Better Stats

[Hardcoreruss]

This site rules, love it, sees me through the day. I just think that the statistics page is pretty shite.

This is another site I visit and I like their statistics. What do you all think ?

http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/statistics.php

[dlb]

shite to.

[Hardcoreruss]

Why don't you like them ?

[Baldrick]

I could add more stats but I don't have time write own stat mods.

But if you find any mods for the Statistics Mod Version 3 then I can add them. It wont work with Statistics Mod Version 2 mods. The version2 doesn't cache the results and it wouldn't work with my huge forum.

[Will Hay]

I could add more stats but I don't have time write own stat mods.

But if you find any mods for the Statistics Mod Version 3 then I can add them. It wont work with Statistics Mod Version 2 mods. The version2 doesn't cache the results and it wouldn't work with my huge forum.

Man, you must have the patience of a saint.

Statistic's?
Shite, shite, shite, shite
Shite, shite, shite, shite, shite

Don't like it?
Tough shit(e).
There's a saying where I come from....
...like it or lump it.
Will

[pacmania_2001]

I think that one showing the location of the posters would be pretty cool. I just want to see how many Australians there are on here really.

[gmatov]

Pacman,

I think there are 3 of you.

Just put an asterisk by the location box in the registration form saying "required". I'd like to see location posted, also.

Might stop some bad info from being posted, such as telling a Brit, or Ozzie, to go to BBuy for this week's sale item.

Sometimes it's like rubbing your nose in it to say " Got this expensive ...thing for just XX, after rebate".

[vitualis]

Well, according to the "where are you from" poll, there are as many people visiting from Antarctica as there are Aussies...

However, I'm sure that Aussies are under-represented in that poll since I have encountered quite a few on the forums...

Regards.

[flaninacupboard]

Forced location is a good idea really, although i think i'm used to remembering where people are from, and know that most of the shop-stuff doesn't apply to me (nor do stupid rebates!) and i just always assume if there's nothing in the location box, they're american

[j1d10t]

Maybe just a "where in the word are you" box - something like a drop down box with countries, and make that required. We don't really need to know where in that country people are. Where in the world is helpful though - that way you know if the poster is mainly dealing with NTSC, or PAL, and you won't post a response about NTSC resolutions, and then find out they are in PAL land, or visa-versa. Just a thought

[The village idiot]

The polite thing is to use both NTSC and PAL specs when you can remember them.

The stats are less important than the info in the forum!

[j1d10t]

The village idiot: Very true. But it also saves time, if you don't have to type out both (especially if you are typing from work when you shouldn't be ). But then again, it might help someone else in the future if both are there. So it's a toss up.

[flaninacupboard]

well as a general rule,
NTSC people don't need to know anything else, and PAL people are used to working with both, so remember both anyway.

[The village idiot]

How American of us to decide that we don't need to know the first thing about PAL. Well I try at least. It is only polite since the world does not revolve around the USA.

[Faustus]

I think its a common misconception that Americans think the world revolves around the US. When in truth we just tend to think it revolves around us specificly.

I admit to knowing very little about PAL, but thats because I've not ran into it yet, the first time I do I know there are some good conversion guides out there so I'll tackle that problem when it comes.

[j1d10t]

Hey, who doesn't like to think the world revolves around them, personally? :P

And I, like flaystus, know very little about PAL. But seeing as how my DVD player will play both PAL and NTSC, and I have friends that live in a country that is mainly PAL, I'm learning - it's nice to be able to send them a VCD of home movies/vacation videos. So I believe that both are important to learn, but all I was saying is that it takes more time to tell how to do something for both PAL and NTSC. But as The village idiot pointed out, it's only polite to use both, if unsure. And Baldrick sounds like a really busy guy, so unless it's really necessary (like the warning system), then........

[gmatov]

Flan,

That's not true often enough to help. I will admit (confess) we Americans might think the world revolves around us, but there are quite a few non-US members who do not report their locations. I wish they would, for the reason mentioned previously, as well as others.

I particularly hate when a non-US, non-English as their mother tongue, apologizes for his "broken" English.

I have mentioned before that most of the non-English Mother tongue members speak/type the language better that an RWB native. Yet, they constantly apologize!! Please don't. You all come across quite well.

Very rarely do you see a post that says "Try that again in English."

If they speak Australian, that's another matter.

