Survey posted 2004-06-23 02:59 by Jon.

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I must have reviewed 5 or 6 files, but I never counted. Is there a counter somewhere I can look at?

Click on the magnifying lens icon next to your user name of your post.

-Samuel

7 to 10 baby! Wow, I'm on the top reveiwers list. Sometimes I impress even myself.

Man, I would have like 30 or 40, but like all of my reviews got rejected...(probably because I am from Mississippi)...and now I only have 2. I really need to pay attention in English class...or Morgan could post any review you write regardless of grammar(hint, hint).

Uhm....Jon does reviews, So I would hint towards him (hint/hint).

Well, hell I don't know anybody from this site. I just got here. The only person I know that works for this site is Morgan, so I put his name.

~*correction*~
Jon could post any review you write regardless of grammar.

One of the things I do when I read through reviews is correct grammar and spelling, so 99% of the time, if a review has a few to a moderate amount of grammar mistakes, it will still get published (If it also meets the other review criteria : ) ).

When writing a review, you should ask yourself two questions: "Did what I write actually review the file?" and "Did I support my points?" It helps not to just state what the program does, but give your opinion about the program, why it's good or bad, and make sure you back up your point!

Well its fairly easy to assume that Michael does the news...unless we made him up and post news articles in hios name.

Also the poster of the survey will indicate who posted it at the top. Besides those two positions you don;t really know who does what with exceptiopn of the updates sidebar on the frontpage.

>probably because I am from Mississippi

First time I've actually laughed out loud at my computer in a long time. Of course, what can I expect from someone who spells his user name "calk"? You southerners are funny. :-)

agreed.

down here we think its a waist of time to spell out every word and punctuate properly

puntuation is for wimps!

Last I checked a "!" is a punctuation.

Wimp.

So is bad spelling

That's entirely too bad. I live in Louisiana, but I'm from West Virginia and my parents are from Michigan. I endeavour to have correct spelling and grammar in everything. I -in general- have the best grammar in my class (c/o 2005).

I read this somewhere:
"If people in Louisiana and Mississippi cared as much about education as they do about football, they would be breding geniuses left and right."

*breeding

(I'm no spelling Nazi, or spelling savant for that matter, but the irony on this post and the parent was just too grand.)

Ironic, yes. Typo, most likely.

THAT one made me laugh.

Oops.

<mortified look>

*waste

(Tee hee.)

So are you trying to say I'm stupid because I'm from the south?

That's what it sounds like YOU are saying.

Well, I'm only saying that because Dude implied it. I don't like when people try to say I'm stupid because I'm from the south. In fact, I've made all A's since I was in 1st grade, bitch.

There is a good chance that I was the one who rejected your reviews. I held that position until Jon took over. The only reason I would reject a review that was actually talking about the file, would be if there wasn't sufficiant information given to consider it a complete review.

Bt don;t feel too bad, I rejected around half of the reviews I was submitted.

LOL! That post really made me laugh :-D

I like the addition of profanity to the end of your comment there. What better way to convey your intelligence? I also find it humorous that while I was the one who expanded on your comment, you lash out at Lewk Of Serthic.

Anyways!

Actually, neither one of these replies have been from me. My little step-brother (who I would love to kill) got on my computer while I was at my dad's for a week and wrote all those things. (Haha, but now he's in trouble because I have proof of him bein bad... you know how it is with little brothers... your mom thinks he's the best kid in the world and he's a really great liar.) Now I am back, and I apologize for anything my brother has said to any of you.

I am from Mississippi though... and proud of it.

How'd you know my nickname? j/k

Hey! thats offensive. we are not stupid just because we talk slowly and over pronunciate. Ya'll just chat to fast.

HA! now that was funny.

Sometimes I think I would fit in more in the south.

I fit right in. I love driving on windy, mountain roads. I hate humidity and excessive heat. Southern accents annoy me, Canadians' accents annoy me, People on the East Coast thinkt they're better than everyone, Californians suck at driving, and Europe, Asia, Austrailia, Antarctica, and Soubth America just aren't my bag. Now that I've pretty much Ostricized myself from just about every user on this website, I'm feeling pretty good about living in Colorad. How any of this was relavent to anything, I'm not quite sure.

