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  1. Boy of all the things that google have developed and contributed to the internet world, I never really knew that they had time to do a little joke here and there. I guess they do have their off moments in such a high tech industry. But with the answer being 42, I still dont understand its real meaning. Does that mean at 42 years of age I will know everything there is to life and the universe? Ha. Google, always love what they bring to the internet, especially that new google earth virtual flight feature.
  2. Halo 3 will be out very soon, so much advertisements has been out for it. Im surprised how much money has been spent on advertising this game. Microsoft really goes all out when trying to sell a product. But then again I guess they have the kind of money to use to advertise such a hot game that they know will sell and probably bring in new gamers to the trilogy. Halo was actually the first first person shooter that I have played and have enjoyed. Ever since halo I have been trying out many other first person games and opened a new genre in which I like. Halo 3 will defininety be a huge hit with a large game community base which fans will support for years to come...
  3. The meta tag is probably a very important part of a website for grabbing in traffic from search engines. I know for sure that search engines uses the meta tags to help them key on that website and keywords that are stored in those meta tags. The rest of the other stuff are some accessories to the website I believe. I for one was interested and never knew about the icon on the url bar. PRobably because I never looked into it, but now that I know that is very cool and will probably use it in the future.
  4. Im not quite sure what you are trying to ask, but I have assumed that you wanted the scrolling text within their 3rd body section. Well the code that they have used is just a marquee tag that scrolls a block of text up, with a added attribute where when the mouse hovers over the area the marquee would stop in its tracks. But if you want the actual code that they have used to implement that feature I have extracted what they have implemented:<marquee height="200" width="200" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()" direction="up" scrollamount="1.5" style="Filter:Alpha(Opacity=100, FinishOpacity=0, Style=1, StartX=0, StartY=90, FinishX=0, FinishY=0);"><font face="verdana" color="grey">To explain the tags usuage, marquee is the tag that causes your surrounded object to scroll. The height and width that are defined assigns the size of the area that the object scrolls to. Onmouseover"this.stop()" is as it sounds when the user hovers their mouse over the area the marquee would stop indefinitely. Onmouseout"this.start" is basically just to restart the scrolling as the mouse leaves the area of the object. Direction assigned to up is the direction that the object will be moving or scrolling. Scrollamount is what I would believe the speed at how it moves or scrolls. and the "style" should be self explanatory since its just attributes to style the area. At first glance this feature make look like its hard to implement and may assume that its a javascript, but in actuality its just a <marquee> tag. I hope that I was able to answer what you were trying to ask.
  5. That is the funniest looking fashion assortment that I have ever seen ever made. A fan equipped with fans on their clothing. That is probably a laughable fashion statement from where I live, but then again how a person dresses and represents themselves is a matter of personal opinion. But to bring up a similar type of clothing that I thought was actually neat over embarrassing is regular t-shirts that have unique designs that is lit with leds and flicker in a unique way that causes people during walk bys to turn their heads just to check out the t-shirt. The shirt was found in a Las Vegas store. This shirt carried a battery socket hidden away that lights the shirt up. That was probably the coolest shirt I have seen, it did not look tacky either it looked innovative.But to get back on the topic of the Japanese designing the air conditioned jacket, that is probably a very creative design on its own and initial incentive, but in terms of being fashionable I believe as well as many others it is high debatable. I for one would not be a great supporter of that type of item. I cant imagine having a shirt that have a couple fans spinning why Im wearing and walking around in public with it. Although the idea is very creative, it lacks the center of fashion sense.
  6. The first poster is correct the only way to protect yourself 100% is if you never connect yourself to the internet. The internet is like a link between you and someone else. Every second you are online packets of data are sent to you without you notice, there are some data packets that are just to keep you in the internet link and there are some data packets that are recording your every move. From what I have learned in a data communications class, going anywhere on the net is basically you connecting to other peoples computers. Cause you are not the only one accessing a source but others as well, and certain data packets sometimes come in contact together during the data transfer lines. Have a protection software and firewall on you computer is like putting up a door and no one may enter unless they have a key or you let them in by opening that door. So as interesting as it is you are never safe on the internet so you must be cautious on what you click, browse, or download. Anyone with enough skill can probably connect to your computer and bypass you firewalls to control your computer if they wanted too, but you gotta give that person a reason to want to get to your computer. Most cases of viruses that are being spread is because of human curiosity. They open things that they shouldn't be opening unless they know it is safe to open. Its like a pandora box that is put in front of you. So in conclusion you should just disconnect yourself from the internet if you want to be completely safe from the viruses that are lurking in the internet. Only use the internet when you need to, and never open anything unless you completely trust it.
