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Two things, rraallvv :First of all, this topic is supposed to be a tutorial explaining us the F11 trick. Now we know that this trick does not work. However, the goal of all replies to the present topic should be comments saying "it does not work" or giving complementary information on how to make it work. Other solutions should be made by means of opening a separate topic.
Secondly, pressing the "F11" key is a fully legit operation, it's quite legal to accidentally press the F11 key during the boot.
However, downloading and using things like the ophcrack are completely illegal and are stringly forbidden in most of countries. Take care, I'm pretty sure it's also not accepted by Xisto's forum rules.

Nope, actually, it's not strictly forbidden by most coutnries. In fact, most countries laws' are pretty vague about this. The only thing you might have grounds on, is violating someone's privacy.

Also, I can do with my own machines whatever I want with it. Next to that, using tools like these is pretty interesting and educational. It teaches you both how winXP stores it's passwords, and how they can be recovered from it.

rraallvv seemed like he was merely providing an informative post.

So yeah, apparently, google is aiding Yahoo into stopping MS form taking power. It's funny hwo everyone fails to understand how MS is a business just like any other. Just like google is, by the way. Do you honestly think that google all-in-all wants to cover for Yahoo out of solidarity? I assume google doesn't want to see the market share being consumed by Microsoft by absorbing another competitor. In the end, it's business, just like any other. HAs anyone ever witnessed how Altavista was bought and sold in between companies like it was a game of ping-pong? Compaq, CMGI, Overture and eventually Yahoo, have had ownership of AltaVista at some point - even though Altavista was considered to be one of the first, all-out, full-blown search engines on the web.As for Microsoft. It's a decision any healthy company might make. They see an opening, and they're going for it. Can you blame them for it? Yes, I agree, it does suck out the genuine feel of things, it does take away the edge and it does inject a big corporate feel into it. Did you know that internet explorer was in fact developed by another company? Back in the early years of the infamous browser wars, Netscape navigator was one of the bigger players. Spyglass Inc. seemed to have a promising browser themselves, so MS bought it. Years later, Internet explorer is considered one of the most standard (not the best, not at all) browsers out there.

The basics I learned many years ago from looking at an old book, called the Internet Bible. It covered your simple images, frames, and links, and a little of tables but nothing of css (it was a very old book). More recently, around early 2007 I started to get serious and run my own website and forum. Strangely enough, I learnt PHP far quicker than html, despite what people say that html must be known to do good PHP. I suppose that was because of my experiance in Visual basic 6. Anyways, with PHP I rapidly learnt HTML, mostly out of necessity. First thing I used for making, say, sidebars was an Iframe. After that I started using invisible tables. Only recently did I phase that out of my coding techniques and started using DIVs and CSS.

I didn't take me too long to understand the basics. I learned to understand the basics of it through posting on forums a lot when I was 14/15 years old. BBcode et al.My first experiences with HMTL were with frontpage, so it's probably not the best way to start off, but regardless, I learned a lot from that. I can't sy I learned HTML and now consider myself certified or anything (for as much as anyone COULD, anyway), but I can HTML away in notepad. but like someone else mentioned earlier, when table/div tags kick in, I'd rather head over to dreamweaver and css.

HTML is just a mark-up language and isn't too hard to learn, but it can serve as a decent basis to start looking into low-level, decent programming languages.

LOL cricket eh? I'm not much into cricket or football and what not but oh well, go the aussie cricket team I suppose .
I know a few local online stores but none have that thermal paste/goo stuff .

Sounds purely hardware, to me. If you had an average of 25-30 degrees, and just recently went up to 70-80 degrees, then there's something seriously wrong. Something seems to be out of orde on the cooling part.
My old laptop had never been "un-dusted" after a few years of daily use. When I started noticing performance problems as well, I decided to install Notebook hardware control. My average temp. of around40 to 45 had also run up to 80 and up.

Opened it up and the entire area around the PSU was clogged up with dust. Cleaned it out and used canned air to clean it out. put everything back together, booted and it ran smoothlier than ever before.

I've got my own intel centrino pro santa rosa HP laptop(2ghz):2 gb RAM, 128 dedicated mb Nvidia140 GB HDwin vista home premium15 inchLaptop have from work:Intel core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.20 GHz3 GB RAM256 dedicated mb gfx 160 GB HD17 inchWin Vista BusinessFamily computer, not quite sure. Just has 1 GB of RAM, 120 HD, 128 mb memory card.Then there's the remains of my old desktop, which has been pillaged and plundered for parts and stuff. Thinking of turning it into a small time homeserver. A NAS server if it's too difficult to turn it into a server.As for preference, I don't really care. I just want quality for my money. I have nothing against macs, but I absolutely LOATHE the fanbois that come with Macs. You kow, the kind that sits at starbucks with their shiny white expensive MAC. The kind that looks down on a PC user, because they're not as fasionable.

