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OS X 10.3.6 Expected Soon?

hmm for the calculator issue: sometimes forgetting binary is dangerous when programming around with floating point calculations 😉...( like "while" loops with a variable counting .3 .4 etc. )

for those who don't know: 0.1 can't be displayed in binary with a limited amount of numbers...
 
java 1.5

I'd like to see Java 1.5 in 10.3.6 so that at least we can pretend that OS X isn't a second-tier Java development platform.
 
Mr. Anderson said:
I was hoping that they might add graphing to the standard calc -
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I beleive that this is coming in Tiger. You can add it to the Panther one, but the graphing view does not really work all that well.
 
Doctor Q said:
A Calculator update!?
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I definitely hope that it will be an awesome calculator. If anyone needs this feature updated it's Doctor Q.

We have a gift coming prior to Thanksgiving. 🙂
 
BWhaler said:
With the ati cards, the screen will ripple when scrolling. It's not overly bad, just annoying. I have read it is a driver issue.
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Have you tried downloading ATIs new Utilities from its website? They now work on OEM cards, and you can create a profile for each application you use. For example, I created a profile for SimCity 4 and enabled "Verticle Sync." That cured the rippling for my 9600xt (the game still hangs up and freezes though). Give it a try...
 
The calculator is available in two modes, Basic and Advanced, selectable from the View menu. Wish they would take the ol' os9 Graphing Calculator and merge it in.

DVD Player has real problems since X.3.5 update. Certain films like "The King and I" which should display edge-to-edge in widescreen, shrink a bit so there are black bars to either side in addition to the usual top & bottom. It's almost as if I'm viewing the film on a 12" screen on my 17" powerBook.
 
Unrelated but interesting

I read somewhere that the ipod will celebrate its 3rd birthday on the 23rd of this month. Possible release date for the new ipod?
 
sirjimithy said:
if you ever need a little put-me-down, play this game. Put it on the easiest difficulty, and it will still kick your ass in 6 moves.
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😀 LOL! I know what you mean, but I'm not really an avid chess player. I wonder how a long time chess player feels about it.

On the 10.3.6 update, I'm sure there are some needed fixes included, but the fact that most of this thread so far has talked about the 'Calculator' app bugs leads me to believe 10.3.5 doesn't exactly have a lot of earth shattering problems 🙂 Maybe most of "10.3.6" is just the bundled Security Updates.
 
sirjimithy said:
if you ever need a little put-me-down, play this game. Put it on the easiest difficulty, and it will still kick your ass in 6 moves.
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I was able to beat the computer once... and I play about 5-8 games a day on it for the past year. Sometimes I even cheat and use the back button but still get beat. Very embarrassing. What's worse is after a particularly bad beatdown, it starts openly flirting with my wife. 😛
 
asphalt-proof said:
.... What's worse is after a particularly bad beatdown, it starts openly flirting with my wife. 😛
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Wow! I've heard of the bully kicking sand in your face at the beach in front of your girl, but this is ridiculous! 😀
 
Earth Shattering Bugs

10.3.5 doesn't exactly have a lot of earth shattering problems
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There are some major bugs in 10.3.5 - like the Safari cookie bug and the NFS bugs I already mentioned, and the Firewire bug mentioned by Gopher (I haven't personally encountered that one).

Also, performance of sharing in general seems to have deteriorated significantly since 10.3. We have several PowerBooks at my company, and they all used to rediscover AFP shares when woken from sleep, even when moved to a different network, connected via the AFP share via VPN. Since 10.3.2, this has not worked so well - the connection just times out. Shame - hope they can resolve it.

Also, the log in screen - when connected to a network with a Mac OS X server with Open Directory, the "Other" login option takes some time to appear. If you have already selected an account from the list and have started to type in your password, the window goes funny and it takes you back to the list again. Very annoying!

