I think that the reply rules should be changed for Fake news items, for Instance: Please be constructive and keep comment topics relevant to the article you are replying to.

How do you expect people to follow it =P

I doubt that very many people ever expected that part of the guidelines to be taken seriously.

I wondoer if many poeple notice or care about the rules.
I really never read them, and don't. I really don't know what they say, but it is probably something like "don't piss everyone off just to piss everyone off."

I'm sure the people in charge of deleting comments care about the rules, or at least some of them.

Summary of the rules: (and, coincidentaly, of the Ten Commandments :)

DON'T

I just read the new review of this program. It is very disturbing. I cannot imagine how anyone could have the audacity to rate the TI community's top achievement anything lower than 100000069/10.

I would have given it a higher review, but there is no section for "Fake Reviews" and I didn't want to mislead some of the more serious people looking for somewhat less. . . . .umm. . . . .interesting authors.

~Robert

If you had actually finished playing this brilliant game, you would have Nick's ticalc.org password which you could use to create the section yourself.

I did finish playing, but I have no clue where he logs in to post news items.

The answer that is encrypted somewhere in the program's source code.

Yes! And not only that, but the coming of this wonderful program is fortold in the Bible, the Torah, and every other holy book! I have found, through painstaking automated searches (don't ask), that, if you start from a given letter, and go a certain number of characters ahead, then the same number of characters ahead from that one, and so on, you will find the words "Random Numbar Genqrator will rule all"! Unfortunately, there is an extra q, but it is easy to imagine it is actually an "e".

i don't see why this program got a newS item. I meAn, what is so special about a pRogram that generates a random number. ti has a rom Call for this. i think thAt the ticalc.org Staff should be More selective than this on news items. shame on you, nyck dysabato.

Remove the stick from your buttocks, boy! First off, it's a fake news item!! (DUH!!) AND, you can turn those off if you so choose (you heartless bastard). Secondly, the TI rom call is waaaay to simple. This program revolutionizes modern random number generation techniques!!

Tim Dorr
tim@timdorr.com
http://www.timdorr.com/

I know it is fake news, but what is so revolutionary about this?

p.s. i dont have a stick in my buttocks

If you jsut run the program once, you will see why it is so astounding.

Check his capital letters, Timmy: it spells out "SARCASM"

-Niten

hahaha!!!
I knew someone would find the needle in the haystack. I was just waiting for a few people to insult my intelligence and sense of humor.

I've been secretly working on a Random Numbur Generator, but I am having trouble reverse-engineering Nick's Technical masterpiece. He is literally years, no Centuries, ahead of the game. Thus, it would be an insult to Nick, and the fans of Random Numbar Generator to publish my pitiful work.

Wonderful. It's good to see there's at least one program who knows when not to insult the work of Masters like Nick.

Different people spell 'sarcasm' in different ways.

Jesus H. Christ!! I think even he wishes he could program like this! WoW. If I had l33t skillz like that, I would have written 20 RPG's by now. Nick, can I have your phone number!?

Jesus H. Christ! You sound like Holden Caulfield. I have always wondered whether "Jesus H. Christ" is just a phrase invented for "Catcher in the Rye" or if it's used by other people. If anyone here is half as smart as this Nick Disabato, I should like to hear his two cents worth.

By the way, Nick's program is awesome! I ported it to the PC, and it converted my old 486 33mhz to a 987.2 mhz Pentium IV! Plus, by making a few modifications to the program, I discovered a cure for cancer and AIDs. Oh, yeah, the program seems to have gotten rid of all of the hunger in the word. What's more, it has put an end to all of the fighting in the world. Seriously. Everyone just layed down his weapon. I think that this program is seriously worth considering for anyone who has a calculator.

In fact, the only reason that I bought my calculator was in hope that some day--I had no idea that it would be today--a genius would come out with a program that would do justice to the lump of circuitry and buttons that TI so boldly refers to as a "calculator." I did not know that The Chosen One would be Nick, or that His program would be as spectacular as His random numbar generator, but I knew that this day had to come.

What does the "H" stand for?

Horatio

Jesus Horatio Christ?

Yeah. A little-known but undeniably true fact.