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Does anyone realize that this is a profound waste of time? I just spent like a hour and a half reading a million pointless comments!! I for one hope TIcalc doesn't keep this! And I hope that they don't do away with this all together either! That's just my 2 cents worth.

For an on topic part:
I own a TI-86, and have owned a '82, '83 my brother has a '83+, and I'm getting an '89 soon.

Couldn't we spend our time doing something more productive here??

Ron!

Doing away with the comment boards all-together wouldn't do ticalc.org any good. Their requests per week would be cut in half at least!

I have an idea for helping to limit the annoyances on message boards without having to remove any posts:

Each user should be able to specify an ignore list in his or her user preferences. Whenever a user views the web page while logged in to his or her account, all message from people on the user's ignore list, and (maybe this should be optional) all replies to them, should not be shown. This would allow users to filter out whichever threads they don't like (it's unlikely that anyone really wants to see the replies to posts from people they want to block), preventing the page from being cluttered with unwelcome annoyances, and shouldn't be seen as unfair to anyone.

It also might help to encourage people to start new threads whenever they change the subject of discussion (so they won't be arbitrarily blocked) rather than replying to a thread of a different topic. This is probably a good thing, since it discourages changing the topic within a thread, which makes it harder to find the posts one is looking for.

The main problem with this that sticks out in my mind is that the pages would have to be generated on-the-fly instead of pre-generated every 5 minutes. That would take a lot of CPU time, maybe more than they can spare.

Unless, however, they managed to convert the system to some spiffy JavaScript or CSS.

I'd say this is a very good idea. We have a couple of other ideas 'lined up' for user customisation, and I'll be sure to add this one to the list.
However, I doubt it will stand on it's own. Plus, like Bryan says, it requires either a lot of more work on the server side, or redoing some of this with javscript or DHTML (css should not help us, I think. I may be wrong). Then there is just the problem of browser compatibility to think of. Yikes.
Anyway. It's now on our list. Can't tell you for sure it will be done or when, but we'll keep it in mind.

Heh! CSS is just for formatting... I think javascript is a no, because some client sides don't have it. Perl would be the best bet. It's easy to search and replace things and find banned people :)

But perl is server-side, and Magnus already said that would be bad, (i.e. - would take up a lot of resources).

I just have to say that I like that idea. I hope that if they use JavaScript in their webpage design, it doesn't take forever to load. Take a look at my college's homepage to see a bad example of Java at work (I'm on a network, it's in my cache, and it still takes 4 seconds to start Java!!!) Also, I love Pheonix3.9 for the 89! It rocks my world!

~ferich

Don't worry, we'll never use a java applet on our page. JavaScript is completely different and would not slow down the page significantly.

thats a good idea (screw all u ppl with aol or 14400 modems haha

Yeah, maybe that'll teach the AOLers to get a real ISP!! :) Steve Case already makes too much money. I'm not saying by using IE5, let's all give Bill Gates some of Steve Case's money, he actually makes some stuff that's useful (minus Windoze). Let's face it, IE is way better than Netscape by any definition.

~ferich
WAYYYYYYY OFFFFFF TOPICCCCC

this whole thing is dumb. Ticalc should just delete all the ones full of __________----------------__________ but ignore the cussing i mean if you really want a perfect site go to sesame street . com or something!

I agree

CANT WE WASTE OUR TIME PLAYING CALCULATOR GAMES AND NOT HAVING "TOTAL ANARCHY"? ANARCHY? YA RIGHT< THIS IS A FREAKING WEB PAGE. ANARCHY? I THINK NOT
(and yes to all u nitpicking fags i can use not caps!)

This news item has the most posts I've ever seen on a news item. Is that a result of the "newsboard anarchy" or just response to the news of the "Newsboard Anarchy Trial"?

I have a TI-86, and want to know wheter I should get a TI-92+, TI-89, both, or neither. I am a sophmore in highschool

{248th comment!}

1) A little from column A and a little from column B.
2) Keep the 86 until junior year. Then get an 89. (unless you're in precalc now, then get the 89 right away)

--BlueCalx

Loading this page has crashed three different browsers on three differently configured PC's at my school, all on a T3 line.
Joy. :)

--BlueCalx

Congratulations!

Loading this page has never crashed my browser, and I'm on a fractional/shared T1.

Your computer is a P3 costing some obscene sum of money.
At school, we run off P133's, best-case, with the exception of the G3's, which are far worse.

--BlueCalx

I have no trouble loading this page, as I too run a P3 with a crapload of RAM (on a 10Mbit ethernet connection, too). I feel sorry for you, Nick. :)

~ferich

How much RAM?

Ummm...128MB I think. It's my roommate's computer.

~ferich

I have 256mb. Na na na :-)

See Nick's post a little ways down about his computer.

~ferich

My P3 also kick's your computer's ass. :)

I am highly offended by your misuse of an apostrophe. It's very unprofessional and shows the incompetancy of tiuser.

Please don't delete this comment.

Excuse me? It shows the incompetancy of what?

