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welcome to the forums, to the site, and to our little circle of friends! You have no idea how pleased I am that someone as old as you (don' t take it badly, i really can word it any nicer ;P) uses a computer and actually codes! My grandparents (70-80y/o) still have problems with my old iMac I gave them 3 years ago. They're afraid to close browser windows or applications, fearing they will never come back.. like a letter you throw away. Kinda funny to watch, not fun trying to tell them how to open Word over the phone, long distance, for 4 hours while explaining terminology. "Yea, that little folder on the screen, that's a folder. if you doubleclick it, you can open it. no, doubleclick. meaning click twice. no, faster. you need to double click. tap it twice fast. what do you mean it disappeared?" LOL!I really love your site. It's quaint. Something that most sites are lacking today. reminds me of visiting grandma on holidays. I also enjoyed reading the "born before 1945" page. Got me laughing.

*Futurama voice* Welcome Phil, to the wooooorrrlld of tomorrrrrrooow! This is certainly a great forum. I recently left anandtech.com because they just became one giant spam fest. But here, everyone is nice, posting only what is important and spamming in the correct subforums Also, it's so easy to get credits. Just tonight, not two hours ago, I had 1.66 days hosting credit, and now I'm up to 15 with only a couple posts! Make yours descriptive and helpful and you'll only need to refuel your credits every other week! Yea I know, the elementary school in my town is teaching the little 8 year olds HTML coding for personal websites and blogs. Makes me sad. I remember playing 2D oregon trail on the old apples with a bluescreen background. Hunting was hillarious though. Spinning around in a circle shooting pacmans, lol

AMD for sure. They can't be beat for gaming and my Opteron overclocks like made! I have essentially an FX-60 for only $240 that runs at 60C load on stock cooling. You just can't beat that! CAN'T!

Well, if you teach intelligent design, you have to teach EVERY intelligent design theory. Meaning hindu, buddist, muslim, chirstian, pagan, etc. etc. Even the 66 cult will probally get in on the action of equal treatment. in my personal opinion, I'd REALLY liek to see intelligent design stay the hell away from our kids. Remember that huge debate over the ten commandments on courthouses? so why the hell are people allowing religion to be taught in schools? it's complete and utter horsesh1t!How many future biologists will be coming out of Kansas in the next 5-12 years? Doctors? Archaeologists? NONE! Because no employer will want to hear "oh, yea, that happens because god wanted it to do that" and no hospital will want to hear "if god wants him to live, then they'll live. i won't operate" and no dig team wants to hear "god put that fossil there. it never lived, god just carved it and put it there because he could."The whole idea of teaching intelligent design in schools makes me sick! Private christian schools? sure, let them so whatever they want to screw up their kids. But leave mine alone!

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I design webpages and am learning C and Java in college. So when I applied for my tax rebates, I was able to write off my brand new system ($2000+) because it was for business and school. Thank you HPBlock

LMAO! That's great! Did you find that somewhere or did you make it yourself? If the latter, congradulations! You made a keeper!

thank you Goofy. It kinda came to me while IMing one day. I think the "stinky seagul landing next to me" came up somehow and I made a random poem. I think that's how most great poems and songs start.

No, by maps I mean like the Game of the Year edition for morrowind where you have the Imperial City (I forgot the name already! noooo) and battle alexmathia. That wasn't in the orgional "map." I know it's not going to be MP, but don't wish it were? at least an MP option? Would certainly give WoW a run for it's money, especially if the online play was free :(

I have a bottom->top marque using simple HTML which displays recent news headlines on my news page. It is written as follows: 1 is the slowest I can get it, but it still runs pretty fast. just fast enough so that you rush to read a short sentence (it's only 75px high in my page). Any way to slow it more? Tried giving it a decimal, but it only reads ints. Also, I would like to pause this marquee when someone pressed a "pause" button outside the marquee. Then start it again once they repress it. Any way to pass this to a HTML marque or will I need to get a javascript scroller? recommend any? link?

