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Yes, but then humans that alter themselves so much that they become a new lifeform, may then become capable of having children that are not human but instead this new lifeform. Humans are still evolving naturally to a degree though, their bodies are still changing according to the climate and temperature but as you said the evolution of current man is much more lax and different from that of their ancestors. However war, natural distasters, and global warming may change modern man potentially destroying modern societies and plunging the world into a dark age. If this were to occur humans living on different parts of the earth may then begin to evolve differently into new separate and diverse species.

I am for stem cell research, but I am conflicted about this issue. The reason that I am conflicted is not because I do not support government funding for stem cell research, but because I worry that the government might use the results of such research not to help the people that really need treatments, but rather instead for ulterior motives. Such as for corporate gain or military applications.At the same time I worry that humanity has been losing their morality at too great a rate. The results of humans losing morality results in the creation of unwanted fetuses which are then used for stem cell research. The government should not use stem cell research as a scapegoat for society's problems, but instead should target society itself which is losing its values and creating children that no one cares about. If the government really cared about the children, they would create an awareness campaign to educate the public about the importance of life and try to get rid of people's own sins, instead of blaming science for the problems of a society that often ignores the deaths of innocents in favor of the bottom line.

I do believe that there is some sort of genetic memory but I see it more as something created by evolution and passed on to humanity millions of years ago. At the same time I also believe in a collective consciousness created by society and memes.

I have played and beaten many Final Fantasy video games; I have played them all from the first one all the way to eight, except for three and including Final Fantasy Tactics. The best of all the Final Fantasy video games I have ever played has got to be Final Fantasy VI.You get throughout this game to have up to twelve different characters, to choose from these twelve characters four to make a team, and there are times in the game where you have to make more than one team and then utilize almost all of your characters. The video game has the mysterious Shadow, the ninja class character who works for money as a mercenary and is one of the most complicated video game characters of all time. Every time you hear his theme music play, you know something big is going to happen. The main villain Kefka is a tragic being whom because of an accident became an insane megalomaniac intent on bringing destruction upon the world. Kefka is one of the best villains of all time. The storyline deals with quite a lot of adult issues, including loneliness, love, death, suicide, addiction, greed, and more. This is the most adult Final Fantasy video game of them all.The music of the game is a beatiful symphony of emotions and who can ever forget the opera sequence.

Something you all failed to mention is that human evolution seems to be leading towards a combination of a biological and technological synthesis. Humans have been using technology to alter their own bodies, to make themselves faster, smarter, quicker, and better adapt for centuries. Technology is now evolving at such a rapid pace in this century that there are real fears about technology getting out of hand. Humans augmenting their bodies with mechanical parts is around the bend, people that have lost body parts will soon start replacing those parts with mechanical parts. Due to the advancement of technology human beings genetically altering their body is not that far off. Imagine a world where people can design their babies. Then imagine a world where you can design your own body to be whatever you like. Human beings will be able to replace organic parts with mechanical parts and alter their own biology. The future that is coming is one where humans if allowed by law or if not done illegally will be able to alter themselves into becoming some kind of new lifeform. This is an uncharted territory that we are venturing towards.

Unicode systems - What it is? Unicode provides a unique number for each characters independant of the language, platform and program .Computers store everything, the letters and other characters as numbers, so some encoding system need to be adapted to convert different characters to numbers. Now in absence of any general encoding system, there exist a lots of different and conflicting encoding system. Like one may assign the same number to different keyboard characters or the same keyboard character may be assigned different numbers in different coding systems. Why it is necessary? So it is rather difficult particularly for the servers to support so many coding systems and there is the risk of data loss during a transformation from one encoding system to another. How to find a character in unicode? Here is a Code Chart. Who are using it? Industry leaders who have already adopted unicode systems include Apple, HP, IBM, JustSystem, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys and many others. Unicode Consortium The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization originally founded to : 1.Develop 2.Extend and 3.promote use of the Unicode Standard The latest version: The latest unicode version is Unicode Version 5.0.0, it is expected around the last quarter of 2006 Source: Unicode.org

