Re: Didn't I make 100 posts in a year?
The BBC B was one of the few computers that didn't have PEEK and POKE. They were posh and had (ta-da) Indirection Operators
? byte
! word
$ string
Badges for Commentards
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 01:36 GMT Graham Marsden
Re: Didn't I make 100 posts in a year?
@Will Godfrey
I always remember ?&FE4E=&7F
It would freeze the computer by setting all the interrupts and the only thing to do then was hit Break (which would do a power-on memory wipe) or switch off and back on again. Either would wipe the memory but it was so much more elegant that *FX 200,3 :-)
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 02:09 GMT M Gale
Re: Didn't I make 100 posts in a year?
Break did not necessarily clear all memory. Some things that depended on wierd assembler routines couldn't be recovered, but there were plenty of times when an accidental "break" press could be undone by typing "old".
IIRC, there was some difference between "break" and "ctrl+break" as well, though I'll be damned if I can remember what it was off-hand.
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Tuesday 27th November 2012 16:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
I feel a little sad all my anon posts don't count (ergo all of them) sad times.
upvoted 3276 times and downvoted 589 times
And my first post
Back in the day. olol.
Submitted on Thursday 22nd February 2007
Plus a few letters in the old mailbag posts before we even had ye'olde comment sections.
lol, funny looking back at old posts and going "oh dear..."
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Tuesday 27th November 2012 16:13 GMT Ru
'In coming weeks we will roll out a few more commentard voting options - such as "helpful" and "informative"'
Your optimism is to be commended, but surely if you wanted a voting system that would actually get used, perhaps you'd be better off with a negative rating system... "troll", "fanboy", "shill", etc.
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Tuesday 27th November 2012 16:22 GMT Grikath
Other Badges
I do like the idea of a "helpful" or "knowledgeable" badge, as it would be about the only "peer-reviewed" indication of substance for a handle. Especially in a forum setup where you can switch your handle at the drop of a hat.
This set of badges is nice, I guess.. Although I wonder how much the usual Battlefields will now get spammed with trollposts...ermmm.. "highly polarised viewpoints" to hit that elusive +2000 upvote threshold.
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Tuesday 27th November 2012 16:28 GMT rurwin
I wonder...
whether "upvotes" means upvotes minus downvotes.
Frankly, I doubt I'll manage to both double my positing volume and increase upvotes by a factor of ten in the very near future.
In fact I'm not sure that bronze badges shouldn't have some sort of upvote requirement. Isn't that an invitation to spam?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
