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ok, folks this is a good time to remember something a small memorable fact. If you don't want to look foolish, google it first. Many smart people appear geniuses for simply taking the time to do a quick web search. For instance, what is an ip address? go google go. ahh.. a webopedia def. Well, let's see, being that many of you are working off of dsl/cable/some isp that means that your ip was never registered. But, your isp does have one, probably a lot actually of them actually. Then they connect that to a system kind of like a router, but a lot bigger and more complex. That 'ISPRouter' then waits for 'you' to connect and assigns you an IP. Depending on the ISP they may assign 'you' a static (doesn't change) ip that links to your account or maybe your phone number, or dynamic (changes frequently) ip when you connect, this number should not change as long as 'you' remain connected to your isp. Then, 'you' may be a router which accepts that ip (which really isn't registered, but just applies to people connected to your isp's network) and it then can distribute more ip's these are usually xxx.xxx.yyy.yyy. Where the x's are some preset numbers your router's manufacturer likes and are not used by ip registering folks, and the y's are some random number it dynamically assigned you through a protocol known as dhcp or statically gave you, which is configurable through your router. Now, looking at how pseudo your ip really is, what difference does it make? Also, good to note even if your router or machine is getting dynamically assigned ip's, so you think you can conduct illegal activity - guess again. isps track and log all ip's given and the times/dates/accounts they were given out to. Then that account can easily show who owns it and all of their contact info. I don't say this to antagonize you, but rather to let you know I did something stupid several years ago, and the fed taught me, don't let them do the same to you. Oh, and you should know that every communication you send via the anonymous internet, tells your ip to whatever you're communicating to - including, 'anonymous' e-mail/file/web/chat servers

wow, quite complex, but very nice, reminds me of something I saw on tom's hardware guide a while back - what kind of coolant are using?

I agree with you to some extent, I think. The word infallible does describe what you were saying, but it describes a person or being that does things. The bible does not do anything or change. A new version may arrise, more sources may be found, but the bible cannot be described by the word infallible. sorry, i'm kind annoying when it comes to words. So in stead, I will use the phrase 'God-backed and unbreakable truth' which I'm taking from here. In which case, yes, this is an essential truth to Christian beleif. While, I would not say faith rests on it, I would say that it is a basis for faith. Faith at it's most simplest can simply be described as trust. If I lend you a hammer with the faith that you'll bring it back to me, then I trust you will bring it back to me. This faith does not rest on anything, but it probably has a basis or two like, 'I think most people who borrow hammers return them', 'I think you're a reliable person', etc. Now, if someone were to tell me, "I heard mtf constantly makes promises and doesn't keep them". I may or may lose some trust in you. I would more likely investigate the situation. Now, with all that said, I beleive that the bible's status of 'God-backed and unbreakable truth' is a basis for my faith. And, the fact that I form the basis for my life, the way I conduct myself, and many of my beleifs from the bible, as I take it to be God's word, then that forces me to rely heavily on the previous statement. Now, if someone should find problems with passages, or interpretations I have then things don't 'fall apart'. Because, I have faith that what God said is true, maybe translators got it a little off, but rarely these are the "contradictions" they find anything critical, and the reasoning is usually found later, usually by someone simply reading the text around the passage. Oh, and as far as the translation thing goes. It kind of depends, yes in general phrase-phrase is good, especially when establishing the context, but usually the bible scholars out there will tell you that the more word-for-word, the more closer to the original greek you go, the more accurate the translation. Personally, I agree with you. I find Acts 2 to be fairly plain as far as baptism doctrine is concerned. The sad, and somewhat funny, state is that many - most US, in fact - call themselves christian - can they? well, the word is originally an insult (see Acts 11:26), so in a sense people can call themselves whatever they want to. But, the meaning of it then was reffering to Chist's disciples - 'followers of Christ', it was a term Jews used to mock them. But, the first century Christians had a way about them, where they almost seemed to enjoy persecution, as it reassured them of their faith. The word only appears three times in the whole bible (many translations also use it in their section headings, but still only 3 times). So, personally, I beleive one should only call themselves a 'Christian' if it describes who they are, and the way they live as 'one who follows Christ' - not 'one who heard some bible growing up, and you know, basically, thinks there's a a Jesus up there and stuff'.