I've heard this talked about in different places online....How do you go about planning your graphics? Do you just freestyle and see where it goes or do you have a picture in your head how you want it to be? Also, how long does it take you, start to finish, to complete a graphic that you make?I usually have an idea of what it should look like. For example, if I'm making a layout, first I just think what I want and how I want it to look like. I patiently chose the pictures, locate them in their right places it also takes a lot of time to find the right brushes(if needed), textures and etc. Sometimes it takes me days, if I get inspired by someone's work, then things go faster. I can't just freestyle cause usually I never get anything decent.

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Being neighbours with Australia I know quite a bit about their Programmers, since their companies like to approach New Zealand too.The pay is probably acceptable if you live here but it does depend on the company that hires you, I feel Australia/New Zealand have quite good living conditions, and sometimes this is what provides better opportunity for others considering migrating than the pay, so if programming isn't paying well or living conditions isn't that good, why not consider moving, programming here is always in demand also specific areas of project management as well as consultancy.There's strong demands for different languages, though .NET seems to be capturing a lot of people's eyes, I haven't seen too much development made in Australia/New Zealand for this, so I'm thinking it's not as successful as people are expecting it to be or their software just isn't being recognised largely enough, though if it does get recognised, usually a company from overseas will buy it out.The lead developer for Firefox, is a New Zealander, who use to live out west from where I am, before he was offered the opportunity to work in the U.S., which he now lives/works over there. There's also software that was developed here which got bought out by bigger companies, I know Ghost (Symantec) was developed here before being bought out.It's always tough finding good programmers, although combining good programmers with clued up people still can benefit in many situations. That's why I believe collaboration is a good thing.Outsourcing isn't a trend here, though you'll usually be the one being made to do projects for other countries, UK, Australia, and the US are just a few that I know we program for.Cheers,MC

I'll try to explain Security Sandbox. If you can imagine a sandbox then imagine that the sand in that sandbox is not allowed to be used/put, or any other action (delete, copied, formatted, etc) from another different sandbox, in this case another domain unless the "client" allows it, person who's actually having the script ran on them.So in most cases scripts must either only run on the domain that is calling it, if however this script needs to call or work with another domain, the client must allow this, not the programmer/scripter because it could actually be something malicious, the only proper way to get pass this is I believe in having your scripts signed, but I've never done this before with scripts, so I have no idea how you go about doing this.So that's basically the Security Sandbox, a technique that limits access to only what is allowed without allowing access outside of it. This is for javascript, actionscript, ecmascript, activex and possibly more, server side scripts don't have these security techniques, but it's possible to create it so it's sandboxed.Cheers,MC

If you post a script like above, either explain where you got it from, or if it's your own, what it does, as I don't recommend doing these sort of changes. I take it you downloaded the file from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ In terminal where you downloaded the file (the ? needs to be replaced with the firefox version you're running): tar -xvzf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gzsu -c "cp install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.?/plugins/"su -c "cp install_flash_player_7_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.?/plugins/" If you don't know what the latest version is do: ls /usr/lib/firefox-1* | grep firefox-1 and use that directory. Hopefully that is it, all you need to do now is restart firefox, and test flash, also do about:plugins in your addressed bar to see if the flash plugin is listed. Then test here: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ (refresh if the Flash Player does not show straight away) I'm not sure if there's a Shockwave Player plugin, I'm just checking that now. There is no shockwave player, unless they receive enough requests for shockwave (a few thousand, I've seen roughly 20,000 requests for it but that doesn't seem enough, so hopefully more people ask for it now) to make it beneficial. Cheers, MC

Alegis,ID Software makes those games Native for Linux, it's not ran under emulation. I can only vouch that these games for me do run better in Linux than in Windows, I have no benchmarking charts to show, but I have no need to lie about these games running better, otherwise I would have stuck with Windows playing these games if Windows was better for these games, since I do like having the best performance I can get out of a game when playing online.But this software is native, if you're looking at emulation, then that would probably give some performance issues, I don't know, I don't run emulated games.Cheers,MC

