Cool_Freaker

I find that not shutting the computer off or restarting it causes CPU intensive programs to run slower. A benchmark ran before and after a period of extended operation showed that the computer was not acting as well as it did before. I turn the computer off each time I use it, or log off to ensure that all programs are exited out.

Bank it. At the .49% interest rate we have here, 42 million would still net over two hundred thousand dollars worth of interest a year. However, tax is likely to remove about twenty million of that, but still, the interest would mount to one hundred thousand a year, greater than the avearge salary of the average American. The problem with this is that the United States does not insure monetary deposits of over one hundred thousand, so it is likely in my best interest to put the money in a money market account, netting about 7%, of a steady bond, S&E for an example. Of course, being the gambler that I am, a few million would go to the resource market, and try to increase my capital.

Care to elaborate? Further tell us of the details of the computer such as hardware? The processing speed, video card, sound card, etc. I'm interested more in why the computer crashed rather than how to fix it. After all, one should analyze the circumstance before trying to fix it, in the case of causing further damage to the computer.Remeber well the story of he who got a virus named explorers.exe, and went on to delete everything that had a similar name.

Actually I got this information off NPR, National Public Radio. (In a monotone voice)

Oh really? That is indeed strange, because I was hoping he would be the next to die.

As you may or may not have heard, North Korea annouced the testing of nuclear weapons, to "protect themselves from nuclear war soon to be instigated by the Americans".Liberal thinking: Last them test it. As a defense system, all nations should have some way of protecting themselves in the case that nuclear war does indeed break out.Conservative thinking: North Korea has a history of not agreeing with the world, and they must not be a country that holds substantial nuclear power.So, Russia wants to reinstate their group of N/S Korea, China, Japan, Russia, United States and talk over this situation.Comedic thinking: If it goes as well as their missiles, some fish will be blown out of the water.

Meh, all the cool characters are dying off...On a completely unrelated note, you live about 3 miles from me.

Not in the world, but in the series. Here is my synopsis:Oh yeah, it's kinda spoiler intensive, so if you have not yet read the books, you might not want to continue reading.Hmm, wonder if this board has spoiler tags? Hidden Book 1. Killed a teacher at the the school he attended.Arguments against: He was preventing the capture of the stone, and He was a dark wizard anyway.Arguments for: If Harry did not persue the stone in the first place, it would not have needed prevent the capture!Even if the enemy you are killing is evil, they should be held alive for questioning.Book 4: Killed Cedric.Arguments against: Harry did not kill Cedric, Voldemort killed Cedric.Arguments for: Harry insisted Cedric on touching the cup with him, which led to Cedrics ultimate death. If Harry had taken the cup himself, Cedric, though losing the game, would have preserved his life.Book 5: Killed his own godfather, Sirius Black, through ignoring superiors.Arguments against: Harry did not know that Sirius Black was not in danger.Arguments for: Dumbledore himself requested Occulmency lessons for Harry for his own benefit. First he refuses what the headmaster asks, then goes on to endanger the life of fellow students. Notice from truefusion: Fixed spoiler tag.

Oh wow, so much for my dream of owning a Cray. Ah well. At least I can get a cray and still tell others I have a relatively fast computer. And watch them laugh at me when they see it takes up a lot of room.

If you want it to look unique, and save money on the case, I strongly suggest a really old used case dating from 1990. Those computers, unlike today, have a "Turbo" button. No idea what the button does, I never pressed it. Sounds impressive though. I heard that the best use for the button is ignore it. Admittedly, the cases themselves don't look that great, but at least it looks vintage!

Actually, the pictures change with whatever browser you are using. It's to simplify matters and lessen confusion. Like a previous user stated, if the site was viewed in Internet Explorer, the images would also appear in Internet Explorer. Conversely, if a user visits the site using the now obscure browser, Netscape, the images would then reflect the change. It's like taking the browser check script to the next level.

I have sygate personal firewall, it's free, it doesn't update by itself whenever it wants to, and it helped me delete many viruses before they started acting on people's computers. The thing with sygate is, each time a program tries to connect, or be connected from the internet, it will ask you if you allow it. Say one day you notice there is a virus on your computer, and a suspicious application extention, .dll, is trying to connect to the internet, you can prevent it's access. Then, with the program "Killbox", you can search and kill the process, deleting the file before it hurts your computer. Though I forgot a direct link to the download, search "Sygate Personal Firewall Free" for a link.

To what ends is a man still a man? It can be seen that this person who undergoes surgery is no longer a man, but rather a machine with human parts. Then rises the question of ethics. Is it ethical to combine machine and man to this degree? Finally of course, the religious standpoint. Who are we to tinker with God's creations? Frankly, I'm opposed to altering the human body simply for enhancement. If you need a leg cause you lost it in the war? Sure, give the man a leg. But someone wants a mechanical leg so that he can outshine everyone else on the track field? Sounds like someone needs to introspect and see if they are looking at life through tthe right lenses.

The problem about being frozen for a long duration is that after you are er, un-frozen, people would no longer look at you as a human, rather as a novelty, a scientific instument. You take a person from a foreign country and put them on the other side of the world. Assume the placement country has never had a visitor from that of the world. The person would similarily not be treated as a human, but rather as a facination.

