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  1. Hello everyone! I am currently considering building a website for a project that requires credit card transactions. No paypal OK credit cards only. I need it to be secure obviously and I have read a document/article on this about a year ago. I understand you need some sort of merchant account and the setup and yearly cost of running is high so if your website is not selling you will be losing a bit of money. I have done a search on these forums and have not come across any threads relating to what I need so here I am. I would like to get any insight from anyone who has dealt with this personally or know of the process and steps required to set one up. Regards


  2. I seriously do not believe anything I've heard from the bible so far. I cant think of anything I believe that came from him that's been written/told from the bible. There is no concrete fact that prove anything about the bible. You ask me to point out things that I don't agree on or don't make sense to me but I'm sure I've expressed them clearly enough in my previous post. Its kind of going no where as we both have different opinions on what we think is real yet none of us have any concrete proof for anything. That being said there is nothing left to waste as these discussion have provoked thought and it has made me more certain that what I believe so far is probably true.. at least I think it is but I won't bet my life on it if you know what I mean. We are all free to believe what we like and I respect everyone's views. I just hope one of us is right, I don't care because I believe who ever my god is he will understand me and I believe I have no control over things I don't understand. You may think its a crazy way to go about life but there could be worse ways so :). In all seriousness though I enjoyed the discussions about Adam and Eve. I wanted to bring this up so long ago and always pictured the reactions of peoples faces when this topic was brought up. Too bad I did not ask someone in person to see the look on their face.


  3. What would really be good is something along the lines of what Deviantart.com has where everything seems all integrated as one site. We would have our account management area (hosting) and forums appear as they are/from in the same site. Obviously its going to be a lot of work developing something like this and I don't think anyone has the skills or time. This site works as its purpose and the way it looks should not matter all too much in my opinion. The only practical thing we can do to make it look better is change themes but who decides what looks good and what doesn't? I personally prefer a dark colored site with white text but its my preference.


  4. Adam and Eve were pretty stupid then for being near perfect humans. God is in their face telling them how to live and they go listen to a snake? I don't understand how that could be possible seeing as they were smart/intelligent. I do not think a god would create a man to be stupid especially if it was the first, wait he may be stupid because hes got no previous experiences and memory of any kind so everything is new to him. What ever the reason I still don't buy the story because it doesn't make sense. A lot of things are left up to interpretation and that's just not enough for me. I'm sure the bible no where states that he had blue eyes and she had brown eyes, Where did you get that? I'm sure you made it up just to justify your belief. I'm sorry but if God wanted things the way they are then there's no way we can do anything about it. Everything else is just something people conjure up just to make sense of reality. Oh yeah by the way I like people thinking for me, Just because I don't respond in a while to my own topic I created does not mean I am not interested in the discussion. Maybe step down from your high ground once in a while.


  5. That kind of grid effect can be done in many ways but some methods are easier and may prove more suitable depending on the situation you intend to use it for. Not all grids are the same right? and there are many factors but if you just want a simple white line effect that tiles to any image size then consider using the patterns tool.


  6. I don't think you would want to go to college to learn a specific language. That is what the books and manuals are for. You would want to go study a formal programs to learn software development and programming principles. I would recommend any software development program and take up a book on PHP. There are papers in certain programs that deal with php but you will only learn the basics. To master it you have to do a lot of PHP programming as well as have good software development knowledge.


  7. Here is a touchy topic I have refrain my self from asking for a long time but it never made sense to me. The reason why is bring up something like this would probably give you sick looks from peoples faces. Anyway here goes, Adam and Eve was the first humans on earth as the bible tells us. They went on to have kids of their own and that's normal. Now here's where it doesn't make sense, we've heard stories where inbreeding has caused mutations and its not something highly promoted but it does happen. How did Adam's and Eve's children go on to make more children? Did God create more humans with different gene pools or did they just go ahead and mated with each other? Sick thoughts right? I know that's why I did not want to ask but it has to be asked. Can I please get some thoughts about this from believers. I'd like to know what the reason's or explanations are of this kind of activity and how we did end up all looking differently and even different colors today. Please take this seriously as I do not like to joke about any kind of religious and moral issues.


  8. Maybe there is no heaven and hell, Its just stories made up like all other stories to blind us from the truth that we are going to die one day and there is nothing we can do about it.. We are cursed creatures being born with the ability of thought and to learn that we will eventually die and we can not do anything about it. All this promise of the after life is just to give false hope so we don't go insane and kill each other, committing horrific crimes just to for fill our every desires before we drop dead. Maybe its just a form of control for the masses? There is no absolute proof that after life exist and many will argue that the bible is proof but the reasons why they believe it is real is always the same. They already believe in it, they already have faith in something they cannot see. They will point out things in the world that they believe to be true as written by the bible but from non believers it does not make sense or seem logical. I don't believe in heaven, that does not mean I don't believe in the after life or something after death. Its pointless for me to try and vision it as it's beyond my understanding but I know that its better then this world or at least I hope. Why am I even hoping for? I can't know for sure right? maybe its the human nature of hope giving a false sense of everything's going to be fine after you die kick in again...


