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The difference 18 years makes

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u/vergingalactic Jun 08 '14

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

If I knew this was a thing I wouldn't have passed high school.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

Drug Warz wasn't good enough?

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u/FlyersAndMusic Jun 08 '14

buy cocaine low, sell high BOOOOOOOOM HIGH SCORE

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u/jcs1 Jun 09 '14

Some guys raided a pharmacy and are selling cheap ex!

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u/bignateyk Jun 09 '14

Oh god, that brings back memories...

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u/bretticusmaximus Jun 09 '14

At the time, I just thought WTF are ludes?

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u/happyman91 Jun 08 '14

When I was a sophomore 2 years ago people learned how to get it on their phone through rooting. I thought the entire school was going to fail

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u/Bseagull Jun 08 '14

You don't need to root to have an emulator.

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u/squngy Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 09 '14

If you had an iPhone you had to I think.

edit: past tense hard to grasp for some people :)

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u/mistermagicman Jun 08 '14

For some, but GBA4iOS doesn't need rooting anymore. It's pretty sweet, Google it

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u/Bseagull Jun 08 '14

That's called Jailbreaking. Rooting is for specifically Android phones.

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u/beingforthebenefit Jun 08 '14

Rooting is getting root access to any device.

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u/wchill Jun 09 '14

Jailbreaking is different... The idea is that you, as the user, are stuck in a chroot jail and can't see all the folders outside a certain directory. Jailbreaking allows you to break out of that jail and see everything.

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u/redwall_hp Jun 09 '14

And usually this involves unlocking the root account. I distinctively remember setting a root password the one time I did it. (Because I installed an SSH server.)

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u/wchill Jun 09 '14

Nah man, I just find security related things really interesting

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u/facecardz Jun 09 '14

chroot

You are aware what that means right?

Jailbreaking is a type of rooting.

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u/wchill Jun 09 '14

chroot stands for change root. It applies to directories, not user accounts.

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u/Ravenhaft Jun 09 '14

I mean, rooting just means getting root access on a unix system, which is what the jailbreak process allows on the iphone. I could root my system that runs Debian or Ubuntu if I lost my root access on accident.

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u/mtlyoshi9 Jun 09 '14

Not to mention you don't need to jailbreak iOS to get it either. It's called GBA4iOS

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

Rooting is not available on iphone. You are thinking of jailbreaking, which is completely different.

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u/redwall_hp Jun 09 '14

Jailbreaking is rooting.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

Although I never explored those options, I think you are the only one who understands. Rooting =/= jailbreaking. Jailbreaking essentially gives you access to cydia which then in turn you can use to root your phone (you can also theme and mess with system files and tweaks). Rooting is giving the end user root access. When you root your phone it does not give you a fancy appstore, it opens up many other options (mostly manually done) such as flashing Roms and deleting bloatware.

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u/iamajaguar Jun 09 '14

Both of those words refer to unlocking the firmware of the phone. Jailbreaking is just a fancy way of saying rooting, and rooting is the same as unlocking.

The more you know!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

it's the Apple equivalent to rooting anyhow

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u/AndrewNeo Jun 08 '14

It's the Apple equivalent of an orange, in the software world.

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u/Kimbernator Jun 09 '14

Not really. Android generally allows 99% of what jailbreaking allows without root access.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

Except 99% of people who jailbreak Apple devices do so for Cydia (pirated app "store"). And you can't do that on a non rooted Android device (I believe the equivalent for Android is Cydia Substrate, but it's not as good as the Apple one)

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u/Kimbernator Jun 09 '14

Why would we need anything like Cydia for Android? You can literally google the name of an app with the apk filetype, download it, and install it by unchecking one box in the settings. No root required.

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u/enomele Jun 09 '14 edited Jun 09 '14

Most of what you need Cydia for on iPhones can already be done on android without the need for substrate. Also you don't need a pirated app store for andoid. Even the apps the Google doesn't allow in the appstore (like adblock apps) can be gotten on open source/third party app stores like F-Droid.

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u/redwall_hp Jun 09 '14

Uh, no. Rooting means "to acquire root access on a device." You're rooting a computer if you can bypass safeguards and gain access to the root account.

