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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.

Hello ruben First, let me tell you, I'm a fan of yours. I've come across many of your posts here, especially in the Programming section, and I liked them a lot. *sigh* I wish! But before your POP3 e-mail client downloads your e-mail, they reside on a server somewhere. And you can't even make sure that after it downloads, the server will actually delete them permanently. But hey, you have nothing to hide, right? I suppose the perceived threats are much less in Germany than they are in the US. Good for you, anyways.

And who does? But unfortunately, every law enforcement and security agency these days claims the right to monitor everything anyone does, for the sake of national security. This is twisted, pragmatic logic, but sadly not enough action is done against it. Nevertheless, there are many groups concerned with these issues, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has been actively seeking ways of preventing such a horrid envasion of privacy for so long now. Many of their discussions are conducted over at the WILL, which is one of, if not THE, original forums of the Internet. But still, those people are only a few. It's up to the masses to decide whether they're going to do something about it. ----- Thanks for the information, warbird. But perhaps you could quickly scan people's responses to a thread before you post, since occasionally you'll find something you missed. You don't necessarily have to thoroughly read everything, merely scan it.

Hello everyone,Do you know any other piece of software that can handle the manipulation of .PSD images other than Photoshop?I actually have Photoshop 8.0 CS, but I'd like to know if there was a simpler application to use.I don't need any sophisticated tools, really. All I want is for that application to allow font and color editing of .PSD files.Thanks in advance. Cheers.

Don't worry about it, Sietze. Actually, thank you for starting such an interesting thread. :-)

I don't think this is a matter of forcing anything on anyone. What we're discussing here is, I think, a way to provide a guideline, not a rule. Yes, there are people whose native tongue is not English -- I'm one of them, actually -- and we cannot expect them to stick but to the very basic elements of grammar and pronounciation. There are those who are more comfortable with using shorthand forms. There are those who use slang often. There are many types of contributors here, and so I suspect enforcing a *rule* wouldn't work at all. But as a general guideline, contributors should make the effort to make their posts meaningful, as much as they can. If the meaning comes across alright, then it's alright -- even though I do prefer writing in a syntactically and grammatically correct way. The spell-checker idea is a great one. I suppose it might require some modifications to the forum coding, but I trust there are people here who are can volunteer to do the job, and they'll most probably do a dashing one, too.

Alright, perhaps I can help. The first thing to do here is to make sure that the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is correctly configured. Kindly follow these steps ... - Click Start, then Run, type services.msc, then click Ok. - Double-click on Background Intelligent Transfer Service - In Startup type box, click Manual, then Apply. - Click the Log on tab, and make sure the service is enabled in every listed hardware profile. If you find one or more disabled, click the hardware profile, choose Enable, then click Apply. - Now, click the General tab, then click Start. This should start the BITS successfully. Now, you can check the updates again. I hope that helped. :-)

But abhiram, MacBooks aren't your regular desktop computers; they're laptops. And if that wasn't enough, Apple's product normally tend to be on the higher side. Add to that, a weird assortment of what I believe to be fantastic hardware equipments, especially in the MA091LL model.The design is very slick and elegant. The standard set of software you can choose from with the MacBook Pro is vintage Apple.Although I personally wouldn't feel comfortable using a Mac for so long, since I find it doesn't provide me with enough low-level accessibility - which is a plus, I think, since they're made to be super-user-friendly - I still have to admit a Mac remains a classic in the computer arena.The integration of an Intel Duo processor is a bold move. I'm not an anti-Intel fanatic, but I don't enjoy the sound of that. Plus, 4 times faster than a G-processor? I find that a bit too hard to digest. I thought the G5's weren't that slow, I actually enjoyed a seamlessness to its work.Anyway, I suppose we might know more about all this in the next Expo. Too bad I'm too pressed in time these days to follow news from the source. So thanks for the post, finaldesign. :-)

Hello, Logan. I'm glad you decided to join us. :-)I understand your point completely, and I'm glad you got mine.Of course, different styles of learning is something to be expected. People are different. But what did you mean by "there are some of us that start simple..."? Don't we all start simple? :-)Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I'd think that a good way to learn something online is to ...STEP #1: either search for or directly ask about the subject matter. Know where to look for more information about it. Try to understand what it's all about.STEP #2: get into the details now. Learn the inner workings.STEP #3: alright, now you're stuck on something .. the tutorial you're reading, for example, doesn't clearly explain a particular point. So what do you do now?STEP #4: now, you ask people. Brief them on what you already learned, and then ask about the part where you're stuck.STEP #5: so they answered you and you got the point? Great. Now get back to your tutorial until the next time you find something hard to understand.Don't ask about something you can so easily understand by learning it yourself. Why? Because, my good friend, those people who were nice enough to help you the first time around have other things to do, perhaps even other people to help. Baby-sitting you every step of the way is certainly not their sole purpose of their creation.When I started this thread, I was more interested in the subject for it being a sign of bad manners, not a bad learning style, and I certainly didn't try to imply that people who ask simple questions are stupid.I know that I hadn't made my point clear on that before, and so I apologize. I hope it is clear now. :-)

I never said I was surprised, pomjim, and neither did the original thread poster. :-)But like I said, I believe that those who always keep the Conspiracy Theory in the back of their heads, and apply it to every situation they come across in life, are bound to get a narrow view of the circumstances most of the time. When someone focuses their attention on the proverbial Agenda, they may very well miss other points.So no, I wasn't surprised, I simply controlled myself from thinking this way - but still I had my doubts, for which I tried to theorize other theories than conspiracies, without fully eliminating that probability from my thoughts. And when I gathered enough information, I came out loud saying, "Alright. Now I'm thinking Conspiracy!"I hope I made my point clear, and thank you for joining us. Stick around now, alright? :-)

What can I tell you, yungblood? It seems that, in today's world of throat-cutting digital competition, every company that has the ability to turn evil, does! I utterly hate consipracy theories, I find they put major obtacles for the thinking process. But when I see overwhelming clues, I have to take another look. And unfortunately, as much as I truly adore most of Google's services and software, I smell a big, ugly, twitching, gray rat.Sometimes, I do the same with my GMail account, but thankfully I have a broadband connection, so I simply let my friends leave me big files there when I'm not at the computer -- a very rare event, by the way. And as for your anti-list, why don't you tell us more about that? It sounds like a good idea for a new thread. Why don't you start it?