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Wow, those are some very detailed designs, but I don't see any of them as really being reusable -- I always like to use unique things rather than have the same designs as others. While I do agree that they are cool and everything, I just couldn't see myself using one of them.Though I would love to learn how to do graphical editing like that. I really do like them, lol.

lol, your #1 reminds me of the cars that just flat out park too close to you. Just the other day, in fact, some truck parked so close to my car that I had to get in from the passenger's side (he was literally almost touching the side mirror). And #4 annoyed me too. It's especially bad when it's a group of people (say 5 or more) and you have a certain amount of time to get to class. There are many times the hall would be completely blocked for 20-25 seconds because of stuff like that (and with 3 minutes between classes, that's a lot of wasted time).

I'm extremely trusting with people but I never put myself into a situation where the trust could cause a lot of damage. This includes both online and off-line. I create a boundary that limits the damage that can be done and nobody passes it. I've been screwed over by friends I've known for 5-10 years in the past (they even laugh or brag about it after) so regardless as to how well I know someone, nobody passes that anymore.I've been screwed over by many more people since then as well but the damage was much smaller. I feel that giving people trust is good because you can't gain trust without trust. It's a catch-22 if neither person is willing to put something out on the line.

Dreams definitely can kill people. There are a lot of physical conditions that can cause death (for example, working your heart too fast). In a dream, if you experience something very traumatic you can cause your heart to the point where it overworks itself to death, literally.There is also the fact that if you get a quick scare you can put yourself into shock (your body's way of shutting itself down in order to protect itself). Dreams can cause that as well.What a lot of people don't understand is that when you're dreaming your brain is still working as it does normally -- it's still processing information as always. Therefore when these things happen your brain has a hard time differentiating between what is real and what isn't.

You resurrected a 5 year old thread but since it's not time-sensitive I guess it's okay. The dumbest thing I've done is when I touched a halogen light to see if it was hot. It had been on 3-4 hours while we worked on my car and then I just got curious as to how hot it was. Touched it and had an instant bubble on my finger -- very bad blister. So I learned -- don't touch light bulbs when they've been on for hours! Especially not halogens.

I re-became a Linux user about a month ago, stayed with it 2 weeks, and had to drop back to Microsoft. Sadly things like Adobe/Visual Studio don't work on Linux, nor do any of the games I play.I'd dual boot but I'd be doing all my developing/gaming on Windows so it's really a waste.I wish Adobe would support Linux -- I could live with using Linux for the application developing.

Half a mile apart.... I would say that there are really two options here that I know of: 1) You can get an antennae that plugs into your router (or his -- more or less you take the little antennae off that it comes with and swap it out -- these can be expensive). This is a little effective but due to the distance it may not be feasible due to the costs 2) You could set up an FTP server on one of the computers. This would be using your bandwidth/Internet connection to transfer files but it is *very* effective. More or less you set up which folders you want to allow access to (or the other person does) and then you get a username and password to download and upload to that folder. Think of it as being on the same network but online. I think remote desktop may also work but I'm not completely sure as I've never really dealt with that before. If you don't mind going back and forth (half a mile isn't far) you could also use an external drive and just visit each other every x amount of time and sync the drive to the PC's. Please let me know if I misunderstood what you're looking to do and I'll see what else I can come up with. Note : All of the above options will work for both of you, even though you're on different Windows OS's.

I decided to post this here because the entire forum is devoted to web developers -- so I felt this is the best place.So my question is as to which is more efficient between a CMS and a flat-file system.To give you a little more information, here's how I've been looking at it:1) I plan to have very minimal graphics. These will likely be hosted on the site itself2) I plan to have videos but they will be hosted elsewhere3) As I go along I plan to expand the site and I am seeing it as getting to where at some point it's thousands of pages long (or at least, that's the goal)Some of the things I am worried about are:1) Which would use more bandwidth? This includes both "BPS" and monthly limits (I'm thinking the CMS because it has to keep searching a database)2) Which would be more CPU intensive? (I'm pretty sure this one would be the CMS as it runs off a database)3) CMS's, due to the nature of using databases, have a maximum limit of users per time in terms of access. Does HTML have the same deal?Now when looking at the "ease" of both -- I'm pretty well versed in both CMS and flat-file systems. I am perfectly fine with either one which is why this is soo important. If things go as I plan, over time the site will grow greatly. I've already organized a data structure for the site (in terms of how to store the files/organize them) that would work perfect. I just want to make sure I'm making the right choice and that I'm correct in assuming flat-file would be better.I'm also interested in knowing if flat-file would be the most efficient for smaller sites as well (such as 5-6 page ones).Just to reiterate, I'm not asking which one is "easier," or anything like that. My question is solely based on how well they perform in terms of maximum users at once, bandwidth (BPS/monthly usage) and CPU usage.Any input would be much appreciated.Thanks guys.

lol, I'm very careful when cooking so I don't really burn anything. If I'm cooking meat, for example, I don't set and forget it -- I ensure I'm in the kitchen the entire time cleaning or reading. I really can't think of any lies I say... Through many years of life I've learned that lying only makes things worse -- not better. I'm much more worried about the future than the current, so ensuring I'm always honest helps out greatly with my goals. Not to mention it's a lot better when something happens and they ask "did you do this?" and can trust you when you say "no." That alone makes being honest worth more to me than anything. The way I see it -- if you are doing something you're ashamed of -- you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Hey all, I'm wondering if anyone fully understands what makes foods "healthy" or not healthy. Something I noticed not too long ago is that:The way I make ham and cheese sandwiches is around 120 calories each (ham, cheese, bread, pickles, lettuce)A beef taco is around 90 caloriesA single package of Ramen noodles is almost 400 calories (380 to be exact)So are the calories the things we should be the most worried about? Because based on those statistics it's more healthy to eat 4 tacos than one package or Ramen, or 3 ham and cheese sandwiches (with all the extras I add) than a package of Ramen, and almost as healthy to eat two tacos as a ham and cheese sandwich.Something just doesn't seem right with those numbers to me.

