Sometimes to get exactly what you want you have to Homebrew it - I kinda miss those days when I had the time to make something exactly the way I wanted it including a silk screen to make a perfect looking professional panel -
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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 17 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,015,799
I use a full sized iPad as a graphing calculator for my engineering work. And it is great.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,015,802
> What would be ideal is that you could have a swell mechanical keypad with all the buttons you could want, nicely arranged, and have it directly access your larger, better screened device in real time.
So just a nicely weighted slab of buttons whose output you could cast to any available screen? That sounds fun.
So just a nicely weighted slab of buttons whose output you could cast to any available screen? That sounds fun.
Anonymous C replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,015,805
Anonymous D replied with this 6 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,015,806
Sheila LaBoof (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 11 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,016,016
@1,015,805 (C)
laptaps don't have calculator keys. They have a shitty flattened and diminished set of PC keyboard keys, mostly the letters of the alphabet and some symbols.
laptaps don't have calculator keys. They have a shitty flattened and diminished set of PC keyboard keys, mostly the letters of the alphabet and some symbols.
Idea Anon replied with this 6 years ago, 7 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,016,028
@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
Again all you have to do is Marry a block of Graphic Calc keys to a modern Smartphone or Pad like device.
Bottom line is that the Bottom line for Graphic Calculators has disappeared.
And with Math Lab or alternatives, present day Engineers and Scientists need to be connected to the web as they do the math.
Again all you have to do is Marry a block of Graphic Calc keys to a modern Smartphone or Pad like device.
Bottom line is that the Bottom line for Graphic Calculators has disappeared.
And with Math Lab or alternatives, present day Engineers and Scientists need to be connected to the web as they do the math.
Sheila LaBoof (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 22 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,016,053
@previous (Idea Anon)
no, you don't seem to be aware regarding graphing calcultors
regardless, I don't give a shit how fags do things, hence the topic wherein I describe how what is available sucks
I do that. I make threads about some shit sucks. Eat it.
no, you don't seem to be aware regarding graphing calcultors
regardless, I don't give a shit how fags do things, hence the topic wherein I describe how what is available sucks
I do that. I make threads about some shit sucks. Eat it.
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Idea Anon replied with this 6 years ago, 28 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,016,057
@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
Given as a fact of life I have used Slide Rule and later Graphic Calculators longer than your life presently exists -
You're free to rant about
> I describe how what is available sucks
Now you could grow a pair of balls and do something about it -
Google this - Crowdfunding sites - Pick one and Make a proposal to design what you want and get people to pay for it - You can even raise enough money to hire real Engineers and Industrial designers so you can make what you want and include nice rounded corners
Proof that this can work? Sure
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-salad
He wanted just $10 to make a bowl of Potato Salad and ended up with $55,000 +
Given as a fact of life I have used Slide Rule and later Graphic Calculators longer than your life presently exists -
You're free to rant about
> I describe how what is available sucks
Now you could grow a pair of balls and do something about it -
Google this - Crowdfunding sites - Pick one and Make a proposal to design what you want and get people to pay for it - You can even raise enough money to hire real Engineers and Industrial designers so you can make what you want and include nice rounded corners
Proof that this can work? Sure
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-salad
He wanted just $10 to make a bowl of Potato Salad and ended up with $55,000 +
Sheila LaBoof (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,016,060
that would take initiative and a can-do attitude though
I make bitch threads where I do the bitching
that is my calling
I make bitch threads where I do the bitching
that is my calling