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Haha. No kidding. A remains of a mouse. Eww.... Either it had heart attack or died of old age. Or it just couldn't find itself back out in the way that it came in and died to starvation. But wow, still, it must have been very rare to have that happening to that box of a computer engine.Yup, dust has definitely the most-hated culprit of machine efficiency and computer heat-ups in older computers.

At this moment, moi, about $1 for what looks like every 7 of my posts. You're definitely right about that. It just seems that no matter how hard I try, the output ends up being the same, or that's how I feel so. Except that I haven't been able to do that, as I don't post very often, either due to lack of posts that I can respond to or because I don't have any topics to start off with, or because of classes or the fact that I can sometimes take forever in formulating a response or topic. I'm more of a topic non-starter anyway. If I tried to start a topic...only a few people would respond, at least that seems to be the case with Yahoo! Answers, anyway, and probably a forum or two I might have forgotten. That just isn't fair. Even for newcomers like myself fear of becoming an "old member." If I were an admin, however, I would chose to earn less and become an admin. I guess that would probably explain why I haven't been getting the minimum amount I had hoped to earn.

Yea, I definitely agree. I haven't been on all week because of Thanksgiving break, even though I swore I would churn up some good posts over the break because of plenty of time. Instead, I did just the opposite. I did not make any posts, probably because I saw everything else interesting, and then homework and stuffs like that. (I just snuck in some time between booking bus tickets and packing back to school) But I think what really turned me off was that it looked like I only made $1 myCents per seven posts prior to the break, likely on average, and I had expected to have it updated at least once every other day to once a day. If things keep happening like this, I probably won't be able to get at least the basic, basic web packet by the end of the month, but since Nov's closing already, then maybe by the end of the year. It's gonna get even more difficult for me to post more because of finals, assuming my usual procrastination doesn't kick in, as it's doing now. I think it's only fair that everyone gets an even footing, whether or not they are a veteran to this forum since way back the time this forum has started. It's not fair that the newbies (even though I'm a newbie myself) gets everything in the beginning, but once they've reached to a certain point, things just begin to taper off and then probably pushed aside as if they're an old member, assuming that's the case.I hope OpaQue comes back very soon and makes needed adjustments.

There's nothing more than an irritating...loss. If it was maybe like, two to three lines, I won't mind writing it again, whether I had forgotten to copy it or something somehow replaced that copied text. Half a page or more? Probably not, unless I could remember it all. Instead, I'll just keep fuming until I forget about it a couple of hours later.Saving every few lines can backfire, though. If you're at a high-impacted forum, someone could respond or quote your post before you can actually finish. Besides, it's just amazing how some people just simply don't read simple directions. It maybe not happen here, but I've had that kind of experience before.

Hey, I've been trying to be as active as possible. But when there aren't much people around to post up topics, it just gets harder and harder for me to find interesting stuff to post to and maybe give myself 5-10 minutes to post at minimum, without research or being distracted while at the same time, put up a good post that has lots of good thinking put into it. And besides, who's idea was to give less myCent to long-time users who had a lot of posts? If I were to have been here for as long as some of the long-time users and had at least posted 2-3 times a day, trust me, I wouldn't have been pleased.

I hardly use Firefox these days. I use Chrome now, for my PC. If I was on the family Mac, it woul be either Firefox or Safari. I think I use Firefox less these days is because it either crashes or loads really slow. But now that I have been on Chrome for a while now, it is a bit better, but there really isn't much difference. I forgot to add one thing. Has anything, anything similar to this happened to you?

That's a really, really cool plan, but truth be told, I don't think in my lifetime would I ever need that much space. I've got life, I've got school, and maybe if I'm lucky, I can probably help sub *host* someone else's webpage who's a trusted friend or acquaintance. But for me to solely manage that huge of a website, it's likely that it would be very difficult for me to manage right from the get-go and for the reasons as stated above. Besides, unless hundreds of topics jump out at me almost every single day and if time weren't a factor, it is already difficult for me to contribute a post to a very interesting topic. If I was working (and have the time to of course manage), I'd use some of my hard-earned money to pay for some of that.

As the title describes, it is that one thing that annoys me the most. You spend so much time typing up your post, you click send, and the page stops loading. You refresh the page many times because it keeps failing to load. Finally, the page loads, but instead of viewing the post you just made, you are redirected to the parent page. You wanted to make some edits to your post because you just realized you had stuff to add, however, you cannot find your post or thread. After searching for a couple of minutes, you realize, what the freak, you had just lost your post and it didn't go through! You knew you should have just copied the whole post, but you forgot or because the internet or the forum had been working so well that you felt secured. Too secured. Or you were used to having that auto-save feature that you have in your email account.Or worse. You had decided to grab a quick bite to eat or drink. When you came back, your pet, a cat, had decided sleeping on your keyboard was a good place to take a nap. Or you had a family member that made no notions of creating a new tab or page and decided to surf the net. You were in the middle of typing a very good argument and in both cases, they are lost! You navigate back a page and in the typing box, everything is blank, all blank! Your reaction? Of course you get mad.