  7. This is definitely some valuable information that I will be able to use in future php scripts that I will eventually write. I am fairly new to the whole php language and this information provided me with some good insight on what I need to look out for and pay attention to. It also gave me some very important tips and tricks that will help me in my future scripts which I would look into deeper eventually. I have also been very curious about number 10 and the topic of sql injection, I have yet to grasp its true content. I always knew that it was an exploit but didnt really understand the whole story until now. But even now I feel that I have a lot more to look into if I want to not only protect a database from it but also prevent it during my script writes.
  8. C++ is a very complicated language that goes very deep in design if you choose to take it. You will probably have more problems compiling your code without having syntax then actually worrying about if what you wrote will work and get you any visual outcome. I have written in C++ for probably 4 years during my college years and were only able to make a text game. This text game was very basic in which the user was only allowed to choose the numbers 1 or 2 and used the probability of random to justify the results that the user has chosen. Once you have achieved and compiled and executed a simple program, and once you dive deeper in the language you will understand its complexity come about. Where you would start to learn about stacks and memory, arrays, and design patterns, etc. But once you obtain a good understanding of this language you would probably be able to understand any language out there because all other languages carry the same concept only different syntax.C++ is a very powerful language in the minds that can create something from it, but those that cannot grasp its complexity will find it very hard to do almost anything with the language.
  9. Man that is just horrible. There is more spyware on that page that the browser can even display. It is overwhelming to see what that computer is going through. I have a feeling that computer is for testing spyware. No way in the right mind someone would use that spyware infected computer on a daily basis. That is more over impossible to use with that amount of spyware. I definitely would reformat the computer with the qucikness if a hint of spyware was on my computer. With all the viruses and stolen accounts, identity frauds that are happening these days I find it that computers are very senstive prone to those events where it would cause curruption in ones life if any information was transmitted on the net to a hacker or a hacker community.
  10. Sorry, but going to odd sites like this is very risky. I would not reccommend it, its not official. Updating your system through the use of an unoffical site "WindizUpdate is not affiliated with or authorized by Microsoft. "Microsoft Windows" is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation" is taking a risk at installing hidden viruses and spyware on your computer. If microsoft eventually allow firefox users to access their offical updates then thats when I would actually use firefox to update windows.With so many phishing sites around, a site like this will and might be shut down. So those of you that are using this site please be very cautious cause sites like this is very dangerous especially when its leading you to believe that you are updating your system through another means. I would suggest you update through the normal process and offical process of windows ie. Im a firefox user and I hate IE, but going through to this site just to update windows with firefox is a risk I rather not take.
  11. I am currently using norton antivirus 360, and so far I have been protected for the longest that I can remember, there was never a computer that I have owned that didnt have norton on it. I know that may sound like Im bias and will support norton, but I have tried other antivirus softwares and it did not protect me from the spyware, and pop up adds. The various anti virus programs that I have used throughout my time of owning a computer was pc-illn, avg, and others which I cant remember at the top of my head, and all have failed in where I got some sort of virus slipping through. I dont know if that virus that those programs caught was actually was a virus, but it wasnt able to remove it and resulted me in reformating my computer. That was the moment when I was converted and started to use norton, although there were times where a virus had slipped through into nortons detection system, it also was able to remove it so I was glad it did, or else I had to reformat my computer yet again. But the most reliable norton software that I found was probably the internet security softwares, compared to the antivirus software alone. The internet security actually monitors the sites that you are visiting and watching out for unsuspected things to enter your system. But the one downside with all if not most norton protect products is that its a memory hog when its scans your computer and u basically end up having to wait till its done before you are able to use your computer again. Thankfully, they released a supposedly imrpoved version of their software which is called norton 360 which is all that and is NOT A MEMORY HOG, and I do notice the difference and feel that I am getting the same protection as I did with their previous software of internet security. So if I was to choose the best anti virus protection software it would have to be norton, I am still waiting for another software that has climbed its ranks and popularity over norton before I switch, because I currently dont trust any up and coming software unless its past a serious of recommended tests.
  12. I mainly use winamp and windows media player for all my video viewing needs. The reason for this is because I dont really know I guess because its just there and it works, haha. But yea, I often use those players to view all my videos and dvds. Sometimes I actually use my windows media center to watch dvds but I guess its still usng the windows media player just placed in a different interface.
  13. Your sig is really cool, but seems a little plain, you should really check out some of the other members signatures for more ideas on how to expand on your design. THere is also this one member that I noticed around the board that designs a very very cool signature through each one, I believe he specializes in it as well...
