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Doesn't look very ergonomic to me... which is a big thing I care about with a mouse now considering that they are in my hand a large amount of time...Yeah what is with the data channel thing??? I Guess the majority of consumers see big numbers and think its good... O.o.

My recommendation is to buy a used older system like a ps2 or xbox or even a gamecube, (although the wii is affordable.) i mainly believe this because of the limited amount of games for the new systems, a used console can be 50 bucks, a new console can be 600 bucks, a new console can have a hundred games, an old console can have 2000 games..and graphically, unless you REALLY want really really spiffy effects, the older generation of consoles look amazing for what they were, you really will still be provided with amazing experience... the game developers are the ones that make a game beautiful and fun and graphics can help but there are ps2 games that look nicer than ps3s, for example

What's funny is I can actually see this happening, although you forgot to add that their secret headquarters is Dave's Barber Shop/Convience Store/Auto Repair/Boating Equipment store.Only a newfie would get that one : P

Anyone suggested keeping the cookie dough fairly cooked although still slightly undercooked? if you used a dough without egg you could do it, then inject the ice cream, freeze them.... and then you got one kickass treat.this got me thinking, what about a an ice cream filled dohnut : O. that'd be tasty yet disturbingly gross cause of the batter! LOL.

Unfortunately the possibility for a world without religion is very slim, as people naturally flock to something (Whether it be a star trek convention or Judaism.) Instead of being entirely individualistic we rely on the choice of which collective, which is essentically selective individualism. Although I have a dislike for a large amount of the fundamentalists, or extremist ideals and values, the actual knowledge maintained in the bible,qu'ran,etc could be quite valuable from a historical standpoint pertaining to ancient values and ideals and the state of the world at that time specifically. Unfortunately, far too many people take these ideas in literal interpretation. Instead of seeing Adam and Eve figuratively, they see them as possibly existing in the real world.The problem with religion is the afterline, there are obvious inclinations as to why we would believe this exists, however the inert problem with this is that they all end up believing that this life is for benevolence, that somehow their life will be better if they act according in this one. Which in reality theres no evidence to believe either!If this "god" existed, he or she, or even "IT!" would maybe be a very forgiving, honest, and concise individual, maybe our sins were created as a way for us to learn from our OWN mistakes, why should we agree upon values created centuries ago?My biggest problem with religion is that is does in fact create wars, and even in modern society we still don't see a seperation between the church and the state or any level of government.edit:WOW, a 50/50 stance, thats just incredible from the poll!

http://www.edm2.com/0507/introcpp1.html That's a quick tutorial on basic C++, after that look into more resources... After that learn how the windows API works (google windows API) and learn directdraw or the SGI API for 2d graphics..... if your into "gaming" or programming for games thats a great place to start, if you look for forums on those and ask questions i'm sure they'd point you to the right direction. Remember c++ and C are a large undertaking, so take it slow, learn things and review them. Theres obvious reasons why courses can be dedicated to them. But the rewards are amazing!

There is absolutely nothing wrong with homosexuality, it is not a choice, it is just another form of existance. It even exists in the animal kingdom, take the example of those gay penguins, or the fact that often female giraffes will mount other females in an attempt to gain interest from male companions. It is just a way of being, in a liberal democratic society it should not be of concern, it does not affect anyone other than person whatsoever if that person is gay, no one is harmed. If you think thats unusual that's perfectly fine, however that idea is dying and we will eventually see homosexuality as a normality, which will be nice, as people that feel supressed will be much more open. I sure hope no one here believes that gay people should be hanged, otherwise i'll definetly be at a disagreement. The 30 odd percent that think is not OK is definetly concerning, perhaps you should become friends with a homosexual person and come to the realization that we are just people, there is nothing unnatural about that kind of union if both persons are of consent and agreeing mind. You may not realize but there is a large possibility with 10% (that statistic is actually growing because the amount of people that are coming out of the closet.) of people being gay, if you have 10 friends, chances are 1 or 2 are gay!What I don't like however is the media whether it be a tv show, movie, the news, are all homosexuality as a ratings game, making movies just with gay people that don't infer proper plotlines or interesting stories just to sell. Ratings games are terrible.

