Yacoby

I definitely prefer Google, it seems to give a lot better results for what I type in, so until it starts to slip, I will continue to use it.There will, one day, be something better. I don't think that day is coming anytime soon though.

I don't really want to upgrade at all. Ever. Which is why I use Linux quite alot. I would use it more, but I get better performance with games on XP.It doesn't seem to add anything, other than to kill some games performance. The new user interface doesn't really intrest me, as I normally turn it to its lowest possible amount anyway (So Windows classic interface on XP). What annoys me is that Microsoft are going to release DirectX 10 for Vista, and only Vista. Windows XP is perfectly capable of using DirectX 10 if they added support for it, so I am going to have to miss out on all those fun games with the shiny new graphics. (Won't bother me untill about 2012, as I usally play games that are arround 5 years old.

Site one is very bland, and needs some work. At least get a template from somewhere like OSWD (Google it). If you want to make one of your flash pages into your home page, you need to embed the flash file into your htm document. You can find information on this by typing in Google: "Embed Flash"One thing that annoyed me about site 3 was that when I clicked on "Gallery" it had a lot of moving lines, and took a long time to get to the content. I suggest you try and speed up those animations.Site two and four could in my opinion be done significantly better in HTML and CSS as there doesn't seem to be any need to use flash for those sites other than the fade effects.Overall site three was by far the best.

Wouldn't it be much easier just to download a free program that will delete everything on your hard drive, and then write x's all over it a couple of times. After that, you have a working hard drive, but it is going to be almost impossible to recover any of the data that was on it. Admitidly this isn't as fun, but I cannot see the point in destroying something needlessly.

I have just started playing this game and it is great. I really hope that Microsoft does put a some extra maps for the game

I really hope Microsoft have as little as possible to do with the cells. (Oblivion doesn't have "maps" as such)
Anyway. Don't they already have some DLC on the Xbox Live Marketplace?


Anyway, FYI, there is an expasion called the "Shivering Isles", which is set in another plane of Oblivion. (Sheogorath, the God of Madness).

The US found chemical weapons in Iraq. Most were stored improperly and inert, some wasn't, but the problem here was with the term "stockpile". What constitutes a stockpile? 5 chemical shells? 10? 100? 1000?

 

Furthermore, Saddam had all the gear to start up production again once sanctions were lifted.

We were not looking for chemical weapons. We were looking for Nuclear Missiles with the range to reach Britain. Or that was what we were told.

We didn't find any. The longest range missile we found would only go something like 160Miles. The chemical weapons we found weren't very much worth worrying about. Anyway, I am guessing most countrys mess around with chemical weapons.

 

The US wasn't ever that interested in the WMD, it was more interested in the oil.

 

 

 

I think our single biggest mistake here was thinking there was anything to hold Iraq together. There isn't. There wasn't such a thing as an "Iraqi" until the 1950's. Loyalities in that part of the world are much more to tribal/famliy/ethnic/religous lines. It may have been best to divide the country in three, pull US troops up the Kurdish areas (where we haven't seen a lot of problems and the local population was very pro-western) and then sit on the new Kurdistan/Turkish boarder to make sure they didn't start shooting at eachother. Then let the Sunnis and Shiite shoot it out.

Saddam, for all his faults, was holding Iraq together. His methods may have not been very nice, but he was doing it. We come in and start a civil war (I never notice one before we invaded), and you suggest we just abandon it?

 

Which Army are you talking about? The conscripts? Most of them surrendered or just went home. They weren't there to fight and I doubt would have made an effective military force. Conscripts were not in uniform by choice.

 

Unfortunately, they had a lot of weapons, which I imagine most of them quite happily sold.

 

 

Why Al Sadr is still alive is beyond me. Again this goes back to basic rules of engagement. If Al Sadr is in a Mosque...blow up the damned Mosque.

That sort of atitue isn't going to help. Iraq, Iran etc seem alot more devout than we are now, so it may seem like nothing to us, but you remember the Danish cartoons? We don't really want to be know for blowing up Mosqurs

 

And one day they will have backing form Iran? That's already happening. What is going on now in Iraq is NOT an insurgancy.

No, it is a resistance movement. Almost exactly the same as the French resistance fighters from World War II.

That is what really gets me, no one seems to see the similarity.

 

Of course we need to get our troops out of the area in order to take a more forceful approach otherwise risk retalliation.

It would make a great recruting poster. "Help us kill the Americans that killed xyz".

 

Historically it worked in Germany. Granted Nazi's were only about 10 - 15% of the German population, but I don't think the Bath party was much larger than that. They just happened to rule the country by force for 30 years.

 

The problem was the some members of the Bath party were only memebers so they could do their job, not because of any loyalties to anyone.

 

And the Saudi's aren't are allies. Not really. They are the ones funding folks like Bin Ladan. The way to deal with those folks is: Assassinations. We know who these people are, start killing them and not all to quitely. People seem to think twice when cruise missiles beging flying through bedroom windows. And it only takes a few before people get the point too.

I hope you like your oil? If so, I don't advise to to anger the people who produce it.