I could go on and on - Apple has plenty of work to do!
 
i find when i copy numbers from a website, the calculator app can get confused with new line characters (even if you're very careful to only copy the numbers), seems like it needs to strip those non-numeric characters before converting them to doubles. Also... when you enter eg: 1.0005 the 0s don't display until you type the 5, 😱
 
sirjimithy said:
if you ever need a little put-me-down, play this game. Put it on the easiest difficulty, and it will still kick your ass in 6 moves.
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I am a not particularly good chess club player, and I have drawn a few quick games (at lowest level). Last one last night as black. The computer will desperately draw by repetition once it smells defeat.

The chess program could use a lot of improvements, like been able to create databases with your games, edit games, insert comments, ICC interface?, support online playing, chessbase compatibility (.cbh), etc. The list could go on forever.

For the casual player that only wants to play a quick game, the program is great. For the serious tournament player that uses Fritz & Chessbase on PC, its bad.

I believe most users fall in the first group, and are quite happy with it.
 
shouldn't be using doubles...

zv470 said:
i find when i copy numbers from a website, the calculator app can get confused with new line characters (even if you're very careful to only copy the numbers), seems like it needs to strip those non-numeric characters before converting them to doubles. Also... when you enter eg: 1.0005 the 0s don't display until you type the 5, 😱
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A double is far too small for the calculator app - it should be using synthetic arithmetic with "infinite" precision and range.

Try 123456789012345678901234567890 * 100 with a double.... And then try it with calc, and then try XP's calc.

Code: 
        double a, b, c;

        a = 123456789012345678901234567890.;
        b = 100.;
        c = a * b;
        printf ("Product of %f and %f", a,b);
        printf ("  is %f\n", c);

produces

Code: 
        Product of 123456789012345680000000000000.000000 and 100.000000
              is 12345678901234567000000000000000.000000

XP's calculator gives the expected:

Code: 
        12345678901234567890123456789000
 
orb said:
I'd like to see Java 1.5 in 10.3.6 so that at least we can pretend that OS X isn't a second-tier Java development platform.
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Of course, you have to love the fact that Java 5 (a.k.a. Java 1.5) is codenamed "Tiger".... I'd like to see it on 10.3 as well, but "Tiger on Tiger" has a nice ring to it.

However, since the Java 1.5 developer preview on runs on 10.4, I doubt we'll see it until then.
 
RqThrottle said:
I am a not particularly good chess club player, and I have drawn a few quick games (at lowest level). Last one last night as black. The computer will desperately draw by repetition once it smells defeat.

The chess program could use a lot of improvements, like been able to create databases with your games, edit games, insert comments, ICC interface?, support online playing, chessbase compatibility (.cbh), etc. The list could go on forever.

For the casual player that only wants to play a quick game, the program is great. For the serious tournament player that uses Fritz & Chessbase on PC, its bad.

I believe most users fall in the first group, and are quite happy with it.
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I don't think most user like being beat every time. I'm not a great chess player, but I've been able to beat most people I've played (other so-so players) and have never beaten Mac Chess.
 
OS vs. M$

Analog Kid said:
I don't think this is an Apple issue... I had the same problem with Entourage at work when running Jaguar, and when Panther added better support for large mailboxes, I dumped Entourage...
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I agree that it isn't an Apple issue. It's Entourage. Made by M$, which doesn't support its own Exchange server software with the use of public folders. Not to mention there is no delegate setup at all. Not that Outlook is any good. Why am I talking about M$ crap software? Oh yes, it's not the OS.
 
orb said:
I'd like to see Java 1.5 in 10.3.6 so that at least we can pretend that OS X isn't a second-tier Java development platform.
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On the other hand, it's nice that Macs all have Java pre-installed and automatically updated as part of the system software, so you can always assume Java is available on Macs running current OS X versions. Can't do that on Windows systems, and it's optional on Linux systems. Plus Eclipse is quite nice (and free) and runs as well on Macs as on Windows systems.

Yes, we might be a bit behind on releases, but not much (nothing like years past), and the latest version is on OS X before it's in common use on Windows anyway.
 
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