probally cheaper hre because the major dveloprs are N. American based. The Final Fantasy and other obviously-created-in-japan games are produced elsewhere, but I think Infinity, EA, Blizzard, Bethesda, etc are all American (coect me i I'm wrong). So the xport cost would be that much more. Or... you coul jut buy online from an Amrican retailer and pay $5 for Royal Air (w/e english airfreight is called).Still though, I'm the kind of guy who cringes at the sight of jaggies on a diagonal line. I need my AA up to at least 4 and my resolution to at least 1280x1024. Just a pet peeve when I have to play a game at Diablo II resolution or with Doom II jaggies. SO every couple months, I'm updating my computr with the latest and greatest. I'm finally done with my base hardware (dual raptors in raid0 for games, 2x 300gig for storage from linux, 80gig for universally-readable muic, 160gig for linux. Opteron 148 OCed to 2.9ghz and dual dual-layer dvd burners). Now I can focus on the video card and RAM exlusively. Still is a btch to upgrade just to play decent game. I may just plurge next month on a BFG 7800GTX 512 @ 650x1750 speeds.

well, if you upgrade the HDDs to a terabyte, up the ram to 5 gigs pc-3200 and add a 30" monitor, OF COURSE IT"S GOING TO BE EXPENSIVE! base price, for those who are being detered by the OP's overpricing, of the powerma is only around $2,000 and 3,000 for dual core and quad core, repsctively

apples have always had a premium price. it's the effect of having the best in technology and design. plus, you're not going to get shody plastic components like dell or HP laptops. With all the design innovations and new technolgy, I'm actually suprised the price didn't increase over the old powerbooks. Either way, i'm waiting for the 12" Macbook Pro to arrive. If the trend continues, you'd be getting a speedy little laptop for only $1400, or $1200 on the education discount. I REALLY hope apple incorporated gigabit ethernet and at least a 1.67ghz intel CPU into their 12" design. I know the past 12" have sacrificd alot in terms of features. I want my gigabit apple!!

so.....how's everyone doing?ok?that's good, glad to hear it.so, um.....WHEN THE HECK IS ELDER SCROLLS IV: OBLIVION COMING OUT?!*ahem*I heard it was march now. late march...so, whatever happened to DECEMBER 30TH!??!?!?!!I wouldn't mind the extra time if they were adding a mutiplayer or more maps, but no! apprently, they're just tweaking. all fine and good. it's hard to work with new technology (can't wait for radiant AI), but sheesh, it just keeps being pushed back everytime we get within a couple weeks of its "new" release date. *eugh*//end rant

