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oh ok, im with ya! First of all you need to find out what encryption method they use for the older forums, you can trawl through their PHP code and look for terms like "md5" or you can take a guess... Basically go into your phpmyadmin, go to the forum table and look for one called, or similar to, "users" once you have found that you should see all the usernames of the members, go to the account you want to modify and then there should be a "password" or similar, box. In there will be some encrypted text, assuming it is md5 what you need to do it find a free md5 generator like this one and type in your new password in there and hit the button to make a nice md5 string. Copy/paste that into the password box in phpmyadmin and save the changes, then try logging into the forum. If it doesnt work then these are the possible problems: 1)you updated the wrong table/record, double check it 2) we are using the wrong hash or encryption. another method is to go to the forum register page, make a new account with a useless username like "skytestletmein" so you can spot it easily, and set its password as YOUR new password (the one you want for the admin account) now go back to phpmyadmin, find that user, find the password field and copy the text from it and paste into the admin's password field in phpmyadmin. or you can try and find the correct hash/encryption method and try again 3) You typed the password wrongly in the hash generator. double check it and try again. That should do the trick though provided you update the correct field.

well you dont need to use SQL code to do it, im not sure if thats possible, but i suppose it is...To change it here at T17 you need to go into the Databases tool where you first went to create a database, and then into privileges or users. Im a bit rusty but it should be along those lines. Then select the user and there should be an option to change the password there. If not you could just delete the user and remake it with the new password.

What password are we talking about here, the password of a user? (eg i joined your site but now i need to change my password)Or the password for you, as an SQL admin? (Eg, you, the owner of the SQL databases needs to change the password for the phpmyadmin login)

