Do we have any way of knowing how many people are subscribed to each thread? This is a waste-of-time question. I don't want anyone to go do extra work. Seeing the stats on who is here from which country just made me wonder about stats, in general.
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Cindy - Aug 22, 2003 12:43:12 am PDT #4515 of 10005
Nobody
Jon B. - Aug 22, 2003 1:41:19 am PDT #4516 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It's possible, but it would require someone to write a SQL query to figure it out.
Cindy - Aug 22, 2003 1:56:38 am PDT #4517 of 10005
Nobody
Well, screw that, then. :)
DavidS - Aug 22, 2003 8:44:34 am PDT #4518 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, screw that, then. :)
An SQL query isn't that complicated.
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2003 8:46:50 am PDT #4519 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
An SQL query isn't that complicated.
Neither is an equation.
Unless you're talking about a complicated equation, that is.
Like equations, queries vary. That's why there are entire courses in relational database usage.
DavidS - Aug 22, 2003 8:59:42 am PDT #4520 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Unless you're talking about a complicated equation, that is.
True enough - I've written queries that had more than a hundred separate calculations in them. Still, I was making the distinction that writing one SQL query that did some sort of crosstab calculation summing up subscribers probably wouldn't be an all-day task.
not that I'm volunteering or anything. I've only done SQL within the context of Access, and that's only when I had to go poking around in the guts to fix something.
Cindy - Aug 22, 2003 9:17:56 am PDT #4521 of 10005
Nobody
It's still work. There's no "order this report" feature, so it's work; so it's a nevermind on my part. I was just curious.
smonster - Aug 22, 2003 12:07:02 pm PDT #4522 of 10005
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hi. Code-ignorant (totally) poster here to say that I had no idea it was bad to have the auto-refresh on, or to have only 25 posts/page, until Hec posted it in Bitches. Meaning that I think something along the lines of Jess's post in Press would be good, as there are probably other well-meaning but code-clueless Buffistae out there.
DCJensen - Aug 23, 2003 9:53:28 pm PDT #4523 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.
X-posted from Lightbulbs.
I have a correction to offer in the vote.....
There are 14 Firefly eps, 3 which have not aired in the US. A 15th was not filmed.
3. We should close and archive the Firefly quotable thread as soon as technically possible.
Pro: There are only 12 episodes out there so this can easily be folded into the regular Firefly thread.
Con: 3 of those 12 episodes have not yet aired in the US. We should wait until sometime after the complete series is released on DVD in December before closing this thread.
Essentially:
Serenity (2 hours)
The Train Job
Bushwhacked
Shindig
Safe
Our Mrs. Reynolds
Jaynestown
Out of Gas
Dead or Alive (not filmed)
Ariel
War Stories
Trash (not US)
The Message (not US)
Heart of Gold (not US)
Objects in Space (restored)
Leigh - Aug 24, 2003 4:33:20 am PDT #4524 of 10005
Nobody
I think something along the lines of Jess's post in Press would be good, as there are probably other well-meaning but code-clueless Buffistae out there.
Just chiming in to say that this is a good idea (duh). I don't post much really, but I have finely developed (and wide ranging) lurking skills, and I didn't realise the extent of the technical problems until my essay-procrastination got the better of me and the hundreds of unread Bureaucracy posts started looking very enticing. Thankfully, I was *cough* completely oblivious to the existence/purpose of the message centre, so I didn't have a chance to abuse the refresh rate (score one for Team Ignorance, I suppose).