Is it just me, or are these news items getting sort of dull?

Hey, they have to keep our minds of the evilness of which they are associated with. Hmm, just how news post/surveys have there been since the Bryan incident? Coincidence? I don't think so.

Yeah,

They've got this great big conspiricy to take our mind of the fact that the site is working better then ever, and they are probably having a lot more fun with it as well... No delays on file uploads... New hosting of all kinds of different sites under ticalc.org. Heck, even the quality of the games comming out continues to improve. Bomberman will be great on the 89 (liked that news story or I'd have missed the release) and with Zelda around the corner...

Good job everyone... Those who can't contribute criticize. That would be those Bryan supports at times :)

Sorry for posting the previous under a psudonym... I hate em, but with a name like Conspiricy Theorist how could I resist...

August

What suggestions might you have to make our news interesting?

Well, first of all, (and most of all), in the past it seems you posted news items only if they were really interesting or important. Now it seems as though there is at least one new news article a day. Don't get me wrong, I like news, but some of the news just isn't that great. It also dulls the better news items because everybody thinks, oh well, just another little trivial thing. If you look at past news articles, you'll see that there are a lot more comments than there are now. (This in itself should tell you something.)

Mmhh... Well... In a sense you're right... But don't you think that it is because there are just more news that there are fewer comments. In the past there was an article every 2 week or 3 and people had not much to comment but always the same article...

News I Like (tm):

1. Major program releases. The games that stand above the games. More smaller profiles of other interesting programs might also be nice. A batch of quickies kind of thing. Neat math stuff and so on...

2. Hardware info. Could expand beyond just looking at TI's direction to the direction and capabilites of microprocessors and small screens and whatnot that go into the calculator... Kind of industry news.

3. A gossip column off of the main page where Bryan supports can go to rant, and generally report keep the site exciting...

4. Sample Solutions... Stories from the trenches... Calculators in schools, calc networks in colleges. Infared calcs, calcs brought on russian ships, loaded on deep sea percision navigation equipment... My calcs done lots of neat things, and more are to come. They actually have a real use in the scientific and engineering product market... Love to talk to people about some of those uses...

August

I somewhat agree, but then again, ticalc.org can't control the news, really... their job is to report the news, not create it (with some exceptions, of course...). So if it's a "slow time" then they just report what they think is important.

It seems to me that ticalc.org has been in a "slow time" ever since the "Bryan Incident". Hmm... Dull news is right, though. A poll about link cables? How dull is that?

Is it just me, or are all the Bryan supporters anonymous folks with Hotmail address, or no address at all... Must be a conspiriacy...

August

Anonymous people using a hotmail address. I have a hotmail address. Does that post apply to me as well? Will all of you conspiracy theorists please shut up. (respond August, I dare ya... =)

I think any new is good, I enjoy reading news whether it blows or not--that's just me though. But I do agree, more stuff in the news (better and more exciting items) would certainly spice up the news.

Well, as Atom said, we don't (usually) make the news, we just report it. So if you want us to report exciting news, you've got to write exciting programs or make an exciting site :)

We try not to post "filler" when things get slow, but we may be more encouraged to put up a new survey or something just to let people know we're still alive. In general we post about things like that anyway.

Chris

TICalc.org is getting more and more features, that's really good!... Are you like me getting sick of the site overhaul?...

I think this is a good idea. Programmers can talk to other programmers or to the people who use thier programs instantly and get input instantly. If only someone was in there...

Unfortunatly, programmers are not going to sit on irc.ticalc.org all the time... What would be nice is to have a system which levereged something we all used like ICQ... I have a quick question, I can fire it off to someone who has put themselves up as available for a certain type of question...

August

Definitly, people are not going to sit on irc.ticalc.org. Why? Because irc.ticalc.org is a hosted website, not an IRC server. I beleive there is some confusion, so let me say it again. This is NOT an IRC server we've setup. This is NOT a page we do. This is a hosted site just like all the other hosted sites.
Sorry for the confusion.

as are (most) irc channels, little on subject is talked about. take for example last night. subject: personal assault vehicles and police evasion. just a warning to all those purists out there expecting:

<ldspartan> yeah, i guess that putsprite routine is slower than the old one.
<BlueCalx> well, perhaps if you were to rewrite the...

and so on (names used as example, no endorsment implied and i'm not saying that's what they'd say ]:-)

-KAKE
IP

thanks for the disclaimer at the end, but next time make up nicks like <person1> and <person2> :)
btw, I don't even know z80 or 68k asm, so me commenting on a particularly slow putsptrite routine would be odd. :)
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lds

sorry ldspartan. just wanted to give it an air of realism (inacurate as it may be). they were the only to to come to me. i'll try to be less personal next time ]:-)

-KAKE
IP

I concur with lds :) Though I think I made a sprite for a program that wasn't released once, you still shouldn't have used my name. I do like the publicity though :)

--blue