(I still wish someone from the Southern hemisphere would tell me if the kids go to school August to May, or February to November, with the opposite seasons, if they are really opposite. Any Aussies have an answer?)

Cheers,

George

[D_Knife]

Major school holidays are from mid-Novemember to start of february
This is our summertime. And a nice summer time here in Queensland it is too

Location wise - I have problems with mostly American posters that put the abbreiviated state names - for instance j1d10t
Ok admitly this one is easy since even Aussies know where Las Vegas is in Nevada - but a lot of other state addreviations are lost over here.

Same deal with flaystus - not sure if you know but we have a town called "Texas" here as well - it's a small-ish country town that hosts huge drinking contents and cattle ranches

Edit - I guess I should probably change my location from "QLD" to Queensland as well

[j1d10t]

D_Knife:
That sounds like the Texas here in the US - drinking contests and cattle ranchers Just kidding Don't mean to offend anyone

And that's the only reason I didn't spell out the state, but I guess I should. Most people probably know that Las Vegas is in Nevada, USA, but maybe not all. Point taken

[D_Knife]

hey no offense taken
Like your new location too

[gmatov]

D_knife,

Thanks.

I was curious about that. In one respect, you would think everyone in the world had the summer off, as the original summer vacation was to allow kids to be home when the crops were to be brought in.

On the other hand, your seasons are the reverse oif the northern hem, when you were mostly an agrarian society, your kids were needed during YOUR summer.

Thanks for the response.

A lot of the states abbreviations are a mystery here, also. They have been changed to make them machine readable, 2 characters.

MI, Mich. Michigan. ME, Maine. MA, Mass., Massachusettes. MN, Minn., Minnesota, MS, Miss., Missouri. You might recognize any of the 4 character abreviations, but even we have to look up the 2 letters, or think twice.

It can be confusing.

Texas, AU, must be where Mr. Marsden, or is it Marston, from "Quigley Down Under" had his ranch. As a native of QLD, how'd you like that movie?

Not too many Aussies seem to have even seen it, let alone comment on it..
I thought it was great, but as I have said before, almost all, if not all, Selleck movies are at the top of my list.

Anyhoo, glad to have converse with all of you.

Cheers,

George

[D_Knife]

you would think everyone in the world had the summer off

we do Christmas is summer is very wierd since a lot of stores go with northern hem decorations so when it's 36deg Celsius your looking at snow, sleds and reindeer - very bizzare!!

crops were to be brought in

No I think it was more the heat - especially up north, and while Brisbane isn't considered "north" in Aust it gets a nice decent temperature here
I grew up "north" in a place called Townsville and it gets quite hot and humid there.

"Quigley Down Under"

Sorry never heard of it....

Just as a matter of interest
where is "Pgh Area"???

[gmatov]

D_knife,

Pgh area is Pittsburgh area, southwestern corner of PA.

Sorry, couldn't resist. That's Pennsylvania, one of the original 13 colonies.

Sounds reasonable. Our winter, your summer, our "snowbirds" go to Florida for the Winter, come back North for the Summer, for you they go south for the Summer, nearer the Pole, cooler, then come home for the winter.

I have to assume you call Summer December, January, February or approximately so, so the Winter-Summer would be reversed.

I hope you guys don't also fall for the bullshit here, where the millhunks go to Florida in the "off-season", when it's 110 degrees in the shade, and motel/hotel rooms are "half-price, but Disney whatever is full priced.

Yeah, the working stiff goes toward the Equator at the height of summer.

You've never seen Quigley Down Under? Outf'in standing movie. Tom Selleck. Look for it. You might enjoy it.

Cheers,

George

[gmatov]

D,

I think you have to go back a little to check on whether those kids were kept home in the "summer" to help with the crops. A hundred years ago, large families were the norm, and most people had to make their own living on their own land.

I think the school year there was the same as the school year here, we need the kids to help with the harvest.

Hell, a hundred years ago, your land, too, probably had a hell of a time getting schools up and running, and for anyone, town council or a teacher to say "We are going to take your kids for 8 hours a day to teach them to read and write".

Without the backing of a strong government, the farmers would have put a stop to it right now. Until the laws here were rewritten to state that the child or possibly the parent would go to jail if the child did not go to school, many did not.

Gone to bed. 4:30 AM here.

Cheers, George