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  1. I'm just curious. Are you dual-booting 98 and XP so you can run the older legacy programs on 98?Web-pages get downloaded in the background by your browser, the only real way to make it any faster on a 56k modem is if the webserver serving the page uses gzip encoding and caching techniques on your end.Although you can set the bits higher in the operating system software, 56 kilobits is what your modem is bottle necked at in the firmware/hardware.
  2. Composition IIYesterday, actuallyThe in-class activity for writing:The teacher, a hot looking mid-30s lady, told us to pick a photograph from her box of photos and we were to write a page about what we think is happening in the picture.Well, when it came time to discuss our writing, she went first. She was like, "oh my god, i mentioned boob in the first sentence.." The photograph was just a portrait, breast bone and up and she was wearing a turtle neck (the photo was of her). She went on to describe how she'll never wear turtle necks again cuz they make her boobs look big. LOLYea, the photographs were of her and her friends and various things throughout her life. Innocent photos, nothing indecent, of course.It gets better though.One of the students picked out a photo (at random). He saw what was in the photo, but he kept his writing clean. I forgot what he wrote, but as he read his writing, the photo got passed around, as with everyone else's when they read their writing.Anyways, the photo got back to the teacher. She was describing what really was going on in photos and mentioned that it was her in a dress at a freshman dance. The top was strapless and she had a hard time keeping it up. Her friend in the photo had a priceless look on her face. So the teacher wanted everyone to take a second look to have a laugh with the look on her friend's face. Well the picture was taken from a side view and as with all v-neck type of shirts, you can see the breast from the side. Well the funny thing was.. the whispering started. You could see her nipple! LOL.The teacher was like, "what are you guys whispering about, let me see". We told her. OH MY GOD IT WAS SO HILARIOUS. She's like, "you pervs, since '85 when the picture was taken, I never saw it". You had to have been there.The uproar brought in the teacher from next door and she showed him the picture. His reaction was so funny. It was such a laugh.I still laugh thinking about it. At least we're all adults and can laugh over something like that. The photo really was innocent. She worried about her teaching job, "oh my god, i made you all look at porn", oh man... so funny. We re-assured her though (she's a great teacher), we're not going to say anything. We all had a laugh.
  3. Here in town there is a billboard that advertises a computer business, but it says "Warning: We are EXPENSIVE!"It's attention getting, but the word expensive is the first thing people notice about it. My friend and I thought it to be kind of strange to advertise like that.
  4. You all should read up on the articles, etc that have been written over the research of marijuana. Marijuana was made illegal over racism and yellow journalism. I am writing a paper for school concerning this very subject. Maybe I'll post a few excerpts later. Here's an image of what may occur if marijuana was legalized, lol!
  5. I've always gone to http://ngemu.com/ for all things emulation. It appears to be a good central hub on the Internet for anything to do with emulation of gaming consoles.
  6. This might sound off the wall, but animals have been known to try and bite an area where a malignant tumor is. Maybe you picked up that your grandfather had a bad leg or something.