I will try and give you a quick reply here, HTML IS the standard (meaning it is used almost entirely in all web based applications, in fact it might even be i've never really looked into it.) Look at html like the main language for all "browsers" like internet explorer, firefox, opera, etc to intrepret or "understand" meaning it reads the information (in a file much like a wordpad document, except this uses .html instead of .doc or whatever your wordpad would use.) this file is usually found on the server. Basically, there are hundreds of different ways for the server to output the file the browser will read to translate into a website, some people use PHP, PERL, ASP, etc.. you can code these to do specfic things (like forum posting for example) These types of languages usually work by getting a bit of data from the user (like forum posts, username, etc.) and then from that it will turn it into html, this is where it outputs the file for the browser to read. but thats far too much for you now, basically by learning html you will create the basis from which you can create very complex websites. For your consideration if you want to make really in depth websites it can be very fun, i'll recommend a few things for you. 1.learn html first, this is the basis for everything, learn how to do majority of things, it won't make things look pretty but you'll learn alot.... 2.Look at software for making the graphical parts of your website (like the cool edges or borders you see on some sites...) my recommendation would be either GIMP or the trial for adobe photoshop cs2 which can be found from google, learn how to make interesting tables and wonderful graphics, once you feel familiarized with this you should move on to step 3. Also, http://www.good-tutorials.com/ can be a good place for learning specific things that you can search for, like typing UI in the search bar for example, just remember that alot of the pages because they are from external sources may not load. step 3, this is the fun part, learn CSS, it's stillvery easy, if you wanted to you could learn photoshop while learning CSS (if your a coding geek you could probably pull this off..) CSS is a way of telling the browser of how to render specific parts of the html data, this is done by a .css file which the browser will read first.... you can turn tags like the <h1> tag into something completely different than the standard, you could make it bold, or anything really... CSS is amazing, you can do almost anything to a file. Look at http://www.csszengarden.com/, then click the links on the right, it's all the same website they've just "opened" different files on each page but the html code for the site is the exact same on each one, isn't that amazing? you could basically make CSS files for a users preferences. step 4, learn a little javascript. this is almost a programming language, and since the standards are screwed up it might be difficult to make it work for everything, but this can really help develop dynamic content.... if you have ever looked at google maps, the way it doesn't need to refresh is because of javascript, but the possibilities are endless, you can make butterfly graphics move across the screen at random... you could make a date/time script that actually keeps running without ever needing to refresh the page. step 5, get into server side with PHP or PERL, I recommend PHP because its become a standard, learn how a database like MYSQL works... a great resource for all languages including html is http://ww1.w3cschools.com/rg-erdr.php?_rpo=t, can be a great place to get started.... once you learn PHP you really will have an amazing amount of power availible at your fingertips. You could basically almost do anything in web design within reason and you'd rival anyone else here. I hope you find that useful, if you need anymore information feel free to ask. And for your question, html can take anywhere from a week to a month to basically learn the most important things, 4 months usually of mastering specific things (usually problems that occur with the code that cause a a page to render incorrectly.)

A large portion of us will be "all of the above" strictly because the amount of the times we need to post on Xisto! Haha, no, seriously it will probably get picked quite often because of office jobs or jobs where people are near computer related equipment. But, I guess I can be near the computer far too much

Ahaha, I dislike this console generation so watching geeky people complain is pretty funny. I can't believe people actually care that much .

I looked for a php mysql host under google and this was one of the first results that seemed interesting, quality advertisement ^^. Thank you for such a great service Xisto!

It's sad to see NFS7 win just because its new, i'm sorry but NFS3 was where it was at. Good old days of the playstation. Maybe im biased, damn nostalgia ^^.

Winamp is my media player of choice, although I use foobar when i'm gaming and I got music up and running... Winamp is mostly for videos... To be honest I can't stand the ridiculous amount of resources that windows media player can take.

Publicity stunt in full colour. That's my only comment as i'm disgusted with people like this. He doesn't deserve to live.

