Anyone remember TI graphing calculators, which at the time I was using them (90s) I think ran on 8088 processors?

Quite a bit MORE expensive than this. MUCH less powerful, even factoring in Moore's law. AND, they were in no way intended to be an open, hackable design like this is. And even with all those limitations, they became one of the primary "introduction to hardware and software hacking" devices of my generation.

When I was a 16-year-old HS Freshman, I had a TI-81 that I hooked up to a PC with a serial port and "hacked" zShell onto. I learned a bit of assembly code and put on lots of little programs like games etc. onto my calculator. I even got an image display program where you could load up bitmap images that were converted to a specific size and color depth (4-8 grays if I remember right). I got busted in my Geometry class that year looking at a blurry grayscale picture of a topless Pamela Anderson. On my calculator. If that doesn't put me in the running for biggest nerd ever, I don't know what would.

Anyway, I can only see this "Chip" thing (I agree that I'm not too big on the name) as a very cool idea. Sometimes, something as simple as a hackable platform or a blurry 4-bit picture of some boobs can be enough to push someone towards a lifelong interest in IT and other technology. Raspberry Pi and the others are great too, but the price of this one gives it a real leg up in the universal accessibility department!

He just needs to incorporate some grunting and get Pamela Anderson as a sidekick and we've got ourselves a sitcom!

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Pamela Anderson's Banned Peta Commercial. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

She's citing winning Pamela Anderson's favor as evidence she has brought honor to Pakistan. I have mixed feelings.

I thought we atoned for that with Jim Carrey and Pamela Anderson?

Wait a minute... People keep going back to porn because it "isn't working"? It doesn't "actually satisfy"? Ahh yes, as opposed to intimate sex with a loving partner, which you engage in one time and then you're completely satisfied and set for the rest of your life. ...Oh wait, she didn't intend to imply that? I don't think that porn viewing and a healthy mutually respectful and loving relationship with an actual human being are by any means mutually exclusive.

I hit puberty just as dialup internet was becoming available in my hometown. My family were early adopters and got internet service pretty much as soon as it was available. As you might imagine, I grew up with rather free and easy access to internet porn, and I browsed for quite a lot of it. However, I think that in examining my own experience as objectively as possible, I believe that I was able to self-police or direct my exposure away from the sorts of porn that I would agree are potentially damaging; for example violence, rape, or demeaning behavior (although definitions of each of those vary a lot). But in any case, I think that the reason that I was able to achieve this self-direction was though good parenting. If these things concern you, talk to your kids about it, and explain why. Provide them with the framework they need, and you'll probably be surprised at how well they react.


And just for one more anecdote, I thought I'd contribute a story that exposes just how much of a nerd I am. When I was a sophomore in High School, I was into math. I was taking trigonometry with mostly seniors and a few juniors. I had a complex graphing calculator, a Texas Instruments TI-85, with a roughly 2.5 inch by 3.5 inch screen. On the internet, you could download programs that would overwrite the basic "operating system" of the calculator, and allow you to load programs that people coded up in assembly language compatible with the machine's Z80 processor.

One such program was an image viewer. The calculator normally just had a 2-color liquid crystal screen; each pixel was either ON (black) or OFF (white). This viewer program allowed the screen to be treated as grayscale by adjusting the contrast/brightness values sent to individual pixels, as opposed the the screen as a whole as per usual.

What did I do with this program? I loaded it up with porn, of course. All softcore nudes, mostly Pamela Anderson as I recall. So, with the correct button presses to get into the assembly loader, I had a very low-resolution porn image browser. Being a sophomore, I thought that I could gain some "street cred" with the upperclassmen by showing off my porn. And, as you can probably guess, they immediately turned me in to the teacher just because it would be fun to watch me squirm. Fortunately, my teacher was very cool about it. He said: "I don't want to see it, I don't want to know about it, and if I ever hear anything about it again in the future, I'll be highly displeased". That was enough to get me to delete the program from the calculator.

The segment about porn on (the oh-so ubiquitous) cellphones brought that episode to mind.

