Survey posted 2004-04-17 08:20 by Morgan.

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Seriously though, how much would anyone here actually pay for it? I think the folks at ticalc should really consider auctioning it off to the highest bidder.

Kinda O/T, but I just wanted to say something. I just noticed that there was a toplist for reviews, and I think that thats kinda stupid. I mean, some of these people have 30+ reviews. People are reviewing for the sake of the list, not because they feel that a program needs some recognition\needs to be shot down. For exampe, someone (no offense) wrote a review on that 3d grapher from detached solutions i think, and it said something like "and i hear that the trace function doesnt work well". It shouldnt be a matter of hearing that it doesnt work, it should be a matter of you using it and getting bad results from the use. Its like making a toplist for forum posts, which would get you tons of comments consisting of "LOL!1!!". In my opinion, there should at least be a limit for the number of reviews written, so that someone doesnt quickly download 50 random programs off the net and look at them (maybe even just read the read me) for two minutes. A standard for these reviews needs to be set.
-my 2¢

I think it is.

They didn't let me write one that was completely dispariging Kerm Martian's "Learn to Use Your TI83+" program...

Did you rewrite it after it was rejected? It's up now (see link).

I approved that review. In the beginning when reviews were first being approved there were no guidelines set about which reviews were accepted and which weren't. Since then we have hired a reviews editor and he is doing a very good job. Some of the first reviews that were approved mught be a little fluffy, for that it is my fault I tried to do the best I could.

However it should be known that we reject around 50% of the total submitted reviews and that case you explained is mild compared to what I saw while dong the reviews for a short while.

All in all Jon (the NEW reviews editor) has been trained to take care of those types of reviews accordingly, he is in my opinion doing a very good job.

Oh and I would like to hear a method of coming up with a better way to get people to try and submit reviews? People love stats, its a good way to go.

I agree. People like stats, so they review more, BUT, Jon edits the bad reviews out, so it's all good.

Well if you read the whole review that ti guy was complaining about you certainly get the general idea that guy guy has used it before and most likely very often. I think what he is suggesting is that some other people have problems with the trace option, however he doesn't. And actually I tooked at that review and I didn't add it, Jon did, but I support what he did.

Well, its good to know that there are reviews that didn't make it because of lack of quality. And I never thought that what I said about the graph 3d review could have been beacause he didn't find any problems with it. But I still think that 39 reviews is getting pretty high pretty fast. It seemed like the top number of reviews jumped from 6 to 30 in just a week or two. The one review I did was for bnibblez, and because its my favorite game for the 89, and I played it for maybe 5+ hours in study hall. I just hope that others who review test the material they are reviewing enough.

Hey, I just checked, did you notice that all that stuff about 13375p34k got sent to the great beyond? lol, but it was pretty o/t if I do say so myself. Or maybe its still there, but I can't read.

Yep. The number of comments went down from 88 to 42 in, like, 15 minutes.

"However it should be known that we reject around 50% of the total submitted reviews and that case you explained is mild compared to what I saw while dong the reviews for a short while."

Yikes! :)

I've only written one review so far. I make sure I've been using the programs for a while (even a few months) and get to know them very well before I review them. That means it takes longer, but that helps me be sure there isn't anything I missed. I feel that the longer someone spends with what he/she reviews, the more accurate the review is.

PI IS EXACTLY 3!
Sorry I had to resort to this to get your attention (j/k), but I was wondering about a few things. First, where do you draw the line for bad reviews? Again, I don't want to seem like I'm nit-picking or anything, but when I see a few one to two line reviews, I feel distressed. Also, I was just checking the top reviewer's list cause I felt like it, and I looked at the review's that the #1 reviewer (I cant spell his name from memory and I'm too lazy to cut and paste) wrote. I think that they are all of good quality, but it seems like he has several duplicate reviews. Is it just my computer? Well, thats the end of my second rant, so I would like to say:
E IS EXACTLY 2! heh

PI is as near to damn it 3.
as one of my lecturers would put it.

One of the others would decide 3.141... would be a bit to complex and just say.
PI = 1. make life more simple.

X = 1; Y = 1;
X = Y;
X*Y = Y^2;
X*Y - x^2 = Y^2 - X^2;
X*(X - Y) = (X + Y)*(X - Y); (divide by (X - Y))....
X = X + Y
1 = 2;

PI = 4.71238897, for large enough values of 1.
PI = 1.57079633, for small enough values of 1.

Numbers and stats can do and say anything ;)

x(x-y)=x^2-xy
(x+y)(x-y)=x^2-y^2
xy-x^2!=x^2-xy, and likewise with y^2-x^2 and x^2-y^2. So there. You won't be disproving every law in math while im on duty.
hehehehe....duty. hehehehehe....diariah -peter griffin

Ah crap! Stuck in the stairs.

What are you on about. Your little bits state the obvious. Not to sure what you are getting at there.

It's warm today.
It was warm yesterday.
Warmer still today.

I met her on the CB,
She said her name was Pheobe,
Sounded like an angel come to Earth.
When I went to meet her,
Man you should have seen her,
Twice my height, three times the girth.

My fat baby likes to eat,
big old ..... belly
and her breasts swing past her feet.
My fat baby likes to ea-eeet
My big old fat ass baby likes to eat.

I've got blisters on me fingers.

(well off the top of my head)

X = Y;
X*(X - Y) = (X + Y)*(X - Y); (divide by (X - Y))....

Well, if X = Y then X - Y = 0, and it doesn't sound like too good an idea to try dividing by (X - Y).

Can these servers really run that well on dual 200mhz processors?

What's to run? All pages are static HTML pages that are only regenerated when needed (so you don't have to do a database hit for every view of the the news comments, for example). All the server really has to do is just wait for requests and send them out. Probably the most CPU intensive operation it needs to do is compress the pages sent to the user (mod_deflate), but even then I wouldn't be surprised if that's cached.

Of course, if the server was running Windows, then you have a different situation on your hands. :-)

>> All the server really has to do is just wait for requests and send them out.

*Laughs uncontrollably* :-) If you only knew :-)

I'm not sure about duel 200Mhz Pentium Pros, but a duel 166Mhz Pentium pro with 768Mb of RAM is better with AutoCAD than my Athlon 1900XP @ 1850Mhz with 1gig RAM...

3 things.
1. The old machine was 200Mhz. This machine wasn't specified, this is going from the previous link to the pretty picture. It could well be faster. Unless you have read a differnet article...

2. Yes a server like that doesn't need processor power - it needs fast disk access more than processor.

3. What OS are you running on each of your machines (dual 166 and athlon). Are they optimised?
I have a 200MHz (NO MMX:( ) at home and a 1700+xp at uni. I use linux on both and the athlon is muchos faster on everything - okay MMX et al is an advantage.
I also use gentoo now on my uni machine (all software compiled for my hardware) There is a HUGE increase in perfermance over when I ran windwoes 98. In all cases I have found linux to be more efficient then 98 apart from ata (ide) access. - please note - this isn't a linux is better then windows post, merely an observation. They both have different roles in the computer world.

Teddy bear execution squad? What kind of disturbed childhood did you lead?

Don't ask!

The question is what sort of disturbed student-hood am I leading. Heck I ran that for two years. (Ahh finally a rest to come).

Talking about disturbed, Kill Bill is fantastic, a tad odd, but fan-zippy-tastic all the same.