Must buy stock...
And hurry, as price is so low...

Already up to $2 from the $1.20 a few seconds ago..
I've made $8!

up over $5 now...

Cha-Ching!
(By the way, nice Javascript in the article.)

Hehe, interesting... ;-) But it's not April 1st yet (at least not in EST)

I know, but $up3r $t0cks 4 Ch33p had such a good price...
(Yes, I am joking.)

It's now below $-315!

Then your computer clock is set very incorrectly.
Go to www.time.gov or some place to set your clock correctly.

hehe...I went to time.gov and found that my watch was set EXACTLY right! that pretty cool. I set my watch about 5 yrs ago to an atomic clock in Utah... ;)

Um, it dosn't matter, all atomic clocks [here] are set by radio control to Bolder (or is it Denver?), Colorado, USA. Or at least that's what the "quick start guide" said that came with mine.

Um...you don't own an atomic clock. It's just SET to an atomic clock using radio frequencies, but that not even accurate because of the delay in the radio waves...time.gov is accurate to within 0.2 seconds according to the web page...

OK, now I will pick apart your message:

1. the "time.gov" website is accurate within 0.7 seconds
2. the clocks that set to the radio frequency are not atomic but I think it was somthing like 1/100 sec. accuracy but anyhow, ARE MORE ACCURATE THAN THE WEB SITE.

If you still want to argue, I can send you a screenshot from my computer to show that I am right on both of these topics.

-Matt M
Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA, Eastern Time -05:00, Planet Earth, The Milky Way, Outer Space

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FYI - a little quote from a online manual for a atomic clock/alarm clock (don't believe me? Pg 2 at the link):

"WWVB radio station is located in Ft. Collins, Colorado, and transmits the exact time signal continuously throughout the United States at 60 kHz. The signal can be received up to 2, 000 miles away through the internal antenna in the Moon Phase Clock. However, due to the nature of the Earth’s Ionosphere, reception is very limited during daylight hours. The Moon Phase Alarm will search for a signal every night when reception is best. The WWVB radio station derives its signal from the NIST Atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. A team of atomic physicists is continually measuring every second, of every day, to an accuracy of ten billionths of a second per day. These physicists have created an international standard, measuring a second as 9,192,631,770 vibrations of a Cesium-133 atom in a vacuum. This Moon Phase Alarm is regulated by the WWVB transmitter."

Hey, I set my date to April 2, 2099, at 7:02 AM Eastern Time and WOW!

CALCS: $ 4497050.51
Change: 1798820104%

Never mind. It's because it's still March 31st where I am, and the "stock" price is based on the viewer's time (and my clock says 8:00AM because the timezone is wrong :-).

"XP is an emoticon, not an acronym" -- seen on /.

...and I was changing my clock to see what affect is has on the stock price. :-P

BUYBUYBUYBUY!!! They are PAYING US to BUY THEIR STOCK!!! BUYBUYBUYBUY!! lol....this was a very good joke...

Geez, it's dropping like a rock! Oh, well, anyway, I just got my laptop back from having the "main pc board" replaced because it was working correctly and the technition thought it was defective (if it ain't broke, DO fix it?) since the mouse driver was corrupted and I cured it by re-formatting the hard drive and restoring my files...

...oh, right, anyway it's now at:

CALCS: $ -1147680.16
Change: -459072164%

I guess no one set the clock for me:
January 2, 1980
6:29 AM GMT

So can I get $1147680.16 paid to me for buying and have to pay money to sell?

Now why did you people not do something like that for PI day?

Because pi_day != april_fools_day :)

That's improper style. It's:
pi.getDay() != aprilFools.getDay()

They're public variables, duh.

Exactly. And public variables are bad style. Just look in the java style manusl.

Heh, I always thought making everything public would be a lot easier, since you wouldn't have to make those accessor and mutator methods to return and/or edit the values of variables-- you could just do object.variable = value; rather than object.setVariable( value) ... I hate OOP :-\

That trogdor game that I made that I mentioned on my xanga site (see link) was actually an assignment to edit someone elses code to add more features, and I turned a guy's dragon into the trogdor game. However, to get to the point of this post, the guy had used all public variables and had even made a Global.class so that he could use global variables. It was THE biggest pain in the wordl to modify, and when I had to split up the file into separate files, that made it even harder. I had to change EVERY variable to private, make accessor and mutation functions for EVERY ONE OF THEM, change a TON of the methods so that they passed in the "Peasants" to the "Trogdor" and vice versa, and completely eliminate the global class...It was QUITE painstaking. Oh, and I know that the "politically correct" term is "method" and not "function," but I am just way too used to saying "function."

Making variables private is never a requirement since the public, protected, and private keywords are checked by a preprocessor. The keywords never actually make it to the code generation part of the compiler because they are there just there to allow the maker of the class to restrict access to various variables from the user.

Also, critisizing someones style is crap. Some dolts think that in java the "proper" way to get functions from packages is to import each one of them separately instead of just importing the whole package. This is pure BS.

Anyways when programming a calculator there is no OOP and if you are trying to optimize a program for size then using two public variables is obviously preferable to using two class variables.

My programming vocab for java might not be correct because I never learned more then the basics of it. I prefer C++

>>I hate OOP

Hah! Now at least someone agrees with me. Yes, yes, I know, OOP is the greatest thing since the Floppy Drive, but OOP is meant for people that don't have time to waste programming. As for me, I prefer the structured C capabilities, but I still go with C++ because it's more forgiving and I always have the option of using the OOP uselessness.

But what if I did this beforehand?

pi_day = pi.getDay();
april_fools_day = aprilFools.getDay();

Unless you are referring to the underscores in the variable names...

Yes, the underscores and the non-capitalization of Fools and both Day's

How in the world did you post only 3 minutes after the topic was created?

I got lucky and checked the site at just the right time.

I've had that happen before where i hit refresh and there is a new poll, or a new article, but i dont think ive ever actually posted on them at that point.

I've done that quite a few times too :)

Me too

sooner or later.... if you're addicted to this site like me, it's bound to happen

I'd say I'm addicted but I'm never on when that happens. Although, I am only on the internet a bit on weekends and on weekdays from 3-5 PM EDT.

Oh, well, maybe some day I will be able to say that I did.

Happy April Fools Day! Check out Cemetech (http://www.cemetech.tk) :)

Not very convincing since "be" is misspelled in the article. But good one anyway.

The "white" text you had there under the message on your pop-up window was pretty visible on my monitor.

mine too...You should have just had javascript of something to SLOWLY fade that text in so that by the time they are finished reading, they could just BARELY see it...

<sigh> people these days... First deviantart.com is taken over by the bloody British and ticalc.org members are the wealthiest poops in the world...great joke, though