APPLE INTEL CORES OUT Yes, it's true. The new Powerbooks from apple have arrives as of January 10th. And yes, they do sport a new Intel CPU... now that that settles the rumors, here's the BIG news: the new CPUs are DUAL CORE 65nm CHIPS! Supposedly running 4x faster than the lastest and greatest powerbook chips from Motorola, these lappys also sport a radeon X1600 GPU! Here are the specs stright form apple's site: Full Specs This is for the low end 15" (the 17 and 12" have yet to be released with intel cores), which ironically, cost the exact same as the older Powerbooks. The only, ONLY, reason to get the older powerbook now is because now you have to make sure your software will run with the intel chipset. Apple has a handy way of doing it. just look for the "universal" sticker on any software box. This means it's both compatible with intel and powerpc chipsets. I guess you can assume the new software that comes out will be intel/motorola compliant, but later on, only supporting intel. **************** Much like the switch from 9.2 to X, there are some changes people need ot be aware of. 1) software compatibility (intel, motorola, universal)- meaning unless it's universal, one kind of software will not run on the other kind of chipset. So old mac users, check new software, and new mac users, make sure you check your old software or buy the new version (2). 2) name - macbook pro vs. powerbook. So if someone is selling a "powerbook with new intel chipset" on ebay, beware of a scam. you could get a normal 2001 powerbook with a pentium 4 glued to the HDD. Likewise, be aware the old powerbooks are still being sold, so make sure you click on the right one since the price and specs are the exact same (except for chipset and gpu). 3) bugs - as with any major change in hardware, you are sure to experience some kind of bug or flaw. We are all aware of the slow, lagginess of the origional 10.1 release of the OSX debut, but now you are taking a whole new chipset technology, rewritting the OS (now on x86 platform) and releasing it to a public that isn't used to having to debug anything. for christ's sake, they're mac users! they don't know about tweaking or debugging! it was done for them since day 1 of apple! So be apprehensive about being the first on your block to have the new hardware. Maybe wait a month and read reviews and comments from users who jumped the gun before you decide to get this one or revision 2. *************** Some neat little features Power Up With MagSafe The new power adapter with MagSafe connector is designed to magnetically guide your cord into place and disconnect smoothly if someo ne (else) trips over it. Twin Power The Intel Core Duo and a whole new architecture give MacBook Pro up to four times the horsepower of PowerBook G4 MacBook Pro Dual-core Performance 4 times faster than 15-inch PowerBook G4 with 1.67Ghz PowerPC integrated iSight Artfully placed in the MacBook Pro display bezel is an iSight camera. This small camera lets you use iChat AV, iMovie HD, and Photo Booth to make big statements anywhere. So shout it from the rooftops. On location. Backstage. Back home. Show your point of view. Share it with the world. Redesign of Internals At just one inch thin, MacBook Pro defies reason and probably several laws of physics. But each element inside has been carefully considered to condense all the modern mobile amenities into the tightest of quarters. The result? A machine only 5.6 pounds, with built-in iSight, Front Row, and a 67% brighter display. Internet, unplugged AirPort Extreme gives you blazing connectivity speeds up to 54 megabits per second using the 802.11g standard. This turbocharged technology lets you connect to the Internet without wires, additional phone lines, or complicated networking hardware. Use AirPort Extreme to get online wirelessly at hundreds of Starbucks coffee shops or Borders book stores from coast to coast via T-Mobile. 67% Brighter Display MacBook Pro features a much brighter screen than the 15-inch PowerBook G4 so you can enjoy images with greater clarity. Keynote_________|_________3D Spin --------------FOOTNOTES--------------- (1) Apple's Description (2) "Software just works When Mac technology makes something easy, its hardly news. So heres more non-news for MacBook Pro owners: software just works. If you see the Universal logo on a new application, that means it will run on Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers. For most existing applications, you simply do what youve always done: double-click them. Thanks to the Rosetta technology in Mac OS X, they look and feel just like they did before"

From chappell's show: LOL! basically, pull out and blow your load on her. to be frank. AH SKEET SKEET SKEET!!!! Notice from BuffaloHELP: Use QUOTE tags when you copy anything.

Yea, but you have to admit, little johhny at age 8 who dresses in sized meant for 18-year olds, with a big clock around his neck, flashing gang signs and speaking in hizzle-fo-shizzle language is kinda funny. swearing, bad, yes. that's the parent's fault though. I could have swore when I was 8, nothign new to this era than mine, but thanks to my folks, I was curbed. I think the main reason of youth violence is lack of parental effort. Boyz in da Hood was a great movie that emphasized this and I recommend it to anyone who thinks it's the kid's fault they act the way they do.

oh thank god there's finally a petition! something that makes my ubuntu run with my x800xl! I was pumped that ati released a new driver after, what, 8 months but a petiton for continuous support and driver updates! woot! *signing*