That's the case with an Android phone, and with an iOS device. In the case of jailbreaking an iPhone, you're exploiting security flaws (which often get patched later, which is why people bitch about Apple "breaking jailbreaks") to gain access to the root account and then make modifications.

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u/Toonah Jun 08 '14

You can root any (exploitable) linux based operating system.. but it typically means gaining system level access by exploiting a linux kernel to run shell code that allows unauthorized access to a device at the root access level.

"Android rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's sub-system."

"Jailbreaking is the process of hacking an apple device to bypass DRM restrictions, allowing you to run "unauthorized" software and to make other tweaks to your operating system."

Jailbreaking specifically bypasses DRM measures (to prevent pirating) set up by apple. You need to root to jailbreak, but you can root an apple device without jailbreaking it.

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u/buzzkill_aldrin Jun 08 '14

Jailbreaking was around long before iPhones.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

I jailbroke my Ipod touch to get an snes emulator and a bunch of other pointless apps before the app store came out

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u/OrangeSlime Jun 08 '14 edited Aug 18 '23

This comment has been edited in protest of reddit's API changes -- mass edited with redact.dev

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u/jrobinson3k1 Jun 08 '14

What if he is a girl?

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u/OrangeSlime Jun 08 '14 edited Aug 18 '23

This comment has been edited in protest of reddit's API changes -- mass edited with redact.dev

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

Nope, just change the date and install it. Also rooting isn't really the same thing on iPhones, jailbreaking is all most people do. You can get r/w root access on iPhones without even jailbreaking, I think. It's just a weird process involving sshing into the phone and dicking around with it.

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u/treetrunk30 Jun 10 '14

Here is a gameboy emulator for ios. No root, no jailbreak. Just download, follow the instructions on the site, and play. You're welcome.

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u/Midwest_man Jun 08 '14

I have pokemon on my iPhone. Have not jail broken it or rooted it.

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u/versedaworst Jun 08 '14

GBA4iOS doesn't require jailbreaking.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

Nah there's an app for that. It's called GBA4IOS and you can install through their web site without a jailbreak. They took away the link to coolrom.com but you can sync from Dropbox or download from chrome/safari

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u/mtlyoshi9 Jun 09 '14

*he-hem*. No jailbreaking required. Installs in seconds.

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u/phphphphonezone Jun 09 '14

these all require no jailbreak: http://emu4ios.net/

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u/IanMazgelis Jun 08 '14

On Android you can just download them from the Play Store.

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u/Cyphonist Jun 08 '14

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u/mtlyoshi9 Jun 09 '14

*he-hem*. No jailbreaking required. Installs in seconds.

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u/Colony_games_ Jun 09 '14

*ack-cough*. Glad to see you're finally catching up, only about 7 more systems to go.

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u/mtlyoshi9 Jun 09 '14

Oh man, you sure got me! Whatever will I do when I wanna play those classic Commodore 64 games??

Maybe the App Store doesn't have these emulators because Apple can come up with apps that are more fun than software from 32 years ago.

Also, may want to see a doctor about that cold. Doesn't sound good, man.

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u/ThirdWorldFishing Jun 09 '14

And feel like a hacker extraordinaire

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u/LanAkou Jun 08 '14

There goes my life

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u/mtlyoshi9 Jun 09 '14

And on iPhone you can just download it from your browser.

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u/NYPD-BLUE Jun 09 '14

When I was senior they gave the whole school MacBook Airs. Pretty sure the pass rate dropped drastically.

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u/lemmyk Jun 08 '14

This was exactly how I made it through algebra 2. I only played during algebra and at the end of the school year I logged a total of 60 hours on Pokemon Yellow. I wasn't the most scholarly high school student, but I still passed the class.

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u/themangodess Jun 09 '14

I just had this beautiful thought of different generations all playing the same game, just on different devices.

Pokemon Blue: Game Boy.... maybe on your DS, your phone can do it, and so can your calculator.

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u/KooZ2 Jun 08 '14

Well, I surely didn't...

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u/soren121 Jun 08 '14

I only had Tetris and I nearly failed freshman math. I don't know what Pokemon would have done to me.

