Dalv87

Imageshack isn't always fast, but it makes registration optional and probably isn't going to shut down anytime soon, so it's my favorite.

I touch-type, though I've never tried to determine my WPM and I have no idea what it would be, certainly nowhere near what the OP said. Right now I'm thinking about making errors so I'm making lots of them, when I'm thinking just about what I'm typing I go faster.

Unless they come up with a way to prevent deafness, I agree there with ethergeek. They'd probably be better than the computers too (until the system got really advanced), and probably it would cost less to employ them than to develop a program that could do as good a job as they could.

"Hacking" the way most people think of it (with the common definition probably being something along the lines of "breaking into someone else's computer to take their data for the purpose of stealing their identity, selling private information to other people, stalking, committing a crime, or something similar") is bad, yes. Having hacking abilities isn't bad at all though, knowing how to hack (knowing anything about computers really) makes it easier to learn more about computers, and hacking, like others have said, is the only way to stop malicious hacking, otherwise it'd be like trying to design an alarm system for a house without thinking at all about how a burglar might try to get.

I like Yahoo, but the chat thing I don't really find useful since I use AIM.

I've been using Notepad++ for a few days now, I'd heard about it a while ago but didn't bother to download and install it until recently. Before I had just been using Notepad which came with the computer, so Notepad++ was obviously an improvement. I would check out Textpad too, but it says you have to pay.

It's completely pointless but kind of interesting. Kind of annoying how the instructions for pong take so long to scroll across the screen.

Firefox, all three. Also:1. Microsoft made me download something to verify my copy of windows before I could download Internet Explorer, Firefox just lets you hit "Download" and you get it.2. Firefox is more customizable, since it has themes and addons and so on.3. Firefox is standards-compliant, IE is not and it's incredible annoying.4. There are a bunch of things I didn't think of or didn't say.

I don't use forums a lot, but I see phpBB a lot so I'm a little biased since I'm more used to it I guess. If no one's said it yet and you don't need anything complex, maybe think about Automattic's BBPress ( https://bbpress.org/ ). I don't know much about it since I'm not a forum owner, but they use it at the wordpress support forums and it seems to be a good choice if you don't need anything beyond what it offers, since others might be kind of bloated. A lot of it would depend on what you need the forum for, what features you need, whether you want it integrated with the rest of your site in some way, if it your whole site, and so on.

Eventually open-source might dominate a few areas, Dell gives the option to ship computers with Ubuntu now (which they started doing just a few months after I got my computer from them, why couldn't they have done it a little bit earlier :| ), Firefox might eventually become more popular than IE, and so on. The more people that use it, the fewer issues there will be (like the importing and exporting).

I'm not gay, but I don't care if people are. It's not like there's a shortage of people in the world, people not reproducing isn't going to doom mankind, it's people reproducing too much that will probably lead us to extinction. Every study I've ever seen shows that gay couples are as good at parenting as straight couples, so I'm find with gay adoption, and since gays pay the same taxes as everyone else they should get the same benefits. I would say they should make gay marriage legal, except I don't think the government should be involved in marriage at all, they should just give everyone equal civil unions and leave marriage to the churches.

I'm happy with XP, it does what I need it to and that's all I really care about. Given what other people have said about vista I have no plans to upgrade, especially with the security.

Where is the "Tips for New Bloggers" site? You don't have a link.I don't think I'd move to blogger anyway, I like wordpress too much, I'm just curious.

It's kind of interesting, but I don't really see the point. Maybe if they improved it a lot they could use it in games or something.

It was Yuri Gagarin, unless there was some secret space launch that we're never told about, which is a possibility so unlikely that I'm going to completely disregard it and vote for Gagarin. I don't see why this is a poll, it's a fact not an opinion.