I also happened to have asked a friend on Facebook on the very same issue. If all that'a CPUMon really is, then it's just nothing more than a customizable task manager that gives more details. The only thing now is that I need to know which are the processes I can't disable. I know I had disabled the explorer.exe once and my computer didn't like that, so I know I won't do that again. I also know that there are a few others that I've read that are essential in helping to run the computer, except that I cannot remember what they are. However, I cannot figure out on how to disable some of those programs (that I never use) that would for sure stay disable upon start-up.I think I'll just stick with Task Manager.

While looking for a batch file renamer,I came across a program that monitors CPU usage, CPUMon. What are the pros and cons of monitoring CPU usage and what are the benefits?But first, is CPU usage monitoring legal? I hope it's not a hacking device or anything thing. Can't help but ask. It's just one thing I've never heard about. I'm just trying to raise the efficiency of my 4-month-old laptop. Thank you very much.

Phew. And I though this was another TOS. Ok, just kidding. But seriously, I thought this was some way some "advice" on how to make quality posts. I just thought it would be interesting. Instead, looks like I found someone who's just ticked off at someone making a comment to their thread just because...yea, well, I followed that too for a bit.Anyway, just because KS has changed their name doesn't mean old members are forced to follow new rules. It just means they're here to enforce rules that had been set before the name.change while new ones are implemented and old becomes new. It also means that old habits die hard. Sometimes really hard. I had developed current habits from trial and error. It also feels more satisfying to type out complete sentences while completely avoiding net-speak because they give me a really hard time to follow while reading. And it drives me crazy. But of course, I don't completely avoid typing out shortcuts. I just use them when it is needed. Also, I just have a "really" bad habit to type out a lot of things, but that's only because I usually say what is stored in my thoughts, and it sometimes can be a lot. That means, it's harder for me to give one-liners, unless you place me in a forum called the "chatterbox" meant for spamming. I tend to lurk too, but that doesn't guarantee me to post anything. If there is something for me to say, then I will say it and it tends to be like this post I am sending right now. However, my only fear is that people will skip over my post because there is too much stuff to read. Hey, my habits die. Hard.

One aide I constantly use to to check my work for while working on assignments for my programming class helps me out a lot. Actually, make that two aides.The first following helps to check for code errors in both html and css: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ It makes a big difference as to how it would show up in a given browser. But of course, you'll have to go with its strict rules of html coding, if you want to bother with it.The second following helps to check browser compatibility through all browser platforms and computer platforms, some browsers and computers you may never even heard of:http://browsershots.org/ This way, you'll know if you need to make adjustments or not.

Some people are on welfare for a reason, such as aspiring artists, actors/actresses and writers. One famous author, JK Rowling, who wrote the Harry Potter series, was on welfare at the time of writing a her first book while raising her first child. A full-time job would leave her probably almost no time to write, as it was the case while she taught somewhere in Spain and Portugal, and schedules of part-time jobs can sometimes be unpredictable, depending on the line of work. She was lucky enough that her books hit the jackpot after searching for a publisher for some couple of years.Our only problem is how some people abuse the welfare system, even though they have jobs, PAYING jobs.Disability payments, whether it'll be physically or a learning disability such as all spectrums of autism, Asperger's Syndrome, ADD, and possibly ADHD, or a mental disability such as PTSD, is a totally different topic. Yes, increasing expenses to education is a very big problem. Perhaps, this might be the fact some people are unable to afford education and are kept on welfare because of it, while they are unable to find jobs according to their degree level. At my school, CSU Chico, there's been talk of accepting applications at only neighboring counties surrounding Butte County. Whether if it's just freshman or transfer, I'm not sure. What's even more disturbing is that they've just decided to raise 5% in tuition.My main concern that fuels this problem is how the upper class income-earners are paying less taxes and evading more thrown at them; this cuts at not just education, but other public services as well. San Francisco is just fortunate it has a running, if just barely, transportation system.

From my understanding, AI is unable to reproduce itself naturally. It is possible, however, to "create" itself if it is given the instructions to do so. It is incapable of emotion (unless further study is done), nor have the ability to have smooth movement control (again, unless further study is done). It may have the ability to analyze like the way adult humans do, and act accordingly on it, but it depends on the programming. It does have the capacity to improve to include new programming, depending on what it is built for. For now, its reasoning is absolute and is unable to create plausible, flexible reasonings. One major difference between biological and artificial life forms is that biological life forms have living cells, the ability to repair itself, divide, and follow a DNA sequence, which can be viewed through a microscope. Most, if not all, biological life forms are made out of carbon. They are prone to genetic errors or defects and have the ability to adapt. They required food and water to sustain energy. For artificial life forms, it cannot repair itself microscopically, unless equipped with nano technology (that itself is feat yet to be made--if needing to repair robots so minuscully). They follow a programming sequence, and their components are made out of metals and probably plastics and are wired from head to toe almost like blood vessels and are less likely prone to errors. However, they may not be so easily adaptable. They require battery/electricity to sustain energy.Of course, if they were to move, it would be robotics. Otherwise, it would depend on the type of usage they were programmed for. It can be chosen to obey their creators or be programmed to move according to their own "judgement".One great example of extremely advanced AI and robotics is none other than Data and his brothers from Star Trek!