Just a note, I know the cost of most things are far less expensive than they were 50 years ago. Such as HDDs, RAM, etc. where the price actually dropped 1000s of percents. anyways... Imagine a time when the newest and best game for the PC came out and it was being reviewed as the best game of all time. Every site and every reviewer gave it 10/10 and better. high praise for everything about it. The graphics were intense, the storyline was awesome, the theme was unqiue... everything about it was awesome and it was "the must game to have this year!" Problem is, it was beyond the hardware available. The only thing that could run it, even at medium settings, was a $3200 upgrade from your current system (which, hypothetically, would be the high end from only 3 months ago). Dual video card, sporting dual core GPUs, a dual core processor running at speeds that would burn down your house without vapochill, HDDs that sound like a ferrari peeling out, and RAM with a PC-6xxx number with so many zeros that they have to use scientific notation! So the only game you ever wanted would cost you the price of the game plus the hardware needed to play it. Sure, you could play the games that your current, and certainly high-end, system could play... but hey, what good is playing the same games that are not considered as obsolete as your hardware? Hell, your friend on his Xbox can play the newest games? why? because the consoles are optimized for games and you, in your infiniate wisdom, figure it's better to have a computer to play games than a console. Probally because you can do more on a PC, but mostly because thumbsticks in FPS games suck the largest c#ck. So instead of buying the newest Xbox for $500, you dropped $1600 on your first computer, then another $2000 for next year's upgrade, and now you're looking at a $3200 upgrade JUST TO PLAY THIS ONE GAME! So you go out and sell your left nut for yet another upgrade. You install all the stuff, half of it doesn't work because the manufacturers are only insterested in getting the best thing out before the nearest competitor, "F*** quality!" they say. "F*** you!" I respond. So a couple RMAs later and a fresh BIOS, driver and overall REVAMP later, you have your brand new, vacuum cleaner-loud system. Vappochill and all, it still roars... not from fans or mechinical parts, but from the superheated cores expanding air in much the same way as lightning. congradualations, you have a f***ing thunderstrom inside your accoustically-sealed case. can you say infinate bass? ba-boom beeyatch! but hey! you got the best system to date! woot for you. So you go out and get the game now, running with your $55 ($5 for tax) to the local WalMart because your system need to run a debug for 24 hours before you can even go online to NEWEGG! Expecting, but of course, for the price to be $50 as are all games when they come out. BUT NO! it's $75 and online shopping later reveils the same! why? because "it's the greatest game of all time!" so you go back home, slice off your left nut thinking "if it's so good, i don't need children. i'll blow the rest of my load when i see this game in action." So you go back, turns out it's up another $5, but hell, you have $50,000 from your balls, so you whip out your wad and act all rich and pay the b*tch at the counter who thinks she's better... yes, working at walmart is better than going to college. but anyways, back to home with your new game in hand. install it, plug it in, "CD KEY IN USE TRY AGAIN LATER!" F*CKING KEYGEN HACKERS! So hours of your own hacking and asking for your friend's key, you finally get it installed and running. 4 hours later, you beat it in veteran mode. you sit, amazed. you sacrificed your furture children, possibly burnt down the house, sustained massive ear damage from the noise of your super-system and destroyed any chance of being though of having a large package (due to the "gun-to-*BLEEP*" ratio) thansk to the amoutn of money you blew on your upgrade... all for a game... that litterally... sucked the balls right out from under you. So there you are, sitting, alone. weaping. having phantom limb sensations from balls that pied to be itched. Just then your friend IM's you. *DING!!!!* form your 60000watt 18.5 stereo you "had to get" from an online review. "hey man! did you get the game? I got it on ebay for $30, then used keygen to get the code. sorry, i gues it was yours when you called last night. m'bad. anyways, did you play it? it was okay, but I can't wait for the sequal to come out next month. glad I got the xbox instead of the PC. damn man, you must've spent and arm and a leg to play that game! anyways, ttyl." ... you casually reach over and type "actually, my balls..." after he signed off. and you sit in loathesome silence. ------- that world would suck to live in huh? it would suck to have a PC in such a world? everyone would be gaming on consoles because noone could afford a PC gamign system. good thing we don't live in that place.... oh wait... WE F*CKING DO!!!!!

Oh I love these kinds of kids! It's absolutely fantastic to see the new trend is to be mentally anguished. I remember when anyone from my generation was depressed, we'd be promptly put on Ritalin or some kind of medication (gotta love the 1990s). But yea, I keep hearing stories of the recent "goth wave" that's been taking over. Just for the record, being goth or emo is not cool. You should be shot for trying to act more like KISS than a normal human being... though... with a tongue like Gene's I'm sure you'd be more popular with the ladies than cutting your tongue into snake-slits as some of you goth freaks do.Apparently, kids think it's cool to be goth. I think most of them are missing the point. Being goth measn you're an outcast and you're so depressed, you'd rather worship satan and wear makeup than even admit to being "unpopular." Because, of course, it's cool to wear makeup and peice parts of your body never meant to feel the touch of steel. But these kids, omg, they're like 12 and 14 and such! But they're gothic and emo! Ever see that story on Fark (and other news sties) about that emo freak who put his suicide note on myspace.com! Talk about asking for attention! But these youngsters are walking around all happy and laughing, like any other kid, but as soon as you ask them about being goth or emo, they switch to "being all depressed, all the time." It's really funny in a way. Them having to act depressed even though they're not. I remember when I was a freshman in HS and there was this classic goth senior. You didn't even want to strike a conversation with him as he's just make you'd depressed. His mental instability fit his look and resulting actions. Totally different that what I hear about now.Funny things to do with "goth" kids nowadays, or anyone who acts depressed:*recent LAN at a friend's house, group of "goths" from HS come over. So whenever they start laughing or having a good time, ask them about being goth and how much life sucks for them. They IMMEDIATELY switch to goth mode and act all down. few minutes later, they're laughing again (LANs are fun), so start asking them about gothicism again. repeat as needed. If you can keep up with the fun times, you can make them eventually say "I'm not gothic, now leave me alone!" it's so fun!*act gothic too. no, not kidding. wear normal clothes you'd normally wear, but act all depressed like them. They'll take offense to it and be like "you can't be gothic! you're not wearing black!" and then respond in depressed mode, "since when do goths care about what they wear?" and they'll be all confused and stuttering because they read the "facts to being a goth" from the local bookstore and they just broke the number1 or 2 or 3 fact. then they'll finally shut up about being "goth" for a couple days... or until people forget about it.*and the winner: SHOW THEM SOME REAL GOTHS. that'll put a scare into them! You can't act like someone without seeing that someone. After two hours in the same room as a goth from the 1980s/1990s, anyone will come out as the freakin' martha stuart of life!