I had to work for two months to get the money to purchase my computer. You, however, got the money (over five times as much as I earned) from your parents as a birthday present. Your suburban and cocky attitude towards money [expletive]ing appalls me, Bryan. I'd love to see people like you get somehow forced to fend for themselves. I'd love to see how you'd survive without any money. I'm not saying I'm destitute (I'm not), but you should really open your eyes and try to comprehend the world outside yours.
Perhaps you'd finally learn something.

--BlueCalx

A final note:
My computer and all its components cost not over $700 over two months to purchase.
Bryan's computer cost about $4,000, according to his web page. It is far better than mine (and most).
Logically following, this means I am a lesser person and should be treated as such. From now on, I have lost the will to live because of Bryan's higher ranking in the social ladder. He is privileged; I am not; therefore, I must be a worse person.
Read Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" for more information -- I'm Heathcliff :P

--BlueCalx

How did you get $4,000?

Because it was listed on your page until you deleted it.

--BlueCalx

I never put the words "$4,000" on my page.

It wasn't a birthday present. It was a graduation gift for having a final GPA of 4.0 and being valedictorian.

"Gee Chris, you totally ignored my comment. Are you ever going to tell me whether that comment is real and you meant every word of it, or have you changed your mind? Can't you answern that simple question for me?"
- Bryan Rabeler, October 26, 1999

Hmm... isn't that exactly what you're doing here? First, about 250 posts ago in this same discussion board, you bash Chris for changing the topic ("ignoring" your comment) and then you do the same thing to Nick? I beleive that Nick's main point was not the REASON for your parents giving you a large sum of money, but the fact that they did give it to you (etc, etc.)

It's also nice that Bryan just proved my point, seeing as he decided to be cocky and mention that he was valedictorian in his class with a 4.0 GPA. It's nice to see that you're so perfect, Bryan. It makes me realize my place in the world. I will be subject to only the noisiest and/or hottest of jobs because I have a 3.87 and I'm 66th in a class of 505, and the fact that I got a 1460 and 33 on my SAT and ACT respectively. In conclusion, I suck. I will never amount to anything. I will spend the rest of my days eating small rats on the corner of Lower Wacker Drive and Wabash in downtown Chicago.

--BlueCalx

Ehhhhh. I am blazed!!!! HEHEH. Um you two should fight and then like do someoahdfoai shit an den you can ban him from the site.... yeah!


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People that work for their possessions, UNITE!!!

Bryan, I dig you and your fly-ass computer, but take note I agree with Nick on one thing. You got 4k for getting good grades. Good job, pat on the back. However, my first computer was a Macintosh 512k. Used that for 4 years. Next was a Macintosh Performa 630CD @33MHz. Used that for nearly 6 years. I did web pages and developed graphics with what I could. I used those computers until they died. I just recently got a decent computer, a PIII 450 Gateway. What is my point? After 10 years of working with absolute shit, I get a good computer. I worked for it. I tried my hardest for school, I saved money, I put countless hours into begging my parents (heehee ;) and it finally paid off. You, on the other hand, get $4000 for making it through highschool and getting good grades. Don't get me wrong, you might have deserved it, but Nick is right, you *work* for what you get, my parents would die before they gave me $4000 just for good grades. I'm not rich.

On another note, I think that 400 comments is ridiculous and I hope this anarchy trial period is over fast because it draws up some of the scum from the bottom of the TI-community (flamebait? most definitely). Oh well, peace.

U-N-I-T-E

(Reply to your "another note":)

I don't think the reason that there's 400+ comments is because it's anarchy, it's just because people have a lot to say about the issue. Look at the other two articles posted since this one, they have a sane number of comments. Sure, a few of the comments would not have been acceptable under the old system, but the majority (maybe "majority" is stretching it...) of the comments posted are constructive.

Even though I may differ with you on the amount that my computer cost, I'll use the 4k figure for the time being.

I didn't just get 4k for getting good grades. I got 4k for getting good grades, perfect grades, for four straight years. It's a lot of work. I'm not going to argue anymore about whether my parents should have done it or not.

And if you look at the other news items posted after this one, you'll see that this news item is an exception.

I was merely stating the reason why my parents gave me money for a computer. You were the one that brought up this subject, not me.

I never said you were any worse than I am. We went to different high schools. It's hard to compare anyway.

I'm not ignoring any question from Nick. I was simply correcting something that he said.

T3 sucks ass!!! I've got fucking DSL

This page hasn't crashed any browsers on my computer (exept when I went to print preview to see how many pages it would be), and I am on a _shared_ (home network) 56k modem (and a slow one at that).

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Hmm... weird. The page won't load on my 85 or 86. And I only get the first 10% or so on my 89. Oh well. At least it works on all my boxen.

Yeah, the IE built into my TI-89 doesn't load this page, either. I have too many games on it, resulting in about 100K of user RAM. Last time I checked, this page was about 800K in size. That'll probably explain why. :)

~ferich

It works fine on my 56K, on a P2 266 box with more problems than TI-Files :p