There are another way to restore show desktop icon in quick launch bar:
Click Start -> Run and type regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32.dll and enter
Done! You just restore your Show Desktop icon

Awesome. I once accidentally deleted my desktop icon thingum. I tried to restore it by making a new icon, and redirecting it to the document and settings/desktop folder.

Alas, it only opened the desktop folder in explorer. Never really found out how to restore it. Drove me nuts because I figured it would be a -somewhat- easy to find function. Thanks for sharing!

I was thinking about putting adsense on my website when I'm finished, but I don't think I would be getting a lot if they pay per click, because I don't think a lot of people will go to my photo blog anyways except my friends.

Install a stats plug-in. Look at your visitors. Look where they're from. Is it really just your friends? Do you plan to put your blog "out there" in the world?You'd be surprised how people might wind up on your site...

an essential piece of software to go with adsense is a visitors status checker. Something that logs where your visitors are from, where they came from (backlink, page, search engine...), how they stayed, what pages are popular, etc... And through that, refine your google adwords. Not just letting them "sit there".

What I find frustrating though, is the wait time to be accepted into google adsense. They say " one, to two working days", while it usually took more than a week in my case. Makes you think your request got lost somewhere...

However, as to the OP, I'm really curious as to how much people actually earn per month. I'm not asking what the average is, I'm asking what people actually earn and on what site...?

My favorite peice of free software would probably be AIM because I basically use it everyday to communicate to friends from across the world as well as friends in general. Its like the perfect communication tool that allows you to do productive things in a technical field that requires the use of a computer. AIM has evolved as a program over the years that it now offer many interesting things that allows two people to futher dive into the networking enviroment. For example, I believe that they created cool games that you can connect with the other to play, I remember the good old days of AIM when smileys was a very entertaining way to express one self over the internet. Now aim has elaborated that and created interesting splash effect smileys.
Other free programs that I often find myself frequently using are winamp, which is my primary tool for listening to music. There is not a day where I dont have a playlist up and running throughout a long day of work. Music is the perfect energy drink. Without these programs I feel naked and disoriented throughout the day.

FIREFOX.

I love FireFox. It's actually changed my surfing habits, my computer habits, study methods, etc... It's not just the program, but the open-source mindset and the community around it that benefit to it to make it better. I'm talking about themes, extensions, greasemonkey scripts, etc...

Another great piece of "free software" is Wordpress. I always used Nucleus for blogging, so I was a little impartial and skeptic about Wordpress, but I gave it a spin anyways. What's so great about Wordpress is the same thing I like about FireFox, the open-source, sharing community, themes, plug-ins... that make Wordpress able to become a traffic magnet to be reckoned with.

Other than that, I use Ccleaner on a near daily basis and it's kept my laptop running smooth and problem free for the past year.

That is a very good comment by Logan Deathbringer. There is a phrase, something like necessity is the mother of all invention. Something like that. Let's us just hope that the world superpower realizes the point that oil is running out while consumption is ever growing thus the need to change is NOW.... I don't wanna see a world war becoz there is not enough oil to go around....

That'd be a funny sight for a war, because the backbone of an army on a warpath, are it's resources.Without oil, there'd be no war. Perhaps we'd digress to sticks and stones, hehe.

Lack of fresh water? Sorry but that is a load of bull. Fresh water can be easily 'made' from any type of water.
Water isn't the only place where hydrogen can be found. It occurs in many places, and an abundance of it is in space.

'Water cars' have been advertised for well over two years and the concept is extremely old (decades).

The problem we really face, which most scientists won't talk about, is the corruption of governments. Oil based products bring in billions of USD to hundreds of countries. Especially in petrol prices. Now, if the government change it to hydrogen based, their profits would hit the floor. No more economic booms based on oil prices.

Until the governments of the world get their fingers out of their asses, we're stuck in this hell whole.

The human race is set to implode, and only we can stop it.

Most of Europe is dependent of Russia when it comes to oil. So, if a European country, organization or whatnot would find the means to create an efficient, water powered car, who'd care about Russia, or the United Arabian Emigrates or whichever-oil-supplying country?
I do agree that governments should get their fingers out of their asses, but I don't like people shouting at the top of their lungs that governments are to blame for everything. A lot of Belgian farmers-from what I know-are using biofuel (gases created from chemical reactions of certain grown crops), but on a small scale because the production method is simply too expensive, same with solar panels...

