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He's right and not just in the sense that it's dishonest. In the google Ads TOS there is a policy that states you are not in any was to encourage, require or otherwise make a user click an ad, it is to be done on our own free will. That of corse is google, but I'm sure other ad providers have simmilar rules. I must say I do sympithize (that really isn't spelled right), I to am faced with this reality and would just like to say, keep your credits up, and post as often as you can whenever you can! Although I would like to see the credit system be a little more generous, it seems to have become more strict.

Hold on just one minute, ROM's are NOT emulators, yes most roms are ilegal, if not to make or use but definatly to distrobute. An emulator is a piece of software that looks and behaves just like a piece of hardware. On mention was of MAME, MAME is an emulator, it allows you to run the roms of old games, these ROMs are in effect exact copies of the cartridges that have been fileized. You can run PC emulators on the mac, so that you can run things like MS hearts on osX. Or the other way around you can run emulators that fake (emulate) OS X hardware and allow you to run Mac OS on a PC.When you download a program there will be a OS requirement, something like Win200/XP. That is because that program was written in such a way that it makes use of some of the features of Win2000/XP. Now you could argue that a Nintendo64 didn't really have a OS so when a game went into it the game called particular prts of the hardware, basicly, I know that that chip will be able to keep track of the speed of my car so I am assigning that job to that chip. Now if you were to try to run the ROM (virtual cartridge) of that same game in a PC it would so now I know that that chip... waite I can't find that chip!!! An emulator steps between the ROM and the hardware and takes a very small part of your processor and says you are now that chip so when the game is running and goes looking for chip it finds that chip (or atleaset thinks it does!)Now another type of ROM isn't just the game but rather the actual software and OS many of the games also have the OS built into them, anyway an example of this is the Virtual TI program which is used to emulate TI calculators, it takes a ROM from the calculator and runs it faking th Z80 processor in the calc. That ROM contains not only the OS but also all the available port calls from the calculator because the emulator needs that informationNow just a point on emulators and there legality. When MS releases the new xBox 360 (It hasn't been released yet, right? I don't keep up) it will no doubt be followed by quite a few games If the world hasn't seen the Hardware yet how can the game makers make functioning games? With emulators, thats right the developers acquire a copy of the Xbox 360's ROM and then runs it in an emulator enviroment to test there games.I can't resist, no emulators are not like mp3 files downloaded from kazaa of Napster they are rather like Windwos media player and Winamp, ROM's are like mp3 files.

Can I first of all ask why? Secondly if the submitting was to be a personal thing then I would recomend making use of a cronjob rather then Javascript.

I was looking at asta host, because I was considering a move, anyway the top package on Xisto has 2gb bandwidth where as Xisto has 5gb. I was wondering why that was, also In the long list of features Xisto lists bandwidth at 500-20000mb. I was wondering what is accureat, and what the diffrence is? Why?

Does the mouse from the laptop work in the PC? Or could you send a picture of the usb port.

Here Here, LOL But serously, lets think about it for a minute. You bolded three things, the first: 1) Artificial Intelligence: Just imagine how much more stable your computer would be if it could forsee errors that would result from certin actions? The way it is now every feature of a program (with the exception of VBA enabled applications) is coded before hand and the developer must expect all possable errors, which is near imposable, that in a nut shell is why programs crash, so imagine a program that will say, before it crashes, "THat's a bad I idea, I won't do it". This technology will also cary into server technology, no doubt that is what google cares about. Or imagine a web index that determins what the best result based upon user prefrence, more on that later. Not to mention other possable things. Translation, smart searching ("I want to find information about clouds"), fintering, smart compression, easy programing (determin what you want based upon sentances rather then code), and much more. 2) Genetic Algorithms, all that need to be said is the defination: or how about understanding how the human brain works, not to hook it up to a computer, but rather to make a data storage system based upon the results. Research estimates that our brain is capable of storing the equivalant of many many terabytes of info, so how, google as descused in a diffrent thread has an insane amount of informaiton to store, so how about a more efficant way of storing it?3) machine learning: THis one related to what I said about smart indexes, meaning what? you say. Well simply put google already tries that, And people have taken advantage of how it is done, in a process called Google Bombing Now what that means is that if you search google right now for "failure" George Bushes biography is the top result, that means that according to google a large number of people are linking to that page with the context of failure. But a smart system would take into account the amount of time a user searched for a topic, how long they stayed on a page after clicking the result, and wither people who search for failure actualy click George Bushes bio, if every 1 in 4000 people who search for failure actualy click his bio then eventualy even though results from the spiders might still rang it top, that page would move down in favor of something that the google user found to be a better result. You see all a simple (if you can call that simple) explination. Besides tell me what advantage would google have controling everybodys mind? then there would be no business for them, as money wouldn't be an issue, and people wouldn't search for anything because they would have no nead, google wouldn't tell them to, because vegatibles don't need to know what product had the upc code 6618801330 LOL

Really, too wide , I must say never heard of that, I know they make usb cords that are thinner but they still work in standard USb 1.0 & 2.0 ports. I doubt it but are you sure it isn't a Firewire (ieee1394) port? Or firewire mouse (if such a thing exists)?

There is already a thread regarding google earth: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Again that sould be in your book, however I might reomend looking under a section about sessions, they are relativly new to php, basicly they do the cookie for you, the other way is to pass the username and password along in the url of each page, but I would recomend the ue of an encripted password. MySQL will provide this automaticly if you use the password() function.

If your going to use a host then no, if you mean passwords, and premissions ect. However you do have to set up mySQL databases, then the tables withen them, and lastly the information inside the tables. Now your big book should help with all that, but if it seems too BIG then just skip the part about installing mySQL, but don't skip the intor to php part. Now as for help, I would recomend as a start using http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ i's very quick, the only thing is you have to enter your email, however the only message I have recieved from them is a weekly message telling you that by now you should be so far in the "course" and that you can learn, that and I think there are ads in the email. It has a part about installing MySQL and then quering and using MySQL, your book should cover that but this is a quick start.