I have a huge history with different E-Mail serivces.First I used the home computer with a really old program that I can't thikn off the top of my head, I think it was Endora or something. But that didn't do it for me, and everyone was talking about online E-Mail services. This was way back in the day, about 10 years ago, last century. This brought me to Yahoo. Yahoo seemed to work great, it was this cool thing to use back then, but eventually sources found outt aht Yahoo! was selling private information to companies, so I switched to Hotmail. Once again, this was a long time ago, and telephone calls were more popular than E-Mail, so I didn't check it much. Eventually when I did check it, they deleted my account from inactivity, so the search was on again. This brought me accross a brilliant website, Military.com. For all intents and purposes, Military.com gave me everything I needed, but it's interface was very basic, not flashy like all the others you see. One major upshot is that you don't recieve much spam E-Mail. After all, you don't wanna mess with the military right? Finally, everyone was abuzz about the new client, GMail, the Google E-Mail. A friend sent me an invite, and soon I had about 1000 invites, and that is what I am using to this day.

Has anyone seen the new Company of Heroes game by Relic? (the makers of Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War). It looks absolutely magnificent, and I have failed to see a bad review on the net yet about it. Apparantly it's simply superb, with the point capture system from Dawn of War perfected, and some great graphics. IGN and Gamespot have given it glowering reviews, and I'm pretty sure the box art has a plethora of E3 awards and other 95%+ ratings on it. If anything I'm going to run out and buy this as soon as it's available (apparantly in a week according to the guys at Electronics Botique). I've always been a huge fan of World War II games, but no RTS has really hit the spot, unless you count the alternative scenario given in Red Alert with the Soviets vs the Allies.Just hope my good old 6600GT graphics card can handle it

I know in Australia, you can build very cheap PC boxes if you buy all the components yourself and do not need to pay someone to do it for you. Generic parts are quite common and are much cheaper (albiet less reliable).I have heard of a lot of budget, relatively-new-to-computer users investing in Dells lately. Their desktop deals are amazingly low, considering they come with warranty, an LCD monitor and Windows XP. Certainly, if you don't know what you're doing I couldn't recommend anything else.

These day's I've switched primarily to Gmail. I figure I don't have any important emails anyway, so even if they archive everything, all they're going to get are a bunch of links I post to myself, some newsletter/magazine subscriptions, and some innocent chat between myself and some friends. Hotmail seems to have a lot of lag for me, and since I've changed ISPs a few times over the past few years, using their email service doesn't seem to be an option anymore as I don't really want to start a new email address on a regular basis.For instant messengers, I was originally an ICQ and Yahoo user, but everyone seemed to be jumping on the MSN bandwagon. I remember when it used to be much much simpler, only a few years ago. I only use it now because I have all my contacts on there. Otherwise, IRC is looking to be much better for my purposes

The problem most people face, though, is that they read in context. Quite often in a multi-paged thread I simply skip to the last page and see if I can write a relevant response to the latest post there. This post may be totally off on another tangent, but I wouldn't know, as long as it fits the title, in a way.I do believe, though, that IPB 2.0 offers many different kinds of browsing, as can be seen in the top right corner of the thread. If I'm not wrong, one of the options is to always have the first post come up in a thread, or something of the sort, anyway. If this was made default, I'm sure this whole issue of a misconception of a topic would be easily avoided.

Just the other day I got an email from Nintendo (I suscribed online to their "Member's Club). Anyway, in Australia, the release date will be on the 7th December with an SRP of AU$399, with apparantly around twenty launch titles. I doubt I'll get one on launch but I'll certainly be interested to see how it performs. I'll most likely grab it after the first price drop or so.

If anything, they may not even be intentionally racist. Rather, it's the environment and such a relationship is so extremely rare that some people cannot help themselves but to stare. As was suggested earlier, give them a smile and get on your way. You seem to have the right idea, in any case, so best of luck to you and your girlfriend.

It's not that bad of an idea actually. I don't know about everyone else, but I probably read about 5 threads before replying to a single one. Personally, I don't like making a totally useless contribution; I'd rather have a reasonable sized post with some content instead of having many one liners. When I can't easily find topics where I can contribute, it becomes quite a chore to sift through all the boards. Browsing for a limited amount of credits would certainly help a lot. (Note: I don't really think clicking would ever be a viable option) Of course I understand the complications that come with it, and I'm not suggesting it should be done - rather if there was some way to prevent exploitation of such a system, I would strongly support such an idea.}}

It really is overused, especially for something so crude to start with. When you talk to those types of people who are obsessed with using it, anything you ask them will either directly have to do with "Your mum" or they will find some way to attempt to make a witty remark regarding it. Sometimes it can go too far, as some people really do take offense to it (and I can't blame them, when it comes down to people saying they were "doing your mom"). Ignoring them is best, really. Yep, but people will and do. I'm sure it's like that in any school, no matter of whether it's religious based or not - there's gonna be someone immature enough to do something like that.

I guess it should be of some concern that Firefox has more security issues than IE. Essentially though, the benefits offered by FF over IE has more than won me over - that and I am rather skeptical of IE 6.x ever being more secure.I did go and download Opera after reading this post though. Seems to be quite good, though I haven't tested compatability with sites etc as FFRocks seems to be suggesting it may have issues wish.

The dot overlay is a bit dark, try lowering the opacity on it. Something looks a bit screwy with your border too, like it's pixellated. I think it's your pattern overlay, so perhaps erase those bits with eraser. Otherwise its looking good. Welcome to Xisto