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Joe Horn · 03-10-2015, 03:35 AM

(03-09-2015 03:00 PM)Gerald H Wrote: I welcome our newest & most junior member Guymonde, otherwise known as member 2187.

2187? Cell 2187 has Princess Leia Organa in it. Level 5, Detention Block AA 23. I'm afraid she's scheduled to be terminated. Better her than me. <light saber sound; core dump abruptly ceases>

Tim Wessman · (This post was last modified: 03-10-2015 05:19 AM by Tim Wessman.)

I guess I am up there pretty high as well. Unlike everyone else though, I actually get paid to hang out here and post! "Customer outreach" or some such jazz... Smile

Dave Frederickson · 03-10-2015, 05:24 AM

(03-10-2015 03:35 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:
(03-09-2015 03:00 PM)Gerald H Wrote: I welcome our newest & most junior member Guymonde, otherwise known as member 2187.

2187? Cell 2187 has Princess Leia Organa in it. Level 5, Detention Block AA 23. I'm afraid she's scheduled to be terminated. Better her than me. <light saber sound; core dump abruptly ceases>

Unfortunately, Guymonde is member 2386. Leia will be bummed.

Gerald H · 03-10-2015, 05:52 AM

(03-10-2015 05:24 AM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:
(03-10-2015 03:35 AM)Joe Horn Wrote: 2187? Cell 2187 has Princess Leia Organa in it. Level 5, Detention Block AA 23. I'm afraid she's scheduled to be terminated. Better her than me. <light saber sound; core dump abruptly ceases>

Unfortunately, Guymonde is member 2386. Leia will be bummed.

Are you sure? I don't like to err.

What a fuss about not much.

We always said "Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me".

If you have any criticisms of my programmes or opinions on calculators I'll be interested to see them.

As for my person - I'm beyond criticism.

Gerald H · 03-10-2015, 06:22 AM

(03-10-2015 05:18 AM)Tim Wessman Wrote: I guess I am up there pretty high as well. Unlike everyone else though, I actually get paid to hang out here and post! "Customer outreach" or some such jazz...

How do you reconcile this text with your disclaimer?

Tim Wessman · 03-10-2015, 01:04 PM

(03-10-2015 06:22 AM)Gerald H Wrote: How do you reconcile this text with your disclaimer?

I can collect bugs that are found, answer questions or provide help, clarify things, and respond to questions internally like "are there any general trends that people on the forums seem to be talking about". For example, I'm sure at least some people have noted that a lot of the called out "fixes" in the Prime release notes tend to suspiciously go back to individual threads on this forum and others. That doesn't mean complaining about things in a forum will guarantee resolutions, but it does go into the bucket of information to aid with prioritizing work and plans.

However, I am not an official spokesperson for HP so if I say something like "the USA should invade Canada" - that is not the official policy of the company.

Dave Frederickson · (This post was last modified: 03-10-2015 04:33 PM by Dave Frederickson.)

(03-10-2015 05:52 AM)Gerald H Wrote:
(03-10-2015 05:24 AM)Dave Frederickson Wrote: Unfortunately, Guymonde is member 2386. Leia will be bummed.

Are you sure? I don't like to err.

What a fuss about not much.

We always said "Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me".

If you have any criticisms of my programmes or opinions on calculators I'll be interested to see them.

As for my person - I'm beyond criticism.

While Guymonde may have been the 2187th member, his member number is 2386, which can be seen in the address bar of his profile. The number of members accounts for members whose profile has expired where member number is sequential. Your member number is 1024 and 2187 belongs to ... a newbie.

Bill (Smithville NJ) · 03-10-2015, 02:55 PM

(03-10-2015 01:04 PM)Tim Wessman Wrote: However, I am not an official spokesperson for HP so if I say something like "the USA should invade Canada" - that is not the official policy of the company.

Tim,

Nevertheless....

There are times in your replies where you use the collective "we" which, in my opinion, does mean that you are officially replying for some "group". To me this implies that the "group" is a group within HP.

For example (from Post 7):

"I've put this on the list of things to look at and see what we might be able to do."

Is this statement your opinion or should it be taken at face value?

While you may not be an official spokesperson for HP Corporate, you do imply that you are a spokesperson for the HP Calculator Group within HP Corporate.

I realize your disclaimer is required by HP. But let's not kid ourselves too much here.

Bill
Smithville, NJ

PANAMATIK · 03-10-2015, 02:59 PM

Can you introduce a half senior member please, then I have the chance to become that and stay there. The junior status was over much too fast. Can I get back please? Surely I never want to become a senior member, because thats what I am in real life. Sad

Bernhard

Gerald H · 03-10-2015, 03:10 PM

(03-10-2015 02:43 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:
(03-10-2015 05:52 AM)Gerald H Wrote: Are you sure? I don't like to err.

What a fuss about not much.

