Jared

On that we can agree. Space may be limited, but there sure is an awful lot out there!

Haha... this is where physicists had to redefine the word infinite because it didn't accurately describe the universe. As it says above, space *does* continue forever. However, if it were infinite, we could theoretical jam as many galaxies in the universe as we wanted and there would still be room to spare. So we'd add another, and there would still be room. So we'd add another, and there'd still be room. Et cetera. So the fact here is that we cannot do that. Space has a definite size, albeit expanding constantly. In fact, the very notion that space is expanding says that it has a border... if it didn't how could it get any bigger?

Space is not infinite. It just continues forever. Hard to grasp, I know. We see the universe as having three dimensions, but we already know -- that is to say we have strong experimental evidence -- that there are more than three. So us three-dimensional beings living in this universe are a lot like a short line (1D) living on the circumfrence of a circle (2D). As far as the short line is concerned, is lives in a one-dimensional world that goes on forever, because it can keep running and running and running around the circle and never hit the end. Since it only has one dimension, it cannot tell that there is an empty centre to this circle, only that there is a line -- albeit curved... the line can't tell that -- that goes on forever. However, as a 3D observer, we can see that the circle's circumfrence is clearly not infinite. It has a set amount of length, namely 2*pi*r. Yet, it continues forever because a short line running around it will never hit a wall. Our universe is much like that because we can continue running in what we perceive as a straight line forever, and we will eventually come back to the exact point we started. So, while there is no "boundary" to space, it does have a finite amount of contents. It just happens to be a lot of contents, haha. I think the safest and easiest way -- with slightly more advanced technology than what we have now -- would be with a super-mega-ultra telescope. That way we could look at planets thousands of lightyears away and see what was happening on those planets thousands of years ago. It's not possible with today's telescopes to see that far, but we might get there eventually, you never know.

Yeah I think my feelings at the moment -- sometimes I switch back and forth day to day -- are that it doesn't really matter what happens after life. I'm pretty sure nothing happens, but it's still pretty irrelevant. We might as well just have fun well we're here since we were fortunate enough to have a conscious mind that enables us to feel and do as we please. We could be sad when something happens, or we could just decide to let it go, get on with precious life, and have fun while we're here. Then, if there does happen to be an afterlife, we can just reminisce about how much fun we had while it lasted on earth!!

Yes haha... it seems we are now speculating since we have no experimental evidence to back up that claim. But then if we're talking theoretical physics, it is possible that an object in the fourth dimension could "pass through" our plane of existence in three dimensions and then disappear again. So we could be "dragged off" into the fourth dimension and taken to heaven or hell. However, I also wish to add that I do not believe in any afterlife. I am one of the five people that voted no. I want to see more people vote!

I don't personally know the answer, but I could theorize that all websites start in pretty much one of two ways--either they have inspiration to create something then learn how to do it, or they know how to do it and are just playing with it to cry and create something.I would say that Facebook was started by the former. The guy that created it probably just wanted a network that could connect him with all his buddies in his classes at school. In which case, his website started the same way that most do. Now the fact that it took off as well as it did was probably dumb luck. I mean, an unimaginable number (at least for me haha) were already using social networking websites, but they were becoming cluttered since anyone could join, including bots, unfortunately.So now people were suddenly liking Facebook better because there were no bots--only students. So naturally students wanted to be a part of it!It wasn't that the site was particularily magical, it just happened to be everything the world was looking for at that time.So yes, if you can see what the world needs right now, and put it into a website, yours will be popular soon enough too! I'm not saying anything other than you really just need to know what a community needs to have popularity.- Jared

Yes you may find at some point through editing that the amount of rewards may change. So it is always wise to have as much error checking in your script as possible: $rewards_num = 3;$reward = rand (1, $rewards_num); // for now, there are 3 options.switch ($reward) { case 1: helmet (); break; case 2: sword (); break; case 3: helmet (); break; default: wrong_reward (); break; // this would be a function containing a returned value from the rand () that is invalid} And as the previous poster mentioned, check out that link for more info on the switch.

