It's about time. There hasn't been a fake news article for a LONG time. Good job Nicky!

--Ben

If the best we can do is fake news when its not a holiday or April Fool's Day, we need to start doing some newsworthy work. Good job though, Nick!

Perhaps we could have something about the unsung programmers (amateur programmers) of the TI Community instead of just news about the master programmers like Patrick Davidson and Xavier Vassor.

I'm guessing that this article will get over 100 comments.

I expect it to set the record for the most comments on any news item. Unless, of course, someone foolishly posts some more news in the next few days which moves it off the front page.

The Anarchy Trial will never be beaten.

Ever.

--BlueCalx

That page crashed my computer more than my own programs do =P

Yes, but now split news items make it completely safe. This page (which will, VERY SOON, become even larger) is of course now safe for viewing also.

We'll see about that. At the current rate of about 10 comments per hour, this should reach the top in less than 2 days.

I guess I'll have to throw lots of pennies at it in (4/25)-bit increments

here's my first $(1/50)

What an exciting mathematical relationship of currency. I wonder how many people here will be able to comprehend it?

Probably several, since its formatted similarly to entering stuff into the cas on the 89/92(+)

The only thing that might keep this article from having as many comments as the anarchy post is the fact that the anarchy post had almost no restrictions.

I need to read that thing in completion sometime...
at this rate, i'll be paying ticalc.org at least minimum wage, just from $(1/(5[pi]/18)[radians to degrees]) per post:)

I wish I had that much money ...

Not everyone has a CAS-capable calculator.

With the Random Numbar Generator they do

I've sent so many pairs of pennies to ticalc.org that i'm centsless!

You'd have to already be senseless to send anything to ticalc.org in the first place. Then again, I guess you actually said 'centsless' but there has to be some sort of connection ...

If you remembered a comment of mine that you replied to a little further up on my thread, you would recall that I was speaking figuratively in that each comment was my two cent's worth and that I was implying that I have made a bunch of posts in response to this news item.

Unfortunately, there are too many posts on this board for me to remember them all clearly. And adding this one will only make the situation even worse.

True. This one makes it even worse. Anyways, here's what I was referrring to:
>I guess I'll have to throw lots of pennies at it in (4/25)-bit increments

Well, we're now up to around 345 comments, so the situation should be worse. But guess what! Now that the news is on multiple pages, there should be no problem! Unless, of course, two of the items relating to each other an on different pages. Then, there would be a disaster.

I've encountered many the problem of that nature on Mu Alpha Theta tests

Only we'd have to determine the probability that a randomly selected ticalc member could comprehend it after being strung along with five other members on a bracelet _with_ a clasp, remembering, too, that the bracelet can be flipped without creating a different permutation.

San Diego...

-Niten

Could you please post a simplified version of that?

I tend to do more comments than that in one hour, but these stats are weighed by enormous amounts of tangentally related, barely coherent posts at 2am or later on weekends.

I think my record for comments in one hour was about 20 in one hour, but on two or three different boards.

Unfortunately, you don't seem to be keeping up the rate lately. Have you fallen off a cliff or something?

Nein. Nyet. Non. No.
Summer school has kept me off line more than usual.

2am? I thought that was the peak of coherence!

Aye, but not 4am-6am.

The anarchy trial only has so many comments because discussions roamed freely and almost unrestrained. However, it can be beat if we contribute LOTS of relevant comments to the cause.

I've already posted at least 6 comments in less than two hours of online time (so I slept in between the two segments). Many people have already posted more comments than myself.

After spending a half-hour reading about 30% of the "News Anarchy Trial" board, I'm VERY glad that there was a bunch of self-government on the board, because if there was not, this message board wouldn't exist.

Anyways, to the point: the anarchy trial board had several posts that were some form of peer-governing, which likely saved the message board privelege. They also consumed several posts, as did flame wars (estimated total from those:~100). Despite these numerical advantages, we can still beat them!

