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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,730 |
| Posted: | | | | Quote: Well, I remember you reproached me to say those things, some years ago...
Seems that you changed your mind. Just using "real" data (I mean data used by everybody except those following Invelos rules) would avoid this.. I think you misunderstood me, I'm not deleting the data to enter some invented data, but to enter the data according to the contribution rules. I changed my mind only in so far that some of the recent "Clarifications" and "Rule-Changes" don't match my personal preferences. But, so what? I just don't contribute to these datafields anymore, if my contribution would overwrite other rule-conform data, that's basically all. The effect is that nowadays my profile-updates are limited to "Overview" and "Cast". | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up! But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 4,479 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Silence_of_Lambs: Quote: I'm not deleting the data to enter some invented data, but to enter the data according to the contribution rules. The problem is that data according to contribution rules are, in most controversed case, invented data. Real data, for those controversed case, can be found everywhere in the net, except in Invelos online database which is the only place where contributors add voluntarily spelling mistakes that do not exist in credits. | | | Images from movies |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | No, Yves, yo have it wrong. Real data is that data that we take from CREDITS, Covers for Titles, etc. The data to which you refer iis the invented data. The Credits, Covers, et al are the "punch cards" which contain the data that we use, not contrived data based upon in this case an invention which never actually existed according to the filmmaker HIMSELF, TRace ON, this was verified by the original "making of" documentary on the film. Other such contrived data may be derived from certain cultural aspects but do not match the actual credits. Just stick to the "punch cards" and all will be well. Ken still has not responded to the basic question of just how far afield do we fo to determine a title, and do we or do we NOT use standard caps, in which case Tron is correct per the Rules as they relate to the cover. The Rules do not say to go beyond the credit block for titles and THAT is only as it relates to possessives...nothing else. So where do we go to decide what a title MIGHT be. | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,635 |
| Posted: | | | | "Punchcards"???? You're really showing your age there Skip. I would hazard that 90% of this forum have no idea what that means! LOL. | | | Hal |
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Registered: March 10, 2009 | Posts: 2,248 |
| Posted: | | | | Punchcards where a system to keep a record of when workers clocked in and out. Replaced by the electronic swipe card. |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Posts: 1,982 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Silence_of_Lambs: Quote: ... the online database is becoming more and more useless. Just becoming It is for quite a while Quoting VirtualScot: Quote: Punchcards where a system to keep a record of when workers clocked in and out. Replaced by the electronic swipe card. We used that at my last job, so it isn't a system that obsolete... But as Hal say in the next message it isn't what Skip was talking about. | | | Last edited: by Jimmy S |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,635 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting VirtualScot: Quote: Punchcards where a system to keep a record of when workers clocked in and out. Replaced by the electronic swipe card. That was one use of them, but it is not the use that Skip was referring to. Like I said, 90% will not know what you're talking about, Skip! | | | Hal |
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Registered: November 24, 2008 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,282 |
| Posted: | | | | I must be one of that 10% then. Punchcards used to be the standard way of programming computers. Also used on knitting machines to set the pattern, I believe. And, after a quick Google, originally used on textile looms in the 19th Century. Is Skip THAT old?! | | | Last edited: by GreyHulk |
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Registered: June 6, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 950 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote: "Punchcards"????
You're really showing your age there Skip. I would hazard that 90% of this forum have no idea what that means! LOL. DO Remember Fortran Remember Punchcards WHILE still alive </nostalgia> Man, I feel old |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 13,202 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting GreyHulk: Quote: I must be one of that 10% then.
Punchcards used to be the standard way of programming computers. I am in that 10% right along with you...my mom used to be a punch card operator. She used to bring them home, once they had been run through the machine, for us to play with. I even remember going to her job and using the 'programming' machine to create designs in the cards. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. - Citizen G'Kar |
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Registered: March 10, 2009 | Posts: 2,248 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting GreyHulk: Quote: I must be one of that 10% then.
Punchcards used to be the standard way of programming computers. Also used on knitting machines to set the pattern, I believe.
And, after a quick Google, originally used on textile looms in the 19th Century. Is Skip THAT old?! Judging by his general know it all attitude, it would not surprise me to learn that Skip was a brutal mill owner. Employing poverty stricken children to risk life and limb, ducking under the looms to collect excess bits of cotton that had fallen to the floor. A far cry from his now humble pizza delivery job |
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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,730 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting GreyHulk: Quote: Is Skip THAT old?! If I understood it correctly he has social security # 0003. So, yes, he probably is that old. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up! But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,917 |
| Posted: | | | | Remember to mark your cards! |
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Registered: May 20, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,934 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote: Remember to mark your cards!
Yes I did, and a stack still got dropped. What a nightmare to put them back in order. Anybody remember paper tape readers...? |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 756 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting CharlieM: Quote:
Anybody remember paper tape readers...? Of course, how else did one bootstrap a PDP-11 But I have forgotten the switch settings (be kind, guys, it was 30+ years ago, a lot of beer has passed since then). Anybody here remember the octal code to start an '11?? | | | Chris | | | Last edited: by Mole |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 756 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote: Remember to mark your cards!
Do you know, I never thought of doing that.......Duh! On the other hand I never dropped a stack! | | | Chris |
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