What is very interesting is that quantum theory actually lends itself to suggesting immortality... If nothing exists or happens unless it is being observed or measured then how can one die? For if science is to be believed then after death is nothing, we no longer exist and so can no longer see, hear, feel or measure. And if we cant experience, observe or measure our own death then quantum theory says it cannot happen and does not exist.If we then tie this in with multiple universe (multiverse) theory we actually have a scientific theory for the afterlife, hear me out... I know you dont believe me but read on and then comment... If we cant observe our death then we cant die, but people die all the time, we've all seen it or heard of it, but lets assume that there are multiple universes, one thought experiment (essentially a theory that has been thought about eg me thinking about what happens if i put acid on my leg) goes like so:There is a gun, loaded with one bullet, and a device for measuring the direction a single particle spins, this particle spins randomly with no influences on it except the universe, or multiverse. A man sites in front of the gun and pulls the trigger, if the particle is spinning left-right then the gun will fire, hitting him in the head. If it isnt spinning in this direction the gun will not fire. He pulls the trigger and at the instant he pulls it the multiverse splits into two (stay with me here, no-one notices the splitting of the multiverse) in one universe he is dead, the particle was spinning left-right and the gun killed him. In the second universe the gun didnt fire, the particle was spinning some other way so he survived. Now, because he cant possibly observe his own death he MUST be placed into the universe in which he survives. So his consciousness ONLY lives on in the living universe, since he is now dead in all other verses (there are only 2 at the moment, and in one he died) then he can only be in this "living" verse. He pulls the trigger, the universe splits again, in one he lives, the other he dies. Again he can only exist in a verse in which he is alive so he MUST go to that one. From his point of view his is immortal. he can pull that gun infinity times, until the universe ends and he will ALWAYS survive. We of course, watching him could easily see him die, because we can still exist in a universe in which *he* is dead, so long as we are alive in it then we can survive in it. Now, if we extend this theory into the "it doesnt happen unless you observe it" theory we see that when we are about to die the universe splits, in one we die, but in the other we CANT die, we just cant because how can we observe that? so we live on. Perhaps this is a parallel universe, Eg it is exactly the same so we dont realize we are "dead" (and if you listen to many spiritualist mediums many spirits remark on how similar it is in their universe) or it could be a totally different universe, perhaps like heaven, hell, the afterlife, who knows.... The gun experiment can be given over to car accidents, how many times have you nearly been run over? What if each time that happened the universe split, in one your friends watched you die... in the other you escaped, you can only exist in the living verse so you would never know.There is of course a third option... the gun fires, hits him in the head but doesnt kill him, it simply paralyses him, in this example the universe doenst *have* to split, it may do, i dont know, but because he lives there is no need to create a new universe for him to survive in.The problem is this is all a a bit silly in some ways... I mean, say i am sitting in a room and someone puts a big red ball in the other room. Quantum theory says that the ball doesnt exist unless i can see and measure it, by camera, motion detector, my dog, anything. but the room is locked with no windows or sensors, i cant possibly measure its existence. Does that mean it isnt there? No, of course not. The ball is there whether i know about it or not. It is simply my knowledge that is missing. Not the ball.But then we have shown that observing the spin of a particle (photon i think) changes the way it spins, so if it is spinning up-down and i look at it, it automatically switches to left-right. Perhaps this is due to the way the spin is measured. For example a ball is running away from me, but i want to measure how big it is so i put my foot on it to stop it and measure it. Now obviously i have changed the behaviour of the ball by stopping its motion... But i dont know how they measure the spin so this might not apply.I also think science can explain god, or other godly beings. I am not a mainstream religion follower, but this is my theory of a godly energy.think of RAW energy, energy with no form, its not hot, bright, fast moving or anything. In video games this is often shown as a beam of heat that just burns enemies to a crisp, but thats heat energy. Raw energy is undetectable (unless the theory of Boson particles proves correct, in which case energy is carried by tiny, tiny particles so we can measure its mass or density, but lets say it isnt...) so this energy without form doesnt glow red hot, thats heat energy, it doesnt shine in the dark, thats light energy, we cant hear it (sound/kenetic) we cant feel it, because its energy. But what if that *is* "god"...*the "k" means this is witchcraft style magic, and not slight of hand or other tricks using mirrors etc.. done by performing magicians.Lets go in western European magic(k) specifically Witchcraft and Wiccan/Paganism. Wicca teaches that magickal energy can be controlled by thought and intent, it goes a little deeper than this but to keep it simple we will say that if i will (eg really want) something to happen, and i use a meditation to use my brain to "think" and control the energy of the universe i can make things happen, let's say i can influence the guy next door to stop playing loud music (immoral, and not Wiccan at all, but a good example). So i meditate and it is proven that the brain's energy changes form and goes into a lower state of energy, Theta waves i think, or possibly deeper. So basically imagine the brain is a radio signal, while you are awake it is at 150ghz or something, but while you meditate it goes down to 100Mhz (ghz is 1000 mhz, so this is over 1000 times lower/slower/less energy) and if your radio could only pick up Mhz waves, which i think is true, then while the "radio" signal is at 150Ghz, your radio hears nothing. But when the signal goes down into the Mhz range your radio picks up the signal.What if the "radio" was raw energy...? What if, by tuning your brain waves down or up to a certain level you can interact with the raw energy? Now, what if this raw energy acted like a signal booster? What if it took your "please dont play load music Trevor" (Trevor is the guy next door in the example) amplified it and then reflected it, your emotions would tie the thought to Trevor, think about someone you know, and feel that emotion, if that emotion was transmitted it provides a sort of key to who should receive the message, subconsciously Trevor's brain picks up a signal, a really low signal that Trevor is unaware of... what if the brain can understand that message, even a tiny bit? The power of the brain is immense, even if you are unaware of something your brain can still receive the message and change your behaviour (subliminal messages).There are holes in this theory... However, it is proven that the brain waves extend out of the brain/body and that brain waves can manipulate things and be understood by computers/machines. Now, just because science doesnt understand something, or doesnt know it exists doesnt make it not real. 500 years ago science had no idea that radio waves existed. In fact if i were talking to them right now they would tell me that radio waves are god, or magical energy. Today we know that isnt true. But what if, in 500 years time someone discovers raw energy, all around us, everywhere (for we wouldnt feel it of course) and then what if they find out that brain waves can affect it. Does that make magic not real? No, it makes it understood by science. It can then become a tool. I'm not saying this is 100% true, i do however believe that the universe/multiverse is full of "magickal" energy that can be affected by humans and animals, and even the universe itself. Quantum theory suggests that this is all possibly. Entanglement theory also suggests things like telepathy are possible. Entanglement is what happens when you pass two particles close to each other, if you then change something on one (eg spin direction) the other will immediately change to be the opposite, no matter of distance. Perhaps this is because the universe cant become out of balance or it would be destroyed (if every particle was positively charged nothing would stick together). But if your brain has 500,000 of these particles and someone elses has 500,000 then you thinking could theoretically affect these particles, and the other person's brain would notice that 500,000 particles have switch polarity or something and hence a message is transferred... Think about it and Wiki it.I know my post is long, but its interesting. Thanks for the time!

