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One note, though. You can only have four primary partitions on a hard disk. An extended partition is a special type of primary partition that can store multiple virtual partitions inside of it, but these partitions cannot have operating systems in them. So you can't dual-boot more than four operating systems, unless you want to use another hard drive, or a VM program.

A batwing is a type of roller-coaster loop that pretty much goes all over the place. I'm not sure exactly what it looks like, though... Yeah, I found that out kinda late, didn't I...

It's always good to see governments acting to enforce corporate transparency...I just wish the US would do the same. I don't live there, but we're close neighbours, and their policies might spill over. The US already does this to their customers, all in the name of "stopping DRM circumvention". I mean, if you really want people to stop, then remove the DRM that shouldn't have been there in the first place that they're trying to circumvent, instead of trying futilely to strengthen it!If a sword is inside your suit of armour, then you're not going to try to strengthen your armour, you're going to want to remove the armour with the sword inside it.

Gmail isn't even a program! Google mostly offers web-based services, like search engine, maps, homepages, etc.

I'm hearing from a few sources that nuclear power is bad for the environment. I personally disagree, and think that we should try to convert as many coal-powered plants to nuclear plants in the future, although nuclear power is non-renewable. Until we find good sources for renewable power, however, nuclear power may be our best alternative.What is your opinion? If properly contained, is it bad for the environment? (Of course if properly contained. All nuclear power plants have proper containment measures in place.) If so, how?

Huh, nice. I wonder if they have any elemental racetracks. (As in, any ice-themed or fire-themed, etc.) I'm thinking they could include a batwing, which would test their manoeuverability and ability to keep up speed. (If you fall on any part of the batwing, you're doomed.) Wow, they're pretty serious about gaming. They even have their own world cup.

Faith in God can actually be a good thing. It gives you a sense of motivation, et cetera, that if you do something that's bad in someone else's eyes, "He" (there, I capitalized it once) will know that you meant well, and forgive you against that specific other person. It's only the organization of religion that's a problem. No religion today can possibly claim that they are the best religion to follow God with, simply because they have too many flaws for the perfect image of God to accept. For example, Catholicism holds an Index Librorum (?) Prohibitorum that acts as a "guideline" (since '54, it was the absolute law before then) to which books Catholics should not look at. And in Islam, if it's not good enough for you, too bad, you're already under Allah's control. With Judaism, you have to lose part of your skin near your "equipment" at 8 days of age, which is an extremely old tradition. All I'm saying is, follow what you want.

[1] I thought the US debt was up to 9 trillion dollars. Same point, anyway. The US is so far into the red that not even all the companies that Warren Buffett invests in, and Microsoft, combined, could save it. I guess people expect others to be robots while they exercise their "freedom". It's started to be this way since the seventies. Even Canada is starting to feel the effects of "nanniization" (Nanny-ify-ing. I don't have a better word.). I guess the privacy rights are being taken away because of an Animal Farm-like scheme of events. Back in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, America was the symbol for Liberty and Peace, and countries could really look up to them. Now, America has a lot of internal conflict that it tries to hide, but shows through tiny, controlled outbursts. The government probably hides up most of the bad issues, like they do in China. (You know, the people running America's security systems are actually tracked more strictly than criminals under house arrest.) A lot of countries now look down on America as a hypocrite, that doesn't stand for what it used to support. The point of the quoted post is, stop concentrating on the problems with America's youth, while there are obviously more blaringly serious problems with the adults who actually run the (frigging) country.

Actually, connecting cables have been made that can push fiber optic data down a microtube at 10 terabits per second already. (Yes, already. It's not just a concept. That's 10,995,116,277,760 bits, or 1,374,389,534,720 bytes; pretty much enough to transfer all that data you were talking about in less than 0.01 seconds, not just two.) Now the bottlenecks are the receiving and sending ends of the systems; the ends of the cables are the real problem now. The ends of the cables can only transmit so quickly (maybe 100 Mbps is the limit now? Possibly 8 to 9 Gbps.) So to actually make full use of the wire, you would have to connect about 100 to 200 plugs inside the computer, which is very hard to maintain.

Well, that's easy. Just deploy a few satellites and give everyone 4200-MHz tinnitus (In other words, emit an inaudible signal that phone lines will pick up and mistake for messages). The phone lines will all be jammed. Of course, it would be a huge setback if all the servers were shut down, anyway... but like I said, that giant terrorism method I was talking about lasts for about 4 days. There's no possible way to shut down the Internet completely.

Without the Internet, I'd probably be making paintings or sketches. I'm okay at sketching. Of course, if it were a question of whether the Internet was shut down suddenly and for good, I'd bet that a lot of people would be on the streets begging for cash, because the stock markets vaporized and there are no proven records of anything, so they can't claim stuff. Also, Bill Gates would be out of a job.

Global warming might not be caused by pollution, but golly, a lot of other problems are. What about deforestation? What good does that do for anyone?

