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Translating languages isn't just about replacing the words, it's about switching them around also, and that's what will prevent this from ever being made. There's no way some system is going to predict what you will say next on the fly, just so it could translate it. Also, how will it differentiate between literal and non literal statements? I could just go on and on with this, but knowing 4 languages (3 fluently), just trust me, there'll have to be psychic devices before anyone can make this.

Welcome to the world of war profiteers. Money controls the world my friend, everything. Racism, yellow journalism, money, propaganda, and mindsets are to blame. However, take for instance, Europe. After having lots of violence over religion, they just decided to drop it. So a typical European reading this would say "Sorry, but history has shown otherwise. Religion tends to spark violence." Now let's take another perspective, most of the world hates America, but the actions that cause them to have America are done by 1% of Americans. Therefore, they too get judged for other people's actions. I don't see this type of psychological phenomenon ever ending. Stereotypes will always exist, so you shouldn't be surprised about this in any way. In fact, don't even worry about it, you'll just end up as an anger ball if you do. *Looks around* Seems like there's more than enough here. Lol building temples is the leading cause of deforestation? Although your mindset is obvious, why not bother to think about who really destroys the environment. Oh I don't know, maybe industrialists? Hey, let's all have a one party government, one official religion, and let's wear swassticas! I'm sure that'll be harmless. (I do hope you see where I'm going here...) Certainly not. Unless aliens come and try do destroy the whole planet, don't expect any cooperation between so called factions. People that dislike each other are only brought together by force or a common enemy.

Wow you're really clueless aren't you. It's pretty much guaranteed that cloning will have adverse effects that nobody would have predicted, and then when it happens, people will start saying "oh it was so obvious." Just look back in history, changes of similar magnitude do just what I said, and history repeats itself. And I'm not the one to say what those effects will be. Nah, they'll just find a way to babysit your disease, not cure it. If they cured it, where would the money come from?

It is the magical place where all you have to do is mark the check and there you go, the program installs itself. Also, I'm shocked that your bro couldn't get mp3 playing right away on Linux (do you recall which flavor it was?). As I remember, I could instantly do a majority of my usual tasks in Ubuntu without downloading anything, including listening to music. Google is a great help to the less experienced Ubuntu users if you know where to look. There are so many resources online that explain step by step how to do things in Linux, but I'm amazed that people still come with questions that are easily answered on the internet. You need to be smarter than the usual 60% of computer users who are complete computer illiterates. This requires reading (oh no!) and some practice (being able to diagnose and solve problems when your PC has trouble). When I tell that to most people, they will not put in the effort and would rather pay $400 for software that cost 15 cents to manufacture (Vista). Also, of those 60% of computer users, Ubuntu would be able to do all of the tasks that about 50% of those people usually do without any magical computer hocus-pocus. Think about it, how many people just use the computer to surf the web, go on myspace, go on IM's, and type up the occasional report? I'd say 50% of computer users do just that and nothing else. Well, why are they paying money for craptacular Vista and craptastic Office? Everything they do can be easily done, with no advanced training, for free. The world just amazes me sometimes, but this proves the fact that Microsoft gets so much money because the majority of people are clueless and intellect is looked down upon.

I'm thinking that you have a store-bought computer, and that probably some software in it (most likely Norton) decides that it's god of your computer and banishes Daemon Tools from its land. You'll be surprised what these overpriced, craptacular antivirus programs have access to. Please reply and tell me if this is the case or not, there are some other things that could cause this.

Both are equally important to me, and there are things I have in XP that there's no way I can run in Ubuntu (DBPro, DeleD, Landscape Creator, most games, ect). I can just pop in Ubuntu and use my 64-bit power to render some 3D stuff a bit faster than I would have in XP and stuff like that. Ubuntu is great but I don't want to ditch XP and have to learn some other language to make programs and games in. This is a bit off topic, but if anybody here has BlitzMax, could they give me a PM? I'm interested in what it has to offer in Linux.

Try installing other versions of drivers, such as instead of going to Dell, go to nVidia's site and get theirs, if not, move on to modified versions. This might sound pointless, but my nVidia 7600 GS wont accept drivers from nVidia or from the manufacturer's website, I have to use NGO which for some reason don't cause problems. So all in all, newer isn't always better.

I think installing XP on the other drive should make it appear, at least that's what I did.

Which programs in particular? Also, Google is a huge help for newcomers to Ubuntu if you use it right. Not to mention the huge community eager to help out.

I believe learning from the mistakes of others is more beneficial than learning from your own. Maybe that's just me, but sure, what you said is true, it's just a two-way path.

Which makes perfect sense when you look at the pie chart, so Linux pretty much has to play indie games unless something multiplatform is made, which is unfortunately, rare.

I'd have to disagree with you there, I think the ones I've mentioned are easy enough. I see little to learn from drag-and-drop. Usually that experience amounts to zero. Look around at game creation forums, they're riddled with this kind of stuff, and they get the same exact response from the members there. It's just better to break the illusion and let them realize that making quality games takes work.

