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If the game were really hard, do you think anyone would want to play it? It's meant for simple, easy entertainment -- marketting the Wii as everyone's system means that the games can't be exclusive to the best athletes and gamers. That should be a factor of respect, not necessarily disappointment. The game's a lot of fun regardless of its simplicity. In fact, I think it's that that makes it instantly attractive and addictive. It's actually not a bad exercise. If you don't stretch properly (loooozle), you're going to feel a bit sore. If you're playing the game right, in my opinion, you'll be breaking out a sweat in no time. This involves screaming, kicking, and playing your heart out. If you're more of a moderate Nintendo Fan, even a few games will give you at least a little more circulation than traditional gaming can provide. It's a marvel, really And I can't wait for Brawl too. I love Smooth Moves too -- you guys should try that out. Wild, wacky, and disastrously amusing fun

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;)Some sites are purposefully ugly to demonstrate some kind of point. Other sites are simply created by people with no real knowledge of design aesthetics. Is it their fault? Not at all! A person will only learn if they want to know, and if they feel that their site is beautiful, it's hard to change that. It's one of the problems of the Internet. Popular trends dictate what beauty is, and as time wears on, those who stay with trends of the past are going to be subjected to this name-calling all because they didn't keep up. Sites can be well-designed without looking particularly beautiful. Look at Google! That's the sort of beauty that really matters

Kasm, the format of your post is crazy. Who writes biographies in lists? I think Yeltsin was just the sort of president to end the cautious hostility of the Cold War era, from Khrushchev to Brezhnev. He was a very open person, a bit bumbling, but at least he put a stop to that ridiculous circuitous foreign policy that the Cold War epitomized. It's true that Russia has had a hard time with leadership, and the economy, but that's dated further back than even Khrushchev or Stalin. Russia has been in poverty since the time of the tsars, and three disastrous wars, and the threat of a fourth -- the Cold War -- would just about shut down any economy that was in action. However, Russia is steadily making progress. I don't agree with Putin's policies much; he seems very polarizing, and people naturally still look upon him as the former head of the KGB, and use that to characterize his rule. However, as with all authoritative governments, change will come. Frankly, as long as we stop invading countries and throwing a giant monkey wrench in the reform process, change will have to come. I can't wait for the next round of elections (worldwide) so we can see some new faces -- and better policies -- when we turn on the TV at night. First France, then America, then Britain, eventually Russia and Iran. 2008 is going to be a blast for blogging

Something like an OpenID? It would save time, certainly, but integrating it into the browser? No browser is free of security issues. I'd just hate to have the whole system subverted, at a loss to everyone using it. However, I suppose having the browser store your passwords and usernames and filling them in isn't much different from this, on a security level. I'd be happier if Firefox took the initiative first, not Microsoft

The current (old) version of cPanel is what I'm used to. It displays everything, but I agree that the new version we had for about a week, although it moved a few things around, was awesome for its eye-candy appearance. That said, neither of the cPanels are really that pretty. In my opinion, the graphics get worse and worse. The preview of cPanel 11 seemed pretty bad to me, but as long as there are themes, I won't care which version we use. But if Fantastico isn't in the newer release, that would make me pretty sad. Manual installations are a trial.

If you join here, you won't have to worry about that. You can host your own forums by yourself. Just get a few credits, get a hosting account, (maintain your credits), and try it out!

Nice work! It's good that it's all valid. However, I think you'd have more fun with a more flexible CMS like WordPress or TextPattern, rather than CuteNews!

And the issues I've had with IE 7 concern padding and margins -- easy things to fix, but we'll need examples of what looks weird!

See, that's not very fair to the movie! I loved it, personally; I saw it in the theaters with my towel. It does the book justice. The book may be crazy, but the movie brings all the characters to life. The imagery is clear, vivid, and definitely funny -- and the "cutscenes" are fantastically done. Give it a chance before you say that you hate it.