The type of energy source that would be the most revolutionary is one where the output > input. (Dune, anyone?) So water is probably fit for this, after all, we live on a blue planet. There are multiple ways to create energy from water, not just from the dynamics of water (water+turbine=power), but merely from the temperature differences in the ocean.
In my humble opinion, it's not just the governments that are holding back on the development, but companies that are making this development so damn expensive. The methods and research are out there, the money ain't.

if you wanna know the reaction between mentos and diet coke all you would have to do is search on google video or youtube Mythbusters and pick the diet coke and mentos episode they did this experiment and they thought it is quite cool and they also did some other experiments with bubbles and stuff.

Yeah, the Mythbusters got it narrowed down pretty darn well. They even established a world record by creating the largest mentos-and-coke-induced-fountain ever. It was a combination of both certain ingredients in diet coke and mentos. They simply extracted most of the ingredients from a diet coke, and put them in separate bottles,pulling the old "Sherlock Holmes test of elimination". They concluded that a few ingredients were the cause of the massive reaction, but I can't say for sure which ones. But as mentioned before, it's also because of nucleation. When zoomed into, a mentos has the surface of a golf ball, with little craters in it. A chain reaction from millions of these craters is triggered when cast into coke, causing the ray of water to burst from the bottle.
It does take a certain brand, and the authentic mentos though, and a single mentos can be sufficient. The Mythbusters enhanced the effect by adding an extension on the bottle that would narrow the ray, thus increasing power, causing the coke to actually burst up for quite a height. (it blew over their workshop)

Simple and effective! Note there is no space between java and script.

BTW i found an almost EXACT thread at https://www.sythe.org/?

plagiarism?

Doesn't work for me though. In firefox it just takes me to the google page for search results. Probably a good thing, right? I didn't bother to test it in Iexplorer, though.

Yes, m^e's articles are quite informative on his website. It has helped me generate more revenue on my website and he also offers a great deal of other very useful information I have studied. I think the thing that I most need to implement from his website is to add content. I mean he has added a lot of content. As a result, he is probably getting a lot more search engine hits and retaining many more visitors for a longer periods of time than I do! This difference directly relates to the amount of ads displayed and click which in turn directly relates to the amount of revenue he is generating.
As for the ad from "AuctionAds", you should contact m^e about that. My guess is that it was served by Google AdSense since his article discusses how advertisers "bid" on ad placement. Google sometimes gets a little confused about what the reader is actually interested in.

Just be sure that you track each of your ad placements on your website using channels. When you first start, you will need to adjust what kind of ads work in what positions on your website. For example, sometimes an Ad Unit will not work as well as a Link Unit near a menu or vice versa. Overly large ads might get ignored by the reader because they are obviously ads whereas a smaller ad could be seen as an information link and clicked on! Some pages on your website may benefit from a different approach to the use of ads. For example, I recently increased the amount of space I use for ads in my downloads section. Since most visitors in this section are just there for the free downloads, I have to rely on total ad impressions to generate revenue from this section of the website. I have also noticed an increase in the number of clicks I get a along with the number of impressions I receive. Because I set up a channel just for this section, I can see that the increase is directly related to the changes.

Other than that, read through the AdSense article here and do a little trial and error! It won't take long until you figure out how to make some money with your website.

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Great article by m^e! I love the fact that this community is not only built on providing top nothc quality hosting, but offers rich content on the side. I'm seriously considering placing adsense on my site. I've read dozens of articles and reports on how to strategically place them but none of them cover what m^e revealed.

Awesome!

Personally I don't really like the idea of hands free cellphones unless it is used in a car, because you would kind of look weird if you were talking to somebody on the phone, and you were out in public, it would look like you were talking to your self. I had a friend of mine who had a bluetooth ear phone headset that was connect to his phone and his mp3 player, and he got a call on the bus, and everybody thought he was talking to nobody.. lol

I remember the first years the cell phone entered the commercial consumer's market. Only rich and/or snobby people had cell phones (big ugly huge ones the size of a lunchbox too xD). A phone ringing in public, and someone picking it up and talking to it was weird for a little while too.
Now look at this situation. Even my 10yr old nephew has a cell phone. I had one since I was 16. It'll eventually evolve into society.

