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Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 7:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Hobbs, here's what Ricky claimed the real voting total order was.

1.Melinda
2.Blake
3.Sanjaya
4.Jordin
5.Lakisha
6.Chris
7.Phil
8. Haley

btw, looks like he isn't going to do spoilers anymore. He even deleted the post where he posted this after some people started posting very rudely to him.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 7:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I just read that article talking about 1200 calls a minute with an auto dialer. It's impossible. Perhaps they meant 1200 dials within the whole 2 hour voting window. Personally, I have never broken 800 re-dials with a dialer in 2 hours. That's not votes, that's just dials. That person who wrote that has no idea what they are talking about. It takes a little bit of time for the modem to hang up, pick up, wait to detect the fresh dial tone, and dial again each time. 1200 hundred a minute is just impossible.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 7:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
btw, the ones who actually can vote at the speed of light are the ones with unlimited text messaging. There is even a guy who wrote a program where they can send thousands of text messages at once where they appear to be sent individually. Every once in awhile, someone in the OS boards brings it up and points people to the place, but his post is deleted within a few mins.

Smartypants
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03-09-2007

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Smartypants a private message Print Post    
Concerning Sanjaya's $15 million jackpot:

i heard on the MJ morning show...radio show i listen to everyday..i email them for the link to the article or where it was they found the info. so i'll let you know

Hobbs
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08-05-2002

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hobbs a private message Print Post    
Thanks Naja. Ricky needs to come over to TVCH. I'm sure he would be very appreciated here. It amazes me when I go on other boards how mean and cruel they are. That's why I love it here.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
yes someone should email him and invite him, even if he is wrong, ppl here will not flame him

Maris
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03-28-2002

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
exept when he gets to the point where he predicts that sanjaya wins :-)

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
Naja...that is pretty interesting...but is he saying that AI Powers That BE placed LaKisha in the top 3 although in reality she was #5??? That seems like a pretty risky thing to do ... and also let others in on it..

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 1:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
<<<--------- would welcome Ricky with open arms!!!



Hobbs
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08-05-2002

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hobbs a private message Print Post    
Bonbon, I don't remember them saying Lakisha was top 3. Ryan only said that she was safe.

Justin42
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08-05-2001

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Justin42 a private message Print Post    
There's no way you could get 1200 calls a minute with standard equipment.

I wrote a program back in the late 90s to do a dial-in for a TV show that votes were open for like a week. I tweaked it to get calls in as fast as possible (using the standard ATS11=50 command you can send a modem to narrow the gap between the tones in the dialing process, although I think I got it down to ATS11=35), and dialing about 8hours a day for (geez, I can't even remember how many days) I believe 2-3 days, I got 5,500ish votes in.

The program did detect busy signals (and didn't count them). I don't think at the time that there were any "all circuits are busy" notices, as it wasn't THAT popular. ;)

I've never used DialIdol, but the basics haven't changed. You can get a few hundred votes an hour in max, but that's about it.

All bets are off if you're using highly specialized equipment.. or if you know a phone tech who can tweak your lines for better performance. (in my area, the "time you have to stay hung up to get a fresh dialtone" delay seems to get longer every year)

Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Exactly Justin :-) My brother is a very prominent electrical engineer and designed the insides of the latest and greatest ct scanner that saves many lives.

Anyway, in his spare time, he wrote for me a dialer that we now sell for 3 bucks just for fun. Believe me, if there was a way to get 1200 calls a minute with a landline, he would know how. It's just impossible.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
btw, my brother also designed the insides of the only camera type Steven Spielberg will use for shooting his movies.

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Friday, April 13, 2007 - 4:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
oh Hobbs you are right...last night I went back and re-watched the Standards Week where they were placed in 3 groups of 3...my bad!

Naja
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06-28-2003

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 7:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Here is a long Chris Sligh video interview at Reality Remix in mp4 (right click save)


podcast_2007_04_12.mp4

Allietex
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08-16-2002

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 10:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allietex a private message Print Post    
Has it ever been said that the first three that are told they are safe are actually the top three vote getters? I don't remember them saying that. I thought they just picked the order for the best dramatic value. That other than who was in the bottom three, we did not really know the order of the others.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Sometimes Ryan specifically states that they are the top vote getters and other times he doesn't. I'm not sure what he did in the last show.

Allietex
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08-16-2002

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allietex a private message Print Post    
You're right, Jimmer, I do remember him occasionally saying some were the top three, but I don't think he did last week.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 10:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
It was week before last that he gave the top three, middle three and bottom three.

Mush
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09-09-2002

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 10:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mush a private message Print Post    
Wow, Naja, your brother sounds very cool!

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I heard something on Kidd Kraddock this a.m. that has me very upset.

Evidently Sanjaya went to a Dodgers game this weekend and the camera panned to him and showed him on the big screens. Evidently, the entire crowd booed this kid. While Sanjaya is not my favorite, this is a 17-year-old kid who is getting booed by an entire stadium. It is just sick.



Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
Yes, it was the week before last (Standards Week) where Ryan had them grouped in 3 groups of 3...Top 3, middle three and the bottom 3... Last week he did not do that.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
Lexie, I heard that on Kidd's show this morning also and while I haven't been watching Idol, I have been watching the reports on him on GMA. Really sad!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I also heard on Kidd this morning that Paris Bennett (from last year) thinks that this shows that AI is bogus and is a popularity contest. I wonder if she would be singing a different tune if she had made it further?

Maris
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03-28-2002

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
I don't have much sympathy for him since he has been playing on his ineptitude, with the ridiculous hair and capitalizing on/celebrating his mediocrity.