 

The ole terrorist/freedom fighter debate. Not going to go there, because it won't end.

*Nods*

 

Again, from what I see, what the US is fighting now is a proxy war with Iran...only we won't bomb Iran.

 

Yeh, using the Israelis, in a way, the Israelis war against Lebanon(sp?) was just a US funded country verses as Iranian funded group.

 

 

We are going to have to do something about Iran. Personally, without an internal revolt, I see Iran getting nuked by 2010. Either by the United States or by the Israelis.

I hope the US leaders are cleaver enough to work out that using Nukes against a county is not a good idea.

What if any other country with Nukes decides to get involved because the radiation kill thousands of their people? The radiation from a nuke spreads a very long way.

 

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Ooops.

Note to self: Do not use Italics in place of quotes.

I don't hate Site Builders, I even used them about 6 years back. It is possibly a way to get someone who knows nothing about HTLM to build a site, and maybe get them to learn HTML. That is what I did anyway.You are not forced to go to any sites made by the site builders, so I don't understand why you complain that you don't like them, but you visit them anyway. It is quite easy to tell from the URL.One thing to bear in mind is that people who make sites using these tools feel proud of what they have done, just as proud as you when you have hand crafted your site in XHTML, and so they will also think their page is great. Just because you have spent hours learning XHTML, CSS etc doesn't mean you should be critical of those who haven't.

I imagine there is a huge demand for American military technology, and where there is demand, people try to supply. It is a pity it is being sold, however some people have the ability to assume that if they didn't pull the trigger, it has nothing to do with them. I can also understand why Iran wants to get its hands of spare parts, as I imagine it is feeling quite threatened by the US at present. In my opinion America isn't going to go to war with Iran any time soon (Or is would be extremely stupid to). The only thing Iran is trying to do is acquire nuclear technology. If America, a country who has used nuclear bombs to take lives has them, I don't understand why Iran can't have them.

It depends what you want to do with your computer, and at what price range. If you want to get the best processor on the market at present, no matter what the cost, you want an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, as that beats anything AMD can throw at it at present. If you want a lower range CPU, then as PlugComputer's said, AMD have more bang for their buck, and they tend to overheat less.

Apparently ATI's R600 beats the 8800GTX hands down. I am not sure if this is true, but ATI do have a habit of releasing their cards later, but they tend to out preform their nvidia counterparts.If you are going to get a 8800 and you have the money, go for the GTX, as it out preforms the GTS version by around 16% - 30%, which is nothing to laugh at.

Yup. You need to get the cron job to run the PHP

I use something like this.

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home/yacoby/public_html/path/to/php/file.php > /dev/null

(If you set up the cron job under the Unix style interface, you will see that there are boxs for the 0s and *s, and then one big text input for this:

/usr/bin/php -q /home/yacoby/public_html/path/to/php/file.php > /dev/null

/usr/bin/php

This is the path to PHP.

-q

Quite. The > /dev/null might make it so you don't need this.

/home/yacoby/public_html/path/to/php/file.php

The path from your top directory to the PHP file

> /dev/null

I think this makes it so that the output is deposed of. Not sure though.



Inclding something like this:

if ($REQUEST_URI){	print "Access forbidden!<br>";	exit;}

At the top of the script would, I think, make it so the script can't be run from your browser, it has to be run via the cron job.


Hopefully this will have helped. I don't know very much at all on this subject.

For C++, on the other hand, I'm not sure 'coz I've never used it before. However, I think MS Visual Studio does have C++, right? Guys? Anyone?

Yeh, Microsoft have a C++ compiler. I think they offer their "Visual C++" as an express edition, which is free.

FYI the file extension for C++ is .cpp

Yes that helps i did think it was that but what confused me is that isnt notepad supposed to be for like Web development more that software development.

I don't understand why anyone would want to use notepad for anything more than... well, why they would want to use it for anything at all.

If you are going to do any programing at all, at least grab yourself a text editor with syntax highlighting. Makes everything much easier to read.

I use Borland's free compiler for my C++ stuff (It compiles C code as well), as it hasn't failed me yet. You may be better with Microsoft Visual C++ if you want to do some programs with a GUI (Graphics user interface), as setting out a GUI in a text editor is not fun.

The real problem is if we haven't go an alternative method of transportation in place when oil does run out. Most of our food in Brittan has traveled at least 100 miles, and huge amounts of it come from overseas. The supermarkets aren't doing much to help either. Also I don't really think we have enough land to feed everyone on it. If we don't get something in place by then, the population will drop till we can support it. 50+ Million deaths. That of course is the worst case scenario.When oil does run out, and we don't have anything to replace it, the west will probably take a huge economic crash as our society is at present based around oil. If I were to vote for what to call this age, it would definitely be the oil age.Hopefully the government will have invested in alternative forms of fuel to be able to deal with the total lack of oil, but I don't hold out to much hope that it will happen any time soon. I don't think any methods we have developed yet are economically viable, and there is also the problem that polymers are oil based, and they are very much in daily use.