I have compiled a fairly good list of free directories to start promoting your new sites.. And a few paid directories also that will give your site a fair weight in search engines. heres the list:

 

Free submission directory lists:

 

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http://www.paiddirectory.org/

 

FREE ARTICLE DIRECTORIES:

 

http://www.articlestunner.com/

http://www.submityourarticlesnow.com/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

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http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://www.articlestunner.com/

 

Some Quality Paid Directories:

 

http://www.kojakdirectory.com/ pr6

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http://www.generaldirectory.org/ PR5

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http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ PR6

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I also added this list in my page http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ so if you want your link directory to be added also. Just send me a PM here or email me at helpcenter66@gmail.com . i will reply to you immediately and add your website there..

 

Or you can just reply to this thread and post your directories..

I don't see ezine is the article link directory? Any reason why? From what I've understood so far, it's an industry standard for article writers, ghost writers, etc...

I'm going with firefox.
Though I am dissapointed with it's memory consumption and load times.

Problem with this is that Iexplorer is kind of preloaded in the memory whereas Firefox needs to be loaded from scratch, though OS like xp should eventually "learn" to prioritize.

Or so I was told. I agree that firing up firefox might take a bit, but after that, nothing to complain about. I usually take newgrounds.com as an example to people to show the potential of firefox over Iexplorer.
I usually first install the adblock plus extension along with the filterset. Throw in fasterfox and you got yourself a turbo'd up browser.

When you load up newgrounds in iexplorer 6 or 7, it'll be slow and when it's finally loaded, it's littered with ads.
As opposed to Firefox, which loads a lot faster and when it's done loading, it's free of annoyances.

It'll take a lot for me to convert to another browser. Simply because I support firefox for breaking through the boundaries here.

I have to say I use two popular FTP programs. smartFTP and Filezilla. Filezilla is nice, lightweight, easy to use and has a great GUI. But I often experience time-outs with uploads that has a folder with lots of files in it. Even if they're small or large. I used to think it was due to my FTP account not liking being spammed with small uploads. I then got my hands on filezilla and use it for such tasks. I usually run both programs. SmartFTP to chmod and change around/edit files, and filezilla to upload hardcore. Another feature of filezilla that I really like is that I can run multiple instances and upload two things at the same time. Almost never times out on me, and even IF it does, it usually instantly reconnects and picks up from where it left off.

I personally don't like rap. I like rock way better. But most of the music I listen to are indie.

This is probably a somewhat biased question to ask here. I don't see a lot of rap-music loving people on sites like these, concerning about webhosting and such. I'm not trying to make a general conclusion here, but there's no arguing that most of us listen to rock, metal, industrial, etc...
Because I personally kinda, sorta, loathe rap. Especially the ideals that some types of rap stand for. Calling women hoes, starting and ending every chorus with the sound of a 9 millimeter, talking about streetlife and "balling"... Bah.
Not my thing at all.

Thank you very much for those votes guys!

And thanks to all guys for your valuable comments and suggestions!

Looking forward for the results!

Luv,

Niru

Uh oh. I think I broke the tie going on here, hehe. I like Niru's design best, because I'm a sucker for vector'ish designs. I can't really help it. I also like how he broke out of the classic pattern of the same light-blue colors.

Team destiny's design would've done much better in the poll here, if the banner wasn't in a lower resolution. Idunno what went wrong here, but it looks like it was enlarged from a smaller resolution. Too bad!

 

Good job, all of you!

The size of memory card that you use in your phone depends on what your doing. If you have a phone that takes great pictures, you can take heaps of pictures. Also, if you like to listen to music - store some music on there also (with your pictures too!)
Personally, I think this is good! i use a SD card fro my PDA (Palm Tungsten E2) and i run lots from there! I have pictures, some music, files, documents, programs - the list goes on. But what im saying is that I need a fair bit of space on the memory card to save everything that I need. Though i cant say i have used more then 2GB of space (thats the size of my card).

An 8GB card would be good for professional photographers that use digital cameras! If they are shooting large amounts of pictures, with high resolution - they are going to want the space.

Still, for the home user - I think the 8gb is just too much
-jimmy

Weren't there already hard disks being developed the size of a post stamp of 4 - 8 gigs?

Although, I'm curious as to what's better. A flash-type memory or a HD? Besides functionality in transportation, what other benefits do flashcards have to offer?

I won't complain about larger file capacity. Eventually, if not already, a gigabyte will become peanuts on the subject of file space. Just like a megabyte was huge a decade ago, and is pretty much negligible today. If my phone would be able to take decent pictures, play mp3's and act as a USB-stick, then that would be awesome, though I wouldn't be as stupid to store important files on them permanently.

