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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, July 2018
- Thread starter chown33
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Well, @mad jew, one week before the (my) tenth anniversary of joining this forum, it seems that I have (a fortnight ahead of the schedule postulated by @chown33) indeed, overtaken you and the benchmark you have set.
Nevertheless, I am sorry that our paths never crossed when and while you were still an active poster.
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Earlier this year, @Doctor Q had forecast that this should happen around September, while @chown33 postulated early August.
Me, I blame the World Cup; anyone who had any interest in football posted fairly frequently in that thread.
Plus, I have just this month returned from a very challenging year abroad, and both have some time on my hands, and want a little distance for a short while from the challenges of international relations and high politics.
These are always very well done. Excited to see that chown33 picked them up. Gotta start posting more, but life is becoming more productive for me at the moment.
I know someone who can run some statistics on your perceived productivity...
Thank you for clarifying that.
I was stunned over this information, and I was just wondering, are these people not having a life?
I wouldn't manage any of it.
Think I am happy that I don't have many % time for forums and internet life today.
Some can be refreshing though.
Most of these people are having a life, just "life" can throw different things at people., and at different times.
On such discussions, one question that endlessly comes up asks: How can people have the time to post so prodigiously on such a forum?
Another asks how people who once posted prodigiously post a lot less, or not at all?
Much of the answers come down to life circumstances.
My own mum has advanced Alzheimer's, and is being cared for at home; this means that when I am at home, I spend quite an amount of time in the actual house, for obvious reasons, not least to give our live-in, 24-7 carer a bit of a break.
I'd would imagine that other frequent posters may have domestic circumstances or arrangements which mean that they spend what would have seemed an unusually high percentage of their time online.
Again, when I am abroad, as I sometimes am for months or years at a time, my posting is reduced, and that tends to be reflected in the stats posted here, as well.
As to why people who once posted prolifically no longer do so, life changes, new partners, new jobs, new hobbies, new circumstances, ill health, may all contribute to a decision to curb, or curtail, one's online existence.
On such discussions, one question that endlessly comes up asks: How can people have the time to post so prodigiously on such a forum?
Another asks how people who once posted prodigiously post a lot less, or not at all?
Much of the answers come down to life circumstances.
My own mum has advanced Alzheimer's, and is being cared for at home; this means that when I am at home, I spend quite an amount of time in the actual house, for obvious reasons, not least to give our live-in, 24-7 carer a bit of a break.
I'd would imagine that other frequent posters may have domestic circumstances or arrangements which mean that they spend what would have seemed an unusually high percentage of their time online.
Again, when I am abroad, as I sometimes am for months or years at a time, my posting is reduced, and that tends to be reflected in the stats posted here, as well.
As to why people who once posted prolifically no longer do so, life changes, new partners, new jobs, new hobbies, new circumstances, ill health, may all contribute to a decision to curb, or curtail, one's online existence.
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That and how PowerPC Macs cannot boot from USB drives.
Productivity on here or at work?
Step one, take the soldering iron...
But the internet tells me that death and despair will surely befall me if I attempt to boot a PowerPC Mac from USB...even the ones where USB shows up in boot picker
Are you telling me that you actually CAN boot some PPC Macs over USB?
( boot ud:,\\:tbxi )
They're just trying to match your post rate by talking about antiques!
They're just trying to match your post rate by talking about antiques!
Ah: But are antiques in the tech world, the same as antiques in the - I won't say "real world" - but rest of the world?
In the trade I believe they would call them collectibles! Out of the trade they are known as scrap!
I'm only just trying to bait @Intell with some of his favorite hot button topics
(for the record, iBook G4s have a capacitor, not a PRAM battery, and nearly all PowerPC Macs with built in USB can be booted from it. The iBook G4 PRAM battery and not being able to boot PPC Macs from USB widely known "facts" on the internet).
(for the record, iBook G4s have a capacitor, not a PRAM battery, and nearly all PowerPC Macs with built in USB can be booted from it. The iBook G4 PRAM battery and not being able to boot PPC Macs from USB widely known "facts" on the internet).
So, two dates of note since this thread has started: My post total has passed that of @mad jew - since that is now noted on these fora, under its very own set of statistical analysis, with @mad jew as a benchmark, and, clearly of less importance, I have spent a full decade on these fora.
That is something I never envisaged, as I never thought I would join an online forum, and certainly never thought that if I did so, I would still be around a decade later.
That is something I never envisaged, as I never thought I would join an online forum, and certainly never thought that if I did so, I would still be around a decade later.
Congratulations, I guess.
You're welcome to my #6 spot on the list, once you have practiced your acceptance speech.
How gracious and kind of you.
I suspect that the acceptance speech will need quite a bit of serious polishing, but I daresay that I have several months yet before I may be called upon to deliver it.
