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Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 05:46 AM EDT |
Thanks for that.
That helps in expanding the analogy.
That would be two different sets of rules.
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Oracle are trying to claim copyright on a set of rules.
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 07:33 AM EDT |
You could have your calculator work like this too:
+
5
Enter
6
Enter
-> get sum
It really makes the most sense to tell the calculator
what you want to do first, then give it the data. :-)
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Authored by: Guil Rarey on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 08:07 AM EDT |
If you're using an RPN calculator, don't know it, and attempt to use the
algebraic interface to the calculator, the results are...distressing.
5
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//calculator now multiplies the
//entry on the screen by the top of the stack,
//returning ... 0 (or some other number)
7
=
Returns 0 // or any number except 35
stdout<=="This piece of junk doesn't work!!!"
If you don't use the right interface, if you don't know what that interface is,
you can't use the calculator.
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If the only way you can value something is with money, you have no idea what
it's worth. If you try to make money by making money, you won't. You might con
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