Colorado is too cold for me. I guess I'm used to the 103° heat of Texas.

Oh! That is not cool. Nobody in their right mind would ever get used to 103* (I'm not really sure how to get the degree symbol). Now, in colder climates, you put on a jacket and your set, wheras in heat, female dogs go crazy... Just kidden... but you cant get away from heat, you just have to endure it. It's freaking crazy talk!

I learned to live with it. BTW, the degree symbol is Alt+0176. Look under: Start/Programs/Accessories/SystemTools/ CharaterMap for a list of all of the symbols.

Or memorize the character map, like me, so you don't have to look them up! :-D I use some of the "old" character map codes sometimes... like alt 2,4,8 instead of 0,1,7,6. Both are °, but one's faster to type. The old one doesn't have as many that can be used now, since it was done for DOS (I had them memorized at one time too, except for the block line stuff). That's what having no life gets you. :)

LOL! Didn't you memorize the ASCII chart too? Or are all those numbers the same with a conversion from Hex to Decimal? Oh well...BTW, I live in Arizona, and there's no way I'll ever get used to the 115°-130° (used Alt+248 :P ) high's we have here...I hate the heat. When I move out, I'll probably move back to Michigan where I'm originally from...

I must agree with JAKAS.

Windows: Charmap.exe

MacOS X: International text menu extra found in International System Preferences. Includes Key Caps.

Or just use MS Word

Open Office is better and it has a char map too.

I downloaded it a few minutes ago. I couldn't do it sooner because there wasn't a stable Mac OS X version.

Californians suck at driving??? Have you ever been on a freeway in Texas??? All the people drive in the right lane (not the exit one) and it is impossible to get on! THAT is bad driving...

Ya know, I've never driven in Texas. But I do hate it when you can't get on the damn freeway because nobody moves over to the left lane for you. Bastards.

Very true (even though I live in Arizona).

Intelligence and stupidity are more or less evenly dispersed throughout the U.S. There will always be geniuses and idiots everywhere you go.

Although some places seem to atract more people (West Virginia, Florida,...) *ducks*

You mean more stupid people? I agree.

I doubt there is anyone from West Virginia here: they couldn't afford a computer, TI calc, _and_ Internet.

True. And that is assuming that theyt would WANT any of those.

Typo.

I challenge you to tell me how what I said was offensive. I said you were funny, not stupid. Haven't you ever seen Blue Collar Comedy Tour?

*returns to paying $2.50 a gallon for gas, $4.00 for a latte, and three times as much for housing*

That last line of your's must be an inside joke. I don't get it. and that makes me the "out" crowd. I remember my english teacher spent about 4 hours (multiple days) explaining to our class that if you don't get a joke, then you're in the "out" crowd. Everybody in my class were idiots (I was in honors). They dump all of the stupid kids in honors. I'm seriouse. It's because that there are few enough people that apply for honors, that they just accept it. And only the stupid kids will voluntarily want more work (except for those who are forced by parents (me) and those who really want good grades (which is usually forced by parents)). The smart kids stay in the simple classes. Although, since everybody in honors is stupid, we stay on one subject forever, so it really becomes quite easy. This has kinda become a catch 22/paradox. Oh well. That's my rant.

I was just pointing out some of the stereotypes about California, where I live. You gotta trade away something no matter where you live in this country. If you live in the South, then you "talk slowly and over pronunciate", and people might call you stupid. If you live in California, then you get to pay $2.50 a gallon for gas and $400,000 for a two bedroom/one bathroom house, and some people might call you a wuss.

(-1, offtopic)

Gotcha. Thats funny. It's true too.

P.S. I'm now part of the "in" crowd. yay.

My dad said that in Fresno at one time, the gas was up over $3.00....gas finally went back down to $1.97 at the gas station I work at (yeah, the smartest kid in the family and in any math class he's ever been in got a job at a gas station...hey, I make 8 bucks an hour. Even Best Buy couldn't offer that) Gas was up to $2.29, but it finally just dropped...

Blue Collar Comedy Tour is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.