It isnt a miracle but when you grow up not know the earth is molten in the middle, and not knowing HOW the water gets hot then the only explanation is magic/miracle.Magic and miracles are essentially events that we cant explain with science or any other theory. Imagine going back 500 years and showing a village a TV which was broadcasting an image from say... the coast, far far away from this village. They would say that the TV set is a magic box with images provided by god, purely because they dont understand electromagnetic energy. To them it is magic, and the same applies here. An oddly scientific standpoint from a believer in the supernatural but there you go!

To do this you would need really to have control over the server. you could in theory use PHP to do something like:Connection from 142.25.45.10 (AKA 45.10)PHP:Checks if this IP has connected within the last 3 minutes or so, if there was a connection less than 3 minutes ago then redirect to error page> downloadblocked.htmIf there are no connections on the log then redirect to file.exeAdd 45.10 to connection log for 3 minutes.Begin download.But its not perfect im sure. It may not even work but it's all i cna think of without having control over the server itself.

Definitely sounds geo-thermal to me. On the plus side the water is obviously free of living organisms like parasites which could cause illness, but before drinking it the water should be checked for poisonous chemicals and acidity as geo-thermal activity from, underground magma could easily pump it full of sulphur making sulphuric acid. Not a nice drink...interesting though!

I am somewhat aware of the theory of observation, however i understand it to mean that an atom, or subatomic particle is in ALL states and ALL places until observed. An electron for example is widely taught to be orbiting the nucleus of an atom much like the moon around the earth, but in fact it does not orbit it at all. It simply pops in and out of existence. Its like hydrogen, with one electron. If you looked at it you would see many electrons, all around it, flashing into and out of existence, all the time. That one electron can be in more than one place at one time, and no places. It is completely separate from time itself, so it seems.This all goes back to Schroedinger's cat (wikipedia it). Whether or not this is true is a different matter. It's a well established theory, and much of quantum physics/mechanics makes no sense to most of us, but at the moment it is just a theory. It does have evidence from the double slit experiment (very interesting, wiki that if you like to be amazed and confused... 1 photon splitting into 2? and yet if you watch it to try to see it splitting it doesnt split...WTF?!).RE the tree in the forest riddle, it depends how you define sound.... If you define sound as something you hear then indeed, there is no sound for no-one is there to be able to hear it. However, if you define sound as a vibration then yes, it does make a sound for the energy is turned into vibration in the earth and air. In the same way a deaf person touching the ground would feel the "sound". But like watermonkey said, that's largely irrelevant when we are talking on the quantum scale.This is a scale where two subatomic particles can be entangled, and held miles, or lightyears apart and yet still communicate with each other (spin one particle left-right and the other will automatically change its spin to up-down, no matter of distance of obstacles between them...)

All of those images are real. They are real animals that live at the bottom of the sea. They look like they do because there is no evolutionary advantage of having any particular appearance in a place where there is no light. The silvery flanks of fish we know help them to evade capture by causing confusion, they often have dark backs to blend in with the darkness if looked at from above, and white bellies to blend in with the bright sky if looked at from below.At the bottom of the sea there is no need for this.They have large teeth because if they catch a fish they cant afford to let it slip, it might be their only meal for a very long time so they have to hold on to it or possibly die.The fish that has a dangling thing hanging infront of its own face uses it as a lure. It lights up in the dark and smaller fish think it is a little shrimp or tiny fish so they swim right up to the big fish's face and then it eats them.Clever stuff.They have huge eyes to catch what little light they can from the phosphorescent (glow in the dark) creatures, many creatures use little pouches like glow worms have to attract prey, or attract a mate and some can actually drop these pouches on a sort of time delay chemical reaction so that if they are chased in the pitch blackness they drop the package and swim off, and a second later it flashes or glows and the predator goes and eats it while the little fish swims away.Others use them somewhat like flares from military aircraft, spraying out a mix of chemicals that glows and confuses the predator, much like a squid squirting ink and darting off.