my opinionffI - great in it's time, loved it, can't get back into itffII, III - played a little, couldn't get into ~ 2001ffIV - wonderful game, summons, cecil and rydia's characters were interesting - goes for a slightly younger crowd than the othersffV - except this one, which can be played by anyone, but the story is lacking, system is neat thoughffVI - wonderful story, lots of interesting characters, great music, and wow it looks 3d efffectffVII - great new revolution for the genre, colorful, interesting, great villan and death, crying fan boys everywhere was funny ( remember - RE:RE:RE:RE: Aeris can come back, but only in the initial jap...)ffVIII - different, but i liked it, and constant cgi brought in a lot of new fans, my sister-in-law even enjoyed itffIV - moments were good, but things flowed kinda slow sometimes, and you wanted to do more than you couldffX - good, but missing something, got boring toward the endffXI - should not have been called ff, never have or will play itbest parts of the square story though: chrono trigger, secret of mana and vagrant story

yay, fill up board memory, pretty standard, looks kinda strange if you haven't seen a two moniter setup i suppose. the right side is an 19" flat screen @1280x1024 i use for everything, the left side is a 17" crt @ 800x600 i use for checking web stuff, also easier to read small fonts.

i'm presuming you mean common management system - cms is a rather common acronym. in which case, yes i have. I've considered going through our campus web portal, but this several unique problems. But, this brings problems of it's own. One is the inaccessibility that comes with using it. Also, it places control out of my hands, and into very unreliable ones - our central technology staff is somewhat - incompetent. so, i'm really avoiding that step. All other alternatives seem out-of-budget. I would particularly like to go with Macomedia Breeze, but this is quite excessive.

Well, if you're at a large campus with a small centralized IT staff it makes sense to have a larger pc network. Microsoft Active Directory makes it easy manage a lot of things, like lots of computers/printers/sub-domaints/file and web servers/backup and security routines. I haven't seen a good mac networking infrastructure. Mac seems to target individuals rather than larger groups. The new macs are probably to satisfy that part of the campus community, they really should invest in higher end pcs though if they are older than 2000.

I found to be pretty linear, actually, like most square rpgs just options between. i think there is two endings - good and really good. mostly easy, with about two points where we were sat thinking - ok, now what? the weapons were fairly difficult and sephiroth - well we don't let the cd reenter the console.

color scheme fine, just a couple of things. Consistentsy - pages seem to have a variety of content, but you should still strive to use consistent margins and placement - wierd flow of things. I would want to make the links a different color - particularly the nav on the homepage. Don't be afraid to use a bit more images.

As far as I know. The cube doesn't support only play. And it does not have the joy that is xbox live's wonderfully easy multiplayer. Also, i think right along with online it doesn't have any lan capability other than 4 controllers. We just beat the single-player, and we only tried out the multi-player a little bit, and it was boring.I suppose there's the ds, but good luck getting one, and finding friends who have one.

So, i trying to learn php first step - find a hosting provider with sufficient privelages/space to play around -in progress-.Anywho, here's what I want to do. Make a database with numerous tables representing 'workshops' - they are 1-2 hour class-like sessions for students to come in and learn job-hunting skills.I want 'students' to be able to go onto the web site and enroll themselves into the workshop - allowing them to disenroll would raise too many security issues. Now, I need it to only be able to enroll if they are a student (check there id number against a seperate table holding student and registered alum_id), if they are not a duplicate entry (check to see if id already in workshop table), they are infact a student (compare id_num/name must match those in the master list), and the workshop is not full (check how many records in workshop table).I know html, a little php, and I know SQL (not MySQL commands though).

personally, i think black with anything is "soo overused". It is also, nasty looking. in general, when i do web work i go like this 1. content - lots of it, lots of blurbs, pictures, more the merrier 2. concept - 'i want a main part with content running like a blog, then i want images, the i want pages for each artist...' 3. organization - make the pages, don't worry about style, just put things in div's 4. design - make a css style sheet, plus if you don't like it later, easy to change one page rather than all of your content for more info on this strategy go here http://www.csszengarden.com/ personally, i think a background of a tribal partern with medium low saturation colors and content on the right side would look good, but that's just me. EDIT: Also, this topic should be moved by an admin

If a library can offer free reading to the public, why not a digital one? And why not fill a digital library with ads? Just as these great forums offer free hosting to us at the cost of participating in highly active forums with ads. So also, google offers lots of services for free - to the end user. And, expensive advertising. Like, War of the Worlds is even better with World War II memorbilia.