Very weird then. I would try posting in the Ubuntu forums (or searching them) to see if they have any answers. All internal HDD's should be automatically mounted (and therefore read) upon the system booting up; this is especially true when Windows is still reading it -- means it's not an HDD issue.

Your brain never slows down, nor does it turn off or anything while you are sleeping -- that's why you still dream and why people can still learn while sleeping. Sleeping isn't for the purpose of "resting" the brain -- in fact, it has to do with regenerating dead cells in the body. When you are asleep your body goes into a slight fever for the purpose of boosting the speed of protein synthesis. This is why you feel energized again when you wake up. But in terms of the information your brain processes while "awake" or "asleep" there is no difference. Source: Anatomy, Physiology, and Psychology classes.

This is a very cool change. I don't see why they usually have all the text anyways -- when I'm looking for pictures/images my goal is to find pictures/images, not to find text.I hope they add options on how many to display at once though -- it would suck to be in an area with a semi-slow connection and be forced to load 50 images at once.

I don't really get excited about games like I used to. Over the past year tons of games that built up anticipation ended up being total failures or just flopped in terms of their quality compared to their claims.So, I'm very interested in checking out the game but I don't hold high standards anymore.

MyCents has been back up for a couple weeks now. I've had 5 updates over the past 12-13 days. You should already be getting MyCents for the posts you've made so far while it was down. Though the updates are a little weird. Sometimes they are 2x in one day, others it's days in between then. But either way, they're working.

About two years ago we learned in a physics class about how there was going to be a CPU "soon" that has no speed -- it's instant. This was supposed to be out over a year ago and was going to revolutionize the PC by no longer limiting the speed of the PC to the CPU -- then the focus was going to be on the HDD and RAM.Haven't heard anything since then though so I'm guessing it was another one of those "we'll brag about it and not complete it" things.

Very good point. I never even thought about the fact that being "insecure" and being a targeted system are two completely different things. You're absolutely right in your thought process there -- just because it can be hacked doesn't mean it is being hacked.

You can't compare the costs of things today to what they were in the past. You earn more today than you did before, by a huge margin. Inflation doesn't only bring up prices of items; it also brings up the pay you receive. Everything has been going up at a very steady rate for at least 50 years (except gas -- in the U.S. gas has not inflated with every other item -- if it had we'd be paying approx. $8.50-10.00 a gallon).

Facebook has been hacked at least 4x on a major scale over the past 1.5 years (by major scale I mean everyone's usernames, passwords, email addresses, real information, etc. has been leaked). It is extremely unsafe for people who supply their real information. I think they are running it like MySpace did -- with everyone's information stored in clear-text (meaning passwords are listed as they actually are, rather than encrypted).

So your second HDD is external, not internal? If that's the case, try unplugging it/turning it off and turning it back on/plug it back in. Linux has to "mount" drives so that may be your issue (it might not be mounting properly).

I dislike Apple because *everything* is proprietary and must be paid for. Even the music is DRM'd. It's pretty much paying so you can limit your abilities -- it makes no sense. About antivirus on the platform, I don't think that really matters. Linux doesn't really have AV's either (at least that I know of) and it's not being attacked very often either. Weaker security or not, I would choose Windows over Apple if I was an attacker solely because even if the ratio of people:vulnerable is smaller, the total number who get hit is higher.

Wow, that number is ridiculous. It is definitely popular but I didn't think it was that popular. I personally use it very rarely -- I just don't really see the fun in it; FarmVille and stuff like that.

$2000 USD for a car would be nice. You can barely buy a used 10 year old car here for less than 3000, lol. The Kindle isn't a computer; it's just for reading. A tablet is a touch-screen computer, meaning you could go online with it, open documents, game, etc.

That's weird because Ubuntu can read fat32 and NTFS without an issue (both of which are the only options with Windows OS's). Since you still have Windows up (right?) are you able to view the drives in that?

Heh, anyone ever lost luggage at the airport before? This is how it ends up going when you get to the lost luggage area:You) "Yes, I seem to have lost my luggage that I checked on during the flight"Attendant) "Sir, has your plane landed yet?"You) "...."Pretty sure someone brought that up on Blue Comedy Central before but it's honestly what happens. As far as I know it's because they are forced to reply with certain things, and as obvious as the answer seems, they still have to ask the question.Edit: Another one... I was in an online chat with an HP representative one day for a hardware issue I was facing. Dead serious, one of the first questions that was asked was "Are you currently on the Internet?"... No. That's how I'm in an online support chat.