Strange that the two main browsers anr't standards complaint. I would have though they could have got it right by now. Well, Mozilla seems to have got it right with Firefox 3 I might have to get myself a copy of the Firefox 3 beta, if only for looking how it does stuff differentFirefox 2 seems to render stuff very similar to Opera for most sites anyway, so it must be quite near compliance.

so they take 0.05 grams of gold. Can you tell me how much is that?

 

Read the quote fully.

Clicking a payment costs nothing. The maximum fee for receiving any e-gold payment is 0.05 grams, about fifty cents (in 2002 US dollars or about 70 cents in 2004) worth of e-metalŽ.

 

As a slight update, I have found that the spell checker isn't very good at all. It almost never guesses the words I want to spell. Ok, it may not be that bad, but it isn't good either.I went back to using the one found in Google toolbar, which although it doesn't have as nice way of checking spelling, it does guess words much better.

I received an email from a friend at one point, but never managed to sign up within the 50 days before the link expired. I have recently just requested a invitation from this forum, and signed up. I have also added several other emails, as I run some of them to my computer through POP3

There are other people who know significantly more about PHP that me, but I don't think that that is a real error. I think it is something to do with the fact that $content isn't set when $_REQUEST['content'] isn't set, so when you check it against "" it pulls up a warning

You could try

$content = $_REQUEST['content'];if ( !isset($content) ) {	$content = "home";	$menur = "menur";}

or

$content = $_REQUEST['content'];if ( !isset($_REQUEST['content'] ) ) {	$content = "home";	$menur = "menur";}

or something like that *shrugs*

Someone else has probably got some better ideas

What ever you do, don't get Frontpage. Ever. Dreamweaver is good, most likely the best on the market although it is quite expensive. I have moved away from graphical editors, as I can make much better websites when I code it by hand.

One of the real problems in Iraq is that things are no better than they were under Saddam Hussein. Sure some things may be better, but electricity supply isn't constant. The Americans have managed to kill the same amount of people Saddam Hussein killed. Oh. Sorry, they are just "Collateral Damage" .

Also, the Americans disbanded the army, which left a great deal of guns around.

3000 casualties isn't that much compared to some other things like the world wars, when the deaths were in the Millions, although it is still quite a lot in the present day. I think it is quite likley that U.s Casulties will reach at least 5000 - 6000.

And the thing that confuses me is why the US gave didn't use the same plan in Iraq as it did if Afg., which went very smoothly. It really seems like USA is reteaching itself how to fight insurgency in every "war".

We are starting to lose control of Afghanistan. We are attacked by the Taliban, but when we try and raid them, they just revert to being farmers again, so you cannot tell them apart from the other civilians

I really don't understand what difference this will make to anything. Saddam Hussein isn't even involved in the insurgency, and executing him, rather than making it better may end up making it worse. Also, Bush (I think) said that the trial was fair, but I don't see how it was fair when they sacked the judge that may have been in Saddams favor. In my opinion they were always going to find him guilty whatever, and the trial was just for show.The invading troops (Americans, British etc) have killed more innocent civilians that Saddam did, and it looks like Iraq will in a full scale civil war by the end of next year. In a way, they would have been better with Saddam.

I though HTML and XHTML were markup languages? Isn't DHTML a name for a collection of technologies. Like Javascript, HTML and CSS. I am also assuming that by C## you mean C++, as I have never heard of C##.However, back to the question. I don't have a favorite language, it all depends on what I want to do. If I want dynamically generated web content, I will use PHP, if I want interactive pages, I will use JavaScript, and possibly PHP.If I want something that runs fast, I would use C etc.You use the tool that fits the task, not try and make the task fit the tool.

I found this quite hard and time consuming to get anything to do with, but I didn't manage to spend that much time on it, as I don't seem to get addicted to small flash games that much. However, having watched some of the videos on YouTube, all I can think is that some people have waaaaay to much time on their hands. I do admire their patience though.

I don't think Google will get to Microsoft's size any time soon, Microsoft is HUGE, and it also has 30(?) years experience. It also has a solid user base, meaning that it is very hard for people to change to using something else (All those games). However, with Google it is very easy to switch to using something else, as it is just a few clicks.Google also hasn't had a huge amount of success with some of its other projects, like Froogle etc.Some people have been suggesting that Google write there own operating system. At present, I don't think Google could win in the OS war against Microsoft, unless they used Linux as a base, or their OS could run Windows Programs.At present Google looks like it is going in other directions.

I don't see any large improvements over FireFox 1.5, and to be truthful, the spellchecker sucks. The Google spell checker that comes with Google toolbar is significantly better. Another thing about the spellchecker is that there is no way to manage your dictionary. I accidentally added a misspelled word to the dictionary, and there is no way integrated into FireFox to remove that accidental entry.

The one thing I do like is that it has a "Undo Close Tab" button, and also the way you can set it to start up on the pages you closed on. Not major changes, but useful none the less. I haven't really noticed much more that is different, apart from that extensions and themes are grouped into a single GUI box under the leading "Ad-Ons".

I doubt now I would ever go back to Internet explorer, as it never seems to be updated, where as FireFox is updated regularly, and I get a lot less spyware with FireFox. Plus, what other browser allows you to play Pong