it depends how you define the word "random".For the purposes of say, a board game, a set of dice is random. Its virtually impossible to guess the throw before they stop, however, i expect if you recorded 1 million dice throws using 5 different people (200,000 throws each) i think you would find it isnt really random, but i would imagine it would only be 5% or less biased.It's like a coin toss, it isnt actually random, it depends on the original orientation of the coin (tails/heads up/down) and the height of the toss. If you tossed a coin 1 million times you'd reasonably expect about 50/50 but that's not what would happen in reality. However it's a lot more random than a computer or your brain could create. Your brain is biased by memory so trying to make a random sequence of 1 and 2 (eg 1,2,1,2,2,1,2,1,1,1,2,1,2) isnt possible because you are *trying* to make it random, so like i did there i had to try to make it *look* random by taking away any obvious pattern and in doing so i make concious decision to put a group of 1's in or a group of 2's so it isnt random anymore, i planned it that way to make it look random.And a computer is fundamentally limited in that it cannot imagine. A computer can only *calculate* and to do any calculation you need two or more values, in the case of a random number generator these values can be anything from a variable like time and then a multiplier (eg timestamp*257434265235751/3652) or two variables like timestamp and number of keys pressed since RANDOM seconds ago (but of course, RANDOM seconds needs to be based on something too....) I suppose the big bang was somewhat random as nothing existed to influence it except the "explosion" itself, but then those who believe in a godly creator argue that he/she made the big bang or universe so even that couldntve been random... I think the closest we can get to truly random would involve some sort of calculation based on a "seed" obtained from single celled organisms. They have no brain so cant be biased, the only influences on them would be environment but provided that was perfectly controlled and the same each time a "seed" was obtained then it could be called almost random. (seed = a number or calculation upon which another calculation is performed to obtain a random number) The reason is that the particles made at the time of the big bang cant directly influence their behaviour, let's say we had a dish with 10,000 single celled organisms floating freely in water. It is sealed so no air can affect them and no-one touches it. If we divide it in half and say that when we want to get a seed we count the number of organisms on the left side of the dish (they are able to move on their own perhaps...) and use that as our seed then we can assume that the number of organisms is fairly random as they have no brain or other bias for being on the left side. They arent aware of their surroundings and arent affected by their surroundings. we can then use that random seed to multiply by the current timestamp or current background radiation or whatever and obtain an almost random number. But it still isnt truly random for reasons i dont yet understand!

Neither is more random than the other. At the splitsecond the command is processed to make a random nmumber (Be that a signal in your brain or the RAND command in a computer program) a super computer could calculate, 100% the number that is produced if it new the variables. for example if your brain has a tendency toward a number, lets say 27, and a sequence, lets say n, n+2, n-7, n+5 (so lets say N is the first number in a sequence and your brain chooses the number 27 then the sequence is: 27, 29, 20, 32 (27292032)) then if the super computer knows these tendencies it will KNOW which number you are going to choose, not just guess, Same goes for a computer generated code. If the super PC knows the timestamp being used and the algorithm then its not random so long as the super computer knows the exact time the command is issued.A better way to generate random numbers is to use the background radiation that is all around us. By counting the background radiation (BR) you could then feed it into a hashing algorithm (perhaps as simple as an MD5 hash) and get a more random number. If you then combined that with a random number found by using a hash of a timestamp and then a random number found by generating a random number from..... the earths magnetic field and then joined them together in one giant number and then used a hashing algorithm to bring that huge number down to say 10 digits, thats a fairly random number.But then you could argue that at the exact moment of the big bang the exact properties (size, weight shape, magnetic field and radioactivity) was decided so that the "random" number was actually determined billions of years ago, and if you could take a super super computer back to the big bang you could actually predict with 100% certainty what the number would be billions of years from now. But that goes into deep things like is fate real etc? (because lets face it, if there were no life forms on the unverse then every particle and every bit of energy was created and sent out at a certain direction from the big bang, so their paths arent random so in theory if you had a computer clever enough to measure every atom and subatomic particle ejected from the big bang you could actually predict, with 100% certainty where the planets would form, their exact size at any point in time down to the atomic weight etc... because each particle has a pre-determined path.But with life forms you then introduce variables like a colony of ants moving a small pebble out of their path, where if there were no ants that pebble would be moved according to the interactions with other particles that had a pre-determined "fate" thanks to the big bang. Still with me?

