lol, I hear Martin wanted to rewrite the entire phpBB core in flash
Computer Science Canada How is compsci.ca? |
| Author: | octopi [ Sat Feb 28, 2004 4:25 pm ] |
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Has compsci gotten worse, and worse as the days go on? Don't vote if you haven't been a member of compsci.ca for more then 6 months. |
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| Author: | Delta [ Sat Feb 28, 2004 4:28 pm ] |
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well its tough to say... its gotten better as far as looks and ppl... but worse because of all the stupid spammers ... its a great site if you like going around looking thru all the spam just to find out you missed a line of code... |
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| Author: | Tony [ Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:50 pm ] |
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well if you vote for "worse" - also try to post some sujestions for things that could be improved |
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| Author: | Catalyst [ Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:11 pm ] |
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worse; the number of posts is increasing but most of the posts are useless with nothing relating to compsci |
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| Author: | Martin [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:36 am ] |
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Yeah, I've noticed the same thing. A lot of the board's 'energy' feels like it's gone, but then again, that could just be me. There is a lot of flaming going on around here lately. I think that the boards definately need a revamp, and new rules. Compsci v3 anyone? |
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| Author: | Tony [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 12:19 pm ] |
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lol, I hear Martin wanted to rewrite the entire phpBB core in flash |
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| Author: | poly [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:31 pm ] |
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Catalyst wrote: worse; the number of posts is increasing but most of the posts are useless with nothing relating to compsci
totally agree! Like if some people would just search you can find most answers in other posts or even new threads. But ofcourse no one can do that because its easier to make a new thread about it...! |
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| Author: | AsianSensation [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:17 pm ] |
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good points: new layout, less bugs (thank you dan), more people(always a bonus), more "enthusiam" (to put it nicely) bad points: more spammers, more people who don't know what they are talking about, more people that asks for people to do their work for them. |
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| Author: | jonos [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:12 pm ] |
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yeah, i should not stop spamming and stuff, but since ive come its really been the same, i wasn't here when there wasn't any spamming so i don't know what its really been like. new rules would be nice, but the spamming section just gives unneeded practice for spamming in the other forums. i try not to spam outside of the spam section |
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| Author: | shorthair [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:16 pm ] |
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Jonos said : Quote: yeah, i should not stop spamming and stuff YOu should watch your typos , unles you didnt make a mistake   , But im in favor of enforced rules , after the whole debate with me and Asian ive come to learn that i deserved it , and that rules should be harsh , we should take spam lke a court would take murder , its the only way people learn |
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| Author: | jonos [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:21 pm ] |
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sorry to spam in here but i have to defend my typing patterns. i try not to screw up my words and stuff, dan is worse than me and so is who who who shorthair. yes shorthair gets worse and worse everyday, but at least we can still understand him. the problem with me is that i get mixed up with words because i forget the beginning of my sentece which i have just typed so i end up trying to type something at the end of the sentence which would make sense with the beginning of the sentence. i agree with the enforced rules. there should also be a whole new forum, with this old one being an old "archive" or something and whole new stuff int he new one where spam is deleted by the mods. taht amy eb ogign oto afr thogh. hehe |
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| Author: | shorthair [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:29 pm ] |
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We should just have an all out deletion fest of spam , i mean if a question in help was solved in hte first answer the what else needs to be posted there |
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| Author: | jonos [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:41 pm ] |
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yeah, but it's sometimes good for many different answers to a problem. like someone may post a certain way to make snow flakes fall, then someone else may post one which does the same just with different code. sometimes it is good to loook at the many different ways a program can be made and learn from all of them. i agree, we spam too much but usually we spend the time surfing compsci and if there is nothing really good to say we just feel like posting anyway because we took the time to come here. |
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| Author: | JayLo [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 9:06 pm ] |
