I see friends online, yet when I look at my online opponents, they are not on that list?

KotDB: well, that's backwards according to every other instance in which i've seen an arrow used to indicate the order of a list in a computer UI, and it's also counterintuitive. an arrow indicates that whatever it refers to goes in the direction in which the arrow points; where this is not the case, the arrow is meaningless. an upward-pointing arrow indicates that a thing - in this case, the list - begins at the bottom and progresses upward. if the arrow goes up while the list goes down, one of the two is backwards.

an alternative is to do what Apple does in iTunes and Mail and other apps that let you order lists by column: use a triangle. the point of the triangle, being narrowest, indicates the smallest value in the list and the base, being widest, the largest. so a right-side-up triangle indicates a list ordered from A to Z or from lowest value to highest, and an upside-down one indicates the reverse. thus if you interpreted the triangle as the head of an arrow it would be consistent with your ascending/descending theory - but it's not an arrow head: it's a triangle, whose gradual change in width represents relative values in a continuum.

so if Fencer just hacked the stems off the arrows and left the triangular heads, the problem would be solved. :)

plaintiger: That's not a bug. An arrow pointing upward indicates that the list is sorted in ascending order, which in this case means that the earliest dates are shown first.

hey Fencer - i just noticed that the little green arrows that indicate the order of lists are backwards...or at least one of them is. i saw your post in the black rooks fellowship about the counter and link for paid memberships, so i went and had a look at the list of black rooks, then i ordered the list by "first login" to see where i fell in the whole thing...and noticed that the green arrow was pointing upwards even though the list showed the oldest first login at the top and the most recent first login at the bottom. when that's the case the arrow should be pointing downward, and vice-versa. thanks... :)

Fencer: thanks

Vikings: It should be fixed now.

Fencer: I have ponds that are 4,5 and even 8 hours behind when the next round should have started

Vikings: Why should game time be suspended?

baddessi: Aw thank you, its good to be back ( think) lol

Is game time suspended? at least for ponds?

WatfordFC: Don't know if I helped, but it's nice to have ya back to talk with anyways

baddessi: Ok, it seems to be ok now, i just shut the site down. Thanks for your help anyway

WatfordFC: hmmm..well my guess is that it's not your hard drive. I'm having the same trouble..thought it was my cable internet...the pages seems to load slow and you get a blank page between the loads?

baddessi: Its a brand new hard drive only got in all installed today :o(

WatfordFC: have you tried cleaning your cookies and internet history?

Not sure if i am on the right board for this one, but i will try anyway.



When i take a move in a game and i click "move" to go to the next
game,i get a completely blank page. Is anybody else having the same
problem? Thanks.

Czuch Chuckers: think of it as a summer vacation. Isn't everyone entitled to vacation, especially when they cover the boards in their absence?

gogul: Point is that it doesnt matter where he is, pawns are not allowed to be board moderators, and especially ones who are not even here for a month.....

WatfordFC:

WatfordFC: Welcome back!

Rose: actually, I read that this is a temporary situation. Reza posted somewhere on here that his membership is pending while he waits, and even on his board posted that he assigned Walter there in his place for now. Just to let you know : )

Czuch Chuckers: What´s your point? Wont Reza be back after a month or so?

WatfordFC:

Marfitalu: No, he isnt wrong. It is an oversite. It would be impossible to spend every day watching every board, every board moderator to see if they are still members. The members that go down to pawns should alert of us that I suppose.
Now that everyone is aware of it it will be corrected.

Marfitalu:

I thought pawns were not allowed to moderate public discussion boards?

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=117

alanback: The fact that we can never buy more time is what makes it so valuable...

I must respectfully differ. A commodity is a substance that is standardized; one unit is like any other unit, which enables commodities to be traded in public markets at quoted prices. To be sure, some information is a commodity; that information which is freely available, now more than ever due to the internet. However, the most valuable information is that which is unique and not generally available; that is what can be sold at a premium price. That is why there are laws protecting "intellectual property". Therefore, while commodity information no doubt has value, it is not particularly valuable; and the most valuable information is not a commodity at all.

Time could be regarded as a commodity, since many of us sell our time at fixed prices, albeit over a wide price range. Few if any of us are able to sell our time at the price we choose; the price is fixed by market forces.

Yet the most important aspect of time is fundamentally not really a commodity at all. While we can buy the time of others, we can never buy more time for ourselves. And the most profound spiritual traditions regard time as only an illusion.

BerniceC: ahhhh, you are correct, of course! Maybe time is a commodity as well then?

Czuch Chuckers: Fencer said commodity and you are referring to assets...there is a difference I believe LOL.....sorry I know Im splitting hairs LOL

Fencer: What about time? Time is my most valuable asset!

Chicago Bulls: INFORMATION is the most valuable commodity in the world.

Fencer: And what you or we would gain from that....?

Czuch Chuckers: Yes, I can look at the database. But I could make a table of most popular boards, based on this data. Not a bad idea.

Is there a way to find out how many people keep a particular discussion board on their list of favorites?

Chicago Bulls: One bit of information I didn't give you was that there was an error in the javascript console log. This was what convinced me it was a scripting problem, and since the update checker is a javascript app, I attributed the problem to it.

alanback: I think the problem was associated with the page update checker extension. I uninstalled that, and the site is now functioning properly in Mozilla.

I don't think it's this the problem. I had the same problems from time to time the last 20 hours and for only 10-80 seconds each time. With both Firefox and IE....

alanback: I have that from time to time, always thought it happened when the site was slow (I know that Mozilla is very impatient when he doesn't get a quick enough response).

Czuch Chuckers: I think the problem was associated with the page update checker extension. I uninstalled that, and the site is now functioning properly in Mozilla.

alanback: no problems for me on mozilla too. Try clearing you cookies and cache etc?

alanback: I am using Mozilla Firefox. I am NOT having any problems. BK does seem a bit slower today. though.

Is anyone else having trouble with the links here? I have been experiencing a lot of situations where the browser just goes to a blank screen and stays there.  This happens when I log in and when I submit a move, which implies to me it's some kind of a script problem.  When I return to the site I find that I am logged in and that my move was made; I just never got to the page that follows those actions.  It also only happens when I am using Mozilla, not with IE.

Summertop & Chicago Bulls: If we can´t we´ll have to move to the pit, ..!#?

Chicago Bulls and gogul, This sounds like a fun debate in the Debate Club. If you take it there, I will follow.

Chicago Bulls: It was a general thought and had nothing to do with what you´ve said and I´m not offended in any way. I felt upset when someone complains the free speech for him self and uses it to harm others. Again, nothing personal. And regarding to the public boards I just wouldn´t say avoiding "bad" words is the "only" guidance (again not what you´ve claimed). I think probably as you do there are no "bad" words, so I would talk about "offensive" words which I can´t know or can´t be sure in advance if they do or not. I use some of them as well if I´m with friends in the pub or whatever, as I avoid them in other situations...

gogul: I didn't say anything against that! I just said that words should not be considered as harmful in any way....
Of course if some consider them as harmful, then in this spirit of brotherhood i simply retreat....

Chicago Bulls: If you refer to the freedom of speech consider also: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. ;)

Rose: Oh, OK no problem, i just noticed that, so i've said that....
So as a general guidance i should avoid posting words considered as "bad", right?

Chicago Bulls: We can't mod Fencer. A note was sent to him to ask him to 'mod' his own post!