If there was life, would it be carbon-based like we are? Cos ammonia can be made from basic elements, and carbon is another.

For as much as I know, doesn't life require a single, most important factor:

"Water"?

 

Personally, I wouldn't even want something like us humans, heh.

One of my biggest dreams, but biggest fears. Of course everybody expects a peaceful meeting and exchange of information, and that may be true if we initiate first contact remotely via some kind of long range medium (the common knowledge will evolve slowly). Our history shown however, how clashes of civilisations with different knowledge and strength levels occurred: blood and violence. Personally, I believe that life as we see it here on Earth is pretty unique (as evolution, by definition, is an accidental process), and we cannot expect something even remotely similar in other parts of the universe. Actually, with the size and complexity of our universe we cannot really expect anything, but I still think we should be ready for the worst. If things even similar to what we know from movies like Predator or Alien existed our current defences would be far from adequate. We shouldn't fall into paranoia, but I don't why people assume that any other civilisation would be eager to share their knowledge with a potential enemy, instead of just wiping it from the face of their own homeworld.

Perhaps, just maybe, there might be the slight, off chance that, all humanity would finally realize they're not alone in this big universe. The previous statement sounds logical, but I mean this in a different way. If every nation would finally stop seeing themselves as European, Asian, American, etc... but as human, wouldn't that solve a lot of problems?

Our ego might be our biggest problem. I have no problem with an American, at all, and I pump battery acid through my veins when someone throws the American "fat, loud and obnoxious" stereotype at me. But I'll get all up in arms when I hear an American say the slightest disapproving thing about Europeans. Up 'till now, it's always been an "US" and THEM" situation on our own little sandbox of a planet. If the scenario changes into and US and THEM on a universal scale, what would the consequences be?

 

What would happen to religion, since many religions are centered around the creation of this planet, and this planet alone, by a superior being. What would happen to our languages? What would happen to the feeling that Man feels divided on it's own planet when he discovers that "Life" extends further than his own little sandbox?

 

I like to think positively, that we'd finally unite. That we'd change our angle on the US and THEM situation. This also makes me understand the people out there that "want to believe". Perhaps their seeing that "Man" needs this little confrontation.

Well, at school, we are apparently required to do it. I believe a while ago there was a law in Colorado that made everyone say it unless they had a note from their parents saying that their religion didn't allow it. The problem here is that what if your parents' beliefs and your beliefs aren't the same? What if you didn't wish to say the Pledge of Allegiance while your parents wanted you to do so? Then it's not freedom of speech; it's your parents deciding what you should say.

 

The system is not totally fair, but then again, no system can be totally fair.

Well, I think it depends. As a little kid, I had just immigrated to the U.S. and so didn't really know English. So when I was first made to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, I just copied what everyone else did. But I couldn't have been brainwashed because I didn't have any idea what they were trying to make me say. By the time I actually understood what the words meant, I was older and ready to form opinions on my own. And even then, the Pledge of Allegiance was just a mindless repetitive trite to me--I didn't believe in god, but saying the pledge of allegiance for years on end didn't convince me to believe god either.

 

Well, of course. But the problem is, without knowing, it's not very likely you'll ever saying stuff like "I'm being brainwashed." Without having any outside opinions on your education, you'll think that your education was perfectly fine. For instance, let's say there's a dictator who takes control of your country and tells everyone that freedom of speech undermines the power of each individual.

 

While you are stuck inside that education system, you'll believe every word that's being said. However, if you went around deciding that you were "being brainwashed" even before you were in the system, it's more likely you'll actually be suspicious about the system afterward. Even if it's an ignorant statement of "being brainwashed", I still feel that one ignorant statement is like a net--it catches your mistakes later.

Well, I'd say it's still possible, even without computer involvement. Conspiracies are supposed to be hidden, hence the reason we don't know about them. By the time they're revealed, it's usually too late. For instance, that Enron conspiracy--it was hidden for quite a while. For a long time, the U.S. thought that Enron was a great company and was doing quite nicely. No one had any idea of the internal problems the company was facing--no one until it was too late. And sure, there was human involvement, but it still went on. It wasn't a total conspiracy like where everyone worked together immaculately, but the end results were still disastrous.

 

Well, that's definitely true. I mean, the government explicitly makes the statement that certain information must be hidden. If you work for certain government posts, you aren't allowed to leave the country for a time period of several years until they believe that whatever knowledge you held while at the post is too old to be useful. All governments do this; it's for their own protection.

