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The Five Year Mission: It's Time to Party!
Posted by Henrik on 17 June 2001, 03:06 GMT

We embarked on our five year mission, to explore strange new subroutines, to boldly go where no program counter had gone before and to encounter strange new calculators.

On 21 June, five years ago, after several months of hard work, ticalc.org was unveiled to the public. A collaboration between some of the maintainers of the greatest TI sites back then. Since then several galant members of our team has joined and departed, and our site has seen several overhauls. We have served over two hundred million requests (200,000,000) and 3 terabytes (3,298,534,883,328 bytes).

To celebrate that our five year mission has succeeded and that we are about to embark upon a new one, we invite you all, that has helped us make this site what it is today, to join us for a party in the #ti IRC channel on 21 June 2001, at 15:00 (3:00 pm) GMT through 16:00 (4:00 pm) GMT. Use the Time Zone Converter to find out what time this is in your location. The time has been chosen to fit most of our community around the world.

A log will be posted here after the party. Take the chance and meet some of the ticalc.org staff that aren't regulars in #ti and discuss the past and the future.

Update (Henrik): Log is now available.

 


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Re: The Five Year Mission: It's time to party!
saggitar710  Account Info
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Yes, yes, congradulations!

My comment is second!

Now maybe I should read the news piece...

     17 June 2001, 03:40 GMT

Congratulations ticalc.org!
jdhensh  Account Info

Congratulations on your five year mission. I look forward to you party!

(-: Top Ten Post :-)

     17 June 2001, 03:52 GMT

Re: Congratulations ticalc.org!
zak vargas  Account Info
(Web Page)

whats 3 o clock GMT in eastern time? somone needs to make a program for this damn GMt shit

     17 June 2001, 04:01 GMT

Re: Re: Congratulations ticalc.org!
henrik Account Info
(Web Page)

Try clicking the Time Zone Converter link like it says and you can find out.

     17 June 2001, 04:15 GMT

Re: Re: Congratulations ticalc.org!
saggitar710  Account Info
(Web Page)

8 eastern, I think

     17 June 2001, 04:21 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Congratulations ticalc.org!
henrik Account Info
(Web Page)

15:00:00 Thu Jun 21 2001 in GMT converts to
11:00:00 Thu Jun 21 2001 in US/Eastern.

How hard is it to use the Time Zone Converter link?

     17 June 2001, 04:32 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Congratulations ticalc.org!
zak vargas  Account Info
(Web Page)

so sorry! im new at this jeez this is the only layout i know and i dotn knwo it well god damn wigga hat the fuck is ya problem

     17 June 2001, 16:40 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Congratulations ticalc.org!
Ted Burton  Account Info
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If you live in Indiana, it's 10:00:00 Thu Jun 21 2001. Neither Indiana nor Arizona use daylight savings time. I honestly don't know if the rest of the world (outside of the United States) does or not.

     17 June 2001, 19:05 GMT


Re: Re: Congratulations ticalc.org!
SHEENmaster  Account Info
(Web Page)

it's 11:00 am.

     20 June 2001, 02:55 GMT


Re: Congratulations ticalc.org!
Ted Burton  Account Info

Just as long as ticalc.org doesn't degrade into a increasingly losing epic played by rapidly aging actors. Or for a more audience-accurate version of the preceding wish, that it doesn't degrade to a haven for crackers, |337 h4x0rz, or other scum of the net.

     22 June 2001, 02:39 GMT

Wheres the cake?
Cpt.Ginyu
(Web Page)

1 1 1 1 1
i i i i i
oooooooooooooooooooooo
0 0
0 CONGRADULATIONS 0
0 0
0000000000000000000000
0 TO 0
0 TICALC.ORG! 0
0000000000000000000000

Mmm... Cake :)

     17 June 2001, 07:15 GMT


Re: Wheres the cake?
Cpt.Ginyu
(Web Page)

Rats... someone squished the cake.

     17 June 2001, 16:57 GMT


Re: Re: Wheres the cake?
Bradford5 Account Info

heres my cake...

5 5 5 5
y e a r
-anniversary-
-ticalc.org -
-YAAAAAAAAAY-
-------------

     17 June 2001, 17:12 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Wheres the cake?
Bradford5 Account Info

oh well....mine didn't work either

GREAT WORK TICALC.ORG CONGRATS ON THE FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

     17 June 2001, 17:18 GMT

Typo?
Ciaran McCreesh  Account Info
(Web Page)

> On 21 June 2001, but five years ago

Hang on... Is that a typo or am I just misreading it?

