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Wow, interesting. I don't really honestly have the time nor energy to read a 40 page report, but I may download it later and glance through. It's entertaining, at the very least. I've liked Linux so far, and this report might provide even more reasons to stick with it!

I really hope Google doesn't have to turn over those records. I mean, the government doesn't exactly have a decent track record when it comes to dealing with terrorist "stuff." Is it a crime to display a bit of interest in a subject that obviously is extremely important? It's personally not my cup of tea, but I've been interested in learning about a few "weird" subjects myself .. and I'd hate to wake up some morning to the Feds banging on my door because I searched a little too much. As for porn? Who the heck cares? I can see the points on child porn, but anything else and it's not the Gov's business.If they claim its to protect children, I just gotta laugh. It's not that hard for a kid to walk into a bookstore, grab a Playboy, stick it in his coat, and walk out. It's not that hard to ask an older brother or friend to buy one for you. It's not that hard to have someone check out a naughty video from the video store. This attempt to curb such things is quite retarded. If kids want to see it, they will. Ah well, sorta got off on a tangent. Bottom line: go Google!

Jlhaslip, unless I'm confused this is a Linux command relating mostly to granting permissions to other users of the computer. You can set restrictive access to groups and individual users, allowing them to edit, view, execute files.I'm not exactly sure it's related to Xisto and allowing certain users to view a page. I think the easiest way to do that is to put the users in a table, add a value concerning the "type" of user they are. Make a login page ... if they match up as whatever type of user, the page displays. If not, it doesn't. You could also probably just set up one little login page (enter pass to continue) and give the password to whoever needs it. Regardless, that question is (I think) better suited for a different section of the forum.

Thats really not appreciated, since you will find the things you listed in every other country as well, not just western. As for western nations not having honor .. what do you call the men and women making millions of dollars per year who leave their lucrative jobs and serve in the military to engage in what they believe is defending their country and her citizens? I call that quite honorable, regardless of your views on war. As for the main topic at hand .. ugh. I'd like to see some rock solid evidence, fully quoted. Articles from "I forgot where" and observations made with no quoted evidence is not a good thing. I disagree with many points of your article. Foremost is the line stating that: Well, what about in Saudi Arabia for example, where "Approximately 4,200,000 students of both genders are enrolled in educational institutions at all levels." (WEP). Thats a little over 50% of the population enrolled in school, and we can make the inference that the majority of those enrolled in school are males, who having read your post I would assume are pretty much soley responsible for these honor killings. Regardless, thanks! It was a topic I was aware of, but had little knowledge in. I have to say that its my personal opinion these killings are wrong. However, this is from a Westerner's viewpoint. Although this may be inhumane and cruel to us, is our personal viewpoint always right? Of course not. From an Easterner's view I'm sure that these glory killings are quite acceptable - as you stated earlier. I wouldn't be surprised if they found many elements of American and Western societies horrendous. Basically what I'm trying to get at is I feel these killings are wrong, but who honestly can judge a man better than that man himself? Once again, interesting topic/post.

I have to say excellent game. It's the most in depth strategy game I've probably ever played. So, whats it about? Well, you take control of a country (in a made up world) and act as its President. It's set in what I'd call current times - no knights, magic, etc. The thing I like best is its amazing details. It's extremely in-depth, possibly to the point of being user unfriendly. But I still love it. So what exactly can you do? Millitary - you control what types of weapons are purchased and have to make sure that you have proper ammunition. You can set up detailed defense strategies for towns, roads, and regions as well. Army Size is not directly controllable - it's dependant on your population and amount of the budget you assign. Education - you control the educational priorities, numbers of elementary schools, high schools, and universities. The thing is, these places require teachers/professors and other staff members. These professions take time to train, and again, you cannot directly control the amount. You set educational priorities, which results in higher numbers of 10+ "types" of workers. It's key to closely watch the educational priorities, once a field is low on workers it takes quite some time to properly fix up the amount of people being trained in that area. Health Care - you have to build hospitals, which require doctors, nurses, and other staff members. As I was saying before, you must have enough of these folks being trained. Ever-important educations system! You also can set the percentage of social security the country pays. Transportation - you are responsible for roads and railroads. Don't build them and your country suffers. Of course, these roads require both monetary resources and people resources. ALSO, roads get worn down! Of course you're going to have to leave enough room in the budget to keep them well maintained. Corporations - these are perhaps the key to a successful country. You can choose to micromanage various corporations, which produce goods and services vital to your country. Corporations can be turned into Nationally Owned Corps, which then result in your country making money. Corps are greatly indepth - they require resources which can be purchased from other countries OR if you're smart, you can set up contracts with your own corporations to produce the necessary supplies. In addition to all this there are federations, trade organizations, a stock market and soooo much more. The depth of this game is quite stunning. It's got an immense learning curve. I've played almost a month and I still learn a key concept almost every day. Check it out! https://www.simcountry.com/

I spotted a project recently that sort of interested me, "DirectX WINE." You can find the link here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/directxwine/. I also had a question, I checked the info page and it said the majority of the patches were already implemented into WINE CVS .. does this mean its probably best to just go with CVS? Or are these patches possibly worth using? Any comments welcome. Perhaps this is old news or non-news, dunno.

