salamangkero

My first language was Filipino, although I'm now usually more coherent in English than in my native tongue

That's because you would need to use energy to split water back into its components. It's like using a motor to drive a turbine or powering a solar cell with a lamp or torch.

Not exactly. Do not assume that love is meant to be reciprocated. Also falling under the category of unconditional love is love that is given but not returned. It may or may not last forever. It may or may not be destroyed. In the event that unreturned love ages, it is more likely that this kind of love will evolve or devolve into one of the other types you mentioned. Oh, we do have a term for "friendship love", it's called fraternal love. Not to be confused with love between actual siblings, fraternal love is, metaphorically speaking, "brotherly love" or "great solidarity".

There'd be plenty of resources there, alright, but I doubt oil is one of them. Like the earlier posts outlined, oil came from putrefied, compressed and fermented organisms. If, however, by any stroke of luck, we find oil on Mars, you can be sure people will start doubting whether Mars had any lifeforms some time ago.

I do agree. What's the point anyway? It'd be of use only for people who design satellites. Everyone already knows our planet's defenses are failing and we need to stem the cause of such depletions. Still, we don't need plasma storm predictions for that. It'd be almost like saying, "Oookay, a storm's coming, Fred, cut down on the CFC's for a while, will yah?" And then, "Great, the storm has passed. George, will you hand me that aerosol can?" I'm not so sure about that. I am certain that as the sun ages, indeed as time s imply passes by, chances are you'd be seeing more of any kind of phenomenon. However, whether plasma storms become more frequent or not is of very debatable veracity.

I guess it depends on how I came across that million. If I just happened to find one lying on the street, I'd pick it up, walk a few paces outta sight and blt to a more secure location. See, it could very well be "marked" so I'd probably split it into different amounts and secure it. If I came across it purely by chance, I'd also probably circulate it before I put it in a bank; certainly wouldn't wanna be caught seemingly red-handed of a crime I've yet to commit.As to looking for the owner, I suppose I'd do so. That way, I'll know who to beware of and which guy to avoid running into.All the same, I'd get it in two or more bank accounts. I'd probably try my hand at a lending business, get a few tips and pointers from my mom.Most probably, though, I'd invest it on boys. Finding a partner or mate for life is a very tricky business, might I add

My sis often asks me questions like this so I definitely have ready answers If it's a million in the currency of my home country, no. If it's in dollars, yes. If it's a million yen, no. If it involves me eating stuff I am assured to be small in size, digestible, non-poisonous and completely non-hazardous to my internal organs, I'd have a go a it. "Safe" stuff include dead insects (preferably fried) and worms. "Unsafe" stuff include pebbles, spiky or thorny objects/organisms, extreme acid and alkali, boulders and sand. If it involves me parting with certain beloved vital organs that are dispensable, like kidneys, a fraction of my liver, a leg, an eye or an arm, I'd probably not accept anything lower than 5 million. The price may go up, depending on my attachment to the organ in question. If it involves the lifetime loss of access to the Internet, no. If it involves the death of someone without directly implicating me (perhaps through magical means), I'd generally say yes. If it involves an order restricting me from computers, no. If it involves something sexual, I'd agree only if assured of confidentiality, non-breakage of certain body tissues, non-transmission of diseases and certain other, ethical concerns. If it involves the destruction of my entire clan, bloodline, hometown, nation, university or just several innocent lives, I'd probably agree only if I could save a handful of 'em as servants/slaves. I suppose that will do. Now if any of you have any proposition to make, I am very much open to hear you out.

Actually, it's not gravity that is like a trampoline but space-time. Many have imagined space-time as a flexible rubbery fabric. If it were to be supposed so, an object, say a marble, placed on this fabric will distort the surface, depressing the nearby areas. Any stellar dust, marbles or particle affected by such a depression will be attracted to, or "gravitate", towards the marble. A more massive object, like a bowling ball will create a deeper depression and affect a larger area. If, however, this hypothetical bowling ball were to be compressed further into the size of a pea, a small, massive object creates an even deeper depression. Such is a blackhole. In other words, ordinary objects are like marbles; they do have their own influence over the rest of the univesre but their power of attraction is almost insignificant. Massive objects, like stars, are like bowling balls. Even our own sun has enough gravity to bend light, a phenomenon best observed during solar eclipses. Now, if a blue giant were to be compressed into something small, the gravity of all its particles will still "summon" eveything else to them. However, it's not exactly solely about blackholes; the topic is gravitational collapse. Methinks it is the crushing, implosive action of a blue giant on it's deathbed, which may eventually lead to a blackhole anyway. It is understood, of course, that these giant bodies have accumulated quite a lot of mass. Probably the only thing that keeps it from falling apart by itself is the constant "push" or pressure emanating from the fuel burning within. When the star has finally squandered all its fusion fuel, it begins to burn off the by-products of its earlier reactions. In doing so, heavier elements like helium and, eventually, iron, are formed. When, finally, the star has nothing left to burn, the outward "push" ceases and the gravitational pull of the matter deep within may be sufficient enough to attract those on the surface, metaphorically "pulling the roof down", hence the term gravitational collapse. This doesn't always happen, though. As stars die, they shed off shells, or fragments of themselves, and it is hypothesized that it will have to take a really large blue giant to decay into a blackhole. By the way, to one who said blackholes are dead stars and dead things cannot die anymore, that is so not true. Blackholes may be, metaphorically speaking, dead but corpses do not always remain intact. Blackholes may not ressurect into stars but they do decay, eventually, and fade away. A big question, however, is where does all that matter go?