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well, most of you don't know me, because i'm always the one looking around the forum, looking for good code and what not... compsci.ca has gotten better in some ways, and i totally agree with asian sensation. ever since i've joined, i've really respected the endurance of tony, dan, darkness, and other mods (asok), to just put up with all of us. they've given canadian students an outlet to let programming flow freely with no boundaries. like me, i'm sure most of you have come to this forum because you needed help. but now compsci.ca is losing more of the 'mature' people to more, how can i say, 'sub-par' people who can't control whatever they post on this forum. i'd say that having rules and regulations (ie: validating signups, more mods) at compsci.ca would benefit the entire community in the end. |
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| Author: | Maverick [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 9:20 pm ] |
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Quote: we should take spam lke a court would take murder , its the only way people learn
Hahaha thats a little harsh, but i agree. |
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| Author: | programer007 [ Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:32 pm ] |
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wow... this site is realy cool.... having all the help for Turing, and a place for all for your programs so people can talk about it and nice search functions.... there are a lot of typos floating around tho... has anybopdy though of adding a Speel Check.. |
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| Author: | Cervantes [ Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:48 pm ] |
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I haven't been here anywhere near 6 months (and I didn't vote) but overall I think the site is getting better. Improvements since I came: -cTeam and their cool comics 
-Other Basics forum <-- growing!!! -# of members is growing -new good / cool / active members are arriving such as Jonos, PaulBian (he joined before I technically, but only became very active after I arrived), and zylum. This is a great site. However, that does not mean that there isn't room for improvement. All the suggestions for improvement posted in this thread should be carefully considered and many of them implimented. With that, compsci.ca will improve over time, steadily. Here's one suggestions that I have: When I came here, the Turing submission's page was filled with amazing programs. Now, however, it seems that anyone posts programs there and a lot of them (no offence) suck. looking at the turing submissions from the mx page, it probably doesn't help to attract users if they see turing prog that rolls a die 
Anyways, just my thoughts.. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Sun Mar 07, 2004 11:52 pm ] |
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i think this site is WICKED... aside from the fact that i CANT upload any attachments bigger then 2MB... i have a 10 MB quota.. but there is some Bug in compsci for my account... it somehow did not get changed from the old 2MB quota i had for account but... yea... the number of MODS is increasing to better serve and protect.... only thing i have beef with is: the number of posts in HELP forum for turing... its getting a little pathetic and insane... if you DONT understand a simple fricking FOR loop after the teacher tellz you.,.. Comp science may not be for u |
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| Author: | Tony [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:19 am ] |
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if anyone has filled up their upload quota - PM me (or dan) and we'll review your account and adjust your upload quota appropriatly |
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| Author: | Dan [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:19 am ] |
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the_short1 -> i am still looking in to that, lol. may be if i upraged your qoute more? |
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| Author: | Homer_simpson [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:18 pm ] |
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Catalyst wrote: worse; the number of posts is increasing but most of the posts are useless with nothing relating to compsci
i agree 100%... man if u shut all these stupid spammers up... actual programmers and people that understand something from computers might actually join... right now we got 1213 registered users... but i can't name more that 15-20 users that actually understand something from computer science 
The spams have gotto stop! |
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| Author: | jonos [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:09 pm ] |
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i think more people than that can understand programming, its just that spamming is more fun sometimes then looking at code all the time. i think everyone starts out as programming all the time and helping people on this site which still happens, but there are more times to spam then to help people with programming. most of the people who spam spam because there is no one to help at that time. |
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| Author: | Dauntless [ Wed May 12, 2004 2:56 pm ] |
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I think Spam is a sort of comic relief section for any programmers who discover it... So although people like me, who stick to Spam, don't contribute much programmingwise, it's not that big a deal is it? I know the elitist programmers don't like when something gets done in a less-than-perfect fashion regarding programming, so why not just leave that to the pros? We do what we do best; provide interesting discussion. Btw, I hate that this post is in GD. I'm diluting my SR. Spam Ratio. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Wed May 12, 2004 3:44 pm ] |
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SR!!! cool stuff.... except this topic is pretty old isn;l it??? yea... i made up VDG very dam good.. and i say that lots... btw.... compsci is doing a VDG job with all the new smilies and such |
