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Did you sign up for that package? If you didn't sign up for the 150 MB package that requires 30 or so points, you won't get the 150 MB. You'll get the 20 MB package depending on what you ordered. You can always upgrade at a later date once you get enough points.

Runescape isn't anything to write home about. I swear it's the most dull game I've ever played. It's redundant, based on random numbers rather than actual skill, and, above all, redundant. You end up having to do the same thing so many times that every skill loses it's luster. It's not even worth paying for. If you want to pay for a game, pay for an actual game with actual content where the designers spent more than five minutes of caring like World of Warcraft (though I don't like RPGs in general, at least WoW has full screen graphics, textures, and music that sounds like it wasn't put through a MIDI grinder). See the game Second Life. It's a game where you can do whatever you want, and like real life, it's boring, but the difference is you can fly and teleport. It's the only full blown game I've ever fully disliked and was dissatisfied with (I was playing free as well, though). But the catch with second life is when you pay you can create your own items and services for other second life players and possibly make a small profit in the real world or spend it in the virtual world. Even worse is Habbo Hotel (at least Runescape has some form of mild fun). Not only does it ripoff its art-style from good old Be Incorporated (not a big deal), it's completely dull, like second life, but it infinitely worse. You can have your own rooms in the hotel, but you have to pay for coins to pay for little 2.5D items to put in your room. Supposedly it looks like the game is to communicate with friends. If I want to contact my friends, I can do it through email. If I want to meet new people, I visit a forum. The game seems useless. I thought games were supposed to entertain me, not bore me while I watch 2.5D characters rambling to eachother and standing in line for virtual ice cream.

The different types of quotes are equally important as well. Without them you'd have to sit there trying to print values in ASCII character codes you wanted to see. echo "These basic quotation marks allow you to use the apostrophe and are useful for basic text.";echo 'These single quotes allow you to use standard quotemarks and are useful for dispensing HTML code';echo `These grave accents allow you to put both single and double quotes`;They work for variables in this language as well. I end up using them a lot within my code. I don't often end up using the printf function, though. It reminds me of C and why I dislike it.

I don't personally like Object Oriented Programming. Procedural programming is what I like. I find that it has a better logical flow. Which one you want to program with is up to you. Rich Stallman actually hates OOP but other people actually like it. Whichever you can program more competently in is what you should use, and it is truly your option for many popular languages.

We weren't meant to be vegetarians. We're omnivores and there are things in our anatomy, such as our teeth, that tell the story of this. Get the best of both worlds like nature intended rather than one world. Eating plants is great for losing weight, so I can understand temporary vegitarianism for that. If you think you're morally superiour just because you will only devour living things that can't scream or fight back I can't agree with you - I think that's hypocritical. Live on air if you want to be morally quaint. What we do to plants is just as disgusting as what we do to animals, but we can't empathize because plants don't have blood, so we think it's OK, which it is, equally with eating animals.

Yes. XML, HTML, XHTML, et ceteral are just markup languages and nothing more. They're used for defining settings and creating general purpose documents. Creating documents is the keyword, here. You don't make applications or scripts, but documents, like spreadsheets and letters, documentation, and web pages. If it were a programming language, it would be able to do mathematical calculations and use functions of mathematical functions as well as machine code and libraries. Last time I've heard HTML doesn't require libraries to unlock new functions - you just type and view. It's not turing complete by any means and so can't be a programming language.Saying that a markup language is a programming language means that you have a lot more to learn about computers.

Keelhauling is barbaric by itself, but on land? This guy is just crazy and having that enhanced by an opiate, and not only that, he's being a dip for all of us because now people are going to call for tougher restrictions on alcohol. I guaruntee you, if this were any other drug (let's say a new drug), congress would be all over it and ban it, but since this is alcohol, it gets a by. At least they don't defacate on the constitution's seperation of federal and state laws with alcohol's status.

There are three things you need to make a good website. Content is the king, advertising is the queen, and the design is the jack. You need a good concept that sets it out from other sites in some way. Now you need to decide on a good system to manage your content. After that, make a web design. Don't overload it with fancy graphics. Fancy graphics do not matter. Maddox and Wikipedia can still attract users without excessive background images, javascript, and other filling junk because they have good content. Focus on efficency and user friendliness. This means avoid tables. Now that you have a good web design and a system for that web design to work its magic on, put in your content. Put in a lot of content. Make it as good as possible. If you have a forum, only have a small amount of forums so your forum looks bigger. Avoid the mistakes placed upon the HTML Hell page which can be found on Google as the first hit. That should make it attractive for the next step.Advertising is very important. How will people know your site is there when it isn't linked from anywhere? Go around IRC channels with your target market. Link it in your forum signature. Put it in your social networking profiles. Advertise to your coworkers. Buy ads from Google. If people like it, they will come, and your site is a success. If people don't like it, you did something wrong. If possible, ask why they don't like your site and don't come to it. Fix the issue if possible.