I wonder how easily microsoft will be able to bait the regular consumer into purchasing this product. The average soccer mom or granddad isn't going to care about an enhanced interface, (Paticularly when the one they have now works, ironically the adaption of xp's interface has made people entirely reliant upon an archaic GUI from which they are uncapable of change without signifigant difficulty.). Not to mention, the majority of consumers are not concerned with the software they have now, paticularly when now that xp is finally stable there is barely a reason to upgrade. The only people this will appeal to is prebundled packages with new operating systems installed and techies that want to fool around with the concept of a new OS. I don't believe there is anything major that constitutes the price point microsoft has made.All in all, I would not recommend this OS unless you want the latest games, or your bored with your OS and just want to fiddle around. I recommend you have a d3d9 ready graphics card and 2gigs of ram if you don't want to lag out in this OS, otherwise its just not worth it. (1gig users can use it, just remember that you'll probably dig in to paging file fast.)I'm sorry microsoft, but a new 3d GUI is not going to appeal to the majority of consumers. So I can't wait until they spin the 'its more secure' stuff when we really are dealing with barely out of beta software.I also dislike prepackaged software like the unremovable internet explorer and the new windows anti spyware technology. It's great for them to compete, but it's shotty business practices when these things run in the background, or "hide' in the internal OS without your knowledge. You are effectively trying to destroy competition unfairly, as the consumer should have the option to run software for themselves with their own choices... Sadly the ease of use is more important than security.

I use gmail primarily now after having a hotmail account for 5 years, I grew tired of the constant ads I was getting from various places from which I had signed up for junk. Basically, gmail has such a great interface, it's implementation of AJAX (I believe?) is amazing for quickly searching through e-mails. It's amazing to see things change from mostly clients which you point to servers that download e-mails, to being able to log on to a service and view e-mails which can be read from anywhere, not to mention being cross compatibile between different OS platforms is amazing.Anyway, that is basically where hotmail failed, I tried the live beta e-mail interface but it just doesn't give nearly the same feel as gmail does. Google is doing such a great job with new technology, i'm suprised they haven't tried to combat windows in the server markets with their own OS, and even possibly the desktop world.As for an instant messenger, because of my archaic hotmail account I use MSN, even though I think it is the crappiest piece of software to ever be invented. Anyone see the new live client? It seems okay, but I just can't stand them. I wish there was an open standard for Instant Messenger clients that all could abide to which would allow us to use many multiple clients, but I guess because of the way servers have to handle contact information that would be impossible.

What is funny if you actually do the math, 99 million dollars could buy you almost half of the total consoles that were availible for launch in North America, or 165,000 to be exact. Obviously though this is a fake situation where someone has essentially 'bought it out' to discourage people from bidding... Still, 99 million dollars? Someone must of been on something.I guess people really want their consoles, i'm just going to wait for a used one in a year or two, saves money for more games and i'm getting the exact same unit. Unless... this generation is so good no one sells theirs. Well, that's highly unlikely.

I can honestly say it's difficult to forsee how much of an impact these new Direct3d generation will have on games, as at the moment the majority of games are still being released under d3d9 by a long shot. I've heard a rumour that this card only reserves a small portion of the dye for d3d10 instructions, so basically, in a sense, this card is in the middle of a technological evolution, and it is handicapped because of it.However, the performance with this thing in d3d9 games is amazing, it kills anything that is thrown at it.... If someone gave me one for free I definetly wouldn't be mad, though I definetly would pay that much myself for this.The stream processors is a unique approach, and in all honesty I really don't know if this will be more powerful than the unified shader approach, we will see : ).I have to admit, the odd ram size and bit transfer rate is a little strange, definetly makes for an unusual card. Almost feels like a hiccup on Nvidia's side of things. It's absolutely amazing to see these kind of graphics finally rendered in real time, finally we can have truly cinematic gaming experiences.My only complaint is the pricepoint and power consumption, and I myself am in a similar situation. I'm waiting for the radeon x2800 to come to compete, and then eventually I will be buying the 8900 or the x2900 refresher cards from nvidia and ati respectively.Oh, and this is my first post. ^^, nice to be here. Hopefully i'll enjoy my stay, so long as there is enough technology geeks in here to post news on forthcoming developments.