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| Author: | Dan [ Thu May 13, 2004 12:25 pm ] |
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while hopfully it will get better over the summer, i have been very busy with school like most of the other mods and admins and have not had time to update the site much. parts like the weekly quiz, main poll and comic site have gone with out updating for a bit due to this. But we are plaing a hole new verson of the site (or at least i am) to be made over the sumer. so may be we will see compsci.ca v3 by the being of next school year. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Thu May 13, 2004 3:31 pm ] |
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is it worth it??? making v3 and have to go thru all the bugs... down time... and all that..???? wouldn't it just be better to do a good thourough overhaul of v2 and do all the updates taht are on 'the list' to do??? cuz like it is right now... it works faily dam good...rxcrpt for stupid server issues.... would it be posible to host the server at ur house dan??? no issues cuz of server... unless u turned comp off  **that may be a stupid idea... but im boiling hot so i may not be thinking rite... |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu May 13, 2004 3:48 pm ] |
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yeah, we used to host the site out of dan's basement when we were still called s.w.a.t.... The server could handle a whooping 10 connections at a time |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Thu May 13, 2004 4:00 pm ] |
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well... with new computers of today... couln't dan get one that could hand;le more ?????? like maybe 50 would be perf.... since our record of max users is only 40.. |
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| Author: | Dan [ Thu May 13, 2004 8:32 pm ] |
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The isuse is not in the computer power it is in the bandwith. It will be 100s of times faster when hosted with them. The downtime they have whould be smaler then if it was hosted by me due to all the crazy stuff i do to my network. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Fri May 14, 2004 2:50 pm ] |
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of course the bandwidth... wait...... this may be a stupid question but here it goes: Can You have Multiple NIC cards in a computer then have multiple different internet streams at once ???? like have lets say 3 NIC cards on PC... then have all 3 hooked into a router that kicked ass... then have the router hoooked up to a SUPPER fast cable modem?? u can have more then one nic card installed..... so to use more then one for internet... hmmm......thats the hard part i wouldn;t know... |
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| Author: | Dan [ Fri May 14, 2004 4:02 pm ] |
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In theroy yes, but you most rember that your isp caps your max banwith and the cable or dsl modem has a maxiume speed it can take. The avg netwrok card thess days is 10/100 so if your max netconection is slower then that it is not going to make any diff. For network transfer it whould seeped things up BUT both comps whould have to have more then one network card since it whould max out at 10 or 100. Got to rember that it all slowes down to the lowested speed thing in btween the server and the clinent. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Sun May 16, 2004 6:34 pm ] |
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not having more then one comp... have 3 nic cards all in ONE comp... then connect all three to a router... of course ur internet is capped by ur isp... but thats not the point.... lets say u are watching streaming a video in winamp.. ur internet will be really slow if u are also trying to download something... so... having more then one nic card... then with first nic card watch a streaming video second nic card u can download that huge file thrid one u can visit websites. that way... each one would have lets say 2000 Kb bandwidth for their operation instead of trying to share 2000 Kb for download, video, and webpage... therefore making it faster ... but how to aceess each card seperatly for each operation is the part in which i dont know how that would work...  |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Sun May 16, 2004 8:31 pm ] |
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No, they're still sharing the same connection, and therefore, the same bandwidth. It'd probably just make it worse because you now have three network cards going at once... if you could even get that working. |
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| Author: | da_foz [ Sun May 16, 2004 11:17 pm ] |
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I don't think having a forum called 'Spam' helps much. Every board needs an offtopic area, but maybe something useful that is not spam. The Spam forum is close, but its misnamed and needs a new set of rules. One of the first things I noticed when I came here was it seemed like there were tons of mods. I guess there is a mod for each language (or that's what it seems to me), and that makes a lot. Not sure what to do about that. New blood is needed. Get people to come here for more then just help. Maybe start with them getting help, but then they need to get involved in the 'community'. To me, it seems mostly like the same people posting the same things. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Mon May 17, 2004 4:30 pm ] |
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this comming from someone with 32 posts.... lots of new blood.... members like GreenTiger, Kit-kat-kid, mypistolsin3d,and others are getting really involved and they came here wanting help.... why have these 'rules' for spam.... who cares..... u come to spam to talk all u want.. and it dont give u bits or anything... why change to offtopic.... spam is offtopic crap bout anything or ur website... w/e |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Mon May 17, 2004 4:39 pm ] |
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the_short1 wrote: this comming from someone with 32 posts....
