Survey posted 2004-08-02 00:49 by Jon.

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I always love reading the interviews from old newsletters. It's also fun to go way back and see things like "TI83+ to be released next week".

I LOVE humor!

That's what I voted for too! I especially liked the one where they showed that 1337+666=2003. Also the "list of ten things that showed you're obsessed with calcs". More than half the things on that list applied to me...

Yeah, I liked those too! I chose the humor section as my favorite, also.

Oh, yeah! That was funny!

Top 10 things! That is a classic!

I voted for humor . And most of the things on the top ten lists applied to me also :)

one by one the penguins steal my sanity

Who voted for miscellany?

I vote other, meaning the corrections (-:

But, my goal is to limit sending those out, if that's okay :P

Maybe you can stick them in purposely and see how many people don't notice? I'm sure I wouldn't notice! :-D

And then turn it into some sort of contest called "How many corrections you can find?" I kind of like that idea... :P

I can handle that! hehe...sounds good

But you gotta put at least one really hard error that no one will get... and theres gotta be a prize... like "If you can find all the errors, we'll feature one of you programs!!!". I know I'd look as hard as I could for any.

P.S. Couldn't they just put it in a spell checker or grammar checker...

Spellshecker or grammar checker wouldn't work if the error was "the 83 came before the 82"...

WHoops... *spellchecker

The definition of irony.

"Now I don't care who ya are, that's funny rite tharr...Git-R-Done!"

Larry the Cable Guy

"Git-Er-Done"...Git-R-Done might look like like it is pronounced "Git Are Done" to the untamed eye...but anyway, I love that guy...have you ever heard his individual shows (not with the other three from BCCT)?

No, I haven't. Is there anywhere I could go to see them?

Good point. Besides, you can't trust those spelling/grammar checkers. They miss a lot of errors.

The spellchecker for my E-mail doesn't even recognise the word spellchecker!?!?

Oh, I didn't even think of anything like that. True it wouldn't work for those, but most of his errors would be spelling. He would only throw a couple of errors like that in, so that would be all you would have to look for...I think.

Yeah...mislabel a memory location, like saying that _asap_ind on the '86 is $d632 instead of $d623 or something like that...

Yeah, but who would be crazy enough to care? *Definitely not me.*

People who would try to use the memory location.

Well, if you program for the TI-86, then it might be of some use to you...

I use it all the time! :-)

Dude, it was sarcasm!

>> ...is $d632 instead of $d623...
Ummm, I'm sorry if I'm mistaken, but is there ANYTHING different between those two things???

if ("$d632" != "$d632") {
g.drawString("Jake is blind", 50, 50);
} else {
g.drawString("burntfuse is confusing", 50, 50);
}

>> ...is $d632 instead of $d623...if ("$d632" != "$d632") {<< is what you said

It's $d632 and $d623....

'Jake is blind' :^)

Really!!!...

Now let's go over this again...$23 != $32...$23 is NOT $32...LOL... :-)

*hides from the evil Java*

Hey, you took Java in school, right? Did you guys get to go over applets? Because, we didn't. :(

Oh wait! I just realized something! Those are both strings, so you have to use .equals() and a logical not (!).

System.out.println("Java doesn't like me.");

system.out.println("C is better than Java");

*clicks on the "new" button* agreed *sends as email to friend so he can post it on ticalc*

Ahh! You forgot your capital in System! *takes off -1 from test grade*

00ps.

That was a common mistake in our AP Computer Science class. That, and forgetting semi-colons. Every time I forget a semi-colon, I punch myself. :)

Lucky...My school only has a computer club.

It doesn't offer AP Computer Science!? Oh well, our school doesn't offer AP Physics or AP Calc BC. :(

if ("$d632" != "$d623") {
g.drawString("Jake is blind", 50, 50);
} else {
g.drawString("burntfuse is confusing", 50, 50);
}

The output:

Jake is blind

Look over the above code more carefully now. You'll see why these mistakes were easily made by burntfuse.