Actually, you don't really need that. Java is an object-oriented language, not a procedural one. If the method mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) is called, you can be sure that the mouse was, indeed, clicked. The component will never call that method unless the mouse is clicked over it. It's like, "I'm a dentist. People go to me to have their teeth checked. People don't go to me if they wanted to give birth." Quite analogously, "I am a method named mouseClicked. I am automatically called by components I listen to if they are clicked. They will not bother me if the mouse just hovered over them." There is no need to explicitly call mouseListener and mouseMotionListener methods. It is not you who needs to pass the events; the components do it for you. The methods are automatically called by the components that have registered them as a listener. Furthermore, these components know which method to call so there is no need to bother determining whether they actually called the right method. Components never play such horrible pranks.

Oh people, dear people. Yes, I do agree that those other people have other things in mind when it comes to imagining the "perfect guy". However, one should not just brush their comments aside. Allow me to present a quote from a frustrated female who had broken up with her nth boyfriend: See, love is a very powerful emotion enabling the cover-up of many flaws. Also, these friends of yours may not actually be jealous. All they probably mean to do is advice you on, what they think, is best for you. It's up to you whether to take their advice or not but please, oh please, don't foreclose your mind and judge them to be jealous. Doing so makes you as prejudiced as you think they are. Oh, I do agree, however, that just because a person smokes and drinks he/she is already bad. Also, there is no such thing as the "right" guy; it's just a myth. Just the one with whom your interests conflict the least

Actually, it would have been impossible to get a mouseClicked event without a mousePressed event. For one, a mouseClick is no more than a mousePressed followed by mouseReleased after a sufficiently small amount of time.In the example code you have given in your post, a mouseClick will result in having the status bar text, very briefly displaying "Pressed at [%d, %d]" before displaying "Clicked at [%d, %d]". Why? For one, a mousePressed event is completed first before a mouseClicked, considering that the former is the first "half" of the latter.Oh, by the way, please be not confused when I used the terms mouseClicked and mousePressed. Those are not actual events; they all use mouseEvent. The difference is only recognizable in the interface function called. Also, for the reason stated above, it is not advisable to define mousePressed and mouseReleased methods in the same class as mouseClicked.I hope that was coherent enough >.<

Well, there's the rare research and academic stuff I need for school, the regular pr0n dosage, the checking of numerous email, personals and game accounts online and downloading other stuff of sponatneous interest

Unless the universe is a whole lot larger that we'd imagined it, I'd say it is pretty hard to believe we're elements of a game. For one, assuming that the state of every particle in our universe in "stored" in some kind of memory, then this super-universe would have to be infinitely larger than ours. Even just assuming 1-superAtom to 1-particle ratio in storing data, it'd still be... I dunno how to decribe it 'coz BIG doesn't even begin to approximate it.However, if this super-universe (meaning our "controller's" universe) operates outside our laws of physics, for example by using magic, or a totally different set of laws, then it might be possible.As a kid, I've always wondered if the stars I see at night are actually composed of the same atoms as everything else or if those were just programmed on the night sky, on telescope lenses and on radio telescopes. It'd be somewhat like The Matrix or The Truman Show <_<However, if the universe itself is, indeed, a game, perhaps the players are the denizens of it themselves. I, for one, believe that I play myself and, using various tools at my disposal, I also have an ability to "play" or influence other people's lives. The reverse is also true, I can be played for a fool, played up, played down or made to run hither and thither at the whims of other people.

Food is not really a problem. I remember reading once somewhere in this forum that deep in the pacific ocean, there are microscopic organisms that do not rely on sunlight and, instead, feed on noxious stuff like sulfur or metals, I dunno exactly. They get energy from the heat of deep ocean volcanic vents. I don;t see any reason why there can't be any such forms of life like this. Jupiter's moon, Io, for example, has a more than healthy volcanic activity. I'm not sure about groundwater in Mars, though, although water can remain liquid on mars, I think.

Well, it's still useful to us, although, yeah, he did tend to omit stuff about defragmenting and made an army of <'s and >'s. Sure, give constructive criticism as much as you wish but if you'd say something along the lines of "Oh, that is so below me," or, "I can do better than that," then, by all means, feel free to do so in your own thread instead of other people's threads. I mean, the guy's just trying to help and this is what people get for their efforts? Oh, by the way, temp files are actually there to speed up your system. Those kinda files eat hard drive space more than processor cycles. Oh and please refrain from typing in CaMeL or ALL CAPS; it is simply barbaric and totally uncivilized.