To be honest, this is quite a useless qualification and still not highly recognised. It may allow you to step into higher qualifications, but it's quite a waste because you don't need any practical experience to pass this, it can be acquired by not going to any training institute, and just booking the external exam. All you need to pass this is have read a book on A+ and you can get away with it. This is why I don't look at CompTIA's wasted A+ exam, and if anyone else is considering doing this, DON'T, do something that will get you somewhere.Depending on what you're wanting to do, if it's computer technician, you need Trade certificates or Vendor certificates, not necessarily University degrees, unless you're set on higher goals and competing against other companies.I guess Trade certificates would be different around the world, so I'll just outline the ones I know of that can help, EST A, which is a Trade certificate that lets you work on Small Electrical Appliances, not just computers only, but does help you understand a lot more and safety measures, etc. Also diagnosing problems with the PC can be made easier if you know what you're doing, most people ignore the electronic side of computers, which is not a hard thing to do, and does not mean a motherboard is permanently dead.Then for Vendor specifics, things like RHCE/MSCE, CISCO, etc can get you far. There's also OEM certificates which you can gain servicing agent status for brands of computers like Acer, Dell, Toshiba, IBM, HP/Compaq, etc which you usually go through those companies to gain this.As for A+, the changes are only those that reflect newer MS (sigh) Operating Systems and newer hardware, if you're uptodate with these things, it doesn't matter how old the book is, as long as you know how to work these newer operating systems, etc. There's not really a big change in procedures etc, so these remain the same.Cheers,MC

If you've looked at AJAX it's possibly something you picked up there. Are you meaning that you want to send the information to blah.php?action=login Which means your form line would be like <form action="blah.php?action=login" method="post"> That way you're doing a get request with the action=login, and also posting data along with it to that URL. Other than this, we'd probably be stumped about what you're talking about. Cheers, MC

Hey Shrike, FC5 is my OS of choice and of course you will run into problems but that's part of the fun I think. To me it sounds like for you to get WINE to actually work for you, you need more than the standard video drivers (MESA, etc) and actually get a driver that takes advantage of your graphics hardware acceleration, which should then allow you to handle OpenGL. If you're using an nvidia graphics card go to their site, or ATi card, go to theirs, if it's anything else, go to their site but it must be a card that can handle 2D/3D (especially 3D). If you don't want to try FC5 out (which I can help you with), I'll tell you how to revert back to your Windows XP. Insert that Dell Windows 98 CD, when at the dos prompt, type: fdisk This is now all from memory so it's a bit sketchy but I hope you can get it done properly. If asked about Large access, YES. Firstly, is this Hard Drive safe to remove everything on it, e.g. nothing stored in another partition you were wanting to keep? If there is, you must know which partition and must not remove it. Remove/delete all extended partitions, you'll also want to delete all primary partitions. Then exit. Type: fdisk /mbr Which will remove GRUB bootloader. Restart the computer using your Windows XP CD now. Hopefully this will now work, and it'll ask you to create a Windows partition, if this fails, then it's possible your Windows XP CD could be corrupt or a recovery CD only. Hopefully this helps, Cheers, MC

Actually to install KDE, you'll do: su -c "yum groupinstall 'KDE (K Desktop Environment)'" That should find all the required files to install the KDE environment and download it from the internet. Or you could do it from the CD unless you want the latest KDE. Cheers, MC

Hey m^e, 1. Multiple NICs can be connected to your PC, each will be assigned an IP and can be made to be on different subnets, however some form of routing software would need to be installed, although I believe Linux has this capabilities already, if not, you'd find a lot about it, keyword: linux router. 2. No known limitations apart from physical (I've heard 10 though), though depending on the type of computer, it can some what affect the networks performance slightly, especially if trying to handle multiple requests at once. Hopefully you're got quite a lot of RAM and a powerful processor, for my router firewall pc I use a dual processor computer, which might be overkill for my small network but better being over than under. 3. I guess this link could help you though I have not read all of it: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5826 Cheers, MC