We always said "Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me".

If you have any criticisms of my programmes or opinions on calculators I'll be interested to see them.

As for my person - I'm beyond criticism.

While Guymonde may have been the 2187th member, his member number is 2386, which can be seen in the address bar of his profile. The number of members accounts for members whose profile has expired where member number is sequential. Your member number is 1024 and 2187 belongs to ... a newbie.

I've looked at myself & can't find a member number - where do you see it?

Gerald H · 03-10-2015, 03:11 PM

(03-10-2015 02:59 PM)PANAMATIK Wrote: Can you introduce a half senior member please, then I have the chance to become that and stay there. The junior status was over much too fast. Can I get back please? Surely I never want to become a senior member, because thats what I am in real life.

Bernhard

Oh yes, I was happy to be a junior member - I'm sure my mental age qualifies me as one.

Dave Frederickson · 03-10-2015, 03:29 PM

(03-10-2015 03:10 PM)Gerald H Wrote: I've looked at myself & can't find a member number - where do you see it?

In the url: http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/user-1024.html

Gerald H · 03-10-2015, 03:38 PM

(03-10-2015 03:29 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:
(03-10-2015 03:10 PM)Gerald H Wrote: I've looked at myself & can't find a member number - where do you see it?

In the url: http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/user-1024.html

Understood.

Gerald H · 03-10-2015, 03:41 PM

1024 - what an excessively even number for a mildly odd person.

Gerald H · 03-10-2015, 03:47 PM

The historical character Spicer-Simpson is mostly famous for exploits in WWI. His admiral wanted him to name 2 boats as "they were not convicts".

Simpson promptly came up with "Fifi" - rejected by the admiral, who accepted Simpson's second suggestion of "Mimi".

Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Spicer-Simson

And here I am, numbered like a convict.

Dave Frederickson · 03-10-2015, 04:27 PM

(03-10-2015 03:47 PM)Gerald H Wrote: And here I am, numbered like a convict.

We can refer to you as member 2^10. Then you'd be a numerical expression. Smile

PANAMATIK · (This post was last modified: 03-10-2015 06:10 PM by PANAMATIK.)

(03-10-2015 03:29 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:
(03-10-2015 03:10 PM)Gerald H Wrote: I've looked at myself & can't find a member number - where do you see it?

In the url: http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/user-1024.html

You are user 2^10. Congratulations! There are only 9 other 2^n users in this forum.

1 HP admin 1
2 HP admin 2
4 Dave Hicks
8 Han
16 Geoff Quickfall
32 Cristian Arezzini
64 doesn't exist
128 RMollov
256 wlawson
512 umue1
1024 Gerald H
2048 doesn't exist

Can I get the free 2^6 user number?

Thomas Radtke · 03-10-2015, 06:48 PM

(03-10-2015 01:04 PM)Tim Wessman Wrote: I can collect bugs that are found [...]

... in the 35s, the 30b, 15C LE, 39GII ...

Yes, yes, I understand HP doesn't care for anything but the Prime anymore Undecided

(03-10-2015 01:04 PM)Tim Wessman Wrote: [...] answer questions [...]

When to expect a new (unlimited) 15C? Big Grin

(03-10-2015 01:04 PM)Tim Wessman Wrote: [...] respond to questions internally like "are there any general trends that people on the forums seem to be talking about".

Like keeping the 50G, reissuing the 42S, correcting bugs in calculators mentioned above.

Yes, you got me again-not about the Prime Sad

Hope you're not offended by my comments. It's just a little sad to no longer be part of the target audience.

Gerson W. Barbosa · 03-10-2015, 08:23 PM

(03-10-2015 04:27 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:
(03-10-2015 03:47 PM)Gerald H Wrote: And here I am, numbered like a convict.

We can refer to you as member 2^10. Then you'd be a numerical expression.

In case he doesn't like that simple expression, I would suggest him a slightly more complicated one: Smile

\[326\pi-\frac{1}{2}\left ( \frac{1}{\pi }+\frac{5}{\left \{\sqrt{5}\left [90+\pi ^{2}+\frac{1}{25\left ( 10+\frac{\pi }{2} \right )} \right ] \right \}^{2}}\right )\]

To be evaluated on the WP 34S (DBLOFF)

Jlouis · 03-10-2015, 08:45 PM

(03-10-2015 03:35 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:
(03-09-2015 03:00 PM)Gerald H Wrote: I welcome our newest & most junior member Guymonde, otherwise known as member 2187.

2187? Cell 2187 has Princess Leia Organa in it. Level 5, Detention Block AA 23. I'm afraid she's scheduled to be terminated. Better her than me. <light saber sound; core dump abruptly ceases>

And I thought that I was a hardcore fan of Star Wars....

P.S.: 1 post less to the Shangri-la of 300 hundreds posts of seniorship...I'm almost there....