It's Chernobyl, dearie, but, like I said, while things like that do happen, those are less frequent than, let's say, forest fires.

I'm not a girl, thank you, but you might like to know that yes, some establishment do have sofas in the girls' washroom. I suppose it is for those intimate sorrowful moments between best friends when one of them goes a-crying into the universal sanctuary for females, the washroom. It might also be interesting to note that some establishments over here also have sofas in the men's washroom although it is rare that guys above the age of eight actually sit there. I also would like to bemoan the gender inequality. Why are women capable of asking "Wanna go to the washroom with me?" to another of their kind while a male doing the same stunt would, at best, earn himself a frigid glare and, at worst, a broken nose? So... any guys out there wanna go to the washroom with me? We could gossip, paint our nails, put on makeup or just gush over each others' shoes. It'd be fun, really

I'd most probably have the audacity to observe that, like all technologies, nuclear fission has both beneficial and harmful uses. Pretty much like how fire cooked or burnt the early human's food, this technology can either power one's TV or blast it up into pieces.I am, however, convinced that nuclear fission is, at large, a harmful process. Here on earth, we must be earnest in sustaining a suitably controlled environment to contain the energy from the blast in order to harness its power. Thankfully, though, nuclear fission occurs less frequently in nature than the primitive human's fire.

The Internet ain't just a favorite for me; it is vital. Without it, I am as isolated from my world as a midshipman wrecked on an undiscovered Pacific islet.I probably could forego my numerous accounts online but I cannot see myself without an email account. I might also learn to live without blogging but, at the very least, I need a computer to type it in; my penmanship's no good with actual journals.

Well, that's pretty much it for me. I don't exactly put much sane value on horoscopes but the zodiac sure does a nifty trick for entertainment. I read it, yeah, but only for fun. I often find myself saying, "Really now?" at those "predictions" for the day/week/month. I also happen to like the constellations but also for aesthetic pleasure only, as most objects in the night sky warrant.

My top three favorite drinks?1. Cool milk.2. De-fizzed Coke light.3. Ice-cold lemon juice.

You can find a lot of free online Flash games by signing up for an account at Neopets. There's also a 3d Java applet game called Runescape. Being an applet, though, don't expect any impressive graphics. Still, with a wide array of items, quests, monsters and NPC's, you'd have a helluva time gaining levels in different stats like HP, strength, attack, defense, magic and even prayer, fishing, cooking, mining, smithing or crafting, along with other ludicrous stats like woodcutting and firemaking. One comment, though, it gets repetitive after a month or two, although there are usually some welcome changes during Easter, Hallowe'en and Christmas. If you'd rather lay back and relax, there's a PHP-based RPG called Kings of Chaos. You control an army given resources at regular intervals and can order attack, reconnaisance or sabotage missions. You can also buff up your attack, defense, espionage and counter-espionage weapons.

Among the numerous constellations dotting the night sky, there are twelve, which, lying more or less about the equator, divide the celestial sphere into longitudinal sections of 30 degrees each. These constellations comprise what is known as the celestial zodiac. These constellations, much like everything else in the celestial sphere, helped the early man determine the seasons. As much as the Constellation of Orion, for a person in the northern hemisphere, is a sure sign that winter approaches, the constellations Sagittarius and Capricorn mark the short nights brought about by the summer solstice.However, there do exist creative individuals in the human society that attribute mundane, day-to-day events to these pinpoints of light. Granted, the possibility is quite real, due to the butterfly effect, that small and seemingly trivial details like the positioning of all particles in the universe can determine the lifetime or the destiny of a person. In the subtle art, not science, of astrology, these individuals concern themselves with different celestial bodies such as the sun and moon, planets and stars, especially the celestial zodiac.The first evidences of human use of the zodiac belt were dated as far back as 114 B.C. The year now is 2006, meaning these star signs have been in use for at least 2120 years. Back then, these astrologers have observed and recorded that, in the yearly cycle, the sun travels through all twelve 30-degree segments, also called houses. Each year, the same cycle repeats with astonishing precision. These star signs were assigned on people depending on the house the sun was in at the time of their birth.However, the universe was not as precise as everyone had thought. The celestial zodiac shifts westward at the rate of roughly one degree every 70 years. In the lifetime of a person, such abberations are hardly noticeable. However, in the course of over two millenia, most "expert" and "certified" astrologers still base their predictions on the old model. These people would probably be chagrined to know that the zodiac's houses, as of the present, have been shifted up by one house, or roughly 30 degrees, since its inception. In other words, the sun will not be in Aries until the time assigned for Taurus.There probably is not much grave danger in seeking advice from an astrologer. However, if you do, you now know very well how to spot one who is not well-versed in his/her craft: just ask about the star signs.In a few more millenia, should one be unfortunate enough to live that long, one can anticipate the winter sun in Gemini and Cancer. Until then, mind your star signs and may the Fates be kind to you all.