Google XAMPP, it is a php mysql ect package designed for personal use with very little setup (NOT for use online, for security reasons) I think there is a mac version.

Sorry about all the trouble I've been causing, didn't realise you could do that ! Thanks for your help. Anyway Mods feel free to close this thread.Thanks again

How do you mean dymanic? if you mean like the mouse over and display alternate options, then I really don't think so, that is a javascript, dhtml, css, or flash relm, something client side, the only way a mouse over menu would work with php is if by some action you could submit the page on mouseover and return new results, but taht wouldn't be efficeant.Besides the very name, PHP bible, probably wouldn't tell you how to do something with Javascript if it could be done with PHP.

Correct me if I'm wronf but a <a> link will go relative to a page, so as in the site I'm about to outline: /index.html /fol1/index.html /fol1/index2.html /fol2/home.html /fol2/home2.html If I were on /index.html and clicked a link that pointed to <a href="fol1/index.html"> that could bork, but if I were on that page and clicked a link to <a href="fol2/home.html"> the client would look in (root)/fol1/fol2/home.html because it would be looking up from the current page, if if I were to make a file and using include add it to all my pages then on every page it would link to the files as fol#/filename.html whether or not that file actualy exists, so I would make my navigation so it worked on the root index.html page, yet when that same navigation would be included in any other page not only would the home link not work, but none of the other links would either, that is because the link <a href="index.htm"> from /fol2/home2.html would report a 404 because there is no file at /fol2/index.html That being said please tell what you mean by the above code, maybe I missed something.

I am looking for a way to make a dynamic menu using php and include, basicly I want to make a file that contains html formating source and links and include it somewhere in all my pages, the problem is that links are taken literaly and refered to as to where the html is running from. So is there a way I can make a file and include it in my pages, then it will determin where the page is running from, and generate the links with an approperate amount of ../../'s so if my index is at root, but every section has it's own folder, I want to be able to include this file in all the pages, and have the path to the pages changed.I don't expect anyone to spoon feed me the code, but any suggestions would be apprecieated.

I don't remember if you said it was XP, but XP will work in the background all the time, it's designed to optimize the system but only when your not using it, as far as the speed, have you tried looking into the system heat?

You said that it could be that your HDD is being used rather then RAM, that sounds like a possability, or that your page file is set to dynamicayl resize as it sees fit, so my fisrt question is, DO you have enough RAM? and two what OS are you running, I'll tell you how to check your page file on Win XP the process varies slightly for other OS's1)Go to the control panel, the precess varies depending on your start menu layout.2) I use classic view in the start menu, so on winXP for the time being swich to classic view3) Select the system icon4)I have SP2, and can't remember if this changes with the update, Choose the advanced TAB5)In the preformance area choose Settings6) Choose the advanced tab, and at the bottom choose the change button, I use the set memory option, general rule of thumb set the max and min value to 1.5x your current ram, unless you don't have near enough ram then doubble or tripple it, (make sure you set enough, if you don't the computer might not come on!)7) okay out and then restart the computerAs good as that sounds you may want to try the spyware scan, that does sound like the better option

What do you mean the mail function isn't on this server? I've sent mail using php from Xisto. Anyway about your question, yes php.net, but more specificaly try: http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php scroll down to the part where the users post Vladimir has posted a message that may pertain to you.

Okay this seem like a siple enough task, I would like to tell an html page to refresh, but two conditions have to be met, 1) the page must have finsihed loading, 2) it must wait a given number of seconds, say 5. Buy the way this needs to be automatic.Thanks

Oh no trust me it is a Gmail issue, and they are aware of it, it is to keep loading times to a minimal, however if my message were to long, and like I said it is a newsletter, then all the unsubscribe stuff is at the bottom, to read it you must view the origional message, but in the case of most newsletters you then have to sort through a mess of html, to find what you want, really not convienant. From the Gmail Help Center

Guess what I just found out, if you have a message to long for gmail to read it will be clipped, cut off, unretrevable in HTML format. Rather you have to read through the "Origional Message" which if you recieve html newsletters is just a pain.

You mean like green screen, except maybe not green? If yes GIMP doesn't have a set tool for this however if it is all one color then you can (the exact same color) you can select it with the wand and press ctrl+X or cut this will place that selection on the clipbord but will also remove the informaiton from the layer, or for more control, (this is my prefered methoid) is to right click the layer in question in the layers pallett (two l's or two t's?) then select mask, the popup will let you choose what you want, then there will be two thumbs in the layers dialog (same thing as pallett) the one on the right is the mask, whatever you paint black, as in with the paint brush will be invisable, everything white will be visable everything in any shade of gray will become semi transparent, you can use this if you rendered a pattern and want it to fade out from left to right, just use a grey gradient in the layer mask. Hope that helps

No offence, but what's wrong with you? Sure GIMP isn't perfect, but there also isn't anything wrong with it. It's free, gomes with a whole mess of plugins, and a whole mess of free plugins you can install later. Very stable, very good format suport. And what's more if you are a serious graphic designer and want to make full advantage of your hardware GIMP has the source code so you can compule it to your system, or better yet, self build Linux running AMD 64 with 64 bit GIMP, have you never seen fast and stable.

I believe you can host ROM's on your site as long as they are legal, however you can (I believe, though not sure) post a link to any file you want providing it isn't hosted on Xisto, and don't metion it in the forms.

I use snapfiles.com or for just freeware snapfiles.com/freeware I like how it is easy to browse and for a software junky like me I find some new stuff, that and not to many ads.