  14. Its common practice and if you are a frequent user you should know that clicking random links from people you dont know is very bad. And should be avoided at all times. I am very cautious when it comes to clicking links from even my freinds, I ask them what this link is before I click it because I hear many occurences of how viruses are passed through messengers and how it deals damage to your computer that results in making you reformat your computer. But from your experience Im sure you will probably be more cautious the next time around, and its good that you made this post. Because for those that dont already know that is being passed around the internet these days would know now and will eventually get to them as a caution.
  15. In my opinion this site needs more work done, because the chatbox is clearly causing formating problems to the forum. This site is probably also in the process of being created, and still under construction. If I was creatining this site a nice little narrow banner towards the top would make a great deal of improvement to the look and feel of the site. THis site at this current state is also very dark and not that easy on the eyes. Lighter colors that contrast the text would also help the sites overall look. I dont know what this forum target audience is but it should also figure out what its targeting and focus on it, for example Xisto, is a forum that targets people that are looking for hosting but is mainly for the more tech savy people. Those that are also wanting to learn more about computer related things and how to make websites is what I believe to be the main target focus of this forum. So those would be the key things that I would probably focus on if they should try to improve.
  16. The best rpg game that I have ever played would probably be final fantasy 7, or more so the final fantasy series. This franchise is the best because of its deep symbolic storylines that it creates. The fantasy of different realms and different scenerio for each sequel make this franchise fresh all the time. RPGs that seems to run sequels through a carry on of its recent storyline often runs bitter and pointless and boring. But with the final fantasy series a new story line is written each time and the story is always rich in experience. But to me, the best of the series would probably be the ff7 series its unique story about love,death, life, and identity really goes deep in this story, that does not also mention the deep gameplay that the creators have put the time in creatining the game.
  17. The posting credits are fine...You got .5 probably because your post was too short. You have to be posting and replying with good feedback. The more content in your post the better your chances of recieving more credits. Plus you do know that once your credits reach a certain number it becomes harder to increase your credits right. For example, if you are very low in credits say you have less then 1 credit in your hosting day, if you make a post even a short one I believe that you recieve 1 credit for that short post. But if you post to a topic with good content then you will probably recieve 2 or 3 credits for that posting. But once you reach to the amount of 10 credits I believe that you posting credits becomes harder to attain, so more content is needed in your post to recieve more than 1 credit a post. Like they mentioned in the rules the content of your post determines the amount of credits you recieve. More importantly, the categories that you choose to reply to also affects your posting credit. For example, games is worth less than say science I believe. Becomes I guess games is less informative and I believe less of an intellecutual topic category. Plus I understand why they lessened the posting credit for games because its rather easy to post for games than it is for science because not everyone knows a lot of science. Any noobie in this forum usually go to the games section to post, because its the only topic category that they feel comfortable in.
  18. I voted for massive online shooters because I have experienced the massive online rpg fad and its not all that great. Sure Ill play it days on end when the release is out with friends but after awhile the content on a massive online rpg gets to die down and you start to stop playing it all together. For example, first Ill start with lineage 2, this game is definitely fun but u spend most of your time just training urself and doing tedious quests that can be done alone just so you can level up. The online time you need a group is if you are going to war or in a group pvp. I was probably addicted to this game for almost a year before I stopped playing it. Secondly, Guild Wars, this game is incredibly fun because it contains a story, but once you complete the story which shouldnt take that long the game becomes really boring, even with the group wars. Because of the game mechanics depending soo much on your allies that you cant seperate yourselves from them. Which is good in a way that it keeps someone from being too powerful, and annoying in a way that if someone lack skills on the team than your whole team suffers the consequence. I ended up playing this game for only 2 or 3 months before it died and did not continue to get the expansions that was released because it was the same thing just more of the same content.Now to talk about why I believe that first person shooters are better than massive online rpgs. First, the fact that its a shooter and you get to kill people online is fun, it takes some of the stress of life away. Then there is a fact that you can play with friends and your friends can help you as they would in an online rpg, and there is no overpowerment in first person shooters, just skills. If you know how to aim then you are as good as anyone online. No one online can be godly online unless they hacked the server. Some of the games that describes my experience well maybe counter strike, battlefield 2014, raven shield, and many others. Even halo I believe has a gameplay factor that over runs all mmorpgs. The experience of an massive online first person shooter is a lot better than a massive online rpg from the start and to the end. Its quick to learn and easy to be skilled in. Rpgs you have to understand the game mechanics to play it properly or you just will suck, and give up on the game. So in conclusion first person shooters are the best games that I choose to play of massive online rpgs.