I'm surprised this thread is still alive, hehehe. Makes me happy to know people can discuss this on an intelligent and peaceful manner. Before going zOMG MIB I C THEM EVERYDAY. Or even worse, JEWS DID 9/11 DONT U SEE? (those were ridiculous projections, I have nothing against jews ^^)

I agree with Arbitrary that, even though you might be forced to recite something like the pledge of allegiance, most people might have no clue of what they're saying.

 

On another side of this story, as for hidden governments and involvement of the military, I asked a few people, one of which I'm pretty good friends with, what they think about it. They're both in the USAF (United States Air Force). I asked them if they were, at any time in their career (they're still quite young though), given information or a task or whichever, that was top-secret. Something they were not at all allowed to talk about.

 

Expecting wild cowboy stories, of course ^^

They replied that, yes. It happens. In fact, it can be standard procedure. Some of them pointed me to old blog entries of their time in Iraq/Afghanistan, where they were not allowed to share their next destination, etc etc. What they were trying to convey that some of these top-secret high-security things, were just strategic information and that it usually would just be boring as hell.

 

Their replies, which I found very interesting:

Dude 1:

there's a big difference between "secrets" and "an elaborate secret power structure that exists within or behind all known governments and corporations and steers world events for its own benefit"

 

it was classified secret when i was in the desert and a dude got killed by a rocket attack, to prevent an immediate "battle damage assessment" by the enemy who launched it. the story was on CNN and MSN.com a day or two later. our technology and the placement of our intel agents can be top secret or higher. of course we don't tell anyone about these things.

 

the Illuminati, however? billionaires meeting in candlelit amphitheaters to give the president orders? ***** please... again i repeat, it is not necessary for people to go to such great (and silly) lengths. existing, commonly known mechanisms are sufficient.

 

the only reason my first classified briefing is even memorable is that i was shocked by how mundane and UN-memorable it was. honest-to-goddess truth. some of the material in it is now public domain.

Dude 2, in responde to Dude 1

He's right, due to the nature of my job I am exposed to classified information on a regular basis. Most of it is stuff that you wouldn't be interested in, or even think would be classified.

 

It isn't as mysterious or cool as you think.

(can't link, because it's a private forum, that only invited members can read)

long, structured post, sorry for cutting it up

Thanks for the links!

 

I enjoyed reading your post. And I'm totally not denying whether it's illegal or not. But you can't be the moderator of a discussion and cutting down the topic to the argument you feel that is valid. This is seriously MUCH bigger than laws. This is a large corporate entity that can bend large parts of the Internet.

 

So all I'm trying to bring into view, is the different angle that could be taken on this. My post was certainly not entirely subjective as more and more companies, copyright owners, etc are using sites like youtube instead of pulling a lawsuit on them. Just like major companies or upcoming movies launch podcasts, "behind-the-scenes", trailers and so on. These generate traffic and any Internet Marketer knows that pointed traffic = money. 24, Lost, Heroes, Prison Break does this. Upcoming movies like Diary of the dead, 28 weeks later, Spiderman 3 did this/are doing this. So when they start talking about lawsuits on youtube, I can't help but frown and find it a little hypocrite.

 

I'm not going to assume things for everyone else, but I know that me and my friends usually order a batch of DVD boxes together of a particular series or anime when we watched it online.

Yeah I heard about it as well (couple a weeks ago), but of course it's all in theory and pretty hard to determine if it is truly a hospitable planet in our universe. Of course the first thing to catch my eye was the fact this planet is a lot clser to a star then our sun is to us. Yeah the red dwarf is cooler then our own sun, but that also means that star has a shortly life span. Which means that it could go could super nova or a black hole and the planet would begin it's destruction, not only that they couldn't give a reliable read out on the surface temperature so who knows what it's seasons are like. Then of course the 13 day rotation as well, I don't think a person could handle the fact they would be a few thousand years old by the time they turn 18 .
But thats all trivial because this planet is 20.5 light years away or roughly 200 trillion miles, so getting there would be impossible as it would take maybe 50-100 generations to get to that planet based on our current space flight technology. Hopefully as times goes by we can find more inforamtion on this planet and see what it tells us.

Still, it's a red dwarf, but if I'm not mistaken, by the time the star completely dies out will still take thousands of years, as well as the fact that if the star dies out before it starts disintegrating, the planet will be robbed of all life looooooong before it turns into a supernova.

I guess I'm too excited about this to think pessimistic ^^