>> ^demon_ix:
She's not hot... I don't understand why the rest of the world acts like she is...


I disagree with you, gypsy. Pah-mela needs to do more shows like this one. Yes. Very nice.

>> ^honkeytonk73:
OH JEEZ PLEASE TRIM THE HEDGE!


Oh I disagree, bring back the bush.

Yeah, that pretty much drains the comedy value out of what Sacha Baron Cohen does when the other party is in on it. He did the same thing at the end of Borat with Pamela Anderson pretending to be surprised by his antics.

Without the element of watching real people react sincerely, it's just mediocre improv comedy.

What irritates me more is that this is exactly the sort of thing he would do to an ordinary person without warning them. But he knows that celebrities have money, and money buys you more legal rights.

Besides, this shouldn't be too shocking. I'm sure it's not the first time eminem has enjoyed an impromptu tossed salad.

>> ^BillPayer:
"Only God Knows Why" twats like Kid Rock exist


To fuck Pamela Anderson intermittently.

dupeof
http://www.videosift.com/video/Lisa-Lampanelli-Roast-of-Pamela-Anderson

This is faker than Pamela Anderson's chest.

HI! I don't recall addressing anything of this nature to you! But thanks for the personal biography! You may need some work on the writing part, though!>> ^MINK:
>> ^CaptainPlanet420:
>>And have you ever fired a gun; owned anything remotely dangerous to anyone besides yourself? Ever gutted a animal? Wait, no that would require an affirmative to the previous question. Please change the subject again and don't provide any evidence of your own personal survival skills.

HI! I have fired assault rifles and handguns, probably more accurately than you, and oh yeah i can gut a rabbit, the heart and kidneys have high nutritional value.
So does that qualify me to call your behaviour in this thread dickish?
HA! Gun totin' antiwar ex-RAF socialist veggie avengers to the rescue!
Can you fly a plane? because I can, so if you can't then i guess your juvenile debating rules mean you can't answer me back now, so you just have to suck it.


HI! I don't recall addressing any of this to you! But thanks for the personal biography! You may need some work on the writing part, though!

>> ^CaptainPlanet420:
>>And have you ever fired a gun; owned anything remotely dangerous to anyone besides yourself? Ever gutted a animal? Wait, no that would require an affirmative to the previous question. Please change the subject again and don't provide any evidence of your own personal survival skills.


HI! I have fired assault rifles and handguns, probably more accurately than you, and oh yeah i can gut a rabbit, the heart and kidneys have high nutritional value.

So does that qualify me to call your behaviour in this thread dickish?

HA! Gun totin' antiwar ex-RAF socialist veggie avengers to the rescue!

Can you fly a plane? because I can, so if you can't then i guess your juvenile debating rules mean you can't answer me back now, so you just have to suck it.

>> ^Lurch:
>> ^rougy:
Typical conservative.
When somebody says something you don't like, it's not enough to disagree, but you have to wish them bodily harm as well.
As if you could survive in the wilderness due to your native prowess....
Hypocrisy.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ann-Coulter-talks-about-John-Edwards
"Why do peopel give that skanky old whore any face time at all? She is genuinely evil, and I'm going to party on the day she dies."
http://www.videosift.com/video/No-Nukes-for-You-A-history-o
f-LIES-about-Irans-nukes
"Hang them by the neck. Or fly a B-52 over Tehran and drop Lieberman, Bolton and any other cowardly piece of dirt neocon within arms reach of Washington. In fact, we should soften them up by dropping Grover Norquist and the rest of his...smaller government weenies into the Bay of Funday, just for practice."
Really... it seems so incredibly rare for me here on the sift to actually find a comment where you aren't wishing someone dead, spewing hatred and personal attacks, or pulling the nazi card. You might actually be a decent guy, but you'd never be able to tell from this place. All I see is constant anger, a lot of hate, and insults. But it's only typical conservatives, or "fat headed cons," that do that kindof thing to innocent liberals. Yup, couldn't possibly be you too.


Hey stop being so hateful.