* Posts by atragon

4 publicly visible posts • joined 6 May 2011

Ice Cream Sandwich gives Android mobes brainfreeze – Sony

atragon

The problem is Java...

No wonder why game companies forced google to release a native SDK, they didn't want to have anything to do with the Java VM, which is notoriously a resource hog, maybe Dalvik is in a lesser extent than the Sun's JVM, but still is. Further, java developers are notoriously prone to write bloated code : (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MS.2010.7). Scrap the jvm and make android a C/C++ development platform. If Objective-C didn't put off developers, I don't see why C++ should.

HP's beloved 12c calculator turns 30

atragon

Bring the HP-16 C back petition?

There is a petition to bring the HP 15C back:

http://hp15c.org/

Apparently, HP might have listened to it and bring it back although in a limited number.

Considering the praise the 16 C is receiving in these comments, maybe The Register could host a similar petition for the 16 C? Financiers are enjoying their ever lasting ad-hoc calculator, maybe we, IT geeks, should be too.

atragon

I fell in love with rpn straight away

I own 8 original HP calculators all bought between '81 and '89, among those three of the "10" series (11, 12, 15), the last being the 48sx. But my first professional calculator wasn't an HP, it was a TI 57. Good calculator, but when one of my friend let me handle for 5 minutes his HP 33C I just fell in love with it. Yes, HP were more expensive, but the build quality was definitely superior, you just needed to press a couple of keys to realise it, and for me RPN was well worth the price premium. I now immensely regret i didn't buy the 16C, I was an earth scientist at the time, so I really didn't need it. But as pointed out in other comments, it is really a remarkable and unique calculator. I don't know much about the current HP calculators, the HP 35s looks nice, but I have read mixed reviews and a few have had problem with the keyboard. It is sad that these new calculators also come with a packaging that seem more appropriate for those cheap toys in newsagents than for a professional calculator.

atragon

It might well be back...

Look here;

http://www.techpoweredmath.com/hp-12c-special-edition-hp-15c-re-release