Survey posted 1999-11-08 00:00 by Andy.

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Did anyone vote to get rid of the comment boards completely?

Let get real here, folks.

I know it's in every High Schooler's blood to rage out in total anarchy. I was once a High Schooler, and back then I thought the rules were for the birds. I thought I should do whatever I wanted to do just because I was 16, had a car, and could produce children. What a mistake.

Over the past few, I've settled down a bit, and I can now see the usefulness in such laws as these being discussed. In my opinion, if people are going to abuse their rights and impose their childish ideas on others (as I have seen in certian comments), then those people forfit their rights. In light of such childish activites, I believe that the comment system should be abandoned completely if people can't seem to post relavent, sensabe, and mature comments on posted news articles.

Also (though I know it's slightly trivial), these comment fields are being taken up by people posting "Me too" and other irrelavent messages. I have a 10/100 Ethernet connection, but it still takes a good 20 seconds to load these pages. I can't imagine how frustrating it is for people with simple 33.6K connections to wait 5 minutes only to have their screen filled up with "Me too" and flame posts.

Let's get real. I come to ticalc.org to read news on TI Calculators and read inteligent comments. I don't care much to waste my time sifting through endless, immature posts.

Sorry if I offended anyone with this post.

-Phil Killewald
PaSTE

Hey! I've got a 33.6!
...It only takes me 'bout 25 seconds...

<sarcasm>Okay... that comes to 37 cents worth of ranting and raving.</sarcasm>

I usually connect at 26.4 even though I have a 56k because I live in the boon docks and it doesn't take too long for the pages to load, unless there's >200 posts like the anarchy board.

hehehe i got a 56k and i connect at 44k cause BELLSOUTH SUCKS..........

it usualy takes about a min for it to load on my puter but maybe thats cause the puter im using is a 75mhz with only 24mb of ram.. could that be it.. NAW couldnt be

o i voted for #1.. hehehe i know this is irelevant and i would prob get my posting rights taken away :-Þ

what are you talking about? bellsouth is the fastest connection i have ever had!

Actually, not all High-Schoolers want "to rage out in total anarchy." I'm in 10th grade and I don't, and I know many other people at school that don't.

The messageboards are a different thing, though.

yeah, but the fact that i am 16, dont have a car, and can produce children can really screw with your mind sometimes.

I sit back and look at everyone. Amusing? Entertaining? No. Childish? Immature? Irresponsible? Yes.

Few people actually take the time to think about what goes on behind the scenes in such a place like ticalc (not like I know exactly, but have sat back--not down--and thought about it). The matter is quite simply:

People aren't mature, and responsible enough to have such priveledges (as "Comments" are a priviledge, not a right!).

Plain and simple. Which is actual quite sickening when I think about, because those who are mature enough and use their brain to think about their actions before doing them shouldn't have to suffer on part of those who are puerile.

But, when it comes to the real world (which, ticalc happens to exist in the real world!), this such thing is rampant and those who know how to behave and act lose such good priviledges because of the...others.

This kind of thing really shouldn't be based upon the decisions of the TI-Community (if you can consider everyone here to be in it!), because over 50% of them are those immature, irresponsible people.

The decision here lies in the power of those who run ticalc, not those who have the priviledge to use it! ticalc staff, make the decision on your own, use the great minds you have to come to a good, mature, responsible decision.

Now, the flames (from you know who...),
Matt H.

The coordinators have shown that they can't use their self-given power responsibility.

That should be "responsibly"...

d*mn, they deleted a couple of my posts. Of course, they did warent deletion (one was 12 pages long and one made fun of mormons), but I still think they should keep all posts. go to the url above for a laugh if you get alot of chain mail.

i crying and my stomach still hurts

Macs suck, Go Anarchy!
My calculator is a better gaming machine than most macs :) What wako made that phsyco mouse?

mac>ti>89>dos>windows>a small portion of fecal matter.
I don't know where unix and linex place, but I know there is virtually no software for either system.
there's nothing wrong with completely off topic posts, anarchy rules. MAC and PC users can agree to that.