I am curious... Is there a way to get the height and width of the viewing area as opposed to the entire screen? Let's say for example that I have a website that will direct users to different HTML pages depending on their resolution. But it still will not display properly if a user uses only half a screen for their browser.I would just like to get the width from the inside of the border on the left to the scroll bars on the right and the height from the bottom of the toolbars to the top of the status bar. Can this be done?- Jared

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It was a kick in the pants for me. I expected the application process to take a while, so I applied for the lower-level hosting once I had the required amount of credits and I kept building up to about 50 or 55. I did this so that once my application was accepted--if it was accepted--I could start using it right away and apply for the second-level hosting at the same time. However, as soon as my application was accepted my credits all disappeared! Lost around 50 credits. :(And my domain still doesn't work properly! The nameservers are right, and have been for longer than the TTL, so Xisto is just taking a while to apply the settings, I guess...- Jared

Just did a Google search and came up with this. Near they end they seem to figure something out, but not sure if it's what you're looking for! http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - Jared

Personally I'm a fan of moving to VBScript for added realism of the message box! <script type="text/vbscript">Dim ansans = MsgBox ("Error 2214 - Your computer has been infected with a trojan horse virus.", 16 + 4096, "Error 2214")</script> This unfortunately doesn't work in Firefox. It's probably an IE thing.

I don't really even want to see the script... nor do I want to see that you knot HTML or JavaScript... what I want to see is someone who will actually go to your website and enter their social security number! Is this some sort of con to try to get ours? Make us believe it works then get us to test it out? Don't worry, I'm just a paranoid theorist. - Jared

I've thought about stripslashes (), but I don't think it's helpful in this case... stripping the slashes out of 's Stuff is still 's Stuff. And before my script is even processed all the $_FILES data is already set. So unfortunately it wouldn't be possible to strip the slashes out before the data is stored in the array. And also there is no set_magic_quotes_gpc () function to get rid of the magic quotes for the $_FILES array. I am truly clueless.

Another cool thing I like about the number 9 is this:1/9 = 0.1111111111...Now we can say that 1/9 + 1/9 = 2 * 1/9 (nobody disputes this). So to solve for 2/9, we can multiply the above by 2:1/9 * 2 = 0.1111.. * 2 = 0.22222...So likewise, we can solve for 3/9, 4/9, etc.The tricky thing is when we get up to 9/9. This is obviously 1. 9 divided by 9 is 1. 9 * 1 = 9. However, we can also express it as 9 * 1/9. Which is:9 * 1/9 = 9 * 0.111111... = 0.9999999...So then 1 = 0.9999999999...?!?!?!?!INTENSE!An infinite series of 9's is the same as 1! What implications does this have for mathematics?

It recently came upon me that I was designing a website that used file uploads. Of course, PHP was my first choice to solve the problem. I'm pro-PHP and anti-ASP. Perl is somewhere in the middle. But anyway!I have magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_gpc both on and it seems to be causing some problems with file uploads.If a user uploads a file called "Jared's Stuff.txt" (that was one of my tests) then magic_quotes insert a backslash before the apostrophe and $_FILES['file']['name'] becomes "'s Stuff.txt" since the backslash is interpreted as part of the path.Is there any way I can fix this without disabling magic_quotes_gpc?Thanks,Jared

I think the record is even faster than that.. closer to 7 or 8 seconds.. and yes, when they attempt a record with it, they are allowed 60 seconds--I'm unsure of that time--to look the cube over and decide what they want to do. Then as soon as they move their first piece the timer starts.

