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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.

Wow, those websites definitely are not correct. It surprises me that anyone can believe the facts they show over there.

Wow, that's pretty interesting. It's a good thing that the largest prime number happens to be a Mersenne Prime, otherwise it would be so long you couldn't even write it down.

The directory can be any directory that you want to store the files in. You can pick what directory you want to place the files. For Xisto, you get a root ftp directory that your ftp uploads go to. If you want to leave it in the root directory, then just leave the field blank. Otherwise you can put something like "/screenimgs/" to put all you're screenshots in that directory.

Firefox is already almost a barebones browser if you don't install any extensions. Basically, you can just simply surf the web with it. Its already a pretty well designed browser compared to others like IE and Opera and its probably the best choice in browsers so far.

To run PHP on your maching you need to setup a webserver that can run PHP. Try looking at this thread which has some info on it already. Try installing PHP Triad, an installer that installs Apache, PHP, and mySQL altogether, everything you need to run PHP.

Also, interestingly, the order of the search words seem to matter. If you rearrange the order of the words, you get slightly different results. This is interesting, but it kind of makes it harder for some searches.

They probably won't make you pay for it. They have ads that help offset the costs for the mail system. The costs must be ok if they still are running the mail system. Right now GMail offers most features that paid mail offers such as POP3 and IMAP access.

Interesting. I had Firefox 1.0 and I upgraded to Firefox 1.0.1 with no problem. The versions are almost identical except Firefox 1.0.1 has some security vulnerabilities fixed. You should be able to install the new copy right over your old copy and it should work. Try redownloading the install file and reinstalling the browser. The downloaded install file may not have downloaded correctly the first time. If it still doesn't work, try uninstalling and then reinstalling.

Yeah, carbon nanotubes might be the future. Currently we don't know that much about them, but if we are able to manufacture them more easily we probably would find a lot more uses for them. I think they might revolutionize the computer industry if more research is done on them. Carbon nanotubes are also really strong for their weight and could also potentially be used in structural materials. Hopefully we'll learn more about these nanotubes.

The new Google search feature is pretty useful. It comes in handy when I want to see what are popular searches for a particular topic.