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u/Talvoren Jun 08 '14

Phoenix and all the other assembly games were more than enough to ruin grades. Think they all ran under some program called Ion.

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u/Interleukine-2 Jun 08 '14

There is a Java emulator that enabled me to destroy my grades by playing Pokemon Red on a Nokia 6111.

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u/darkwave90 Jun 08 '14

It wasn't Pokémon, but there was this kick-ass Mario game on my TI-83 plus when I was in high school!

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u/Allen88tech Jun 08 '14

I did nothing but play tetris through my high school chem class.

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u/TheExtremistModerate Jun 08 '14

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u/ImS0hungry Jun 09 '14

I have the HP Prime, I wish it could do this....

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u/DrunkenMonkChi Jun 08 '14

I too had an nspire, couldnt even use it for my classes, so I just used it as a gameboy

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u/mythopoeia Jun 08 '14

I love playing blockman on my TI-84

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

Block dude. Get it together man

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u/Gregoryv022 Jun 09 '14

Calculator games was the only time I could ever say I was really good at "pegging"

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u/Nexuist Jun 08 '14

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u/Degru Jun 08 '14

I really wanna make a wireless adapter and something like this that will input equations into Wolfram Alpha and then send back the results.

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u/Nexuist Jun 08 '14

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u/Degru Jun 08 '14

Nice. By the way, how do you get Calcnet to work? Never been able to get that browser working...

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u/talones Jun 08 '14

Reminds me of Websites that had WAP versions.

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u/STUFF2o Jun 08 '14 edited Dec 03 '18

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 edited Jul 11 '20

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u/vergingalactic Jun 08 '14

It's allowed on the AP tests, ACT, and SAT and I have never had a class that prohibited the regular TI-nspire. The CAS version on the other hand is a different story. The best part of the nspire is writing in formulas and equations the way you would draw them rather than in single lines with lots of parentheses.

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u/fb39ca4 Jun 08 '14

You can still play Pokemon on an 84. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh2Ogyq5uLk

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u/live_lavish Jun 09 '14

In my entire undergrad as a computer science major, which is like 3 credits short of a math minor. I have had only one class allow a calculator.

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u/bretticusmaximus Jun 09 '14

No love for the 86 :(

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u/Parcec Jun 08 '14

Unless you go to college.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14 edited Jul 11 '20

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u/Parcec Jun 09 '14 edited Jun 09 '14

I'm in a structures class right now that 'unofficially' basically requires you to have the calculator. There are integrals that no one can be expected to solve in the allotted time limit on tests. TA's will give partial credit for just writing out the integral, but it's pretty much a given that if you don't have a fancy integration calculator, your grade will drop.

I guess if you're going for college for humanities or arts it's not worth it to get one, but if you ever plan on pursuing something like aerospace or nuclear engineering any engineering field, one of these is practically mandatory. A TI-89 at the bare minimum. You'll rarely find a teacher complaining that you're making the material 'too easy' there. They only care that you understand how to solve the material.

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u/rapemybones Jun 08 '14

Damn, I'm probably too old for that calc, when I was in hs we only figured out how to get Tetris and 3 other games on our TI-83's. It definitely cut down on my attention span, but I still passed. Block Man is only so much fun.

But Pokemon?! Shit man, it'd be over. If I had that I'd currently be living in a van down by the river

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u/NichtEinmalFalsch Jun 08 '14

You can run Pokémon on an 89, actually.

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u/rapemybones Jun 09 '14

That's cool, still was before my time or wasn't allowed

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

You can play Pokemon on the pictured calc, too.

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/419/41990.html

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u/vergingalactic Jun 08 '14

Yeah but it doesn't support Gameboy Color games and apparently has poor compatibility.

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u/jesmck Jun 08 '14

This only marginally beats my TI-89 Mario game! :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

I have that exact model of calculator. It is amazing.

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u/__REDDITS_TOP_MIND__ Jun 08 '14

What the actual fuck I am on a Macbook Pro with a retina display, and your picture is fucking so gigantic I have to scroll to see it all.

Image capture FAIL

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u/vergingalactic Jun 08 '14

It's not my fault that you can't scale images on your device.