52 thoughts on “Apple Releases 10.4.9.”

  1. No way I’m first to say ‘Mmmmm pi day’

    Come on people, lift your game.

    I’m very dissapointyheaded.

    Oooh Amazon are selling Nous Non Plus for eight bucks! I do so want that cover.

  2. Benoit Mandelbrot would never have become such a celebrity if it weren’t for computers.

    On the other hand, there wouldn’t be much point in using a computer if it didn’t allow us to journey to the giddy edge of self-similar insanity. It’s why I even bother to get up in the morning.

  3. mmm pie.

    wait, i don’t have a F13 key on my laptop… maybe i can write one in with a sharpie…

  4. It is Pi day in Europe too.

    Problem is, who’s cooking?

    (Setting up for Jennifer Freaking etc. etc.)

  5. Had a look at the change log for 10.4.9 and a couple of the fixes are well overdue.

    – Handling of large or malformed images that could cause crashes

    Just the other day I was driving past an Elle Macpherson Intimates billboard and crashed straight through a fence.

    – Font handling

    Can there ever be enough font handling? I don’t think so. I can see me and the powerbook spending a lot more time in the bathroom.

    And it’s nice to see these poor suckers getting something.

    – Apple USB Modem

  6. Hate to spoil the party, but the next version will be 10.4.X, as we all know that X is pronounced “ten” in Applish.

    And that will be followed by 10.4.11!!!!eleven!!!11!!!

    (Wooha! Top 30 again! This must be my lucky day/week/year!)

  7. Messing around with those complicated radicals is irrational. I think Apple would go the easy route and just call it 10.4.i, or perhaps (10.4, 1)

  8. Ok you people who can’t figure out how to hit F13 on your laptop make me sick. Didn’t you take any Algebra in school? No Pi for you and I made a really yummy one with Banana liqueur & Vicodin.

    How to hit F13 on an Apple Laptop:

    First you hit F12+F1 which gives you 2F13 so then you need to hit / + Shift + f. This gives you F13 on a laptop.

  9. I agree with Scott. The ‘i’ fits in with the product naming conventions, too!

  10. Why use those confusing numbers anyway? The onetime symbol of the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince is probably available.

  11. So is it Apple Pi Day in Cupertino?

    Now can we truly be irrational and have 10.4.∫ or 10.4.∞ or just random constants.

  12. “or perhaps (10.4, 1)” – that would be 10.4 + i. I think you mean (0, 10.4). I’m sure Apple would get their imaginary numbers right!

  13. Del, you need to check your math.

    2F13/F = 2*13 = 26

    2F13/2 = F13

    I think you meant the latter.

  14. No you can’t just multiply the 2 by the 13 because the 13 is an integer and the 2F is a variable.

  15. Mac OS X 10.4.(1/0)

    Supposedly there’s a new imaginary number on the block. I’m not convinced, but there you go.

  16. I stand corrected on the palindrome. You can tell I don’t work with numbers. 🙂

    There would nonetheless be a certain symmetry to 10.4.10.

  17. I’ve learned that the next issue of 10.4 will be called, simply, “Ringo.”

    All these numbers are giving me a headache, anyway. Well. That and the neighbor’s pissant little lap dogs barking all night long. And the leak in the bathroom sink. Drip. Drip. Drip. Forever. And the fact that my monitor is gradually losing the last little dribs and drabs of backlighting. Plus the tags in the backs of my shirts make me itch. And my daughter’s boyfriend drives a better car than me. And I swear I’m going out back and shoot those little yelping mutts.

    Besides, I don’t know my asymptote from a hole in the graph.

  18. > Apple will then release 10.4.1/3-1/4+1/5-1/6+1/7…

    I’m astonished that no-one’s pointed out yet that the infinite series 1/3-1/4+1/5-1/6+1/7-1/9+1/11-… sums quite nicely to ln(2) – 1/2: i.e. approximately 1.93; to give a release between 10.4.1 and 10.4.2.

    So not only is it not “a paradoxical release that can never be completed, let alone released” — it has, in fact, already been released!

    Only no-one noticed.

    Or did they?

  19. Hate to break it to you, but I, and I’m sure a few others, noticed as well. The difference is that we remembered that we are not allowed to post on topic. You went WAY out of bounds on that one my friend.

    MARK

  20. Wouldn’t you know it, I missed pi day. No wonder I was so hungry yesterday!

    Why go to some number series after 10.4.√-1? Why not 10.4.iX, or better yet 10.4.√-2? Then obviously 10.4.√-3 would be next, then they could actually release 10.4.√-π.

    Then the world would be complete. Or maybe just really confused.

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