In my experience, a user's value to a community is often inversely proportional to their post count. Someone can always dick around all day in any section of the forum talking about stuff without helping anybody much, or they could spend most of their time being productive and coming here to show us what they've accomplished once in a while. the_short1 wrote: lots of new blood.... members like GreenTiger, Kit-kat-kid, mypistolsin3d,and others are getting really involved and they came here wanting help....
Again is that getting involved with computer science, or getting involved in this forum? |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Mon May 17, 2004 6:01 pm ] |
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what u mean by the comunity...?? this is COMPSCI ! so oviously they get into computer science... !..... what do u want more users to be like? |
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| Author: | Paul [ Mon May 17, 2004 6:06 pm ] |
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the_short1 wrote: what u mean by the comunity...?? this is COMPSCI ! so oviously they get into computer science... !.....
what do u want more users to be like? Dauntless would be an example, and Jonos, since he doesn't program anymore. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Mon May 17, 2004 8:21 pm ] |
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so what mazer wants is MORE ppl like jonos and dauntless??? what about more ppl like Maverick, PB, Me, Mazer, shorthair,etc ??? cuz we know we are the hearts of compsci rite  |
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| Author: | jonos [ Mon May 17, 2004 8:33 pm ] |
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More people who find it painful to post outside of the Spam Area. |
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| Author: | da_foz [ Tue May 18, 2004 10:15 am ] |
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the_short1 wrote: this comming from someone with 32 posts....
lots of new blood.... members like GreenTiger, Kit-kat-kid, mypistolsin3d,and others are getting really involved and they came here wanting help.... why have these 'rules' for spam.... who cares..... u come to spam to talk all u want.. and it dont give u bits or anything... why change to offtopic.... spam is offtopic crap bout anything or ur website... w/e The one thing the post count does not show is how much time is actually spent on the board. Also, how many posts / time a person has been part of other boards. My comments are because of how I have seen other boards managed. I understand not all boards are created equal and different boards have different rules because that is what the current community wants. I am simply giving my opinion. Another thing I notice is that I can not come here for a week and when I come back the most of the active topics have not changed with few new topics. For most boards which I frequent, something like that would mean 99% of the memebership has disapeared. This may be ok, it all depends on what kind of board you want. I don't make the rules here, on opinion was asked for and that is what I gave. Your comments show a lack of thought. This thread is about opinions regarding this website. All you did was flame my response instead of actually giving an opinion. Well done! |
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| Author: | Dan [ Tue May 18, 2004 11:44 am ] |
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Well it dose show you how long a user has been here in there profile. As for active topics, that is true if u are just looking at the spam section but active topics in turing help and other computer progaming realted fourms chage prity fast and this is most likey b/c this is what this fourm is about. As for the spam section, it may not dircely help the comoutiy but i do not think it is hurting it ether. It keeps all the offtopic posts in one place and for users that do not whont to here about such things it makes it easy for them to aviod them. Also it makes the commuity more of a comunity, if you have some rant you whont other progames to know about you can go nuts in the spam section with out poleolp being mad at you for posting in a fourm that is about computer sinces. Alougth i will admin that it dose get out of conotrl some times, but thats what mods are for. There are alot of mods it may seem, but most of them do there job and u need alot of mods when there are alot of posts. We are plaing on chaing up the mod system a bit when we make the updates and v3. Dont wory about poleop flaming you, they are just a litte secitive when poleop talk about destorying there spam section  . |
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| Author: | da_foz [ Tue May 18, 2004 12:34 pm ] |
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Hacker Dan wrote: Well it dose show you how long a user has been here in there profile.
Point Hacker Dan What it does not show is how much time you actually spend here. Point Fozzy:P Hacker Dan wrote: As for active topics, that is true if u are just looking at the spam section but active topics in turing help and other computer progaming realted fourms chage prity fast and this is most likey b/c this is what this fourm is about.