Is this message brought to you by the Space Pope or something?I really doubt that people will actually marry robots, though. Perhaps keeping them as slaves to their every whim, yes, but you'd have to be one odd card to actually marry something devoid of any life. Then again, I'm sure people have married cars before. There's always one or two people that might do it, but the subconscious beast inside of us will most likely make the decision for you - a real woman, because that's what is in the interest of the continuation of the species. It's hard to argue with instinctual level forces, and that's why advertisers exploit them all the time. You never see even mannequins that look as real as a human being. I doubt a machine can be any better especially every little noise that a machine makes - there are no silent wire joints, and things needed such as cooling fans or vent openings for heatsinks near the upper regions of the body would only make it a cheesier imitation of real human life male or female. I could only see it happen with nanorobotics, and even then I don't think that somehow there won't be a discernable difference. A robot will be what a robot is - a tool for mankind to do work for itself.

A fat person would have, well a fat chance of getting someone. An ugly person does have some chance of getting someone, because beauty is relative. Fatness is not, really.

Those are all interpereted - great for a cheap text adventure or a game that will wear out in 10 minutes and real-world applications like content management systems, but if you want to make a real game you need a language which was compiled into machine code or you'll end up with an engine which either greatly limits your graphic and sound capabilities due to the interpereter (especially in Java), or creates an exceptionally slow engine. Besides, it is the interpereters working together, not the actual code (you could compile code into object modules, but the interfacing of those with other programming languages is a bit sketchy unless you know they use the same object format). You wouldn't program something like Duke Nukem 3D in PHP scripts, would you? I'm not going to harp on PHP too much. It's compilable, but I don't know the extent of its capabilities. MySQL is not, though.

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This is very interesting, but I don't think it will replace my keyboard. It'd be extremely strange to try and touch type on that thing, and it just wouldn't be as comfortable for me banging my fingertips on a hard table and pressing wouldn't be as definite on a block of foam. But I'd really like it, though. When I change keymaps I might be able to actually see the keymap change! This would be great if I were using an emulator for a Commodore, or using a foreign keymap and my fingers get confused. Plus, It'd make it a great showpiece - one minute it's normal and then with the press of a key it changes to Greek or even Runes.

The best language will be a compiled language - so no Java (you don't want a bloated virtual machine and interpereted bytecode eating up your allotted hardware, do you?), and one that works on many platforms - so no PL/I, Fortran, or Cobol. Oh, and don't trust VisualBASIC for a game. That's basically the only reccomendations I'd give you. It's really up to you which is the best game programming language. Compilers are so good now, it barely matters which language you choose. As long as you can be proficient at it, and you have the proper libraries, you can make a good game. Any person that says you can't make a good-quality game because you are using x language is spewing lies (but the compiler can sometimes matter, and usually it shouldn't dramatically affect you). I personally don't like C++ because I don't like Object-Oriented programming. C is better for me, though I spend most of my time in FreeBASIC when I program. I script these days, though.So you need a library. What libraries should you use? SDL is good for 2D games, and OpenGL is good for 3D games (but you'll need a sound library like OpenAL to work in conjunction if you want music and sound). Will this work in the programming language of your choice? Most likely, yes. All those libraries mentioned have ports to BASIC (FreeBASIC, so it doesn't reek like other BASICs. Syn9 is making an awesome professional quality 3D game with it, so don't diss BASIC for the flimsy interpereters and limits of the past), Pascal (FreePascal), and (of course), C and C++. You can find some good base engines in C and C++ like eDuke32 (the improved version of the Build engine that powered Duke Nukem, which is now full 3D, without those perspective errors) and even Source (which you can download an SDK for if you own half-life 2). Even the old GoldSrc engine powering Half Life 1 and Doom 3's engine. All of them (except source) are freely and legally available (Goldsrc may not. I don't know the license for that.), so enjoy! You'll need a lot of other software as well.

The Internal Speaker? As in the speaker which is housed in the processor and can only make monophonic sounds? I've never had a problem with it before. It's such an old relic the only time I've found it to be of any issue, even when emulating old DOS programs. If I need to emulate those programs chances are there's some emulator out there that changes processor beeps to the speaker, where they aren't an issue if I don't want them to be.Besides, when it wants to beep, Windows won't be able to do anything about it!