I'm having this problem as well; but my website displays, so I know my files are there -- I just can't see them through File Manager :/

I learned first from Dreamweaver, since it set default styles. When I migrated to a standards-based design about two years ago, I started learning from CSS resource sites. Basically, I just plugged in different attributes and played around with them. I also first started making mockups after learning CSS, because that's so much easier than going into a site without knowing a thing about what you plan to do. It's worked well, I must say

It's not right or wrong -- it's a choice. You can't place an opinion on someone's personal choice and deem it, with your "absolute power" to be right or wrong. As someone before me said, it just "is". I personally approve of homosexuality, gay rights, and gay marriage, because I feel that we shouldn't discriminate against anyone because of their sexual preference, their race, or their culture. The Bible does not rule the world, so people who base their judgments on that are inherently biased by being Christian, and therefore bound to the "good book". The Westboro Baptist Church, which warps homosexuality into something terrible and evil, is maneuvered by hatred and coercion. When you see these religious forces trying to put a stop to homosexuality -- although it's a fact of life, and not something religion can or SHOULD control -- you just have to wonder why.Why is it evil? Because you said so? Because your religion tells you so? How do you know the truth?Because we're all incapable of perfection, none of us are properly qualified to speak the "truth". So let's speak life. Homosexuality "is" and gay individuals should never be persecuted -- not unless you want to open yourself to the same persecution for a similar choice you make throughout your life.

I've seen the movie twice, and while I don't really need to see it any more (you'll remember all of the jokes and the commentary of the first viewing all through the second -- once is enough!), you have to realize that this is a satire by a Jewish person on bigotry in America. He portrays a foreigner who is an anti-Semite and is voicing the opinions of what he believes is the absolute backwoods of society.The sad thing is that people, like the rodeo manager, actually agree with him.Don't necessarily view it as offensive, because what he portrays as offensive (the Running of the Jew, etc) is actually inherently offensive to himself (because he's Jewish). I like it as a satire - crude - but somewhat necessary. Remember that there was no scripting involved past a few scenes. The people who are suing him are doing it out of their own lack of judgment. If they hadn't believed what they said, they wouldn't have said it. It's an expose on our society, and what exactly we need to change, so I hope the "victims" learned from this.I do feel sorry for the Jewish couple, however; they were so sweet, but I'm sure there was some sort of compensation for their erratic behavior. If it helps, Sasha Baron Cohen's 94 year old grandmother in Israel approved of the film.

Still nothing on my site. I'm getting pretty edgy :/

And I can't even access my site

So we're fighting opinion wars now? Sigh. The thing that annoys me in every single instance, whether it's related to atheism or any organized religion, is evangelism. No single person is right. Faith is individual interpretation of a body of work. There is no correct answer. But representatives of both factions -- religion and atheism -- are absolutely convinced that they're the only ones who know the truth. My personal view is that religion is not truth; religion is faith, and faith is something that cannot be proven by logic or by tests. It's simply there, conveniently out of science's range. I'm not very religious at all, in fact. I love the sense of science (from scio, scire = I know (Latin)). People argue science, but not as vehemently as personal belief. Of course, maybe atheists and religious-types both adopt these fighting stances as a defense? Just leave it as a matter of choice. If someone wants to be religious or atheist or agnostic, that's their personal decision. You have every right to defend yourself, but don't turn to hypocrisy. We're all the friends we have.

The background in fact does NOT go with your image. I know you used a blue outer-glow on your text, but that doesn't make the background any more fitting. The background of your image is black, and the background of your page is blue. My eyes are either distracted away from the image or away from the background. If you place content on this background, you're going to continually distract your viewers. My suggestion is that you should make the background black, and try a different header image (I have a stroooong bias against bevel effects). Experiment if you have to, and make the bottom text a different font. It doesn't really have much on it, so I can't judge the site on a whole. If you're just beginning, not bad; it's a little early to convert you to semantics and validity, but please keep trying. You can make something a bit more empathetic than this. You've got it in you, I'm sure.

I don't know how much FreeWebs has changed, but it seems like so long since I left there. If I remember, the space was very limiting and the "super-awesome-spiffy-cool scripts OMG" that everyone was bragging about didn't seem to interest me. I was at FreeWebs for quite a bit of time, and upon leaving it (probably upon finding another host), I began a long host-jumping period that finally culminated in my finding of Xisto.Right now, the service seems easy but I'm not sure about their file manager. I need absolute control of my HTML, but beginners wouldn't, so this would probably be ideal for them. Aside from stats, I think Geocities is absolutely losing this contest. I guess Yahoo! has to learn to update their services somehow...