Ok. That is the part of the forum I don't use very much. The only section which I could be of any help in is the Java section and that is one of the less active help sections...and most of the questions that I have looked at seem to involve GUIs which I suck at. Hacker Dan wrote: As for the spam section, it may not dircely help the comoutiy but i do not think it is hurting it ether. It keeps all the offtopic posts in one place and for users that do not whont to here about such things it makes it easy for them to aviod them. Also it makes the commuity more of a comunity, if you have some rant you whont other progames to know about you can go nuts in the spam section with out poleolp being mad at you for posting in a fourm that is about computer sinces.
I don't think it is hurting and I agree that something like it is needed. My point was that most other boards I have been on still have some kind of rules. I find the spam section too much spammy (if that makes any sense). I think people still need to use some kind of judgment about what they post. Flaming is always bad. Post a reply with some reasons. Hacker Dan wrote: Dont wory about poleop flaming you, they are just a litte secitive when poleop talk about destorying there spam section
.I'm not too worried, I just rather they give reasons. Back things up at bit. One of the main reasons I came to this forum was because it was a computer science forum. I did not come here for programming help, I came to chat with people who might be into some of the same things as me. The first thing I noticed was that it seemed to me mostly high school students. That might be incorrect now, but that's what it seems like is General Discussion and in Spam. Don't take this the wrong way, but I notice a difference in maturatly level. As it turns out we are just into slightly different things. I'm not totally sure who I'm refering to when I say we. I see some people who post some great stuff, then turn aroud and post horrible stuff. I'm not sure what it is exactly I'm after, but I can say I think this board has some great things going for it. I will continue to hang around. |
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| Author: | da_foz [ Tue May 18, 2004 12:43 pm ] |
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One other comment, 2 announcements and 5 stickeys is a lot to always be at the top of the Gerneral Discussion forum. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Tue May 18, 2004 3:19 pm ] |
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yea... i agree with that.,... that is why one forum got all stickies reomoved.... we shuld try to limit to under 5.... maybe combine a couple.... for v3 dan... is it posible to add a notepad feature to the users personal profile??? like with invisionfree.com their forums have a notepad in the profile so u can leave notes there for yourself... ... if u want to see for yourself i can make u an account at my forum that im starting to make so u can see it yourself... its pretty handy......... we cant show number of hours since logon to last click time because some ppl leave it open a while during the time they are finding links or w.e,,,,, s it wont be acurate..... but it would be cool...... something to ad that would work would be: right under where it shows bits and posts... show how many threads the user has created.... sorry if i flamed u da_foz....tis cool that u into the java section... we need more of u... and the reason why noone posts in java and w/e is because this site is mostly aimed at ppl doing turing..... unfortunately... not as many ppl go past that.... maybe if we recruited more xperts at those lanuguages... then we would have more stuff in those forums.... also... i predict that next year compsci will have much more activity in those forums.... because more ppl that are in gr10 rite now will know of compsci b4 gr.11 and will start posting.... this years gr.11 + students did not come to compsci because compsci was still a new thing.... **2003 has much fewer posts and users... |
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| Author: | Dan [ Tue May 18, 2004 3:47 pm ] |
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da_foz wrote: The first thing I noticed was that it seemed to me mostly high school students. That might be incorrect now, but that's what it seems like is General Discussion and in Spam. Don't take this the wrong way, but I notice a difference in maturatly level. As it turns out we are just into slightly different things. I'm not totally sure who I'm refering to when I say we. I see some people who post some great stuff, then turn aroud and post horrible stuff. Well the reason for that could be that the site was desgined for high school students by high school students . But since most of the mods are going to uni or last year high school next year there will probly be a shift towards a more uni and highschool based fourm.