This is definately a must-get for anyone who has the system to take it. I've heard Portal is simply wonderful with the exception of short game time - there is not a negative thing I've heard of it other than the game time. Of course, Half Life 2: Episode 2 is also there. There's plenty there to keep you entertained, and I must say that Valve has done it again (there isn't a game I don't like from them, except for Half-Life: Source, which was a real bummer for me because I thought that it would include updated graphics and the such. Well, I guess I'll just wait for Black Mesa to come out. It looks really promising.).

I am truly sorry for the crunching of your words into larger sections. I'm not allowed to have structured Q-A conversation apparently. Can we get rid of this quote limit? Evolution itself is a solid FACT, and could be described as a scientific LAW (DIFFERENT than a theory in that it DESCRIBES A PROCCESS WE KNOW that occurs in the natural world, unlike a THEORY, which DESCRIBES HOW SOMETHING OCCCURS). Evolution THROUGH NATURAL SELECTION IS A THEORY, but it is a SCIENTIFIC THEORY, which is well tested and proven through the SCIENTIFIC METHOD before being recognised as a theory. It is NOT a THEORY in the layman's terms of the word, which makes it easy to make a straw man argument against it because you think that it is just as well thought out as a HYPOTHESIS, which is NOT A THEORY. Evolution ISN'T just believed by atheists alone. I am a freethought and I believe in evolution. Only organised religion tries to discredit evolution. No. The universe was already there. It was just a rediculously hot mass of energy. Then it expanded into something which could be capable of housing vast galaxies and even life after several billion years of development. But wait, there is more. You see we weren’t here yet. We were just organisms in the ocean. - The big bang does not discredit theism at all. It was meant to be agnostic as a deity could have set the universe in motion at this stage. - You couldn't call the first life forms "organisms". The first "life forms" were viruses, which are not technically alive from a scientific point of view. These things eventually grew organelles, and became cells, which in turn banded together to create multicellular organisms, which in turn branched out into many, many creatures. - Before we were creatures, we were viruses, and before that, we were a bunch of protein chains and amino acids, which would bond together in chemical reactions to eventually create a form of life. - This is not evolution. This is natural selection, which can be disproven, but is the most well accepted theory. No, we would not become perfect. You can't become perfect. Evolution adapts us to the environment which we live in through mutation. This is why you can't place a goldfish in the ocean. Evolution has nothing on intelligence. You're mixing two different things. Also, in order for an organism to become smart it must have the capacity to learn. This has nothing to do with evolution unless you are just a plain racist. Humans belong to a single species and can do the same things as another human in another region or another point in time if exposed to the right people. However, if you were to try an teach a neanderthal how to speak you might end up running into a problem because they aren't humans, they are neanderthals - close but no cigar. Evolution is useful mutation through the reproductive process, it is not development of a nonphysical chracteristic. The missing link is irrelavent due to our knowledge today. Drastic mutation is possible, and if you need a link Australopithecus afarensis is considered the so called "missing link" along with Australopithecus africanus, Sinanthropus pekinensis, and several other former animals. - We don't need to have high intelligence to simply exist. Just look at a modern day ape or any animal for that matter. They don't have high intelligence but they exist. - Because we evolved for a need for a certain fork of ape which needed to have toolmaking abilities. Mutation makes interesting things. That's why no two species are ever alike. There are two reasons why:a) Apes do not require that adaptation, as they can already use tools for all their needs, and the other species simply weren't lucky enough. When such a mutation occurs, it seems to be very rare, and when it does happen, it is certain to wipe out the entire species with its superiourity. Because originally all life was contained to the oceans. Eventually creatures mutated to be able to come on land probably to save themselves from other animals in the ocean, and it ended up becoming plentiful. At that stage of development, they weren't inferior, and when the land crawling animals finally came, the seas loosened up and the need for such adaptations ended up dying. Evolution takes very long periods of time, and as a species which has been mutated into intelligence, we are smart enough not to drain our food supply. In addition, those buggers are able to reproduce pretty quickly due to the numbers. This is the straw man argument which creationists use. Remember, there is a thing called the SCIENTIFIC METHOD, and EVOLUTION IS A FACT. NATURAL SELECTION IS A THEORY, and NATURAL SELECTION IS NOT A LAYMAN THEORY! IT IS SCIENTIFIC THEORY! There is a difference! It wasn't a guess, it actually has much data based on observations to support it, OR IT WOULDN'T BE ACCEPTED AS A THEORY BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. Unfortunately there are arguments against creationists, sorry. For example, if the six days were metaphorical and they actually represented periods in which the universe developed, we would have land based plants before we had enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to support them. 1Co 15:41 shows an easily observable event. Stars can be seen to have different magnitudes by simple observation of the sky, and it implies that the sun is not a star, which is false. And Jon 2:5 implies that there are weeds on the ocean floor. Nothing lives there outside near the sulphurous crags which are not mentioned. Jon 2:7 ignores the fact that you would never be able to go down into the bottom of a mountain unless you were to jump into a volcano. Mountains are upheavals of the continental crust due to the shift of tectonic plates. You would have to travel through solid rock and dirt to get into the bottom of a mountain unless you wanted to fry in molten rock after going through the mid-atlantic ridge. Jer 33:22 says that the amount of sand of the sea is immeasurable. It is, and so is the number of stars in our galaxy if we had enough time. It might not be six thousand, but it isn't disproving anything. There is another little thing, from a novel called 1984, which you might be familiar with: He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the future controls the present. For all you know this could be a 2007 year old lie which was based on a character used by the original apostles to teach morals, but ended up as a tool of control by the churches, and completely lost after the middle ages. I would only trust a Roman document showing his name queued for execution. It didn't. It was a scatter of atoms that joined together in a hot molt in a nebula most of which went into the sun, and some into planets which orbit around us after the concauction became a neutron star and no longer needed the extra matter. The matter orbited around for years, in the case of our inner planets becoming a rocky molt before cooling. The rock is merely a product of weathering, erosion, and contact with animals. Let me show you something: This image is called Pale Blue Dot, and it was taken by Voyager 1. Here is what the late Carl Sagan said about his dot: Here is another quote by Carl Sagan which you might want to think about: I for one, refuse to believe in a big brother diety that cares what the small creatures on an insignificantly sized dirtball in a middle of a galaxy could care about what we do here.