You know, it actually would be possible to storm the Internet by creating an AI worm that could find its way through anything; even heavily secured systems. It would just change its digital signature while hacking other people's computers and changing its source address every time. Most residential computers are quite vulnerable to highly advanced attacks, so if the worm developed itself into a (Okay, I admit it; I'm getting my ideas from the "Rockman.EXE" series) massive system of servers, where all the computers it infects are out of the user's control, then the Internet really would be shut down for... about 4 days. Here would be the requirements for such a massive attack: A completely unique operating system that is not derived from Windows. (You can't use Linux or anything because those operating systems are not customized, and you can't use Windows because it's uncustomizable.) You could derive it from UNIX because it's open source... A very good AI system would be needed, for sure. The current capacities for computers today would not be able to fit the requirement for this AI, because the management system would have to be decentralized. The worm would have to be self-executing, and it would have to be able to make copies of itself, all while transmitting data to the original servers wherever the terrorist group is hosted (Argh. I mean, "is situated"...) Of course, there would have to be more than one type of worm. Also, to be able to communicate with other worms that it works with (Remember that this terrorist attack doesn't shut down the servers immediately.) to work on cracking encryption for the main servers would take a helluva long time as well. Remember, that a small percentage (perhaps 10 to 20%) of all the computers are working on brute-forcing the highly-secured systems.

That's a "negative" opposition mentality. Basically, you're saying everything is okay except for one certain type of thing. (I realize that it's a joke, but I'm just analyzing it.) Then again, why not let them continue in their Naruto-built fantasy? Watch them writhe in suspense when the series ends. (If it ever does... I hear that it's an infinite plot line like Dragonball Z.)

503 error?The server seems to have a problem. Typical of a Microsoft product.

And then again, if planes do travel underground, then why do we see them travel over ground? Is it an optical hologram illusion?

Here, I'm going to teach you how to do an effect that changes a voice so that it sounds like it has two different pitches. (I call this the "Double-Voice Effect", or DVE.) You may have seen this effect in use before, in a movie or two. I first saw it on a Japanese TV show that I happened to find on Youtube, part of the "Rockman.EXE" series. This effect may not be desired in some cases. Step 1: Get an audio editor And an advanced one, not one of the crappy ones like T-Player. I mean one like Audacity or Rezound. Adobe Audition may be overkill, but you can do some extras with it. Step 2: Record a voice You need a voice to do the effect on. It should work with any type of voice. You'll need a microphone for this. If you have a prerecorded file that you would like to try it on, skip this step. Step 3: Import the WAV file Usually prerecorded voices come in MP3's. Don't worry, the steps are the same. Import it into Channel 1 (Track 1), and cut out all the background noise. You don't want that to be two-voiced as well. Step 4: Modify a second voice. Copy the first channel (track)'s sound into a second channel (track). Now there is no need to modify the first one, unless you want to synchronize both of them in some other way. Now comes the fun part. Go to "Change Pitch", or "Pitch Shift", and pitch-shift the note to "x1.25 Hz" (up about 4 semitones). You can change this value as you please, but keep it above x1.1 Hz. Otherwise there is no distinct difference between the two "voices", or the difference sounds so horrible that you want to rip your teeth out. You could also pitch-shift it down, but keep the ratio that you pitch-shift it at above x1.1 Hz, either way. The pitch ratio can be anywhere between x1.1 Hz and x1.85 Hz. Anything above that and the voices sound so different that it doesn't sound like a similar voice anymore. Now play the voice clip. It should sound like there are two similar voices talking. Step 5: Add other effects, if you want. You can add different effects, such as a "rumble" or a distortion. However, be sure not to include any time-bends or speed-shifts, because this will ruin the double-voice effect, making it an "echo" instead of an overlapping voice. As well, if you're going to modify the second voice a little more, be sure not to distort it too much, as this will also ruin the effect. Have fun with this!

I agree that the Americanized versions of Japanese anime have been touched up quite a lot. If you were to look at the original Japanese versions of the comics, you'd see that there's a lot more violence, and the the manga looks a lot worsely ("more badly", I couldn't come up with a better word) drawn. (According to our perception, that is. I might be wrong.) Wow, I've been living under an "Anime Rock". I've only ever heard of Ranma 1/2 out of all of those.

I read the Megaman series - even worse. (Well, according to my peers, that is.) I've read 1 through 12, and am waiting to get access to number 13, the last one.My friend used to read the actual Naruto comics. Seriously, I think Inuyasha is better, although I've only read about 3 pages before.

Make them serve in the military for at least 1.5 times their jail sentence; that would be fair. As well, they should probably be treated about 1.5 times as bad as the other people, since they are involuntarily there. Maybe allow the officers to actually hit them... then they'd be wishing they had chosen jail. I'm just kidding, of course. Just treat them as regular militia-men. Who knows, they might even get promoted to "corporal".

Just out of interest, how exactly do they "steal" these files? Is it just a simple right-click and view source, looking for "embed" tags? If that is the case, you could put up a lot of phony embed tags so that if they try to do a simple view source, they'll see about 250 embed tags. To make this method really work, though, you need to put all of them in different places, and "encrypt" the file names. (That is, rename them so that they looke like "s0fjf2o8yd.swf" or something.) Sure, stealing is wrong, but nothing is deprived. It's not even copyright infringement unless you plagiarize it.

I did that, but the general font size still didn't change. (That is, the window contents themselves.) When I try to select "Window", the font size is disabled.

This actually happened once, in 2001, I think. But all systems were back up in about three days. So, it's not possible to destroy the Internet. People will just find ways to put it back up again, after the hackers destroy it. You can't shoot down the Internet and expect it to stay down. It's immortal, basically.

I know there's an option in Ubuntu to change all the font sizes of the general system, the windows, and etc. Now I'm trying to do this in Windows. I've changed everything about the windows except for the general system size. How do I do this?

Mine was a 5.2 and I got the whole thing, including the monitor, for the low price of $800, including tax. Well, then again, it was refurbished...