the_short1 wrote: **2003 has much fewer posts and users... May be comapered to then number of posts and users 2004 will have, but for this site 2003 had alot more posts and users then 2002, so much so we had to chage sites to get more space and bandwith to sport the site. The number of users, posts and bandwith used is going up almost expetanly every year and alomost every month now. the_short1 wrote: and the reason why noone posts in java and w/e is because this site is mostly aimed at ppl doing turing..... unfortunately... not as many ppl go past that.... maybe if we recruited more xperts at those lanuguages... then we would have more stuff in those forums.... also... Well i have been whonting to shift the foucose of the site to java and other languges for awhile now but the problem is that there are all ready tones of sites out there for such things. Right now this site is realy helping the turing comunit out alot and is prity much the only turing site around. Alougth this dose not mean we will not go into other languges at all, i am just saying that there will always be a strong place for turing here. Over the sumer and during the updates i whont to try to get the site more in to java since alot of univerys use it for 1st year compsci. |
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| Author: | Dauntless [ Tue May 18, 2004 4:28 pm ] |
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How is compsci funded? Out of your own pocket? We have no ads..lol |
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| Author: | Dan [ Tue May 18, 2004 4:32 pm ] |
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I pay for it
Some day we plan on geting adds to pay for all of it, but most add we have tryed out where some how evil and whould not pay off or whould pay so litte it was not worth it. Also some day we plan on posabley geting spopsers or may be even better yet making money with some dTeam project or other crazy idea. |
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| Author: | Dauntless [ Tue May 18, 2004 4:38 pm ] |
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Yeah, I'm sure once we got enough programmers we could make a game.. Like in 5 years? Everyone will be out of university with compsci degrees, then you can all make a project together...Each mod is good in their section right? Graphics does graphics, etc. I for one don't mind pop-ups... It's a lot better than defiling compsci's layout for the almighty dollar, and many people have stuff to catch popups anyways. |
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| Author: | Andy [ Tue May 18, 2004 5:46 pm ] |
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so what do i do? |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Tue May 18, 2004 6:17 pm ] |
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Dauntless wrote: Yeah, I'm sure once we got enough programmers we could make a game.. Like in 5 years? Everyone will be out of university with compsci degrees, then you can all make a project together...Each mod is good in their section right? Graphics does graphics, etc.
Actually, I think it'd be more likely to have a game made before people go to University. After Uni we'll be more experienced, but we'll also be busy with/finding jobs. The beauty of being young is the ability to mooch off of parents. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Tue May 18, 2004 6:40 pm ] |
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imagine if all the mods and other greats from compsci come together to make a really kick ass game over the summer... then SELL THAT! proceeds to compsci... we should do that.... it would KICK!... have the website mods etc make a kick ass website to host the games page, make it online playable.. and use wicked graphics using the graphics mods etc... whoa... that would ROCK.... compscis first game
yea pop ups dont come up with firefox.... yea... to get money we SHOULD be funded by holtsoft.... cheap bastards.... we are helping their program be great... without compsci... ppl would be lost.. afraid... and not get GOOD help on turing  |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Tue May 18, 2004 6:41 pm ] |
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dodge... u inform users of all the wonderful uses of whatdotcolor.,. and save them hundreds of lines of code for colision detection.... so u help a lot ... but in ur own ways... !!!  dodge |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Tue May 18, 2004 7:06 pm ] |
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the_short1 wrote: imagine if all the mods and other greats from compsci come together to make a really kick ass game over the summer... then SELL THAT! proceeds to compsci... we should do that.... it would KICK!... have the website mods etc make a kick ass website to host the games page, make it online playable.. and use wicked graphics using the graphics mods etc... whoa... that would ROCK.... compscis first game
Yeah! We could call it the dTeam project! |
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| Author: | Amailer [ Tue May 18, 2004 7:15 pm ] |
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you know this graphics mod sucks compared to tony and catalyst (3d.. sigh..) |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Tue May 18, 2004 9:12 pm ] |
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yea... well the dTeam project dont do anything.... they have like 4 things in that section..... wallpapers, Dan sprite... wait thats only 2... common.. gota start making stuff... stupid school getting in the way amiler... 'this graphics sucks compare to tony / catalyst 3d'.....what are u talking about???? what graphics? |
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| Author: | jonos [ Tue May 18, 2004 9:56 pm ] |
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Where in hell's frozen abyss is the Dark Side. That is why I stuck around. |
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| Author: | Catalyst [ Tue May 18, 2004 10:59 pm ] |