Vista is simply terrible. They butchered the interface, they added an annoying security feature which can only protect the stupid, they butchered the directory structure, and worst of all added all that bloat. I'd stick with XP any day, but I'd rather even work on 2000 so I don't even have all those fancy effects but all the stability and features that I like - namely the lack of bloat and useless effects, the decent security, and the interface which I like to use.If this is the future of Microsoft I'm going to migrate to Linux just as soon as I can get a 64-bit flash player. Of course, there's always Server Edition which they haven't messed up too bad and actually seems pretty great compared to Vista, since it seems to be a more modern 2000.Plus, at this point Vista at this point lacks the consumer product testing. It has had serious problems, like the WGA server reset which cost Vista users several features for a day or two. When the service pack comes out it might be a good time to buy.

I've learned C and I simply hate using it because I will never use half its "features" nor do I want to use them. I stick with FreeBASIC if I can, and Pascal otherwise if I need a compiled application. PHP, however, is my favorite language to use: It's like C without all the things I hate.C++ was even worse with the cout function and all the object-oriented ideas I don't like to work with. Don't even get me started on Java.

I use 1400x900. I always liked larger resolutions, and I'd push my old CRT to it's limit at 1152x864 rather than fessing up to 1024x768. After using it for a while it just seemed so small...But at the same time with this fancy new LCD monitor I have I can't get a good refresh rate over 60 Mhz (to compare, my old monitor could go up to 85 Mhz at it highest resolution). When I play good games I end up getting that annoying blending effect that happens when the monitor can't keep up with the card and the sync rate the developers had placed on there went to heck. I hope I get a better monitor one of these days that goes up to the same resolution or more, but with the higher refresh rate I desire. By that time the processor probably couldn't fit my motherboard style again.

I use File Pasta because it's a general file host and I'm acquainted with the webmaster. It's a great little host for what it's worth. Photobucket is my alternate, and one day I'd like to see how BayImg works out. Imageshack was probably the slowest image host I've ever used.

There will always be a bigger number. It's just a matter of whether we've invented a term for it yet.

Dang poorly manufactured nickel-cadium batteries. It seems that there were a lot of defective batteries a little while ago with laptops exploding left and right, but it's quelled down now and it seems that whatever caused the explosions has been fixed, though macbooks are still touted as getting really hot at times.People theorise it's because the laptops were left on without completely shutting the screen, keeping it on, and allowing a pocket of heat to develop and cause the battery to explode. I don't know the validity of that claim, but it really is nuts that these things can explode regaurdless of the reason (besides lighting it on fire purposefully).

I just have boxers and a t-shirt. I can't stand to be in anything more or I'll fry in my blanket due to the way I sleep (like a burrito - wrapped up on all sides), and the fact my blanket is rather thick. My family members seem to either like pajamas or briefs-only.

In Poland there is a soup which is made from duck blood which tastes rather good. You can drink the blood of an animal (well, eat if you really want to be smart), but like all products from an animal you should purchase something which is deemed 'safe', and be sure to cook it well. You might want to look at a recipe for the soup to see how the blood is prepared. The Vietnamese also have a blood-based food, which is called Tiết canh, which is made with raw duck blood rather than cooked blood like the Polish dish.