Oh no, this is intense! Does this mean that we're on our way to developing "apparent telekinesis?!" We can start to understand how our minds work to the point where we can turn our mental patterns into physical actions by way of energy and electricity?Of course, this has been a goal of humans for as long as anyone can remember--at least the sci-fi fans--but the fact that we're already getting there is blowing my mind.Could you please tell me more about this software?- Jared

You know, that's probably true... But placing a phony 911 call is no laughing matter. And I think if they made the rules a little more strict when applying to text messaging, there may be fewer phony texts. But maybe I'm just putting too much faith in people, haha.

This method has actually got quite a simple proof. Just consider that abcdef is a 6 digit number with a being the first, b being the second, c being the third, etc. What happens when we multiply it by 11 is: abcdef * 11= abcdef * 10 + abcdef * 1= abcdef0 + abcdefSo abcdef0 is a 7-digit number with 0 being the final digit.Similarily, we can add a 0 in front of the other number since 0's in front of a number mean nothing--they are just placeholders.So the product becomes: abcdef0+ 0abcdef---------This naturally can be translated as:(a+0)(a+b)(b+c)(c+d)(d+e)(e+f)(f+0) = a(a+(b+c)(c+d)(d+e)(e+f)f And we naturally see in the addition part of the multiplication problem that when we add e to f, we would naturally carry the 1 to join d + e. So it makes perfect sense! - Jared

Yeah there are probably thousands of people who can do it... I can do it ... But the people who do it really really fast are fewer and farther between. I'm not a speed solver--it takes me about 90 seconds--but the number of people who do it that fast are more than you would think... I alone know also at least 4 of my friends can also solve it in about the same time as me. It's what I do when I'm supposed to be studying. Well, that, or I'm posting on these forums haha.

I found that out the hard way, haha... I was microwaving liquid once and was disappointed when it wasn't heating up. It was in a bottle with a neck on it and it was a smaller bottle and had been in there for about 8 minutes already. It was about to stop so I went to press the button again and as soon as I touched the microwave BOOM the bottle exploded, sending the door flying open and splashing boiling liquid everywhere. It was a nasty sight, let me tell you. I continue to use the microwave to boil, but I always make sure to shake the thing every so often and walk heavy-footed in the kitchen. Haha! - Jared

I think it would come in handy though if you were physically unable to speak... Say perhaps that you were working on a farm alone and you snagged a piece of machinery the wrong way in the neck and you were unable to speak, but still able to function... If you could then text 911 with your location that would be helpful... And like someone else mentioned already, 911 texts could be recognized by the network and be given top priority!

Definitely a solid topic.I am 99% inclined to think that aliens do exist, since we are a single planet in a single solar system in a single galaxy in a single galaxy cluster in the universe, and there are millions of clusters, many galaxies in each, many solar systems in each, and several planets in each solar system. I think that it's next to impossible when we have billions (of billions?) of planets in the universe that we are the only one to have intelligent life.Granted, what rockarolla said is true. We may never meet these other lifeforms, because the travel between planets would be next to impossible. Traveling great distances even at the speed of light would not even get us there before we died.Wormholes may be the answer to that problem, but even then any wormholes that scientists have experimented with have been completely unstable and its said that these wormholes only exist for millionths of a second and then collapse in on themselves. What would happen if we were in the wormhole when it collapsed? Most likely instant death.So yes, I think there is other life out there, but I don't think we'll ever meet them, nor will they ever meet us!- Jared

I couldn't agree more! I understand that they want a level of professionalism on these boards. I wouldn't try to start a revolution against that. But I know exactly what you mean when you say that language is deeper than the syntax and grammar that we use. A perfect example is Neil Armstrong's extremely inspirational quote: In fact, that quote makes use of extremely bad grammar! "To boldly go" is a split infinitive, so instead it should be "To go boldly." And the sentence also ends with the preposition "before," which is not allowed according to the grammar police. So in fact, the whole quote should be: Not quite the same ring, eh? I know this example is taking things a little extreme, but it does bother me when you write an essay and they circle a preposition at the end of a sentence and take ten percent away from you when Neil Armstrong's moving quote has that exact same format. IMHO, anyway. - Jared