But that only works at night time when its dark, any hint of sunlight, or even bright street lights would wash the image out over a long exposure. Bad times I managed to get a photo of a lightning strike during daytime out of my window just be hitting the shutter button when i saw a light. It worked fine, only i had accidentally auto-focussed my camera on the window frame.... I just got a blurry white streak I like the HDR image of sunset/dusk. Ive been trying to get that sort of striking blue colour in some of my photos but i cant seem to get it, is it just a case of playing with the levels to boost the blue and contrast? I have loads of photos to go through but i just cant be bothered!! Im hoping for a digi photo frame for christmas so i can actually use the photos i take, ive spent enough on the camera XD

The actors reasctions certainly arent proportional to the world ending, but then how do we know how we would react faced with annihilation? Is there time to panic? If you panic you *will* die, but stay calm and be determined and you'll survive. Also the acting was meant to be somewhat funny, there are a fair few moments with bad jokes and humor at a time of complete disaster but in a way it helps to break a feeling of despair and instead give you the "it will be alright in the end" feeling which you need to get through 2 hours of absolute cataclysmic destruction.SPOILER:also the fact that the movie ends with Africa being completely safe is cheesy as Africa is widely held to be the cradle of mankind where the first humans evolved and spread, so effectively humankind goes back to where it came from. Obviously other places survived with more or less damage but Africa is heralded as "the new world" if you like, where humankind will start again in the year 0001. I still rate it well for its enjoyment factor, apart from that its wildly inaccurate.

Fear not, the world is not going to end any time soon. There are no large asteroids or planets about to collide with the earth. The sun will last for 50+ BILLION years (and even the worst solar storm would only really cause massive power outages as the power lines get frazzled and perhaps we would need to wear suncream to stop ourselves getting burned by the extra power of the sun. The world would still be here though.And god wont smite us, if he tries you have my word that i will push his hand back into the sky and utter the words "NO FREE PAPERS!" :)the film is based on the fact that the sun produces weird particles that actually dont exist in real life, so we are safe.

Cheers guys, reviews are subjective opinions so i wont feel insulted if you all disagree :DReally it comes down to what kind of films you like, if you dont mind a slightly unbelievable storyline but you enjoy action, suspense and a little badly timed humor then you will like the film. But if you are the type that says "As if!" all the time then perhaps not!Personally i watch a film for fun, not because its realistic, to me films are a chance to look into a world where anything can happen, so i enjoyed the movie. You are all more than welcome to add on to my thread your own thoughts are start your own It'd be interesting to see *why* people didnt like it