  7. I live in America (USA). I have gotten alot of information thrown at me throughout the years about diet. This is a compilation of what I've come to conclude in my opinion.*) Diet pills. Stay away from them. Most will raise your metabolism (make you hungry again, lol), and without any food in you to burn as energy, you can suffer heart problems among other things. Once you stop the diet pills, it's like stopping caffeine intake or nicotine from cigarettes. You could put on more pounds than you had before. America looks for the quick fix, not good. I don't know how popular diet pills are elsewhere, but I heard England is getting fat also as it adapts some of America's ways. Overall, diet pills are damaging. People that want to lose the pounds, need to exercise, not rely on a pill. Exercise can be walking to and from school, cleaning up around the house, and doing chores. Don't be lazy couch potatoes watching TV or sit on the computer all day.*) Breakfast. You say you eat only a few pieces of bread. Great! Some people don't eat anything for breakfast. But think about this rationally. If you are just waking up from an 8 hour sleep, you haven't eaten anything for 8 hours. Do you midnight snack? It might help. You should eat large for breakfast. Make breakfast your dinner of the day. You will need energy throughout the day. Make it feel like an olympic breakfast. A full stomach will make you feel good, not tired, not right after waking up. Without focus being on your stomach, you'll be better off focusing on other things. Then for the rest of the day, eat small amounts whenever you feel hungry. *) Don't ignore hunger or you can actually end up gaining weight as a result! This is because your body freaks out and stores whatever fat it can as it doesn't know when the next meal is. Eat at the same times everyday. Your body will adapt the routine and start producing stomach acids to help digest food because it expects it. People that eat at random times are susceptible to heartburn and acid reflux (both suck). If you have either of those, a spoonful of vinegar will help or any acidic drink like apple or orange juice. WHAT? Yea! Read the ingredient on alka-selzer (which helps also). The main ingredient is citric acid! When I switched to 3rd shift working overnight, my sleep and eating routine changed and I had horrible heartburn to contend with at times. Now my body adjusted to the routine of when I eat and I no longer get heartburn.*) Dinner. You are about to go to sleep soon for 8 hours or however long. Your body won't be burning barely any calories. If you eat right before you go to bed, sure it feels good having a stomach full of food and may even help you fall asleep, but all that food gets turned to energy while you sleep and because you're not using it, it gets stored as fat. It's more difficult to burn your stored fat than burn any food that hasn't been converted to fat yet. A lot of people that aren't fat that I know, won't eat for a couple hours before they sleep. I always thought that was weird, but their physique shows proof.*) 30 minutes? A meal could be prepared in 10 minutes and shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes to eat. If it takes you longer to eat, you're probably eating too much. It takes longer for your body to realize you're full and if you're still eating, what then? During those 15 minutes, you shouldn't focus on anything else. When you eat 3 pieces of toast for those 30 minutes, what else are you doing? Can you do that stuff in 15 minutes if you devote the other 15 to making a good breakfast? What about stopping for breakfast somewhere on the way to school? Eat while you go to school if you don't have time. Sure the first few times you make a good breakfast for yourself, it will take a bit longer, but you'll get quicker at preparing food for yourself.*) If you ever worry about putting on pounds by eating so much, don't worry. As long as you're eating large and aren't lazy, you won't gain pounds, you'll be happier with more energy to do more things. There are foods, like corn, that inhibit your body from storing fat. Look into it. Mexican food, if you've ever had it, sometimes has guacamole and beans (both fattening if you're lazy), sometimes it's really greasy also, and you'd think it all to be a big fat project, hehe. But most of the people eat that food with corn tortillas and cook alot of things with corn and greasy oils, etc, yet stay very active in their lives. Not often do I see a fat Mexican person. They're not so influenced by watching TV all day or sitting on a computer. I see some fat Mexican people, but those people are drinking alot of beer or aren't very active or they're oaxacan (wo-hock-an) and are predisposed for it. I am half Mexican if you're wondering where the comments are coming from. Spicy foods can keep your metabolism high as well.*) When you eat food, pay attention to the recommended portion sizes. A 20 oz. bottle of soda will actually say 2 or 3 servings. What happens to people who simply eat or drink the entire package? They end up with more than they can use and start putting on the pounds. No good! Thirst is easily mistaken for hunger. If you're hungry, drink some fluids, if you're not hungry anymore, it means you were just thirsty. If you ate instead, again.. more than your body needs. Don't make the mistake of looking at the grams of fat on the nutrition labels and thinking that will automatically be fat in your own body. If you eat a fatty food, just like other foods, it will be broken down to simple and complex sugars before your body even thinks of storing it as its own fat. Stay active!Personally, I follow this but I don't think about it to do it, it's just how I eat. I don't get sick very often, and I'm an average physique. I am on the computer alot, but because I usually eat the most in the beginning of the day and go walking around alot and work at a factory, my weight hasn't changed for years. Always 180lbs, 5'7". I basically eat what I want, whenever I'm hungry. No special diet except that I eat the most in the beginning of the day instead of at the end. It's when I get depressed and start eating less is when I actually gain 20 lbs. Once I'm free of the depression, I enjoy food in all its glory and eat alot, I end up losing 20 lbs! The act of eating food will increase your metabolism.I know this all may seem contradictory to what people say, but I've paid attention to how people eat and what they ever say about it, and this is my opinion.