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We should restart the dTeam (with a different name) |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Wed May 19, 2004 6:39 am ] |
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or just some new ppl that are goign to be more activive in developing stuff.... and compsci should hold a dTeam meetiing like twice a month to discuss what they coud make or w/e... they could meet on MSN multi person conversations........ cuz no one is making square for dTeam except for Dan and his kickass sprite.... |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Wed May 19, 2004 6:44 am ] |
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So how about you make something? |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Wed May 19, 2004 11:23 am ] |
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ok... i have ideas.... lattest: trying to get the users CPU speed automatically and use that for delays.... without askingm the user.. |
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| Author: | Dan [ Wed May 19, 2004 12:22 pm ] |
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jonos wrote: Where in hell's frozen abyss is the Dark Side. That is why I stuck around. Well i am still working on it, it will probly be part of the updates during the summer. There are a few isues with it, such as leagal ones that need to be thougth out as well b4 we could go throw with it. I have a few araticals for it writen up but they need some fine tuneing. Also i am not fully shure what level the Dark Side will be focused on, i whould like it to be an introduction to some of the stuff that is "Dark" on the web witch whould mean there whould not be anything extreamly impervies for poleop that know a alot about this subject all ready. Also i whont it to be a kind of cominty where poleop can share ideas about securiy realted isues. We will see how it gose
Catalyst wrote: We should restart the dTeam (with a different name) I whould like to as well, just school been taking up so much time. the_short1 wrote: ok... i have ideas.... lattest: trying to get the users CPU speed automatically and use that for delays.... without askingm the user.. Well that whould be a hard way of doing things and kind of pointless too. What you do for a dealy that whould be the same on almost all comps is base it on the sytem time rather the CPU clyces. This can be esaly done with the time comands in most languges and whould not make much scence to make a project of it. |
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| Author: | Catalyst [ Wed May 19, 2004 2:09 pm ] |
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http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=1016 |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Wed May 19, 2004 2:37 pm ] |
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so just take the FPS and use that times an amout to make delay.... .thats smart..... i was just going to get the speed... then use that.... but ur module makes it nice and easy.... thanks.. |
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| Author: | Andy [ Thu May 20, 2004 7:26 pm ] |
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i think compsci isnt as good as b4... remember the days where we actually did compsci and actually cared about programming?? those were the good days |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Thu May 20, 2004 7:47 pm ] |
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True that. I think part of the problem is that us old timers have pretty much moved away from turing, so we don't make the cool programs as much anymore. |
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| Author: | Andy [ Thu May 20, 2004 7:49 pm ] |
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yea i remeber how we used to spend hours trying to come up wit cool programs or cool effects then show off to our fellow programmers... now compsci is filled with idiots with no life and no programming skillz |
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| Author: | Amailer [ Thu May 20, 2004 7:51 pm ] |
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and that's another reason to remove that worthless non-skilled forum 'spam', rename it atleast -- 
[mod:623b0fc3cf]why do i get blamed for everything??? -dodge[/mod:623b0fc3cf] Oh well, i can't really tell. Im no good of a programmer, and the only programming lanuage I know is PHP... also I havne't been in compsci for that long, but seriously it has changed |
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| Author: | Dan [ Thu May 20, 2004 8:02 pm ] |
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I realy do not think the spam fourm is the soruce of all evil. It has been there since the start of this site. The main problem i see with it is that it gets blamed for everything bad that happens with this site for no reason if i got ride of it who/what whould u blame? Any how i do aggery that there seems to be a lowering amount of new cool code, and i think the reason for this in part may be b/c every one is over run with school and geting in to uni (for the grade 12s). What i hope to happen is that this site will go more in to other langs like java and that we will start making cool progames and tutorials for that as well. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Thu May 20, 2004 8:52 pm ] |
