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Wow, that's weird. I've been playing counter-strike for a long time and I haven't experienced or seen that very much. For the most part, most online players have been pretty friendly. Tell him to try playing on a friendlier server. If he's new to the game, try to find him a server for noobs so he can learn to play the game first. Most people I know just ignore noobs on server and continue playing and I think what he experienced does not count for all the online players and servers. Once you get the hang of it, counter-strike is a lot of fun to play.

You can use Shoutcast to stream any music you want. Some of my favorites are Trance stations Digitally Imported and ETN.fm. You should try listening to streaming music, its pretty good and its free.

Most stream recorder programs automatically start new files for different songs. So if the title or song data changes, the recorder automatically starts a new file for the new song. I believe StreamRipper does this last time I checked and I think some of the other programs do this as well.

I also play Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. They're pretty fun games and the storyline is pretty interesting. I got to the very end on Jedi Outcast, but I'm still stuck at the very end, which is pretty tricky. I'm around the middle of Jedi Academy so far. The different lightsabers in Jedi Academy are really neat, as you can have a double edged lightsaber and also hold two lightsabers in addition to having the regular one lightsaber. The special moves for each are also really neat.

The other mp3 players of similar capacity, like the iRivers, are around the same price as the iPod. I think what makes the players so expensive is the small hard drive the player requires, which is kind of expensive. The small electronics I think are also a little bit expensive to produce. I heard that Apple makes approximately 40% profit off of each iPod so the production cost for each iPod is approximately 60% of the price they sell it for.

Could we get posts counted for the Politics & Economics subforum of Life Talk?

Yeah, Rome: Total War is definitely a great game. It does make you feel like you're a part of the Roman Empire. The formations and units are all very realistic and are from Roman history. The battles are pretty interesting too although they take a bit of time to load. The campaign map is also pretty fun and you get to build up your cities and move your armies. Overall, its a really good game.

I downloaded the full network install of service pack 2 and upgraded. It has a couple of new features but I don't notice too many more changes. Some compatibility also has gone down a little with some older software.

Technically, its not legal to record streams from the internet, but I guess its ok to listen to some music offline. If your soundcard supports it, you can record the stereo mix out from your soundcard so whatever plays on your speakers, you can record into a file using any sound recording program such as Audacity or regular Windows Sound Recorder. If you want to record the actual sound data from the stream, you can use StreamRipper. StreamRipper is open source and is a program that connects to the streaming media server and instead of playing the stream on your speakers it writes the data into a file on your hard drive so you can listen to it again. StreamRipper also can be used as a plugin for Winamp so you can listen to the music in Winamp and then press record when you want to record something you're listening to. Hope this explains it, enjoy your music.

Yah, I think I had the same problem. When I was low on credits it jumped about -4 credits one day.

Yah, sometimes I find that Google doesn't give that good results that I'm looking for. Google usually gives the most popular results, but sometimes I'm looking for something else. I usually use Teoma, which gives more subject specific results usually, if I can't find what I'm looking for on Google.

G-Mail has become really popular in the short time that it started its webmail service and it seems that all the other services are trying to compete. This new upgrade for Yahoo should make it just about as good as G-Mail and its good that mail services are finally giving more space to their users.

Hmmm... Google still hasn't indexed my site, even when I put robot tags and added my site to Google's list.

The install is simply a rebuilt version of the original Firefox with the security fixes added into the install. So basically, when you upgrade you reinstall Firefox with the new security fixes over the old Firefox.

I don't think it went public yet. You still can't sign up for an account on their homepage. It's still in the beta phase.