SHut up. There is PLENTY of software for Linux and Unix (and YES, it's spelled Linux, not Linex) This is especially true when you look at the software to user ratio. For the few users of Linux and Unix that exist, I'd say they're ahead of Mac/Windows in that department. Oh, and you're completely off on the "Anarchy Rules" subject. It's been proven in many times, and in many different ways that Anarchy, when put into context is quite frankly a bad idea.

Thank you for listening.

mac is way ahead of everyone in the software to user ratio. Except for maybe two games, macs have all the software that pc's do, and it runs better. We also have alot of games that will never be manufactured for pc .ie marathon and escape-velocity. Since only about one in ten people use macs (due to microsofts monopoly) that would make the software/user ratio at least ten times as high as the PC. No offence to linux users, (I've never even seen the system) but I don't think there are too many programs for it(not to say that there aren't enough)

runs better? ha ha ha ha ha ha
there are many programs for linux
and there are much more than two games that macs don't have that pc's do, much more. I can name at least 50...

name some. (I know that c&c II is not for mac, neither is battle zone, and that half life is in the making. name something other than these.) If you can, I can name it's mac equivelent or another mac game that pc's don't have ie. ares

actually, half-life was cancelled....
starcon2
starcon1
many programs that now have an opengl/glide port for pc, but not for mac (like quake)
simcopter
sim city 3000
tons of other sim games
crummy games prted from playstation (that might be a good thing though
and more...

i could also name 1 or 2 mac only games, but not more..

mac quake doesn't need opengl, support is buil in. Try mars rising, slithereens, override, swoop. Ok, those games are all crappy ambrosia shareware, but so what. I've also got a couple of CD's filled with thousands of crummy freeware games that don't exist for PC's.
Point is, I don't think that mac users lay awake at night wishing that they had simcity 3k for their supercomputer.

but I think they do for half-life :)

don't worry I have crummy freeware games too for PC and some good ones.

Interesting how the Mac vs. PC debate has spread over so many threads.

Ticalc.org might as well make a survay about it...

That is a good idea... Ticalc.org should do a survey about PCs vs. MACs, but to make it relevent to the rest of the site, they should do PCs vs. MACs vs. Graphing Calculators. (A different survey should be TI-92+ vs. TI-92 vs. TI-89 vs. TI-86 vs. TI-85 vs. TI-83 vs. TI-83+ vs. TI-82 vs. TI-73, OR just 92+/89 vs. 86/85 vs. 83+/83/82/73.)

macs don't have need for speed. what else do you need?

go open source. linux rocks.

You mean except for about 5 good games, the mac has no good games that PCs have. (like half-life , the mac version was canceld)

software to user ration means nothing. if it did then a computer with 2 programs being used by 10 people would be better than a computer with 1,000,000 programs being used by 100,000,000

I think that a semi-anarchy would be better - where they would delete comments spanning multiple pages and extremely offencive comments, but not ones that were only off-topic.

PC > TI-89/92+ > MAC
Based on amount / quality of programs available such as GAMES (excluding TI-89/92+)
Windows > Linux/Unix > TI-89/92+ > dos ~ mac

Really DOS has more quality GAMES than a mac. Really it deserves more..
and if you didn't know Windows is a dos shell, like usgard is to a ti-85. Programs are written only for it, but without DOS/ti-85 it wouldn't exist.

windows 3.11 is a dos shell, windows 95 or greater is not.

thank you for your time.

actually it is still is. It was written using dos and try running mem /c /p from the run menu and you'll know what i mean.

In case you're wondering why it directly loads, all microsoft did was change the command.com file a little.

There are many games for dos. I have about 4-5 cd's of 1,000 games EACH!
macintosh, on the other hand, has less games than my watch(far less than my 89 with about 6,100 games)

When I put DOS near the bottom of the list, I meant DOS as a standalone OS. There also aren't very good (in my opinion) programs like Browsers or wordprocessing\spreadsheet programs (like Word or Excel) compared to the features\interface of the Windows\Mac versions of Word and Excel. Windows includes DOS and you can run most DOS games from Windows.

you know watch where you hit that reply button....
Next time be more specific.
For its time (1994) DOS had very good proggies (and still many for my 486). Word 5.5, Star Con2, nethack, etc.