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yea.. well u got to remember... part of the reason we have less cool stuff is because the new programmers are not getting into compsci because they dont know the members... like dodge... and maverick,.. jonos... pb.... zylum,...catalyust.. they a.ll knew someone on compsci b4 joinging im shure... so they are more into it.. and made those cool programs FOR compsci... or at least some of them we are getting total strangers joining the forum.,.. annd most dont really care about compsci as a comunity so they are not trying really hard to post all their stuff or to make stuff to post... like rite now if i didn;t have compsci... i woulnd't be making half the stuff i am rite now... cuz whats the point??? ur making it so u know u can make it... but then u dont get the positive feedback and praise for making it... and these days.. when u make something cool.. ur compsci class really dont care as much.... it will get better next year but with the upshift in java etc... we need to try to get to know the users better so they WANT to post here... and WANT to make thoise programs... well thats my opinion -kevin |
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| Author: | Paul [ Thu May 20, 2004 8:54 pm ] |
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I didn't know anyone... I was just 1/4 of the way thru my grade 10 compsci course. |
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| Author: | octopi [ Thu May 20, 2004 9:48 pm ] |
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Dan, you got it wrong....we don't blame the spam forum, for everything bad, we blame you, remember? j/k Seriously, I think this sites getting worse, maybe its just my wild antics, thats causing this negative trend, wait its dans fault. My theory is that...well, I don't know...I loved programming until like grade 11, after that it just died off for me, I still do it, but I hate it with a passion. Maybe its because I started being forced to do it everyday(my own fault)...and not when I had a good idea, or something. I can still code fast, and good, I just hate it.... The only reason I still stick around here is for the originals (tony, dan, delta, blade), and for the arguements (amailer, greenapplesodaex, the newer users, and a few not worthy of mention). |
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| Author: | Catalyst [ Thu May 20, 2004 9:48 pm ] |
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i didnt know anyone either, and i joined at the end of my gr.10 course |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Thu May 20, 2004 9:58 pm ] |
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well it was a thought.... octopi is here because he knows them... the one person not on my list
yea.. well.. things should brighten up by september because all the pl over summer aiwll be thinking new program ideas.. then once they in compsci in school.. theyll make TONS .... |
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| Author: | Amailer [ Thu May 20, 2004 10:05 pm ] |
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Ahh, for me I have .. actually stopped like programming... ahh It's when school got really anoying really, but im sure Ill start once again during the summer  |
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| Author: | da_foz [ Fri May 21, 2004 10:42 am ] |
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When your target is high school students, you are going to have more instability. Many people have not coded before in high school, they take a course and come here for help. Then they decide they don't like it and move on. That gives a very high turnover rate. I think you need a way to targeting users who are more likely to stick around. With a bunch of you gonig into university next year that may help. I think that's the basis for my thoughs on the matter. |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Fri May 21, 2004 3:30 pm ] |
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fo shure.. as soon as dan gets in to uni.... hes gona post ads all over the place. .. RITE DAN? then we will have more advanced users.... but we should still keep trying to get highschool students too.. because then we provide a place for them to foster their knowledge (give ideas... show the power of that programming languages...) and become more interested in the subject... that way will still have beginers at want to go all the way.. AND will get more advaned ppl for the java etc forumz... |
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| Author: | Dan [ Fri May 21, 2004 11:57 pm ] |
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the_short1 wrote: as soon as dan gets in to uni.... hes gona post ads all over the place. .. RITE DAN? LOL, while martin and tony have done a good job of that to u of t all ready. |
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| Author: | Martin [ Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:21 am ] |
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We'll do such a good job littering the planet with ads that one day aliens will come to earth and be like 'CompSci.ca? I thought this was earth?!' |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:20 am ] |
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hahahahah... i couild acually see that happeneing.... cuz this fporum is growing very healthyly!.. and from Referer Risk... u can clearly see we had taken over the world!!!! |
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| Author: | Tony [ Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:43 am ] |
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haha can anyone else see compsci offering atleast online highschool credits in CS in few years? no? yeah... I've got a tendancy to come up with really out of it ideas.
but once the senior level generation of users will enter university in september, I defenatly see some growth potential in multiple areas there |
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| Author: | the_short1 [ Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:04 pm ] |
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compsci.ca TEACHING gr.10 studens compsci!!! OMFG!!! that is a GREAT idea...... take a bit to confince ppl and make it oficial and all..... i can see that in the future!!~!!!! wow..... hold on to that one... and also we coud get money from that and BUY the BEST servers and tons of SPACE!!! and more PAID advertisements (pay others to adverside compsci)!!!!!!!! |
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