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Grex Agora41 Item 21: The newbie
Entered by techead on Sat Mar 23 08:38:12 UTC 2002:

I am totally new to this, but I think it's pretty sweet! I would just like
to know what the majority of people come in here for? 

62 responses total.



#1 of 62 by bdh3 on Sat Mar 23 09:10:33 2002:

Are you chinese?


#2 of 62 by rcurl on Sat Mar 23 15:47:20 2002:

Don't listen to bdh3. You don't have to be Chinese, although  it is perfectly
OK to be Chinese. The majority of people come here to have interesting
exchanges with others on "everything under the sun". It is a form of
town meeting that is hard to find at town meetings.


#3 of 62 by eskarina on Sat Mar 23 16:31:24 2002:

Ever watched the Ann Arbor school board meetings?  Its sorta like that.

And there's that one lady who gets up and whines about something every week
and no one listens...

You get the idea.  :)


#4 of 62 by techead on Sat Mar 23 18:06:36 2002:

Thanks for your feedback:)


#5 of 62 by sarkhel on Sun Mar 24 00:47:14 2002:

After receiving 3 feedbacks,u r faded back? what a pity:-(


#6 of 62 by other on Sun Mar 24 01:49:36 2002:

We gather here to expend various energies and vent various virtual 
humours upon each other and upon total strangers, just for fun and 
profit, minus the profit.  Welcome!  :)


#7 of 62 by morwen on Sun Mar 24 03:29:07 2002:

I come here for one of the following:
a) the conversation
b) for laughs
c) because I'm bored
d) to find out what my friends in MI are doing


#8 of 62 by xix on Wed Mar 27 23:54:56 2002:

Hsien


#9 of 62 by rlejeune on Wed Apr 3 18:46:06 2002:

To avoid doing any real work. 


#10 of 62 by avin on Tue Apr 23 00:01:11 2002:

I come here for the bbs...and see some brainies taking it out on each
other.Occassiional comic reliefs are some chracters like # 5 here. Overall,
Serious fun as I would have describe it !..


#11 of 62 by snowth on Sat Apr 27 05:46:43 2002:

I come here to remind myself I have friends... ;)


#12 of 62 by tsty on Sat Apr 27 07:08:47 2002:

yes, yo do!


#13 of 62 by datacode on Tue Apr 30 02:20:14 2002:

Are you sick of the lamers that seem to be over-running HDC??? 

Does it bother you that every post seems to be "How do I hack hotmail?" or
other lame shit like that? 

Do you like being censored?? 

Do you want a change?? 

Well, your chance has come... 

Join the HaloCr3w... 

We have a goal to educate in all computer fields and strive to share the
information that we possess. 

We are an up and coming force in the hacking world. 

We are looking for new members, members who are interested in the technology
of cyberspace today, members who want to learn or want to help, in a lamer
free environment. 

Since you have followed the white rabit...you must already be curious... 

Follow the white rabbit deeper into the rabbithole... 

Join the HaloCr3w today


#14 of 62 by other on Tue Apr 30 11:22:13 2002:

Want to drag out overused cliches with impunity?

Want to claim social superiority by redefining the category into which 
the rest of the world has thrown you specifically to exclude yourself?

Want to sound like a marketing droid without actually having the 
knowledge base and resources that allow marketing droids to actualy make 
a living?

Join us today!


#15 of 62 by russ on Tue Apr 30 12:55:07 2002:

I'm sick of lamers advertising useless web sites and IRC channels,
and especially lamers who can't be bothered to specify which is which.


#16 of 62 by jazz on Tue Apr 30 21:39:38 2002:

        I'm sick of script kiddies who keep making Matrix references.

        Megazone 23 references would be cool, however.


#17 of 62 by mcnally on Tue Apr 30 22:07:06 2002:

  I'm sick of people who call other people "lamers."


#18 of 62 by scott on Tue Apr 30 22:22:31 2002:

One of these days I need to see the rest of Megazone 23.  That was a pretty
cool anime.