ok, guess I'll need to keep posting away until I can make it to 15. lol. life is all about livin' an' learnin'. yay me!

concerning my recent application for a default credit account, I somehow managed to enter a xxxx.com for the "requested address" instead of xxx.trap17.com. I think I was just fiddling around with the text fields and forgot to go back and change that feild before I hit the submit button. By then, it was too late and my credits reverted to "days" and I can't create a new hosting address. I'm afraid to do the "terminate account" because then I'd have to start over from scratch. Ideas? yes it was my fault, just hoping to remedy this before it's too late. Notice from BuffaloHELP: Topic title changed.

Where do you guys get your design ideas from? I always thought of myself as imaginative, but it seems my creativity comes to a blockage once I try to incorporate such thoughts into working designs.I'm always one at heart for gradiants and simple designs that theme "elegance" and "sleek"the best way to describe what I'm about is the layout of Apple.com's new Mac Pro webpage. Gradient black background, grey divider and strokes, and a feel to it that juxtaposes with the look of the new powerbook.But it seems everytime I come up with an idea, once I do a little research on the layout and design to make sure it is unique (I sell templates and web sets so it needs to be unqiue), i always come across some page with the general design I've been working on.I like to have a wide range of basic templates that I can stem off from. I know most people working on a single (perhaps personal) webpage start with their basic idea and continually upgrade, eventually reaching what they settle on. But I don't have that kind of time to dillydally with what I'm expected to output in the time I quote.So, running out of ideas, I inquire as to where you guys get your inspiration from? Be it nature, something you saw in the workroom, etc. Details would be awesome. thanks in advance

the SP in COD2 was definately n upgrade form the last one. It felt a bit more like brothers in arms but without the annoying (though the point of the BiA series) command feature. I lvoed the normandy map and the consequent retreat. it really made me feel like i was in the battle. I think it's longer this time too. Maps don't seem as short, even though each map session is part of the same campaign within campaign (3 maps in normandy campaign in american campaign). I did feel the tank battle with the british where you drove the crusaders were.... childlike. For the rest fo CoD2 being so realilistic, the almost cartoony feel of the tanks were laughable. The turrent turned at ungodly speeds and you could bounce around the desert and up hills as if it were 20 pounds heavy! I understand the crusaders were light and fast, but bouncing and the tigers and runnign circles around each stationary tiger made me feel like the monitor and the merimack. the turrets should have been slowed ot at least BF2 turrent speeds. just my opinion. overall nicely done.disapointed with MP maps. most of the them are remakes of the old MP makes just with more foilage and different texturing. *sigh*beats out BF2 and Quake 4 so far. have year to play full FEAR

Seagulls in FlightM ChesneyA graceful dive, then graceful flight,birds silhouetted by summer's dying light;to fly, oh they heart does weep,to lift one's wings and take a leep;to be sailing the clouding skies as the seas;once mezmerized, but my hope did cease,as my eyes rest upon the harbor gull,who looks no better than Jethro Thrull,the creature I once hoped to be;the stinky seagul who landed next to me.