     17 June 2001, 11:47 GMT


Re: Typo?
Brian Gregory  Account Info
(Web Page)

I guess they didn't know how to subtract 5 years from 21 June 2001.

I make it 21 June 1996.

     17 June 2001, 14:53 GMT


Re: Re: Typo?
Ciaran McCreesh  Account Info
(Web Page)

That's what I thought... This is 2001, yeah?

     17 June 2001, 16:10 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Typo?
Ciaran McCreesh  Account Info
(Web Page)

Ah, that's better. They've fixed it. BUT THEY STILL CAN'T DO 2001 - 5 !!! :)

/me Whacks head against keyboardhjkfhklyflnsajfk,.fhdsa

     17 June 2001, 19:29 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
henrik Account Info
(Web Page)

Stop complaining about my English or you show me your Swedish skills.

     17 June 2001, 20:07 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
Bradford5 Account Info

Here's my Swedish skills

På 21 juni 2001, utom fem år sedan...

translates (on 21 June 2001, but five years ago....)

Bradford

     17 June 2001, 20:31 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
henrik Account Info
(Web Page)

Nja, "Den 21 juni 2001, men för 5 år sedan". You should freshen up your Swedish skills and learn that nothing can be translated word by word directly.

     17 June 2001, 20:39 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
Bradford5 Account Info

ok...just messing around with translation dictionaries...

Pero, yo habla el espanol

En 21 junio 2001, pero cinco anos antes....

Como hace los tildes y los acentos?

     17 June 2001, 20:50 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
ArsenicMan  Account Info

It should be "Pero, yo *hablo* español." (Assuming you want present tense.)

Not entirely sure, but shouldn't it be "En el 21 de junio 2001"?

ñ is Alt+0241.
á 0225
é 0233
í 0237
ó 0243
ú 0250

     17 June 2001, 21:07 GMT

translation
Christopher Handy  Account Info

Take it all to the fish. It saved me on a French paper this year.

babelfish.altavista.com

     18 June 2001, 04:40 GMT


Re: translation
wktcs

Yeah, I like babelfish, too.

It's officially a "godly" site.

However, I think it goes better in Italian:

"il 21 giugno 2001, ma cinque anni fa...."

     18 June 2001, 19:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
no_one_2000_  Account Info

That depends on if you have a mac or not. (I know all of the alt thingies too!)

     20 June 2001, 15:32 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
Daniel Bishop  Account Info
(Web Page)

I used to know those Alt codes, but there's no need to now that I've changed my keyboard layout.

     20 June 2001, 20:16 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
Ted Burton  Account Info

I put your math problem into my 89 and received the following output (spaces added to comply with 40-character word limit (which would make doing this site in German difficult)):
2001-66895029134491270575881180540903725 8675274633313802981029567165230163355724 4962989366874165271984981308157637893214 0905525344085894081218598984811143896500 0596496052125696000000000000000000000000 0000!

I also entered it into PFGW version 20010125_dev, and received the following output:
1991

Apparently my 89 interpreted 5!!! as ((5!)!)!, while PFGW interpreted it as 5*(5-3)*...*1, or 5*2.

     17 June 2001, 20:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
Bradford5 Account Info

uh......
You need your 89 to figure out 2001 - 5 ???????????

     17 June 2001, 20:34 GMT

No
Travis Sinclair  Account Info

Can you do 5!!! in your head? (please note, not 5, not 5!, or 5!!, but 5!!!)

     19 June 2001, 07:08 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
Ted Burton  Account Info

someone beat me to correcting you, but remember that a factorial of a number and the number only equal when the number is 1. and depending on the form of factorialization you prefer, it's either a number so enormous that it would probably fill the ENTIRE memory on an 89 (including flash and ram), or 1991.

     19 June 2001, 10:05 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
Daniel Bishop  Account Info
(Web Page)

That's not entirely true, because 2! == 2.

     19 June 2001, 21:33 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Typo?
Ted Burton  Account Info

Doh! Forgot that! But it was at about 4am, so I hope it's excusable:)

     20 June 2001, 20:33 GMT

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