#19 of 62 by gull on Tue Apr 30 23:43:12 2002:

Re #17: I think the only thing that's worse is people calling other people
"mundanes".


#20 of 62 by mcnally on Wed May 1 01:02:07 2002:

  re #19:  that's definitely worse but probably not the only thing worse.
  I've (so far) never heard anyone use the term but I wonder if the use
  of "mundanes" will eventually be replaced by "muggles"  <shudder>


#21 of 62 by bru on Wed May 1 02:32:23 2002:

That is so last tuesday...


#22 of 62 by brighn on Wed May 1 02:48:38 2002:

#20> I've heard "muggle" being used by pagans who would have ued "mundane"
five years ago. I'm sick of both.


#23 of 62 by tpryan on Wed May 1 15:52:15 2002:

        Shame on the lack of Network 31 refferences.


#24 of 62 by jazz on Wed May 1 15:55:56 2002:

        Harry Potter != paganism.
        (repeat as necessary)


#25 of 62 by brighn on Wed May 1 16:11:51 2002:

BLASPHEMER! John, you are bound to HELL for such a post!
 
Not for saying it, but because you used syntax VB doesn't recognize. ;}


#26 of 62 by flem on Wed May 1 16:38:22 2002:

uh...


#27 of 62 by jazz on Wed May 1 19:19:10 2002:

        Paganism != Visual Basic, too.


#28 of 62 by mcnally on Wed May 1 23:16:41 2002:

  If it's not equal, does that mean that it's greater than or less than?


#29 of 62 by gelinas on Thu May 2 00:23:29 2002:

Yes, the statements

        a <> b
and
        a != b
and
        a!b

are pretty much synonymous.  Different systems use different operators.


#30 of 62 by jp2 on Thu May 2 00:43:58 2002:

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#31 of 62 by mcnally on Thu May 2 01:05:45 2002:

  re #29:  they're not quite the same, actually..


#32 of 62 by morwen on Thu May 2 01:32:25 2002:

resp:24 Jazz, I have to know.  What made you post that?


#33 of 62 by jaklumen on Thu May 2 10:02:12 2002:

Megazone 23.. I guess I need to look that up.

I enjoy anime, but I am cash-poor.  If I had mad money, I'd be 
catching up with more stuff like that.. oh yeah, and all the stuff 
that's been recommended to me in the music cf.


#34 of 62 by remmers on Thu May 2 10:53:22 2002:

Re #28:  "Not equal" does not always imply "greater than or
less than".  The third possibility is "incomparable".  e.g.
red != heavy


#35 of 62 by brighn on Thu May 2 15:00:28 2002:

#32> "Muggle" is the word in Harry Potter used to refer to non-magickal sorts
(like his foster family). Many pagans are using "muggle" to refer to
non-pagans, becuase many pagans get confused easily and think that Harry
Potter is a religious document.
 
#34> That depends on what level you're approaching it from. What happens if
you try:
i% <> cheese$
in BASIC? I'm not really sure. While:
"red" != "dog"
is true while there's no clear sense that "red" is "greater than or less than"
"dog" as far as content goes, the assessment is based on the character values,
not the content (i.e., "dog" < "red" < "zoo"). But then, I imagine you knew
all that, I'm just saying...


#36 of 62 by aruba on Thu May 2 16:24:08 2002:

You can't use < or > to compare elements of a set unless you have defined an
ordering on the set.  Arbitrary sets don't have a priori orderings.


#37 of 62 by gelinas on Fri May 3 03:13:18 2002:

Mathematically, you are correct; nonetheless, I've used languages that use
the "<>" operator to mean "does not equal".


#38 of 62 by jp2 on Fri May 3 03:21:49 2002:

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#39 of 62 by brighn on Fri May 3 03:49:49 2002:

#37> Where there's no ordering? For instance, while "cat" <> "dog", so too
it is that "Dog" <> "dog" in all the languages I'm familiar with.
 
I prefer perl's method, even though I thought it was sill the first time I
saw it (where != is for numerics and ne is for strings).


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