Peripheral Control Wrote:When I first got into TRON, which really wasn't that long ago. Lucky me. I felt sorry for the MCP, Many movies I watch I end up being a sympathizer for the villain(s). I don't feel the same for real life criminals, that'd be really messed up.

That's interesting. I don't think I've ever head someone express feelings of sympathy for the MCP before. It's always enjoyable to hear how people felt about the film and its characters.

But, I also had a slight inkling of a character. Who is still, in her rather uncomfortable stage of being new. Not knowing what she's meant to do and not all of her history fits together yet. I decided to use said characters name for my account here. I'm hoping to use my experience from my other characters that where the creations of one of my old obsessions and to flesh out her character, improve on her personality and flesh it out some more by hopefully using her character as a point of view here at the Sector.

Good luck with your character. Many forum members have developed their own TRON characters and/or fan fictions. TRON has inspired a lot of creative things in us. I always feel creatively energized after watching the film.

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Peripheral Control Wrote:Or maybe I'm just crazy. -Ponders.- Or I'm just one of a kind. Rare. Weird... I'm going to stop before I start insulting myself.

What? Why would you insult yourself for being youself? I'm what most people would consider "weird". I used to try and hide it, now I wear that label with pride. I like being weird. I like being different. You should too. Being "different" or "weird" or whatever is awesome in my book. BTW - I think you'll find that all of the members here are "different" in one way or another. I say this a lot, but we all have much in common in addition to TRON. So we're kind of all different together.

Thanks, hopefully I'll be able to give her a test run, when ever some lively members decide to log in. And maybe the creativity in the movie has found me too? I seem to be more in gear, inspiration wise for the last couple of days.

The forums here have been a little on the slow side lately. It happens. Unfortunately we all live in the real world and find ourselves busy with real world stuff sometimes. Don't worry though. Things always pick up. If you'd rather unleash your character during a more active period, just wait a bit. Things will pick up again. It happens in waves.

I always feel bad when new members join up just before a slow period and then get discouraged and abandon TRON-Sector. There are times when there is so much activity here, it becomes difficult to keep up with it all.

Peripheral Control Wrote:Really?

Yes, really. Weird = COOL in my book.

... Year 10 in Secondary School sucks... (I would estimate that to be a freshman in high school? I wouldn't know because I'm British and living in the UK.)

Ok, quick American school explanation:

Kindergarten:
It is the first real year of school (as opposed to "pre-school"). First grade is more like real, real school, but this is kind of officially the first year of school. There's a lot of play time, but real lessons are started and it is much like an introductory to school kind of thing. Average age starting - between 4 and 6 years old.

Grades 1 through 5, aka grammar school:
Average starting age is usually 5 or 6 years old.

Grades 6 through 8, aka "middle school":
Average starting age is around 11 or 12 years old. Classes get tougher, there's more homework, and the infamous "swish and spit" ends. That's a story for another day though.

Grades 9 through 12: high school
Grade 9: freshman
Grade 10: sophomore
Grade 11: junior
Grade 12: senior
Average starting age (grade 9) is around 14 or 15. After senior year (grade 12), regular school is over and many people choose to go on to college which is often another two to four years depending on degree desired. Then there's graduate school for another 4 to 6 years for the higher degrees. Of course, some people continue for a few more years, more courses and often make even more money in their career as a result. More school often equates to higher paying job, as is the case for most western countries.

This concludes my explanation of American school in a nutshell. The terms and grade explanations I used vary slightly in different regions of the country.


Good luck with your Jack the Ripper essay. I hope your paper is a cut above the rest.

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David1 was actually the name assigned to my first multi-user program on a mainframe (Which makes sense if you consider my username was David.) But there is a story behind it, which might be interesting.

I guess the start of the story is almost a little Tron-ish. I had many new friends at another university and at some point, one of them forged me some access credentials, which let me log in by modem and chat to them.

It was a great system. Designed for CALS and used Viking terminals which supported vector graphics as well as text. Anyway, all of the users enjoyed a multichannel chat application that was intended for tutors to use to break into the screen of a user learning on their application for some real-time text chat. (Like IRC, but per-character.) Each user had their own "Text Line" and you saw what they typed as they typed it.

It was all great until the admins found out and made clear that only students at that Uni could have access.

So a week after my access was canned, and no more chat with my friends (and a girl I liked at the time). I was walking around my own Uni when someone opened a door in the computer room that no one used (We all thought it was an office). Turns out it was a door to all the systems they didn't know what to do with.

