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I trust this study, along with the proposed drug, will induce major controversy, especially in the media. First, I'll talk about the medical aspect of this drug ... Propranolol -- which is the active ingredient proposed for the drug -- is basically a beta-blocker. Beta-blockers affect the heart and circulatory system (e.g. arteries and veins). It's normally used to reduce hypertension, treat angina, tacchycardia (i.e. irregular heart beats), migranes, tremors, and reduce the risk of recurrent heart attacks. These are the most common uses of Propranolol. The problem is that it has many contra-indications and many side-effects, which might prevent a siginificant sector from using the drug. But even though it's relevant to my work, I'm not really interested in the medical aspect. Like I said, I believe the media will have a field-day with this drug, and I trust the issue of "should or should not people use it!" I firmly believe that such an issue is fundamentally and practically a personal issue. Eveyone has the right to choose whether he/she wants to forget. I utterly detest those so-called authorities who are so in love with their voices that they keep coming back on TV shows and soup-operas, telling us what we should or shouldn't do. It's not only condescending, but it's unbelievably idiotic as well. I believe the movie that dealt with that subject -- the one that's mentioned at the beginning of the article -- is Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. A splendid movie, really. It portrayed so well what it is that makes memories, good and bad, such an essential part of our very existence. Well, I'm talking too much. I should save it until the thread interests more people.

Actually, a .be domain works splendidly with nameservers. I registered one only for the purpose of testing it, configured it to point to my account here at Xisto, and it worked immediately. I don't understand why you said it doesn't. Did you set up one and had a bad experience with it?? Plus, if you're offering uni.cc as an alternative, you should know it doesn't support nameservers at all anymore. It has removed nameserver support back in 2004, I believe.

But, for all practical intents and purposes, uni.cc and other similar services are not free domain name providers; they're domain forwarders. Plus, the thread started to discuss Free Domain Registration ( Against Earned Points ), which leaves services like uni.cc out of scope. Still, thank you for the post. Cheers.

Does it really matter, Ivbeck? I mean, you're only going to use services like that to upload files for other people to download, either through your Website or otherwise. The downloaders have no real need to stay on those Websites longer than it takes to start the upload process. So I think it's not that crucial whether they were ad-free or not. But I admit that I don't know the answer to your question. I'll try to check it out for you, even though I'm interested in file hosting in the first place, right after I finish some pressing business I have to attend. That is, if I remember, of course.

Hello there,I'm not an administrator or a moderator here, but can I ask, "Why do you want your account deleted? Is there something you think is wrong with the service, whether the forum or the hosting, that we should know of?"Thanks in advance. ::smile::

Congratulations on what I think is a wise choice, nightfox! :smile: And yes, Abhiram, many people rave about the ease-of-use SuSe provides, but nightfox mentioned that he was using server editions, which -- believe you me -- are quite the b**ch to work with. :smile:

I believe AdSense is currently one of the, if not THE, best Pay-Per-Click Search Engines available. Unfortunately, Webmasters seem to not know how to fully use it. Every Website I visit now, save for few, have AdSense installed in the most ridiculous, unprofitable way imaginable. There's an entire section devoted for Google's AdSense and how you can best implement it on your Website, available at the SiteSell.com Website. Here's my personal link to it ... Google's AdSense Section at SiteSell.com There have been also a great PPC SE called Overture.com , of which I haven't heard much lately, although it used to dominate the market of PPCing. It's worth checking out, though, if you're interested.

As usual, an excellent opinion, Logan, and I wholehearedly agree. The professionalism level here at Xisto is much higher than at many other forums I'm subscribed to. Which is why I'm willing to help as much as I could to keep it that way, if not to improve it.

A provocative post, Vicious_AD! The truth is, your article posed questions that assumed certain things about reality and the current situation. Don't get me wrong, I would never try to step on anybody's right to think and form opinions; it's what philosophy is all about, anywy. I don't think I can answer your questions, but perhaps I can comment on them ... As for that being possible, I certainly wouldn't know, even though I'm in the medical field. Everyone knows how complicated a human brain is, and so there's no telling what's possible and what's not about it. As for it being humane, I personally think it wouldn't be .. not with our current knowledge. Because, you see, we frequently hear about comatosed people who the doctors announce for whom there's no chance, or even hope, of coming back, and yet they do. And if we consider doing that for humane purposes, such as preparing comatosed patients for real life using MMORPGs, in case they wake up, well ... we don't even know for sure whether comatosed patients are responsive to such stimuli. Yes, there seems to be enough brain-activity to warrant thinking about it, but the interviews with comatosed patients who came back give inconclusive, widely varying reports. If you want a simple answer, it's: I don't know! If you want a sophisticated answer, it's: I veritably don't know! In this life, I believe there's no such thing as "going too far." We should always keep dreaming, keep asking, keep experimenting ... Because, who knows, maybe comatosed patients can still communicate with us, maybe a MMORPG is not that different from so-called "real-life," maybe the brain is simpler than we all thought and we were just looking at it from the wrong direction. Thank you for a lovely thread, Vicious_AD. Keep it coming.

Oh Mercy! $340 for the Linksys router? That's horridly expensive, even if the router provides ensures immaculate connectivity. I assume you're going to divide that sum by 5, right?But it's a very structured network you guys have. Perfect accomodation for the current computers, and plenty left for future additions. I suppose that's what you get when you put 5 Computer Science majors in one place. :smile:Would you tell us about the performace of the Gigabit router when you get it installed? That'd be a great piece of information.Thanks, snutz. Cheers.

*surprised* I was upset? What made you think that? Did I say something that offended you? If I did, I apologize. I see. So something is considered a "big deal" only if it it gets caught by an authority. Alright then, glad you made that clear to me. :-) --- Good point you got there. :-) But, strictly speaking, I can't remember that Hotmail clearly stated in her policy they have the right to view, keep, and freely distribute our messages, like Google does. That's why, even though Hotmail has been accused of many things, it hasn't been accused of such an invasion of privacy. Hopefully, the staggering audacity Google shows will provoke more people to act, and if that happens, there'll be time to talk about Hotmail, YahooMail and the rest of them. Until then, be well, xboxrulz. :-)

A thought-provoking post, Logan. :-) Personally, I suppose I'm that A-C-B type you described. I require to know HOW before I know WHAT, most of the time. But I know that's not the common way to learn, so I don't throw my problems on other people's shoulders, and instead I try to learn whatever HOW myself. But still, you're dead right about ... Yes, that *is* the whole point. The point of this thread is to, hopefully, make us how to maintain proper manners, whether we're asking the questions or answering them. Thank you, Logan. A great post.

Fonts *can* be changed in an INPUT field, Quatrux. It can even be done in IE, with no problems. I'm yet to see a browser that doesn't support CSS' font-family in an INPUT field, actually.Plus, FireFox and Opera claimed to be W3C Recommendations Compliant from the get-go. How could they treat CSS differently? Perhaps you could give us an example? It'd be much appreciated.

But isn't GIMP a bit heavy on system resources. It works fine on my personal computer, but I've heard it caused problems on older computers. I can't remember what its system requirements were.Well, I should go check it right now. Thank you, abhiram. :-)

Actually, warbird, I wanted a lighter application. I have to do some work on a very old, very slow computer, and although Photoshop does run on it, it's insanely slow. But what is PI? Thank you for replying. Take care.