Ticalc.org: The end?

[werewolf1492]

UTI being what it is, and who its run by, has far less of a chance of this happening though. Think about it, overall, its just soo much better. And, I sure wish you had been the archiver when I sent in two of my programs, they took almost, if not a month to finally make it in....
And paying staff wouldnt work unless you could get the site sponsored, and then, only possibly. Perhaps if somebody submitted this site to the official TI site(or people that run it, or the big man at the desk or whatever). And showed what it does, who it helps and such. It could get some sort of recognition? Financial support?
Its not guaranteed, but its not a complete shut out until you try either.

[DarkerLine]

[Harrierfalcon]

I really, really, really hope UTI doesn't become the next spammed-with-quadratic-equation-solver site.

And I have not seen a day yet in which files I submitted have been up within that very same day.

[Chasney913]

I hope so as well. Although, maybe we could set a record for largest collection of quadratic equation solvers.

I like ticalc.org, but I find the archive structure a bit difficult to find good programs. People need to rate better. Mind you, I prefer to write my own math programs, and only use ticalc for games, which I don't download much anyway.

I'd love to see UTI become a massive calculator site like ticalc, but it would probably come with too much hassle and too many badly-spelling noobs.

By the way, DarkerLine, since we're on a calculator site, I appreciate the "keep the money out of the equation" pun, intentional or not.

[AlienCC]

[Harrierfalcon]

I have to say, despite however geeky programming calculator games is, UTI has definitely helped me gain experience, however informal, as to the development process and techniques of making a game.

UTI is definitely a worthwhile cause. Thank you.

ticalc.org is a great repository, and I hope it doesn't die, but it really could use some more program features, and some more dedicated archivers. But again, dedication needs motivation, and the only current motivation is to keep it alive.

[jvndrbrg]

[Harrierfalcon]

IIRC, it's his own server, not someone else's. His PHP coding skills are in high demand from what I gleaned from the conference before last, so he probably ended up coding most of it himself.

[Weregoose]

A quick Google search shows jvndrbrg to be a troll, so I'm guessing that any sort of reply to whatever he says will only give him more incentive to do what he advertises himself as doing best. Ignore him.

[jvndrbrg]

I don't troll a lot of things. Because a lot of things make sense. If he owns the server, then he's paying $3000/year in bandwidth, which just makes no sense.

[spandiv]

[jvndrbrg]

[DJ Omnimaga]

the server where UTI is hosted doesnt just contains UTI, it contains many other sites listed in his signature, about 40 other sites listed on nosolution.net (nosolution being one of those), and I believe there is many more sites not listed here that he worked on for companies.

And yes jvndbrg is a troll, like 98% of the asm programmers who were active around 1997-2000 in the community then came back 5-6 years later. He just came back but he must have noticed that things changed a lot since those days. As soon as he came back the thing he said was that kermmartian sucked and most of his blabbing in #tcpa channel is about Kermmartian and porn

EDIT: <off-topic>Does anyone knows a good trolling tutorial? I checked google and I couldn't find anything decent</off-topic>

[jvndrbrg]

Actually, it has changed a lot. Now it's mostly a couple core groups rather than one main site with 5 billion little programming groups, which is cool, I guess. I'm not really "back" or anything, I just hang out in tcpa to chat. I do hate Kerm, which has until now been the extent of my trolling. I only interjected here because the idea of paying $3,000 a year in bandwidth seems crazy to me. If you HOST sites, or are paid to develop them, or whatever, that's cool, but don't make it seem like you're paying three grand out of pocket.

[echidna]

Well all i can say -- the things would become better, they must, the things develop in every society too, and you all *are* a very important part of it.

[AlienCC]

[benryves]

[jvndrbrg]

Well, most of your response is fair enough. If you had originally implied that the cost included hardware, it wouldn't have looked as fictitious as it did. Also, I didn't post on here the same way I did with Kerm. I just don't like him. I was trying to get you to clarify, not just bash you. As for the American Singles thing.... It says I'm 18 and live in Lees, VA... both of those are way off, but whatever, I won't even attempt to defend that, because I'm not sure what that is.

[Pseudoprogrammer]

I clicked the link to see what it was and it was way off for me too.

[elfprince13]

DJ Omnimaga:

you obviously didn't look hard enough ;)


and actually, there is a new file reviewer who's crunching through that stack quite nicely. there's a couple new reviews a week....more than the new files at this point.