April 13, 2004

• Got 18. Can't calculate change, cos I always have trouble remembering how much nickels and dimes are.
• a calculator, some google skills and tabbed browsing... 87!
• of course, in english, that should read 86!
• I got, um, six. Because I didn't know who was on the $1 bill. Stupid, stupid, unAmerican me. What a wonderful web design, too.
• Fun, except it is utterly US-centric. The telephone dialling codes are impossible for non-Americans.
• Allright. Who took babywannasofa as a user name?
• And why were my first eight questions about stock abbrevations?
• How gay, I go to click a menu button and it highlights and accepts the wrong answer and I'm out after my first question. Frustration indeed.
• hey babywannasofa will you email me re: CD Exchange at shotsy at hotmail dot com please? for some reason I couldn't get an email through to you. Sorry to derail. Tracy, feel free to delete this comment if you'd like. Thanks
• oops, i meant redscharlach at hotmail dot com. need more coffee.
• That has got to be the ugliest website I've seen in at least a couple of weeks. And it's sort of annoying that you get kicked off as soon as you get one wrong answer, especially since it was a stupid question about which of four states was won by Al Gore in 2000. I only got 20 thanks to Al Gore -- I wish he'd never invented the internet! *bursts into tears, runs from room*
• Ugh, that's ugly. Save us all from pointless transition effects. Still, there's something vaguely familiar, vaguely old-school, about the site's bold sans-serif font and screen-wide bands of color... hmmm.... About StudioQB.com While new contributor Ben Levy, who went by the screenname of QBasic on the service [Prodigy] That explains most of it. *cringes in embarrassment for his fellow Ben*
• Argh, annoying. Endless questions about area codes, "which celebrity's name is spelled wrong"...
• Yeah, it is essentially impossible for anyone who isn't American.
• USA! USA! Number 1! Number 1! I lost after 15 cuz i don't know or care about area codes I don't live in. And about half of those fifteen points were awarded because I know that ET was released before EVERY SINGLE MOVIE released in the 1990s. and most of the 80s. Regardless of its technical acomplishments (whatever they may be) the questions were all terrible.
• I had a hard time getting past any of the prime number questions. I mean, really. Who keeps track of 6-digit prime numbers? tmb48, wouldn't having google open to get all of your answers would artificially skew the question's difficulty ranking?
• The prime number ones were really simple for me, Mickey -- all but one would invariably be an even number. :) Edit: yes, I do see that the comments are out of order.
• Wow....tough crowd. :) I didn't think the design was *that* painful, either. I was more interested in the concept of using your results to skew the questions for the next person to take the test. The iterative nature of difficulty ranking intrigues me.
• I think that's one of the unwritten Laws of *filter: whatever you post, the discussion will inevitably change topic completely from that intended.
• What is a "prime number"? Please advise.
• I love this!
• Dizzy, it's a number divisible only by itself and one (eg. 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, etc).
• Thanks, Trac.( I was too lazy to wake up the 12 year old next door.)
• For prime numbers, I eliminated all choices that ended with a even number (2, 4, 6, 8, 0) and 5. Then I tried to divide the remaining choices by 3, 7 or 9. It's a pretty quick way of finding prime numbers...right? Would there be a composite number that can't be divided by a single digit number?
• Alnedra, if the digits in a prime number add to something divisible by 3, then the number itself is divisible by three -- eg. 458745: 4+5+8+7+4+5=33 so 458,745 must be divisible by 3 (and the answer is 152,915). Does that make sense? It's a rule I learned when I was eight, and I've never tried explaining it before. Try it, though.
• When it came to prime numbers I was lazy.
• For prime numbers, you should have used this.