Alright, a quite confusing bit of scripture. A good portion of the bible is plain enough to read thanks to translations such as the niv (or, the message if you don't mind poor accuracy and love good flow). I've heard, though I've never studied Greek or Ancient Greek for that matter, that the language sounded pretty and was able to make very complex English points simple. I'm no authority on that matter though. Since it's a rather confusing point, I like to use a more literal translation (more word-for-word less phrase-for-phrase) bible such as the New American Standard. The next thing to do, is to do is disband that argument about context by saying this. I beleive the bible to be completly true every bit of it - the original that is. Now any translation will do to help you understand the basic truths, but when it comes to these issues - translaters and translations can be problematic. So, anyway back to the interpretation. If we read the whole of John 1 (niv) (nas), we see the context is that author is describing God's nature - a highly debated topic. There is a concept out there known as the Trinity (basically, it's confusing as to how and why God - the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit are also one being) which no one entirely understands. Nevertheless, it can help us decipher this scripture. If we accept, for a moment, that there are in fact 3 parts to God, and two of which are a Father and a Son and also understand that the context of what we are talking about is the nature of God, particularly the nature of Jesus, how then do we interpret John 1:18 ? How about if we say the passage is actually saying noone has ever seen Jesus - because it says "...the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father..."? Then, if we understand that the author is talking about the time when Jesus is becoming flesh, then it makes sense that noone has ever seen Jesus, yet. I'll admit it's not the best interpretation of that. But, I'm not the best at this stuff. As far as the 'christian/preacher/etc' demanding you to do something because they quote a scripture at you - I'll agree that's foolish. Though I myself am one of those who goes around trying to convert people and I also share scripture with people. I beleive it's almost pointless to share scripture with someone who does not beleive it. I beleive in sharing scripture with people who claim to be a 'christian' and yet do not follow it, or follow it weakly. Oh, and I just read that second part "whether or not the book is true quickly becomes secondary to whether or not your INTERPRETATION of the book is true." I agree with you to some extent. One of the reasons I don't like Rowe's and Paley's writing is that they try to prove that God exists. I don't really think it's possible to prove God exists or that bible is completly true. I beleive there are many convincing evidences, signs, etc. But, as my first roomate once said, "You'll never be able to prove to me that we were not just created seconds ago, and that every bit of our past up to this very moment in time weren't just created memories, formed by whatever made us in the first place". That's not an exact quote, but it was three years ago.

psst... *whisper* it's supposed to, read the last second of the ad - "You'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'"

psst... *whisper* it's supposed to, read the last second of the ad - "You'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'"

not bad, it's a bit technical for an anime site. like something a linux guy would use to describe his new kernel or something. But, looks like you put a lot of work into it. I would just feel free to use bigger fonts, and things of that nature, go ahead fill space. But, the design itself is very clear

Nice job, I really like the color and simplicity. There are a few issues on the technical side. maybe just a mozilla thing, but the buttons of the left are position differently depending on the page. I like your work with the tour site, very simple but effective.

It will not be 'time' for windows users to switch for some time now. For the enthusiast, for the programmer, for the hacker, for the guy who knows anything about what he's doing at all - ok maybe it's time for him to switch. But that's maybe 10-20% of personal computers. For everyone who enjoys not spending they're sat afternoon, then sat.night, sun afternoon after they woke up late, sun night, mon morning when it's still not working., etc. it's not time for them to switch. Yes, I know all the things about drivers, ,and why they're not on linux. And, yes I know how wonderful linux is... but people aren't going to switch.Because linux is not easy. I know there's great distros, but they aren't easy enough. I work in an office where people have trouble creating mass e-mails. I don't mention the word 'linux' to them. And the fact is most people are like that. Linux is dream for those willing and able to take the time. But, remember they're are people who are scared to log into their email, and others who need to hear the words on the screen spoken to them. Linux is not for them. 'Evil' as MS may be, they're the only one's helping the technologically ill-literate. Also, consider this: hackers, malicious code, and virus's attack users - most users use windows - why is windows down more?