When I hear the words "I don't know where to start" and "mmorpg" then I have only this to say: NO. Want to make a mmorpg that bad? Fine, just make 5 full games before hand, other then that, don't even think about it. There's no way years of experience will suddenly creep into your mind when working on such a huge project. The team will have to progress in experience with you, they can't lag behind. Also, then comes the choice in the programming languages. There's no way a beginner can make games with C++, so you should try and program with lower-level but still very powerful game languages. The top 3 hands down no click-and-drag playskool retard game creation engines/languages would be: BlitzMax, DarkBASIC Professional, and Torque. All of them have their advantages, all of them cost money, but they are the best in their class. They are all fully capable of creating amazing mmorpg games, you just have to be able to unleash the power. Like I said earlier, create at least 5 games before moving on to one of the most complicated game projects possible. Having at least 2 of them include multiplayer would be highly recommended.

Some would argue that Blender is better than Maya, and it's free.

I've actually read a book where the information regarding carbon dating stated that it is used to date objects 35,000 years or less. I can go dig it out and tell you the name if anybody wants to know more, but this book does seem to have legitimate sources and wasn't written by psychos.

Looks pretty good, mostly much better than the kind of stuff I make. Looking around at the cities section, the 3rd picture really isn't that great. You got 3 good quality pictures of infrastructure and then comes a sorta blurry picture of something like a warehouse, and practically nothing else (besides the street corner, ect). Otherwise, good job!

Lol I've dreamed that a couple times already, but usually it's part of an ongoing sequence of related dreams. I would hit the ground, but then I would somehow know it was a dream after that (since I could still think) and then say ok that dream wasn't good, and then wake up to make sure. It probably sounds hard to understand, but I'm telling the actual sequence of thoughts I went through, no matter how non entertaining.

Thanks for the info, never knew that. Yep, just pick up a Samsung LCD and you're good to go

Well if this was a "scientific fact", then why would be be debating about whether it's true or false? Sounds like it's false to me...

I'm pretty sure you can install Linux on a Mac. What kind of system do you have anyways?

Because the 8800 gt seems to run just as well as a 8800 gts.

Simple, really. Asus makes the best motherboards no matter what, and buying their brand always ensures a good payoff. eVga in my opinion isn't a very good brand, and the top 2 motherboard manufacturers would be Asus and Abit (in that order, 1st place and 2nd place). Trust me on this one, you wont regret buying Asus.

Well it really depends on what type of game you want to make. First step is to choose your programming language. Second is to get all the needed tools for making your game. These days, it'll probably be a 3D game, so you'll want to get yourself a modeler that you'll make characters, objects, worlds, and other things in (as well as animate them). Next, you'll need some sort of 2D software, like Photoshop (although that would be overkill). An alternative to Photoshop would be GIMP, which is free. Here's a list of programs you'll probably find useful for making games:Deled - modeler designed for world building - cost: free (pro version available)Blender - modeler designed for anything, rivals things like 3dsMax, which cost about $3000 - cost: freeMilkShape - modeler designed for low-polygon modeling, great for starters - cost: $25GIMP - 2D image manipulation, rivals Photoshop - cost: freeI'm not very good with making my own sound, so I just use stuff people published that is royalty free. Also, this is a good way of finding good textures in case you can't make good ones yourself. Anyways, those basic things should be enough to create awesome games. Now all you have to worry about is what programming language you will use. I'm guessing you're not familiar with any languages so far, so you should search for languages you can buy that are based off of BASIC and are made for game creation. Some great ones come to mind, such as BlitzMax, Torque Engine, DarkBASIC Pro, and others. The decision is up to you and will greatly affect what kind of games you'll make and how much work it'll take. The only way to get better is to code more, it wont come to you without work. Many of those engines claim it's easy to make games. Well, it's not, no matter what you're using (besides point-and-click little kiddie game makers), it's very difficult to make complete games.Hopefully my post informed you a bit, although it is a bit late, I felt that you at least needed some basic information.

The PC will always be the performance and quality king. If you know what you're doing and you're not running grandma's Pentium 3, then you will be able to build a computer that'll run the latest games at full detail and no lag at all. It surprises me when I visit others with consoles and I see the games lag. I tell em, dude, why is it lagging, and they tell me that it's not. However, I know it is lagging, because I ran the same game on PC and I know what 60+ fps looks like. Also, you can't multitask on a console. Well, perhaps you can, but not even close to the capability of what a PC can do. PC's can run for for weeks and not crash because of overheating (unless you have serious cooling issues), but I hear of burned consoles all the time, because they're built with a craptastic cooling system that most people can't change. Games for consoles cost a ridiculous amount of money, compared to PC games. Worst thing of all, they don't really drop in price either. Next, if I bought myself a game, why the hell should I be paying some stupid Xbox Live just so I can play online? All they probably do anyways is just copy Xfire and set up a couple Pentium 2 servers to connect you to game servers. I never have to do that on a computer.Well, that concludes my opinion about why computers are better than consoles. If you disagree with this, then you're in denial. I've owned both PC's and consoles, and I've built computers myself and played the latest games. I know what I'm talking about.

Hmm, gee, don't you just love how people start topics, then never again reply in them? Totally defeats the purpose, I think (which is to communicate with others and get their feedback, ect.). And on this topic, I find it funny how people blame religion based on people. It's like saying look, there are car accidents, therefore, the car is responsible, and we must get rid of cars.