Linonut wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, High Plains Thumper belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>> It's one among the many bugs, some of them are _by design_,
>>> e.g. getting the function floor() wrong. As Rob Weir said,
>>> this can cost /lives/.
>>
>> After all, there are people who maintain multimillion quid
>> budgets using it. I guess an error as large as the EU fines owed
>> by Microsoft are no big deal. Bill must be laughing all the way
>> with money falling out of his pockets.
>>
>> Has any one published the same equations entered into OpenOffice?
>> I'd like to see the results. :-)
>
> Works fine in gcalctool, OO Calc, gnumeric, and Excel XP.
>
> An amazing flaw in Microsoft's regression testing, for one thing!
>
Which, according to Erik F, is the main reason why it takes so extremely
long for MS to come up with patches. They test so very "thoroughly"
But what can you really expect from a bunch of incompetent monkeys at MS
--
Microsoft's Guide To System Design:
If it starts working, we'll fix it. Pronto.
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