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The end of our technology? I doubt that very much. So many people have predicted the end of our technology. Here's an amusing quote to remind you of humanity's ability to push the envelope: "Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development" - Julius Frontinus in the first century A. D. Processors aren't anywhere near the end of there technological limits. For those of you around in the good old days I will bring up the 640K Memory celing. When DOS was being developled it was believed that no one would ever need more than 640K memory so it was never written in the code to handle more than 640K. It took alot of reworking before this was overcome. If you had told me in the mid 90's I'd be working on a PC with nearly a Gig RAM and over a 40 GIG hard dive I would never have believed you. 1 Gig was a astronomical number for a hard drive, let alone imagining ram that reached up thier. Never count the Geeks over an Intel out, and even if Intel folded tomorrow (we all know the likely hood of that happening) someone else would outpace there previous fastest processors in no time. The only reason processor speed has not increased dramatically in the last little while is because the gaming industry is falling behind for the first time in the history of the industry. Give them time, and you will see rapid growth again. There is absolutely no reason to think that there is any limit at all to how fast a processor can process. As for your holographic communication, well it could be done, and really not that difficult, but the cost right now is too much. I wouldn't be surprised to see it in my lifetime though.

I think you mean thepcmanwebsite.com

I might be interested but more details are needed.

Many people have tried to predict the future of computers, rarely have these predictions come true. The technology is growing too fast to predict accurately. I remember seeing a photo from the late 70's of what a magazine (I think it was Scientific American) believed a home computer would look like in the year 2000, it was rediculously funny. The thing was a monsterous contraption with a teletype interface, a crazy looking magnified TV Screen, a big steering wheel (couldn't quite figure out what that was for) and a bunch of other crazy attachments, the whole thing took up the entire room.You want to figure out what the next greatest thing is in the Computer industry, check out the entertainment industry (I mean games not movies). The gaming industry has always been the driving force of computers, where ever it goes the Computer industry has to catch up as fast as possible. Games have always been the biggest user of computer resources and thus they are always the ones that force the manufacturers to build faster computers. Don't believe me take a look at the system requirements on pretty much any popular game, compare them to the system requirements of Microsoft Office or any other business tool. Computers are already controlling a rediculous amount of our lives, some aspects are clearly self evident (ie. bank debit cards), others not so evident, (ie. Electronic card key's at a work place keeping track of your movements throughout the building). Some choose to see conspiracy potential in these devices, see it how you like, data is being gathered on all of us at an alarming rate, but the truth is the data cannot be gathered and sorted on any one person with any useful speed, so until the tech catches up to this fact there is no real threat of conspiracies. Technophobic conspiracy theorists always amuse me, they go on about how much data is being gathered about us without realizing that this very fact is what keeps the data from being useful to "Big Brother".Now that I have gotten off track, I will get a more exact answer to the question. Yes I think tech will continue to take over tasks that were previously human manned. I don't think this will be a bad thing, but I think it has potential. For instance with Boomers retiring there will be a worker shortage, some of this will be filled in by tech, the problem is what if there is another baby boom, when that generation grows up employment rates will plummet, but in the end I think this will sort itself out as more employment sectors are created by as of yet unimagined tech. It is an interesting time to be alive, makes the industrial revolution look positively boring in comparison.

But you can build links into a flash animation. I still don't see any advantage to what you want to do.

Well your question is more than just a little vague, what are you looking for? Basic design rules? HTML guidelines? Specific technical tips? Also it would depend on the type of business, ie. creative businesses get away with more glitz and glammour than any other.If you are just looking for basic ideas on how to do it. Go to google and search other businesses in the same line of work, take the best ideas from each of the sites you find and integrate them. Don't outright steal the code, but definately see what your competition is doing and see if you can't get some really cool ideas for how to do your site. Just don't focus too much on the cool aspect or it will become less and less professional.

Why would you need to do this? Just create the entire content within the flash movie and put that in the cell, background content and all.In short I know of no way to do this.

Did a quick net search and came up with this site: Possible Solution I haven't tested the solution, but you might give that a shot. I have heard of certain malware programs making this change, do you have a good spyware cleaner? If so run it, you'll probably still have to make the registry changes suggested in the website I posted.

As another poster stated, you won't electrocute yourself as long as the PC is not plugged in when you open it up. I don't think it was suggested you start tugging on any cables, just open it up and make sure there is a hard drive in place. Possible causes of this message 1) Floppy disk is in the floppy drive, remove and try again. (but you say the door on the floppy is closed so there isn't a floppy there) 2) no operating system, Install Windows or some other floppy drive. 3) Bad or no hard drive, replace the Hard drive 4) Hard Drive not connected properly, Open the computer up and check the connections. I could give you detailed instructions on checking the hard drive connections, but somehow I think you won't try it, if I am wrong let me know and I, or someone else, will be glad to post the instructions.