1st post of the day!!! (i think)
HAPPY NEW DAY!!!!!

SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! *thinks lord_nightrose*

135th post!!!

Two things to say:
1. SolidWorks is fooking awesome.
2. It throws an Illegal Instruction exception when I quit it.

Apparently it only does that on random occasions.

Also, I got it to throw an ER_throw error by trying to adjust the coordinates of an ellipse.

i have this urge to try and make a difference in the community... as many of you have noticed, there has been an explosion of, MOSTLY crap programs and games... i'm not saying the people who submit these are evil or anything, it's just that they submit files that are either useless or already in the archives (maybe with a different title or something)... so what am i suggesting? BRING BACK PROGRAM OF THE MONTH (click link for article on suspending it... i don't know why on earth they took it off) i don't think i was part of the community when they had it, but it seems like a great thing... people will try and make quality programs instead of 200 programs to maybe get their program/game nominated... there are a lot of fantastic programs out there that just don't get recognition for their work... it either gets overlooked or people don't have time to tell everyone else about it. is there anything i can do to get potm back? petition maybe? 250 signatures good enough?

I totally agree. POTM was a good thing that encouraged people to make quality programs. I come less and less to ticalc's archives because it gets harder and longer to find a decent program. One just have to go through too many programs to find something worthy. No offense to anyone, but people should only submit their best programs not everything. This is kinda useless to say that, coz not many will care, though I felt the need to.

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i agree, but thdy should not be able to win it more than once (vti got it at least 3 times)

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We need to do something to get quality games back!
If it takes POTM, I'm all for it.

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We need POTM to show all those people who made those worthless files that have been put in the last month or two. And we need not only games, but more OS tweaking stuff.

Only 250 signatures to go!!!

sorry, 245 signatures to go!!!

of course if ticalc.org shows ANY interest in putting it back (haven't yet), we'd try to get the signatures somewhere with more traffic, rather than at the bottom of a topic with over 300 posts which no one will read.

That's a good idea. Maybe email them (you probably did) or put a text file about it in the file archives. If all else fails, send everyone on ticalc.org an email!!!

lol, i was reading back on POTM, it would only let you vote for featured programs supposedly... that needs to be changed if they do it again.. any comment from staff why you suspended it again?

I say each site member gets one vote each month and he can vote for any program he/she likes, except their own. Then, at the end of moths all votes are added up and here comes the POTM. I'm sure there's plenty of improvemtns that can be made to this idea, like stricter rules, etc. but this is how I think good POTM should work.

This wouldn't be that hard to implement. They could probably modify their survey script to make this work.

of course there are many more 83+ users than 73 users for example, so it'd have to be a category by category thing, and then each of the winners will go on the same page, and everyone can vote from 1-10 on the quality, so all of the finalists are considered 'programs of the month' but the one with the best overall average quality will be 'THE program of the month'

bad idea, everyone will just keep making new accounts

Doesn't ticalc have protection agains that? I think they used to have some. Also, you'd have to get new email for that...

Except if you own domains, like I do, you can have unlimited e-mail addresses @yourdomain.com and they all are checkable from one account...thus unlimited ticalc.org accounts.

people with no lives... it doesn't matter what you do, people will be able to vote more than once... the best solution though would be to log IP's... if you have a dynamic IP, you'd probably be too lazy to sign off and on etc... plus, the people who do that won't have an impact on the overall votes since there are so many visitors to this site.

staff have any comments on this?

Another person has been added to my 'annoyances' list:

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/ files/authors/54/5424.html

Jeez, more pics! Does anyone really download those anyway?

Also, I have something to say, 'not counting eBooks as downloads is LAME!'. I agree eBooks may not count a programs, but they should be counted, maybe on a separate counter or something like that. How are pictures or game levels better than eBooks? At least eBooks have some value and usually require much more time to make. I really think something should be done about this, not because I have a few eBooks in my file list, but because it's just not right.

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My eBooks count on my download tally. Are you sure they aren't counting for you??

OOOOOOOOH... I see. Wow. That sucks. They changed it. AARGHHHH!

That will really tick me off soon... I plan on compiling a few of my own short stories into eBooks for distribution here. I *REALLY* want to know how many people are reading them!!!

And now, eBooks don't count as files either! That's real bs, who ever came up with that idea anyway...

Looks like you'll never know :(
ticalc staff never reads forums, so I doubt they'll ever do anything about this. I say people who want eBook couning back (or with separate counter) make a petition of some sort.

Raise your hand if you download crappy pictures on your calculator! My hand is down. I have a lot of programs and games, but most of them are pretty good, I only have a few pics and they are pretty funny and unique. Let's put a team logo on an 83 plus...that's pure entertainment...NOT

Well, I did make some nice pics for my 89 with PV, but I never posted them to ticalc coz I felt they'd just trash it (even though they were good)...looks like others didn't think that way.

the simpsons pics are worth looking at. and credit to the author, there is more than one pic per file

I have to agree with you. Of course, I also have pictures on my list, but they're in packs, not separate. And I don't have ONLY pics.

By the way, did they remove eBooks from the list of files that count toward busiest author? My busiest author ranking went down a bit the other day ...

Both, eBooks are practially out!

There is any easy enough solution to the ebook thing, I've learned a little C, and with the TIGCC compiler, I can just make programs that are like ebooks, but with special features, i.e. transition effects, backgrounds, etc. I was 2nd in busiest, and ebooks are hard enough to make as it is, and should count. Now I'm 7th and totally p***ed off, but will deal with it. Kudos to all programmers who can make something without using f***ing RIGview or other pic converters, unless you use them wisely, like in Super Saiya-jin Rage (totally sweeet game, but lacking in gameplay), which uses Levi Lansing's Animation Studio 86. Enough of my ranting, I have work to do ;)

or you can just upload it into a different directory

And eBooks take a sh*t load of time to make! Remember all this formatting, splitting, saving, making a title pic, etc. They definitely should count in some way or another.

He has tainted the geek name! He watches (gasp) sports!