So realised I could go in there after talking to the local admins, I went in and surprise! - There's a Viking terminal. A little research I was pleased to find out it had legitimate access to the same system. So I sweet talked the admins into giving me access. Seems the Uni didn't want to use the system, but some inter-University agreement means they had to pay for it, and for the connection which was never used.

So I was back with my friends online (This is way before the Internet). Chatting each day, especially to this new girl And before long, I had others from my University chatting also. We formed a little social group. (A Computer social group, with more than 50% membership composed of cute female type users...

Now here's where it gets interesting. The admins at the other university were a little, well, tyrannical. They had specific ideas about what had to be done on the system. And they didn't really like me - since they knew I had originally come into the system with forged access and now had a legitimate account, except that all my permissions were active and when I made the system transition from my Uni to theirs, I kept all my privileges...

Yep, God Mode. Something in the system translated my open priviledges into unlimited access in other systems. I had unlimited access.

So I started doing stuff the admins didn't appreciate, such as turning on my friends permissions when they needed to do something, the setting them back to normal (Curse audit trails! ). Normally grounds for immediate disconnection, but remember now my access was authorised! So they grumbled, but I was acting within the authorisation I now had.

And so the scene is set for the showdown.

The admins didn't like me talking to my friends - an activity they saw as a waste of the resources of this new system. They even less liked that I now pretty much ran my local system - the employed admins were nowhere to be found and I had all permissions - except one - the one I needed to create new programs.

So in a petty retaliation after they caught two of my users "chatting" over the chat application at their campus, on two terminals, side by side, instead of speaking to each other directly (they were less than a metre away), they took the rather unusual step of cutting their own university off from all of the other Universities on the network. No more inter-system access.

Shades of the MCP or what? This was no longer a free system.

So I asked for the only access I didn't then have. Author status.

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NoExcuses Wrote: I'm in Year 11 and did all that coursework on Jack the Ripper last year. So bloody boring! I spent most of the time doodling the MCP in the back of my history book. But don't worry - if you're doing the same syllabus as we did, it starts to get a bit more interesting with the Sixties and Soviet Russia - but not much more; it is school after all!

ahh, year 11, i remember that, seems like years ago...well, it was. 2 years in fact. GCSE's and all. bleurgh.

just wait untill college & uni, then you can actually pick exactly what you want to study [and where you want to study] it's great! the past 2 years have been the best 2 years of my life, purely because of my college experience.

having just started at uni, it's a little too early to tell. i still have another 3 years to go. i'm enjoying it so far though.

Great story David1. So, did you end up doing something in the computer industry? I am waiting for you to tell us you eventually went on to help develop Napster

TheReelTodd Wrote: Prankster bit Wrote:ahh, year 11, i remember that, seems like years ago...well, it was. 2 years in fact. GCSE's and all. bleurgh... And which TRON imagery did you doodle on the back of your Jack the Ripper report? You left the more important part of your post out. he he

well, first, i didn't have a jack the ripper report. i assume peripheral control and noexcuses chose to do history. i didn't. i picked geography instead, i just had one huge assignment about spheres of influence.

that said, my GCSE technology project was tron 2.0 themed [it had jet and mercury bobbing up and down on cams, and another little cam that would flick a switch that would write "tron 2.0 in LEDs"] i ended up getting a grade B in that subject. unfortunately, i didn't manage to retrieve that project, so it's gone forever.

and a large portion of my first year college notes had lightcycles and recognisers scrawled all over them.

happy now mr todd?

Prankster bit Wrote:my GCSE technology project was tron 2.0 themed [it had jet and mercury bobbing up and down on cams, and another little cam that would flick a switch that would write "tron 2.0 in LEDs"] i ended up getting a grade B in that subject. unfortunately, i didn't manage to retrieve that project, so it's gone forever.

Aww, that's a shame. It sounds really cool!

For my GCSE technology project, we were told we could make a DVD box set (to contain at least two DVDs), a theatre set, a pop-up card or a few other things. I chose to make a DVD box set for Tron and its two sequels (if only)! I've only just started making it, but I'll post it here when it's done!

Hmm, well, there's no real concrete reason I have lazor3001 as my name...I guess it just kinda sounds hi-tech, at least it did when I made it up. Now I use it for just about everything.

david1 Wrote:I wanted to build a game for it - something with huge robots, but no, they gave me an Afterburner board... Afterburner !... Boss wants, Boss Gets...

Hey! Afterburner is an awesome game!

Didn't they have a servo chair cabinet? Or is that just Afterburner Climax?

Don't know if I already posted here, but anyways:

My name is the same name I use while I'm on the TRON 2.0 grid!