Google crawlers sometimes uses ODP to get the description of your webpages. Unfortunately ODPs do not update/refresh contents as frequently as most of us would like it to have. Now Google has introduced a new META Tag to direct search engine crawlers not to use information available in the ODP. This is the META Tag: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP"> To specifically direct GoogleBOT, you need to use : <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP"> See : Inside Google Sitemaps Does not it indicate that Google is showing less trust for ODPs ? Regards, Sid

We have seen a lot of changes in Google index after the BigDaddy updates but it is to be noted that as per Matt Cutts, the Google Engineer, And that is the case actually happening with few sites reportedly out of Google index, but still they are getting traffic from Google through supplemental pages. Matt Cutts Blog

There are different database backends supported by PHP. However, most of us probably use MySQL and the books on PHP mostly use MySQL as the backend database. These are the currently supported database format: 1. dBase 2. FrontBase (functional since DB 1.7.0) 3. InterBase (functional since DB 1.7.0) 4. Informix 5. Mini SQL (functional since DB 1.7.0)6. Microsoft SQL Server (NOT for Sybase. Compile PHP --with-mssql) 6. MySQL (for MySQL <= 4.0) 7. MySQL (for MySQL >= 4.1) (requires PHP 5) (since DB 1.6.3) 8.Oracle 7/8/9 9. ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) 10. PostgreSQL 11. SQLite 12. Sybase Source: PHP.net- DSN Now anyone, using database format other than MySQL, may like to share his experience with us. Regards, Sid

Yup, it's true my friend. I, too, was gladly shocked to see that the Fantastico scripts have been updated. Remember the advice you gave me about Drupal a couple of days ago? That's when I saw the upgrade Honestly, I don't know how Opaque handles all this. I thought, all with the Xisto - Web Hosting.com paid hosting, that his attention to Xisto would slacken. But he keeps surprising me. Kudos to a man after my own heart Cheers.

Hello abhiram, Well, I'd have to assume that the tracker is down for the time being. Since you made sure there are enough seeders and leechers, and since your connection seems to be otherwise alright, I can't think of any reason other than the tracker being down. In most torrent software, there are icons that show the status of your tracker. Perhaps you could take a look at them. Or better yet, visit the tracker Website itself and see if something is wrong there. Most tracker Websites provide a column where users can talk to each other, and chances are very high someone has the same problem you have. You'd likely find a solution there as well But even if everything is fine, sometimes torrents play this kind of dirty tricks on us. They'd just slow down to a crawl for no detectable reason. The solution is, if all else fails, to give them time ... probably a day or two at most. Good luck downloading

Based on whatever I have learnt so far since your post regarding Google Adsense Account I want to summerise it here:1. It appears that Google may have already implemented your proposal to avoid click fraud, or to handle cases like newbies double-clicking or visitors clicking successively on the same Ad because of a time-delay in opening the Advertiser's site.2. Your site will be reviewed manually by the Adsense staff before making any decision.4. If you have a clean site that converts well for Advertisers as well, you are not going to be banned due to the click attacks alone.And now, since you can access the Adsense Accounts and if regular Ads are displayed thereon, I think there is no reason to worry right at this moment. Regards,Sid

Incidentally, this was one of the points I was going to address very soon ... the futility of banner ads I respect your opinion, saggi, but in all honesty, I believe you're very wrong. Affiliate programs are hard, but they're not that hard, and their payoff can be rather huge. But like I said above, you need to know how to do it the right way. I'll make you a deal ... how about you keep an eye on this series, and check the articles out from time to time? Perhaps even give them a try. Worst case scenario, you lose nothing and you prove me wrong. Best case scenario, you make lots of money. Doesn't sound like a bad deal to me, what do you think? Best Regards.

That's nice of you, I didn't quite understand what you meant exactly though.