First, Batman
Batman was surprisingly good; the movie had a good (and reasonably complicated) plot, good acting (Heath Ledger did an excellent job as the joker), and even some good themes. Obviously, there was plenty of Batman beating people up, but it wasn't too much to make the violence seem pointless and endless.
Overall, if you haven't already seen Batman The Dark Knight, I would recommend watching it.
Now, for the TI-Nspire
Yesterday, I got my free TI-Nspire in the mail (after it sat on my porch through a severe thunderstorm). Overall, I was incredibly disappointed.
* The programming capabilities suck. Even with the very latest operating system, you have a whooping 1 total I/O command (Disp), forcing you to get all input through parameters at the beginning of the program. Also, the commands that are supported are so limited that it is virtually impossible to do anything (for example, I thought I could build a simple program using strings, but there is no substring command). However, the program editor is nice (italicizes variables which are changed to standard font if they are a keyword).
* Everything is based on "Documents." If you want to find out what e^pi-pi actually is, then you have to go through several menus to create a new calculator document to find out. I personally dislike the document style interface, but I'm sure some schools do like it.
* Despite terrible software, the hardware is really nice. What could go wrong with a 240 * 320 16 level grayscale screen? And, there's plenty of memory (both RAM and archive) to use. Also, instead of having to press ALPHA plus a key to get letters, all of the letters have their own keys, which makes typing text much easier (except that there is little reason to type text...)
* The 84+SE Keypad is really nice, as it is an 84+SE with only a couple differences. First, it has OS 2.46 (a special TI-Nspire OS). Second, there is no way to just reset the RAM if something is stuck in an endless loop as far as I have been able to tell; you have to delete everything, which is quite annoying. Also, I'm not sure how the mini USB port works with it, but I haven't managed to get it to work yet. Finally, each pixel is a 3 * 3 block of pixels on the TI-Nspire screen, so everything is larger than on an actual TI-84+SE.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend buying a TI-Nspire, unless you want the TI-84+SE keyboard part (which probably wastes a lot of battery power).
Batman was surprisingly good; the movie had a good (and reasonably complicated) plot, good acting (Heath Ledger did an excellent job as the joker), and even some good themes. Obviously, there was plenty of Batman beating people up, but it wasn't too much to make the violence seem pointless and endless.
Overall, if you haven't already seen Batman The Dark Knight, I would recommend watching it.
Now, for the TI-Nspire
Yesterday, I got my free TI-Nspire in the mail (after it sat on my porch through a severe thunderstorm). Overall, I was incredibly disappointed.
* The programming capabilities suck. Even with the very latest operating system, you have a whooping 1 total I/O command (Disp), forcing you to get all input through parameters at the beginning of the program. Also, the commands that are supported are so limited that it is virtually impossible to do anything (for example, I thought I could build a simple program using strings, but there is no substring command). However, the program editor is nice (italicizes variables which are changed to standard font if they are a keyword).
* Everything is based on "Documents." If you want to find out what e^pi-pi actually is, then you have to go through several menus to create a new calculator document to find out. I personally dislike the document style interface, but I'm sure some schools do like it.
* Despite terrible software, the hardware is really nice. What could go wrong with a 240 * 320 16 level grayscale screen? And, there's plenty of memory (both RAM and archive) to use. Also, instead of having to press ALPHA plus a key to get letters, all of the letters have their own keys, which makes typing text much easier (except that there is little reason to type text...)
* The 84+SE Keypad is really nice, as it is an 84+SE with only a couple differences. First, it has OS 2.46 (a special TI-Nspire OS). Second, there is no way to just reset the RAM if something is stuck in an endless loop as far as I have been able to tell; you have to delete everything, which is quite annoying. Also, I'm not sure how the mini USB port works with it, but I haven't managed to get it to work yet. Finally, each pixel is a 3 * 3 block of pixels on the TI-Nspire screen, so everything is larger than on an actual TI-84+SE.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend buying a TI-Nspire, unless you want the TI-84+SE keyboard part (which probably wastes a lot of battery power).