ok, what to say? the problem with large discussions of philosophy/religion in a large forum setting is they take a long time to read. sorry i did skim a few of your paragraphs - i saw large blots of text and got afraid. anywho, enough on that. Well, it was refreshing to hear a few people who beleived in the Bible, and refreshing to hear some of you say you've read it. Often I find myself with programmers and engineers who base their athiesm/agnostism on impressions of Christianity and small bits they've heard from fellow atheists of scifi authors who think because they read Rowe and Paley they understand our faith. I don't mean to insult them, but I want to make my point that a lot of people who speak against our faith don't know a lot of fact. This is annoying because a part of me wants to take each argument and disect it and show it for what it is. But, that leads to nowhere. But, you have posed the question and I have some number of posts to go before I get free hosting, so let's get on with it. I beleive every word of the Bible is true. Which Bible? That would be the 66 book version of the Bible that was born out of the protestant reformation. There are large volume books and much debate between that and the 72 book version the catholics and similars use. There are large volumes of text explain the problem with those books. Other than that near any translation of this Bible will do (there are translations known as paraphrase Bibles - I cannot speak for the accuracy of these). They're are many translations, yes, because they're are many languages and not too mention the art of translation itself is inprecise (the largest problem being should you translate every single word, or the phrase - what about colloquisms and suddle things? - I think you get the idea). Now I'm sure you've heard of 'contradictions' in the Bible. That's just foolishness, these have been "weighed, measured and found wanting" - go google it. I beleive in Jesus Christ is Lord, I beleive he died and rose on the third day. This isn't a shock to most of you, but there are unfortunately 'Christians' who don't beleive this. From these two is premise enough for faith. Faith explains my beleif against all those 'scientific theory' issues. I put that in quotes because each such theory "has been weighed, measured and found wanting" - sorry, it's really fun to say, but really go google it. There also lots of other beleifs I have which usually are ignored in these discussions - but since you brought it up. I beleive we must repent and be baptised for the forgiveness of our sins (Acts 2) and many others. I beleive in going around telling people about Jesus and eagerly trying to save them - it was commanded (Matt 28:18-20). I beleive in loving my those around me, daily time alone with God. I beleive that there are many who say they are Christians, but will not make it to heaven. And, I beleive everything else in the Bible. So there, enjoy my Lincolns.

yeah, i find myself on dissing both frames and iframes. frames are clunky, they suck up usable space. You have to counter for how old browser render them (invisibility came later). And if you want to be accessible (for instances, you work for a state run facility and your content should be readily accessible to blind people with screen readers) you have to be redundantly link everything in the frame anyway. iframes just plane stink. It takes a long time to get them to render right, and even longer to get them to render in non-standard compliant browsers - and i gave up finding a solution for them and a screen reader.

I smelll... photoshop slicing - cleaned a little with a wysiwyg editor, right? why is the page not coming out correctly? tables. there's a good chance your tables are incorrectly sized. You should also take noe that it isn't perfect on IE either. Noe the sidebar likes to move, the space between the header and body changes. I could stop and find out where that problem is, but that's a code to clean out. My one reccomendation. Not sure how good your html skills are, but I would take a gander at http://www.csszengarden.com/ for enlightenment on code technique. Or if you don't care to venture that far behind the scenes. Get something like Dreamweaver, and build a template, and put your content into it. You got a good eye though, and good handle on graphics. Just need to step up your web skills.

Yeah, I'd agree with what the guy said above (I didn't read so much as I skimmed though)I'd say you probably don't need the whole studio though. Freehand and Fireworks are a bit lacking, I'd probably just buy a graphics program seperatly. If you want to do Flash it's good, but really your fine with just Dreamweaver.As far as it goest I'd consider Dreamweaver the second best site management tool I've used. Really Frontpage is the best as far as management is concerned. It's makes poor code, makes unneccesary folders and files, but it's very, very easy to use. And gives you a great graphical structure of your site.Dreamweaver does a decent job though. And, it will help you make your code be compatible, verifiable, and accessible. Something frontpage doesn't attempt.

It all depends what your doing. Like all things in computers nothing is simple.I've used both programs for years. I enjoy paint shop pro 8 more, but I use photoshop 7 more. Yeah, I'm behind the times.Photoshop is more complicated. It has more features, the tools are more refinable, it has far better control over complicated things. It pushes some further toward layers and vectors. It is great for getting quality content - especially for web and graphic printing. It stores graphics faster.Paintshop is more user friendly. It gets small things done quickly. For average things like, personal website building, photo-editing - I prefer it because it's more intuiitive. And it has a lot of fun features. It keeps things simple and encourages raster images.They're both good, if you have to chose one over the other then ask yourself what you'll be doing. Are you home user wanting to clean up his photos work on his personal web site, wanting proffessional quality without being a proffessional? Use Painshop. Are you chosing what's best for your company, managing a large website, preparing graphics for print, etc.? Use Photoshop. If it's for print, you'll want Illustrator probably too.

So I've been thinking about it for a while and I'm pretty dead set on getting a camera this month. I've done a little research http://www.steves-digicams.com/ and their buying guide http://www.shopping.com/digital-camenkin-id/3053120/products?sb=1 and I've pretty much settled on the Konica Minolta S414. My budget says I'll have about 250 to spend and I can pick up one of these with a memory card, neck strap, case, 1yr warranty for about 270. I like the high optical zoom, and the good megapixels for the money. Anyone who knows a thing or two about cameras have any good advice on this?