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I could see a lot of uses for things like this, like perhaps controlling small robots, or a tiny but fast PDA. Plus, it would just be awesome to have one! I wonder what the next generation of tiny PCs will be like, just imagine having a processor with the speed of the one in your desktop PC in your pocket...

ROFL! That's great! Where and when did that originally air, or is it only an online ad? I have to send that to my friends...

Looks good so far, my only concern would be that the background might be a little too dark and hard to read sometimes, but I look forward to seeing it when you put it online.

It is too bad that companies are running over their legal limits with stuff like the DRM rootkit. Unfortunately, it all too often is all about money, with little or no concern for right and wrong. Does anyone know what kind of legal action these open-source coders can take? What kind of penalties are included in the Open Source License?

In the head of those pages, there is a line of code that reads:

<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="blendTrans(Duration=##)">

I believe that that is the way to make pages transition, although it isn't well supported. I think that there might be another META tag based way to do this, search on Google.

Burger King has some of the most inventive and humorous marketing, and I love it (see avatar! ) Subservient Chicken has been around for a while, and another good one they did was Sith Sense, which was a take-off of 20Q.net, and a lot of fun. They also created (?) a band called Coq Rock (a parody of metal bands like Slipknot) to promote their food.

There is an Xbox 360 display at the local Best Buy, and I had a chance to see/play the King Kong game. The graphics were great, and the controller was good too. I don't plan on getting one (I'll stick with the good old PC for now), but the 360 would be my console of choice if I were to purchase one.

When I upgrade in the future (meaning maybe 6 months-year), I will definitely go with an Athlon 64. Not only are they faster now (due to higher clock speeds and native 64-bit arithmetic support), but they will be compatible with whatever comes next in the way of 64-bit operating systems and other technology. Also, they are becoming very affordable now that they have been around for a while.

You can match <input> elements that have the type=text property in CSS2 by using the rule "input[type=text] { }". However, I highly doubt that this is fully supported by many browsers, and so your best choice would probably be to nest the input inside a span like viz said.

What browser are you using? If it's Firefox, I have had issues playing MP3 sounds embedded in web pages, because the Quicktime plugin does not seem to work correctly on my computer. (It says the plugin is necessary, but cannot be installed, go figure.) Like dhanesh said, a good way to solve the problem is to try a different browser on the same page and see if the problem continues.

One good way to record gameplay is using Fraps. Fraps is a frame-counting program but also has the abiliity to record video (although it is pretty hard on performance.) You can also always just record directly to video tape with a VCR and your video card's TV-out, if it has one.

If you are using CSS to format your MySpace (if you are, please tell me how you did it!), you can set the "background-repeat" attribute of whatever you are applying a background image to (body, most likely) to "no-repeat" to prevent tiling (or "repeat-x" or "repeat-y" to make it tile in one direction). You can also set the "background-position" atribute to "top", "bottom", "left", "right", or "center", or a combination of those (such as "bottom right") to make the background stay in one corner.

The best way to get your stuff to your new PC would probably be to take the old hard drive and put it in the new PC, which would let you copy your files directly off without having to use anything in between. If not that, then burning CD-Rs/DVDs is probably your best bet. If the files are small (just a few documents or spreadsheets (and its a fairly recent computer), a USB flash drive might be the easiest and quickest way to go.

Whoa. I'm still learning calculus, and although I didn't quite get all of that (I would have to read it several times), it seems amazing. Hard to believe that something so simple can be made into such a powerful tool.

I have always used AMD chips because of their lower cost (and better value) and better performance in some applications (many games). It seems like AMD has closed the gap in performance between themselves and Intel with their new Athlon64 processors. It is interesting to hear that they outsold Intel (even if only for a small amount of time), since many people never thought that would happen.

Some good places to start:
http://www.newegg.com/ - One of the best places to buy parts online, they have almost anything you can want for far lower prices than anywhere else, and they have some of the best customer service ratings of any store.
http://www.tomshardware.com/ and http://www.anandtech.com/ - Two great review sites to look at things before you buy them, and they have lots of helpful guides.
http://www.tomshardware.com/articles/ - This might just be what you are looking for, a computer with some performance for under $500 US.

Have you ever built a computer before? If not, it would definately be worth doing a little research to be sure you know what you're doing before you have parts strewn all over the floor (I know this from experience ) Just take it slow and be careful (don't break anything, keep yourself grounded!) If you have any questions, all the helpful people here can probably answer them.

I use Avast Home Edition for antivirus, a combination of Lavasoft's Ad-Aware and Spybot: Search and Destroy for anti-spyware, and ZoneAlarm for firewall (my router also has a built-in firewall.) It all works pretty well for me, and it was all free, with the exception of the router, of course.

1. The SATA drive would show up as a separate drive from the PATA (drive D or similar), as far as I know there is no way to RAID a PATA and a SATA drive together.2. Hard to tell, as it depends on what you have, you might just have to try it and see, or remove an older drive to reduce the drain.3. Although SATA is faster than PATA, the speed really probably depends more on the drives themselves. A slow SATA drive is still no faster than a slow PATA drive, SATA just has the capability to be faster.

They both look good, though I agree that the second one is less cluttered. I also envy your skills in art, I've never been artistic (which is why is takes me so long to design a good-looking website!)

Those are pretty funny. The leetspeak one is good, it's been around for a little while. The other one is just classic. I guess there are people who don't understand how to ask a question on a message board...

I can't wait to download it and play it, but I don't know if my computer can quite handle all the high-end special effects. (Athlon XP 3200+, Radeon 9800 Pro.) However, its still worth a shot.

This sounds interesting, would it be usable in ASP or PHP like a MySQL database, so you could have an easily accessible central DB for something? And I have to agree with pomjim, the stuff Google is doing is kind of scary, but to be honest, I will keep using it as long as it is free.

If you want a program to automatically start up when you log on, you can put a shortcut in Startup on the Start Menu (I think that works in 2000), or you can add a registry key (with regedit) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run. (Again, I think this works, I don't know for certain under 2000.)

Here is a page of locks and cables and other security devices for laptops. I think I've also seen a combination cable/alarm device somewhere that goes off if it is moved, and there are also some interesting options, like fingerprint scanners or USB security keys.

As a temporary solution, you can get a box fan and put it up against the side of the case (with the side panels off, obviously) and leave it on low when you are doing processor or graphics-intensive work. It worked well for me with my old video card (which only had a tiny passive heatsink - no fan!)