  8. Can someone please explain how to refresh a page's content without doing the browser refresh?I made a simple php chat before but I had to keep refreshing the page. It made the sound that links make when you click them and it became annoying. It basically worked like a larger shout box.Does anyone know where I can get a voice chat? Either hosted or a script/server?
  9. The governments of today can no longer step in *quietly* to resolve a problem. What you don't know, you're not missing. If you live in tibet or wherever it is that you live and there are restrictions on the way of life, etc. That will be how you were brought up and you won't be missing anything. Some people don't like change very much, but China is in need of it.
  10. Reseller programs are also called affiliate programs, and sometimes other things. I always figured on making a site that promotes video games through barnesandnoble or whatever other web-site that will sell games and then creating a gaming system they can purchase through a reseller program, that will run the game. Boom, one product that sells well (games), and the systems that can run the game.I never thought about setting up these affiliate web-sites and selling them though, that's a good idea. And you'll have to either force your advertisements on their sites if you host them (which they may not like), or ask them to put the advertisements on themselves. Advertise your hosting and web-site building/selling services as well on customer sites and everywhere you can.If you're making that kind of money, you should look into purchasing a server, or turning an extra computer into an internet services server. Throw apache on it, etc. and host people's web-sites for a fee. Start them out with a pre-built site and it'll be up to them to promote the site and earn the commission. You sell the site and offer monthly hosting. You'll only have to pay for business class internet and the electric bill. Most people won't like the fact that you hide who hosts their web-site and they may want to hire someone else besides you to administer and update the web-site. That's their freedom, but if you're good with them customer satisfaction wise, they may look to you to do that also. You could even charge to promote their site wherever you can. Another service fee. It's all inclusive. However you want to run it, y'kno?
  11. If you've ever hustled anything in your life, that's what you'll be doing online also. Whether it be selling a web-site's products through your own web-site through their affiliate programs or buying and selling items for a higher price, etc. Either way you need to constantly advertise your business or site online in networking web-sites and to friends and basically everyone you meet. Advertising and finding the right way to sell products and services is the main key to success.
  12. http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics-gadgets/computer-accessories/ This web-site has both the keyboard with the illuminated custom keys and the virtual laser one. Many others are listed on the page as well. Very nice web-site and good affiliate program There are videos on the product pages too, very neat!
  13. My dad said that the white owl is a superstitious harbringer of something radical, like death or life change. A mexican superstition as far as I know.
  14. A soon as a child is able to make a phone call from a house phone... you should give them a cell phone. You never know. http://www.fireflymobile.com/ That site has cell phones for kids. It's kind of cool actually. I don't know about those phones, but I'm sure gps in phones can help find your child if it comes down to it. A child is less likely to be led into a 'get called and lured into a kidnapping' than be kidnapped and use their cell phone to call for help. Which would you rather have happen? Kids are very aware of the technology we have and how to use it. My 6 year old knows how to surf the web and dial some people's phone numbers by heart and she'll call them on her own. I don't think I'd ever get a contract plan for a child that might use more minutes racking up a bill. Get an unlimited minutes account or a prepaid. Show them how to use it and supervise their use of it for a while until they are used to and understand it's function and that it's a responsibility.
  15. Sorry for the short reply, but aren't you asking about the future? It's always changing. An author may re-read a current publication and change his view about the direction he wants the future publications to go.When an author sells out to a studio to put it to film or what not, there will always be some loss or gain in the story line. When have you ever seen a movie that is strictly adherent to a book or video game?Stephen King's "cujo", at the end of the book, the kid dies of rabies and the mother survives, but in the movie... both the boy and mother survive. No one at the time would put a child's death on screen. It was lost in the paper to film translation.
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