  9. I don't think time spent playing games is wasted. Whatever makes you happy, is something you should be doing throughout all of your life. I like to live life for fun rather than grades and a place in civillization. Fun and love are the most important things in the world! :) And if something makes you happy, it's more important than anything else.

    Thats a nice and unrealistic way to look at life. Sure you want to do things that make you happy but everything has its downside and if you over do it then you are asking for trouble. Drugs, alcohol make people happy apparently but do we all recommend it an activity? I think not. The same is with gaming it's no excuse to do anything just because it makes you happy you have to look at the side effects. I have three kids and I'm not happy, what would make me happy is to dump them to their mum and run away. I hope you get the point.

  10. Yes it does seem really silly that someone can get any level of satisfaction out of bullying someone online. I don't know to what extent some of the bullying can get to but I've only been exposed to people trying to insult me in an online game LOL. I see that as just a pathetic attempt for the other person to make them selves feel better by putting you down. I don't personally let it affect me at all. I would be concerned if you took what people said to you on the internet seriously. Kids are more likely to take insults more personally so it's possible they are really being victimized in this way. I think the only solution is for parents to educate their kids and bring up their self esteem so that these types of cyber bullying is just ignored. You cannot get ride of it since its so easy to hide behind a screen and say what you like.


  11. Nice topic, Although I think having a topic that users post about their everyday life is too much I still think it helps the users here learn more about each other. I use to go to another forum before and they had a new topic made each week similar to this one. The idea was to share with everyone what you did during that week, what you accomplished. This was really a great idea and I thought about starting one up here at Xisto. It makes getting to know each member much easier without having to ask and you get to brag about your accomplishments.Anyway here's what I did today. Woke up at 8am and had a quick shower then coffee. I went to catch the bus to university but it was almost 1 hour late. I went into my old software engineering class to talk to new students of the paper about my experiences from doing that paper. Had lunch after then went to my algebra class. Now I'm at the library trying to get a head start in my research and development project for my final year at university.


  12. The games (video games) are just luxury things in my opinion. You don't need it to develop any skills you cannot do else where. Humans have been living without video games for most of our existence. Today's generation are growing up too dependent on it and make up lame excuses just to justify them being able to play them. Things like "I'm bored", "There is nothing to do", "Everything else is boring" are all too common from my little 9 year old brother. Hes become so addicted that I have told him hes not allowed to play on the computer until his grade changes as well as his attitude. I've been an addict to games but I should know better. Games really are for kids. There is so much else to do in life that has longer lasting value its crazy to think we spend so much time on them. Time wasted away and never to be regain again.


  13. Not bad but to be frank you need to refine your work further. I'm assuming your just starting out so its not a bad overall design for all of them but they still lack any wow factor in my opinion. It still looks amateurish in my eyes no offense intended. I would not call them template technically because they are more accurately described as designs. Templates are working/implemented designs that have been put to use. i.e all images of design are split up and HTML code is written appropriately to contain the design. I could be wrong but thats how I see templates as. Anyhow keep at what your doing and you'll always get better. Learn about design principles/guidelines as well as it will help you in your future creations.Edit: Sorry my bad they are templates since they are in use. I just checked out your site. I thought they were just initial designs.


  14. Good and Evil are just words we as humans use to try and describe something like everything else in this world. Its left up to the people using the words to interpret its meaning but not everyone will agree all the time where one applies over the other if any at all. I'm sure everyone can all agree though that when presented with both extremes you can distinguish what is what without much confusion. You don't even have to name what it is but you know what it is so in that sense I think it does exist, we just don't know how to describe it in a language where everyone all understands its meaning.


  15. I think the whole idea would make for a unique and excellent game title. Its a shame we don't have something like this out already. The part where you are able to rape people may be too extreme and offensive though. I do not think something like that will be allowed to be released. Do you remember that game about some racist clan running around murdering other ethnic groups? I think that game was outlawed but its still distributed around. I would be interested in testing it out for personal reason just to see how good of a game it is. I am not a racist I just like to see what others have made.


  16. I remember trying to learn Ajax in the beginning and came across the manual method of creating a new XMLHttpRequest and all the following required steps to complete the request but I found this task tedious and sometimes limited when I wanted to make more complicated requests. I have gone off to just using libraries such as JQuery and Ext since they provide objects that handle most common Ajax calls. It seems to reduce a lot of code you write when using these library calls not to mention you have access to other functions in the library. I am curious what the code would look like when put in use. i.e a working example of the use of function. Maybe that will help other users visualize the functions in practice.

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