Fresh back from the cinema watching quite possibly the longest film ive watched in a cinema (LOtR was on DVD ) This isnt a film you go to watch if you have appointments later.... Ive been out for 3 hours and the cinema is 5 minutes away, but i digress!So the film is based around the story of the earth ending, or changing dramatically on the winter Solstice in 2012, thats December 21st. This is based on the mayan calendar which doesnt actually suggest anything of this nature will happen. Dr Helmsley, a young geologist arrives in india to meet his friend, another geologist who is working on Neutrinos, these are real life particles that whizz out of the sun, straight through the earth and out the other side. In real life and in the film we can track them by using heavy water from nuclear reactors which flashes very dimly when a neutrino hits it. This is held in a tank deep underground usually in old mines. This is the case in the film, the neutrino count has been rising amazingly fast and we are told they are mutating into different types of particles which have a "physical" reaction. Helmsley and his friend go to the water tank and open the lid, the water inside is boiling and the friend explains the earths core is being heated up by the sun, which is undergoing huge activity.That is the scientific premise of the film, the sun is giving off huge amount of altered neutrinos which are reacting with the earths solid core and heating it up. This heating is causing massive instability in the crust...So in California we are seeing loads of cracks starting which are gradually getting worse. Our main character, Jackson Curtis, a divorced, usually absent father and semi-pro published writer takes his kids to Yellowstone park, now, in real life one of the worlds largest supervolcanoes exists there, if that thing went boom no matter where you are right now you would know about it. He arrives to find a large section fenced off by the government, a lake he used to visit has virtually gone completely and it now resembles a slightly steaming puddle, weird... a strange old man watched them with binoculars as the army sweep in and take them to an army base in yellowstone which has a gigantic drill drilling into the ground. The camera shows us scientists talking and they explain the ground is heating up by 5% an hour. Helmsley is there of course and our main character plus hid kids are introduced to him. To cut a long story short the Dr has been reading Jackson's book and they are taken to a public campsite. Jackson has been listening to a madman talking about the end of days on the radio. Once he puts his kids in the tent he sits on his laptop checking that the lake he saw earlier really did exist. He can hear the radio and sees a guy in a shack with radio equipment 1+1=3 so it must be the guy. And it is the mad guy from earlier. Good times. A conversation shows that this mad guy knows of a conspiracy theory in which Yellowstone goes boom, everyone dies and the government builds spaceships which save the rich. Sane guy, but then given what comes next he could be on to something...Back in sunny California in a supermarket Jackson's ex wife and her new partner are shopping and the floor opens up and turns into a half mile crack. Pretty. Jackson and his kids go home early for obvious reasons. Jackson is then called in to drive a rich Russian to an airport with hid kids, he doesnt like the bratty kids and as they leave they recount how they have tickets to a big ship and they will leave and he will die. so now Jackson believes the crazy man now so persuades a guy at the airport to hire a small two engine plane out and drives off to get his family. Various calamities ensue involving California sinking into the sea slowly and he gets his family on the plane. I wont go through the emotion ripping, tense details but they fly to yellowstone to find a map the crazy guy had, he is on top of the crater broadcasting with a portable radio thingy. Anyway, he wants to stay and watch the world end, yellowstone goes boom Jackson runs away, gets a map from the guys camper van and runs with lava bombs, ash clouds chase them and our crazy man gets crushed by a 100ft chunk of yellowstone, complete with trees and all. The effects here are magnificent, we see a sort of atomic explosion cloud, but better, about 5 miles high and just as wide and the closer lavabombs etc... are brilliantly scary. They get back to their small plane and take off, with a little drama of course, and Jackson opens the map, a map of China, nice move... This is one of those "comedy in tragedy" moments that this film will make you either love or hate. There's plenty of it, get used to it.They swap their plane for something bigger, along with dramatic shots of the destruction of earth via lava, cracks and the sea in general. Well to cut a long story short we see lots of behind the scenes action at the Whitehouse, they get a big Jet plane with the rich Russian Jackson drove earlier and are on their way to China. The scientists work out that the earths crust has shifted about 1500 miles so the guys en route to China run out of fuel and make an emergency landing in some mountains which turns out to be China, which has shifted 1500 miles their way, useful really if you're low on fuel. Completely unbelievable, but then the whole film is, at one point they are driving through a city where tower blocks are falling and they literally drive through a building at a 45 degree angle. But meh, its a fun film, not a factual one. Anyway, some helicopters fly over and welcome then to China, our guys are safe right? Nope. The film revolves around these "spaceships" or arks which the rich have tickets to, via mobile phones. The Chinese commander asks for tickets and the rich, bastard Russian hands over his and his kids and they get on the chopper outta there. our main characters now with the addition of the Russians ex girlfriend (she was cheating on him) walk on in the pristine mountains and come to a road where a battered truck, driven by a Tibet monk and his familly stops to pick them up. They are driving to the arks, where the monks brother is working and has promised to get his family in. Complications ensue with how they are going to get an extra 5 people snuck in. But they agree and off they go on their journey to sneak in. to cut a long story short they all get on the arks, and the rich decide to open the gates and let on the poor who have turned up, but our guys sneaking in have jammed the door with a hydrolic lead, so in comes a 1.5km high wave, over the mountains and the captain says that the ship, which is actually a conventional sea ship, not a space ship, is designed to be held for the first wave and then float off safely. but the door is jammed and they cant start the engines. The wave carries them off, the ship starts to flood (there are 3 by the way, not just one), but anyway, Jackson dives in the watery depths and saves the day, the ship sails off into the waters, after avoiding the flank of everest, which is partly under water of course. A little later the captain opens the shutters and people go out on deck to an amazing sunrise, 27 days after the end of the world (aptly now named 27 days, 1st month, 0001) and the film ends on a happy note with the scientists saying how the flood waters are receding fast, and most of africa was lifted some hundreds of feet and hence hardly was affected. humankind goes back to where it theoretically began and we know the world didnt really end, and the tectonic plates have settled in nicely. the world is safe again. Good times.My opinion? Well from the outset it had some hurdles to overcome, firstly the fact its fake. Duh... But attempts to follow scientific theories and fact. Secondly the cinema was packed and i was right down the front. not a good start. But it actually does pull it off, im impressed!!!It is a long film, but it needs to be, it has a nice back story starting in 2009 which shows you the science behind the movie *why* the earth is ending, and you need to understand it to put things like seeing a square mile of California at a 30 degree angle sinking into the sea. but it really does work!! The effects are variable though. The distance shots of destruction are amazing, completely ridiculous but well made and suspenseful, the closer shots however of various people with destruction chasing them are a little shakey, but forgiven. Sound is good overall but a little shrill at some points making you wish they had toned it down a little.The storyline is also very good, predictable, ridiculous, but good. It draws you in, attaches you to the characters, their emotions and their utterly hopeless situation, but you know from the outset that it will end fairly well. It is a somewhat emotional film, questioning what you would do faced with a 1.5km high wave, seeing cities swimming in molten lava. Seeing a crack 2 miles deep filled with magma open below your feet. Watching people get left behind but then asking yourself, would you go back for them? Honestly? Could you?It takes you into the film rather than telling a story it makes you live a story. So let's break it down....Best points:Yellowstone going cataclysmic, brilliant GFX, sound, and storyThe amazing views in the mountains, giving you hope and showing the beauty in some parts of the world while the rest fallcharacters, they are "real" not just sprites on a greenscreen.Bad points:um.... Predictability i suppose....some of the effects.Graphics: 8/10Sound: 9/10characters: 8/10Story: 9/10Overall...... 9/10I would rate this as one of the best films i have seen this year. Better than "the day after tomorrow". well worth seeing guys!!one for everyone