We could always start flame wars on this board. It isn't very hard to do that.

Yes, but they're just *slightly* forbidden. I don't feel like putting myself at risk for flames, despite my kevlar-nomex shell (stops bullets great too!)

Yes, slightly forbidden, where 'slightly' means 'against ticalc.org or one of its staff members'. If you flame anyone else, you should get away with it with no problems.

see my response to your comment on h4r455m3n7 on the second thread from the top

Well, it is kind of difficult to read your other response, as it is sooo far away from here. Nonetheless, I assure you I was only referring using flames sparingly and in context; I would never think of doing it any other way.

That's why I usually browse message boards with two windows on the board. Apparently you do remember some comments pretty well. Flames only do good if constructive and used sparingly and in context.

Any word on whether or not we're in a comment race?

Yes, we certainly are.

That would explain why at least half of the comments are from either you or me.

That very comment has, including those on subthreads, fourteen comments below it, including this one, so it is actually helping to disprove itself.

Of course, he might try to cheat by posting more messages to the Anarchy Trial Board (if it's still possible to post on one that old ...)

Yes, but one person, even a determined Disabato, cannot outpost the rest of the ticalc.org members.

Unless he bans us from posting.

That would be hard to do. If you just mean you and me from posting, that could be sidestepped by dumping our old sns and getting new ones under pseudonyms. Bios would have to be dropped, but that's a small price to pay for our constitutional right. There's also the theoretical possiblity of involvement of barristers. We need not forget that Nick does not have absolute power over ticalc.org, as that is reserved for who owns the server. I think that's Magnus, but i'm not entirely sure (Van Halen is a slight bit distracting).

It would be hard, but with Random Numbar Generator, anything is possible!

Nick is not just one person! He's one person + the Random Numbar Generator! Anyone with that kind of power could rule the earth!

Yeah.

What? The author of this program was wrong!?!??!?! Gasp. My idol is not perfect. *sob*

It seems that both of us are doing far more than our part to the cause. Are we seeing who can post the most on-topic comments? If we are, we may very well be at least 1/4 of all posts on this particular board.

I'm not sure. It depends on what you mean by 'on-topic' ... many posts on the Anarchy Trial board weren't really directly pertaining to the topic (though they did give ideas about what the results of anarchy would be, so they did at least relate indirectly).

And I quote from the guidelines which we (are supposed to) read every time we post:
>Please be constructive and keep comment topics relevant to the article you are replying to.

That explains what I meant by on-topic.

Then it depends on what the requirements are for 'constructiveness' and 'relevance'. Of course, since Random Number Generator contains the entire universe (and infinitely much more) clearly anything is relevant to it.

It Just Did

Yeah. This must mean that 'Ben Oman' has the amazing power to foretell the future. I wish I could do that.

News this groundbreaking in a period of no news will almost always break 100 comments. Maybe the clairvoyant user's name should be "Ben Omen" instead of "Ben Oman". It also makes an almost funny pun. At last checking, this article had 115 comments, but those stats appear to be updated about once an hour.

We're past 280 now !!!!

Now its about 3 comments from passing the infamous "Rant: On Asbestos, Hacking, and Ineptitude" in volume of comments.

I predict it shall pass 273 comments within one month from its original posting.

Well, it's already past 200 now, and it shows no signs of decline.

At this point its at 226 comments, so I'm changing the time that it will pass 273 to by the end of this weekend.

It might even hit 273 before midnight touches any part of the US, maybe even Canada! It'll certainly hit it before midnight GMT tomorrow! It will probably hit 320 by then

First sentence has been disproven. Its almost met the second. Third, not likely.

Unfortunately, it has been disproven. But, we shouldn't lose heart as we have now caught up to that threshold. So, on to overtaking anarchy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so much for that.
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hooray for randnumgen (on topic)
*distributes Mad Props to Nick D.*
~slap slap slap~
*is bitch-slapped by somebody calling himself 'Q'*
-DL