  19. The more ram is definitetly good, but you got to make sure what your system is capable of. Because if I remember correctly you can upgrade to so much memory that your motherboard can support. Moreover, with all the new generation games coming out ram seems to be a very popular choice of upgrades next to graphic cards because it gets picked on almost all the time when you are pplaying a graphically intense video game. You will notice this if you happen to play a game such as oblivion because if you dont have the suitable amount of ram, you will never see how the game really is meant to look and feel like if you are runing the game below the standard requirements. Im playing it with only 1gb of ram but amd studdering a bit with the dual core computer, I know that if I attached more ram on my system I would probably expect the best performance and gameplay experience from the game.
  20. From what I heard and read, blu-ray seems to be taking over the market with sales gain speed and about to overthrow the hd-dvd market. I always know that bluray would probably make it as the next innovation because its the best, and the people most likely want the best if its an investment. With 1080p tvs being distributed accross the country and its growing popularity, you will most liekly see people using more blurays than the hddvds. I have no problem if one or the other takes over the market because I have the luxury of owning both players, so who ever wins the battle of format wars, I will continue to use whatever will be the change.
  21. THose tree houses are very creatively built, it almost look like a futuristic cabin in a way. Looking at these houses makes me want to conceptulize what my future home would look like. I sometimes feel that I want to draw and model my dream home. Everything I wanted in a house would come from my dream and vision. Ofcourse you got the general typical house, but if you want to go the extra mile you need to make your own home, because not only does it creates uniqueness when compared to other houses in your area, but it starts the begining of the history of how that house become to be. And I hear that its cheaper to build a house than it is to buy a regular house anyway. So i guess my next plan of goals that I have in store would probably to build my dream home and conceptualize the blue print of the house. And see if I can make my vision a reality than just a vision, heh...
  22. I believe that a finding a suitable host is something that everyone have a problem with when trying to develop their first website. Because you have to think about everything about stability and support. I remember going through various hosts until I found Xisto, the uptime is almost infinite i never noticed any problems with it thus far and found it to be very reliable. I also provide to use this hosting service for quite awhile because its completely free and offers all the features that I need in a hosting service. and did I happen to mention that this hosting service is free. It is true that another factor of difficulty of creating a website is maintenance but, with a good hosting service it can provide you with half the protection where the other half would be on your part on trying to block out the public prospect users from getting into your private secure areas of your website that may cause you risky problems in maintaining your website.But overall, the host is the main concern in a good and healthy website. WIth the right host you can have a good start in creating a prosperous website that can live on for ages with out problems.
  23. Ive tried out many content management systems out there already and joomla seems to offer a lot of features that can get to a very complex level if need be. But with all the interface that is needed to work with these type of systems sometimes will lead you into forgetting some of the basic and important skills that are needed for you to set up a website without the use of a content management system. I try to stray away from the use of content management system when building websites because I know ill probably start to be too dependent on it. But those content management systems out there does provide a quick way to develop websites on a mass production rate if used efficiently. But if its used just to build one e-com or personal website, I believe its better to build the website by hand because you have more control of what is being coded and less glitches are likely to occur, and more so that you can even debug your own code than some of the random generated code that a content management system sometimes offers and glitches from time to time.
  24. Best games of all time would have to be tetris. That game can never be boring or lose its gameplay value like many games out there today. I could easily names some of the most intense action, fighting, adventure, and rpg games out there right now that I truly love, but those game lack gameplay value. Those games are the type of games which you play once for the experience and never play it again. That is why I chose that tetris is the best game of all. The game is old and ancient as many can remember it to be, but if you are feeling the need to relieve stress and have a fun filled challenge, tetris is the way to go. You can play endlessly without feeling bored like with your other games. Ofcourse like with any games these days you have to play it against or with a friend. Because they add to the gameplay factor as well as the challenge.
  25. Wow, thats very interesting news. I never knew that you can get arrested for posting porn on your site. I mean if you did run a pornographic business site, its your site and your business. Interesting that they would go through the trouble to arrest him. And I dont quite understand why they would, unless the pornographic material that he posted was copyrighted and he did not have the rights to release them like he did and use it for profit. But pornographic websites are fairly popular on the internet and vast amount of traffic can be generated easily with nudity and sex. Like the saying says sex sells, and that is a certainty. Man, from thinking about what I just read, I just realized that it is kind of drastic for him to have 10 years for having a porn flower business site. Is porn sites illegal in china or something, if it is then that is rather odd. If the internet was able to prevent porn, I am pretty sure the evolution of the internet would have evolved the way it did. Many people 90% of the time probably end up searching for pornographic material or accidently end up on a pornographic site. Durring that time they are exposed to the virus that is the internet that attracts another computer user. With so many people using the internet today, the internet gradually evolved, to imagine if no one wanted to use the internet, Im sure the technology would probably would fade away into thin air like the vcr players which faded away and taken over by cd or dvd players.
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