Ubuntu is a brilliant OS but it still wont play many modern games on high resolution perfectly, and a paying customer will want to play it on high graphics with no glitches or lag etc.... You can multiboot with Ubuntu so if you install a windows RC then you can also install Ubuntu on a second partition (Google: ubuntu multiboot windows) so you can test ubuntu and if it works out fine then when the windows RC runs out you can just stay with Ubuntu, if its no good then you will hopefully have the funds to buy Windows for real.

I havent heard of this before, but if its true then i have to ask what Go is going to offer us, we already have various languages that are very powerful so unless Go is a) very easy to use or b:) has new features then i see it as a *bad* thing, yet another language for programmers to learn for no good reason.but i havnet looked into it, so i could be wrong...

WOW requires a monthly subscription per account, so each user would need their own personal account.I must admit i was thinking of the posibility of a similar "Game Cafe"Internet cafes are hopeless here in the UK where you can get 2mb broadband for under ?10/month if an internet cafe charges ?1 per hour of use then in 10 hours a month it gets cheaper to get your own internet. However, gamers are different, the customers likely to use a Game Cafe would have their own PCs and internet, possibly very good PCs but if i could offer then 16 PCs, all on a very fast lan with custom built private servers for all the popular first person shooter games then they would happily pay a couple of pounds an hour to beat 15 of their mates at the latest Call of duty I first started gaming playing Unreal Tournament GOTYE edition in an internet cafe, it was an amazing atmosphere hearing the groans as i sniped people and the excitement of being chased by a guy with a flak cannon while i could hear him laughing hysterically. Good times.... But to buy the set up is the pricey bit, think of 16 hi spec gaming computers, probably two high speed game-ready servers, a couple of decent switches and some nice cabling, then gaming quality monitors, keyboards and mice, plus a few spares. The building itself, food/drink and storage of said consumables. It's a lot of cash....But good luck with it, like someone said though, if you are using gaming (or at least high spec) machines/hardware then the cost of 8-10 Windows XP licenses shouldnt be too much to worry about. If you arent using high spec machines then you really need to think about getting fast machines. People wont pay to play laggy, slow games

well like i said you can easily use linux however many, if not all, modern games designed for Windows either wont work at all or will be so laggy, slow, bad sounds, useless graphics and glitchy that no-one would ever pay to play them at your place so it would be a disaster! Look at this website: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ WINE is the simulator i told you about, basically it fools the programs into thinking linux is windows, so they run. Of course this means "translating" their code into linux friendly code which isnt perfect at all so errors do happen. The link i gave you lists all the games that have been tested under WINE and how well they work. Use CTRL+F to search for the game (eg Call of duty) and its rating in precious metals will tell you how good or bad it runs as well as some of the details of what works and what doesnt.