I have a reason to believe that money is a necessary evil. If people can't used them right, by hoarding, using money as power or to bribe and stuff like that, then it shouldn't exist. Yet, it has already happened, especially in this US economy. Corporations are draining the poor poorer at almost every dime, eliminated necessary programs the low income needed to better themselves out of poverty and trick us into believing we are worthless and can't teach our children properly, although it isn't necessarily true. They are constantly evading taxes through loopholes, which causes our government to lose money, especially here in my state, California, which used to be one of the top educated states before the 70's. Now we're ranking at near bottom, which is very depressing. You can blame it all on immigration, legal and illegal, but I don't think that's the case. A top educated state should be able to accommodate those whose English isn't their first language. An ideal educated state should encourage the learning of a second or third language from early on, such as language immersion programs.Besides, we don't need lots of money to buy top-of-the-line products. Even top-of-the-line/state-of-the-art products eventually become average and average products still works just as good, as long as quality, not quantity, is insured. These days, it just feels like quantity is the norm. Almost no company is making the effort to quality products, and it's becoming frustrating. Instead, they just force us to buy more every time something breaks down and it is unrepairable after a few times of usage. Greed is evil.If money is used right, it can be used to help relief in disaster-struck areas or under-developed countries or fund a research that helps humanity.Sorry for my rant.

The only reason why I hate school is that we had to deal with bullies, parents who don't give a darn to their children's well being or worse, abuse their children and teachers who gives such high expectations that no one reaches them. Don't get me wrong, high expectations are good, but it has to be within reason. Also, educational inequality. There are schools out there that are in such bad shape that all extracurricular activities had been done away, including PE, Music, and Visual Arts. There isn't enough textbooks to go around, even qualified teachers. Not only that, the school is hard to keep clean because of the lack running water. What I hate the most is politicians, especially those that side with corporations, constantly take away our education's vital resources.

I'm more of a PC user than a Mac user, though the funny thing is that my very first computer, at both home and school, is a mac. My very first Mac was a hand-me-down from my cousin, and it was an old, I think, 89 black-and-white one piece computer, with one of those switches you had to reach in the back for to turn it off. Too bad it broke down by the time I got to middle school (I had loved that computer because I loved playing the game Mahjong, which came on a floppy), and we got a win 98. I believed that since then, my family had bought PCs, just because it was cheap. It was also a relief that we had more than one computer because I didn't want to fight my sister over them. By high school, my school had both PCs and Macs to my delight, and I could switch usage between the two systems and bring my Mac shortcut knowledge up to speed. By college, my parents bought me my first laptop, a Windows XP. It was only recently last year we bought a Mac laptop, because of my urging. I knew there wasn't enough popularity so that viruses, trojans, and worms could attack, yet it was more reliable. Not only that, it was easier to use, and I wanted my mom to get the feel for use of a computer. By then, my first laptop had finally broken down, and I used it as my temporary primary computer until I found the laptop that I wanted using my scholarship money. As much as I loved the mac and some of its features that Windows can't use, I considered myself a hobby gamer, and most online downloadable games I liked don't have a Mac platform.Anyway, I wouldn't say I hate Macs, nor would I say I love them. The only thing I can agree on is that both PCs and Macs both have their pros and cons. If my parents bought a Mac right from the start after our oldest computer broke, who knows, I would have been a Mac user!

UPDATE: Problem solved. I had to create a duplicate account to get around this annoying "can't find validation" email. For some reason, my yahoo account didn't like the address and blocked it, so I was not able to find it in either my inbox or my spam box. Thankfully, hotmail just placed it in the spam folder, and therefore, I was able to find out the addresser and add it to my contacts list in my yahoo account, hoping it would work. I logged in to this account, clicked on the resend validation, and voila! the long anticipated email arrived, allowing me to post on this account. If the same thing happens to all you future readers/members out there, I suggest you follow the above steps I took. In summary, 1.If the validation email cannot be found anywhere in your email, neither in your inbox or spam, and had signed on with your registered (and not yet validated) account and resent the email x number of times, and waited for about a day or more (the validation should have not taken that long), go register with another account with a different email address. 2.Go to that email address you registered with for the duplicate account and follow the usual procedures: if it's not in inbox, check the spam folder. Find the email address. (It is usually located at the top of the message.) If the same thing happens, which it shouldn't, repeat step one. 3.Copy that address from that validation message. Go to your email account that you originally registered with for your original account and paste that address in your contact list. Save, of course. 4.Sign out of your duplicate and into your original account. Resend your validation. Check your (original) email account and click on the validation link that it provided. There! You should be validated! It is highly recommended that you ask the admins to delete the duplicate if you don't want it. Notes: While rare, when registering for new accounts in other places, it is possible that validations don't show up in your email. I suggest you follow these steps. =) Note to Mods: You're free to close this topic if you like. Otherwise, just do whatever you want with it.