Build your own, it's a lot more fun! Of course, it might be a bit more expensive, but it's a great learning experience and not too complicated. Thats my take, at least. Regardless, those "Shuttle Systems" look pretty sweet. ><

HAH! Completely pointless, but still sort of neat. Whats the shortest english domain name? The one posted by Jipman? Or are there other non-.coms that are longer?

Since I hate to leave people hanging ..I went with the second method, and it works excellent! Much thanks.

I need to know how to "split" a number up into seperae numbers, using VB. For example, "54321". I need to split that into 5 seperate numbers - "5," "4," "3," "2," "1," and assign them to a variable, if possible. This next part isn't important, but if you're curious why I need to know ...Eventually what I need to do is split the number into these individual parts and add them together. With that new number I need to again split it and take the last number subtracted from 10. That new number will then be placed at the end of the beginning number.Example:5+4+3+2+1 = 1515 = 1 & 5, take the last number ..10-5 = 5New number = "543215"The thing is I have no clue how to split this number into the seperate parts. Once I get past that I'm 99% sure I can wrap up. Anyone able to help? If so, Thanks!

I sort of like the look, but looking at the Window's site it seems they emphasize it A LOT. I'd much rather see more in-depth technical info rather than a bunch of stuff about how pretty it looks and how amazing translucent windows are. Another thing I noticed is that at least two or three times they said something about how "Windows will have taken care of it, without you even knowing!" That scares me. I'd like to know if my computer has some fatal failure, even if it's been taken care of.I guess we can only wait and see. I work at a PC shop where we build a lot of custom systems. I'm sure when Vista comes out I'll be plunged right into a lot of the information. Until then I'm only an outsider looking in, so can't really accurately judge.

Uhmm, weird. Out of curiousity, is there a bottom dashed line on the "some more words" box? Thats also missing for me, not sure if it should be. I'm still getting the scroll bar, too. I'll download Opera and test with that, I guess. In the mean time, anyone else getting a scroll bar? :S This bugs me. -.-

Okay, I just jumped onto the CSS bandwagon. Almost immediately I saw the powerful potential that CSS has to design a site much more cleanly. I was an old fashioned tables sort of guy, and I have to say that the layering feature using the div tags is brilliant. It allows for so much more, and so much easier. I designed a little "test" page, so to speak, so that I could fool around with layerings and various tags. The thing is, the page displays "bad". There is a horizontal scroll bar and for the life of me I can't figure out why. I'd host the site if I could, but my account is curiously suspended (another issue in itself). Below is the .css file and the .html file. mystyles.css body {font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 90%; background-color:white }p {font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 90%; }h1 {font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 150%; text-decoration: underline; }span {position: relative; top: .1%; left:2%; }.innerheader {position: relative; top: .1%; left: 50% }.mainbox {border: 1px coral dashed; position: absolute; left: 15%; top: 10%; height: 80%; width: 70%; padding: 0%; background-color: ffffff; }.leftmenu {border: 0px navy solid; position: absolute; left: 1%; top: 12.5%; height: 75%; width: 15%; padding: 0%; background-color: coral; } test.html <html><head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyles.css"><title>Testpage!</title></head><body><div class="mainbox"> <span class="innerheader"> <h1>some words</h1> </span> <span> some more words </span></div><div class="leftmenu"> <span>Textbox</span></div> </body></html> Save these and load it up and see for yourself. If anyone is able to direct me in getting rid of that ugly scrollbar, which I can't see the reason for being there, I'd appreciate it. If there are any other tips I'd also take them. Thanks in advance!

Just out of curiousity .. What sets it apart from other games? Why should I play this one and not any of the other 100 planetary combat clones? So many games out there, and I'm still looking for one that truly hooks me in with unique content and ideas.

I just hope Google doesnt over-extend themselves. Slipping into the ISP business seems like it could have some bad reprecussions. I love Google, and all I can say is that it better not become something akin to AOL or MS. :S