It takes some time, but if you truly enjoy blogging, stay with it. Advertise yourself; join networks; tell your friends! Even submitting to Digg won't hurt -- if your posts are worthwhile, they'll really take hold wherever you let them travel. It's taken me about two-and-a-half years to get to where I am now, where people actually know me online, but I took every available opportunity and I'm now very comfortably exactly where I want to be. Good luck to you! Don't give up on it! See, that's entirely the wrong attitude to have about it. If you have any passion for writing, discourse, commentary, or simply social behavior (we're human, face it), you're going to enjoy blogging. If you're in it for the money, give it up. There's no real instant success in the field of blogging and I feel that services such as ReviewMe and the division of TLA that accomplishes the same thing taints an otherwise awesome establishment. I'm a blogger, and the freedom to express myself online, by my terms, is exhilarating. But then, for every one of me, there's ten of you who feel there'es only one side to blogging -- money. Just...ugh...don't! If you're in it for money, you can't just strike it lucky. You have to establish yourself, update regularly, produce good valued content, advertise advertise advertise, and get readers. Of course, popularity without interest for the sake of popularity is absolutely empty in value. Money without dedication is a scam. If you have true passion, you blog without discretion. That's how you get popularity and money -- by then, you won't even care. That's the beauty of blogging.

It's most definitely spam. I don't bother with those too much; I just delete them and move on. Spam wouldn't work without random e-mail addresses, so don't feel as if the spammers are targeting you personally. They're looking for anyone who's greedy enough to fall into their trap. It's like people who send viruses and other ickies by e-mail for malicious purposes. Since this is an industry, it's not very easy to crack down on it. For the time being, ban the e-mail address (but know that you're going to get e-mails anyway) and delete the message. Don't even bother with it. If you get something that outlandish again, you won't even really have to read it; you can just see the subject and the sender and know it's spam.Good luck, I guess?

I'm in America, and my school (since schools are very different from place to place) is currently on a 7-class-a-day schedule. We're moving to 4 classes a day on alternate days soon (basically, your 1st-4th period classes on A day, your 5th-8th period classes on B day, and then back to A day), which makes me happy. I can take an extra class!I've written extensively on how our district doesn't seem to appreciate our education, but I find solace in my elective classes. We're required to take 4 years of English, 3 of science, and 3-4 of math depending on what we want to do, as well as 2-3 years of a foreign language. We also have random small classes that we need to take to fulfill graduation requirements, such as a year of a Fine Arts credit, a year and a half of P.E., and a year of a computer class. I knocked out the FA/PE by taking band for three years, which makes me happy. Unfortunately, I didn't have to take a third year of band (easily my most boring year), but I wasn't informed - again, my district is somewhat stupid - so I wasted a year.We have 4 grading periods, each 9 weeks long. At the end of each grading period, we take an exam, and we also take one at the end of each semester. Tests are left to the discretion of each individual teacher, but we normally have 1 every 3 weeks in most of our classes.It's not bad here, but it could definitely be better.

This is a pretty easy artistic solution. To give something the appearance of being 3D, give it shadows and lighting effects. If it is above something else, give it a light shadow. Use both these techniques sparingly. The moving part will be more difficult. I suppose, place the flags and save it as an .gif; then, move the flags gradually around the globe until you come back to the flag you started on. You could pull off an interesting twist on this and make the rest of the flags appear out of focus to the one that's in the center. Then, just combine the images into one animated .gif.You could also do this in Flash if you know how, but I'm not an expert at all with Flash. I'd rather not confuse you

Go for GMail - it offers a lot more than you think, and it's really easy to use. I only wish that they put the "Compose" link in a more evident place.

I like Movable Type a lot; it's easy when you've grasped it, but hard to start out on. For the beginner, I recommend Wordpress -- for the slightly more advanced, TextPattern or Expression Engine (something I really want to try), or if you use Ruby, Radient or SimpleLog -- both of which are very impressive. There's always Symphony too. But Movable Type is a bit more customizable from the beginning, I feel, because it has flat template files, which Wordpress doesn't do very well (in my opinion). The problem with WP is that it divides a template into many different sections, which isn't always necessary. It works if you have a header and footer that will never change, but not if you want full and easy control over your website.Portal sites are fading out, I think. I haven't seen a PHPNuke, Mambo, or Joomla site in a good long time, which is probably a good thing. For the web-nazi in me, I like how the table-based portal sites are fading out, but I know that they're being replaced -- for the better -- by new scripts that will do the job more effectively; but back on topic:As far as ease of use goes, Wordpress tops the list. It's a great CMS; but it, like every other platform out there, needs some work.