No, is the answer!You do get WINE which is a windows simulator that will let you use many windows programs perfectly in linux, you just download and run a windows installer and it works. However, games are VERY complex and rely heavily on various aspects of windows (or their native operating system). You are going to need to use windows to do what you want to do.However, you should be able to buy Windows XP fairly cheap at the moment, or Windows 7 for about ?50 ($70-$80) It's strange you're computers didnt come with an OS, you can try a linux Distro like Ubuntu but it probably wont play games like CoD etc... because they are so complex.

the CPU sounds a good thing to check. Other than that it could be a short circuit causing the PSU's circuit breaker to flip. Try the CPU first, then check for shorts (eg badly connected connections.) and unplug everything except the mobo I think if the mobo connection is wrong (or the PUS perceives it as wrong, perhaps due to a MOBO fault) the power supply will either do nothing, or do what you described. So double check everything on the PSU, RAM, GFX, CPU, peripherals etc....

I dont understand, there is no justification that needs to be said. Violent video games sell. That's all there is to it! Modern Warfare 2 (first person, modern day war type shooter) was released today and is expected to sell 5 MILLION copies TODAY if they retail at, on average $50 each thats 250 MILLION dollars in ONE day!! That's insane!!! That's just one day!!!!!!!! Need we say any more?! Violence sells!

A welcome message is a good idea for sure. But basically find the page you want you user to see when they get to your site. It could be a "news" page or a "welcome to our site" etc... Just find that file and either rename it to index.php or htm or if you know PHP use an include: <?include("myfiles/news.php")?>and save it as index.php Because if the news.php page is linked by another page then the link wont work if you move and rename it to index.php. But if you use INCLUDE it wont matter. The news.php page will be displayed but all links to news.php will work.

EDIT: It looks like i was beaten to it But i'll leave this here for the sweet sweet credits (they taste great with butter and jam) and because i think it's a helpful post for both the OP and everyone else :)With the uploading thing it will be visible straight away. The only thing you have to wait for is the domain name servers to catch up. But if your default Index.html page is visible then any pages you upload are there straight away.You can delete the index.html file straight out of the web folder through whichever FTP program you used to upload your site. Just delete it. You will need to replace it with another file called "index.htm" "index.html" or "index.php" though. Basically when you go to a website the server looks through the pages in the ROOT directory (like the C:\ drive) for a page named index.something and then displays that page. I think it starts with html, then htm, then php. You can change this (google "change index page with htaccess file") if you dont put an index file in there, or tell the server where to look the user will just see a list of files and folders which is not a good look. So make sure you make an index page or use htaccess to tell the server where to look. If you are only uploading drupal then there is no need to keep it inside the drupal folder. Just copy it all into the root folder. (so instead of mysite.com/drupal/index.htm it is just mysite.com/index.htm) it makes much more sense, that way the server will automatically pick up the drupal index page and it will work.to create a database you need to login to cpanel and then look for something like "Databases" its been a while, but there you can then create a database (refer to the drupal instructions about what it should be called, or just copy the name you set on your MAMP installation) and then setup a user (again copy the username and password from the database details you used on the MAMP server, and give it root access, lets go wild (not usually advised but meh) to the database you just made (this is done in the same place as making the database, look for a "users" or "privileges" link.Once you have made the database you can then make the tables inside it through phpmyadmin, there is a link to PMA in the cpanel page. To make it easy you can export the database (data included) from your MAMP installation. Just go into phpmyadmin (PMA) on the MAMP server, go to the drupal database and click "export" up the top, make sure you tell it to export the tables AND data (structure+data) and tell it to go into an SQL file. Then copy the code it shows (or copy it out of the file it makes, whichever it does) and go into PMA in cpanel, click "SQL" paste the code in and hit the "execute" button and that should make the tables and data you need. If it doesnt work then you will need to re-install drupal on the webserver from scratch, which is probably the best, but most irritating way of doing it if you arent familiar with solving problems which will definitely appear if you cheat