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Google mentioned that it would continue to provide free service to existing accounts but would not have new accounts. I prefer to use the email forwarding that is accessed through Cpanel so I can consolidate everything into a single account - it makes checking email quicker too. At one point it did stop working and I was asked to use Google Apps, but Google Apps does not have the equivalent of a catch-all email address where you can type anything ahead of the '@', and that's a feature I use a lot. I'm not certain, but it may be possible for you to set up SquirrelMail or something similar on your web hosting account to have a web interface for your email, though I'm not sure if there's already a web interface provided.

You are pretty much on target when you mention about getting side tracked with life - that has happened to me on many occasions... I post on Xisto, then something happens and I'm caught on in the tangled nets of life, then I break free and I'm on Xisto again, but I manage to get distracted because of something hot and happening, and yet again I still return to Xisto. Perhaps having a Xisto app with notifications would help post more often, though I'm unlikely to write much on a phone or a tablet (those things just aren't built for writing, though they are great for a video or a voice chat).

In the debates, Obama mentioned about pulling out the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. He also mentioned about getting the economy to recover from the recession. I didn't really follow the elections and the debates but I think Romney wanted to prevent foreign workers from entering the economy. Many developing nations that have prospered are ones that attract foreign talent, even if it means a greatly skewed population. The us-versus-them approach only causes increased hostility and crimes.

A punch in the belly isn't really that bad, unless it is hard enough to cause injury. I've had friends who would greet each other with a punch in the belly. It's like each trying to mock the other for being too fat. Or maybe they just picked it up from watching Aladdin. Then again, I've even had friends who would try to trip each other, which I thought may have been a bit extreme, except that neither of them fell over. Sure, it came as a shock when I first saw them do such a thing, but one has to be open to different cultures.

There is a list of different kinds of fish, birds, and hamsets, yet you left out dogs, which are the most common pets of all. Cats are probably a close second, but cats eat fish and birds, so you can't expect to get one of each and still have the same headcount when you aren't watching them.The hardest thing to deal with is when you have pets that have odd behavioral traits. There was this dog that would take a drink out of a bowl and after it was done, it would tilt the bowl leaving the floor wet. It always had fresh water to drink so that mannerism was uncalled for, but its owners put up with it till they had a more crowded apartment so found a new family to adopt the dog.It's also tough when you outlive most of the animals that you are with. Perhaps tortoises would be a good choice then - you could start off with a baby tortoise, and it would probably see three generations of your family and you would most likely live your lifetime before it even gets past half of its lifetime.

I have heard of a lot of people who have issues with doctors so they take a flight to India and get a proper medical diagnosis done at a fraction of what it would cost them elsewhere. The insurance firms ought to be happy to cover the bills too, as long as it isn't for a routine medical examination or for anything that might seem cosmetic or for things that they do not want to cover (and the last one is used ever so often to deny claims).BTW, about that doctor who was asking you the questions, maybe he is a psychologist. You never really know, perhaps he is trying to talk you into saying that there is nothing wrong with you through reverse-psychology. Apparently, reverse-psychology works for a lot of things, but to talk a failing organ into working or to talk a bug into non-existence is another thing. It is along the lines of talking to a ghost saying, "You do not exist. You are a ghost.", except that at that point the ghost does fade away but the bug does not and neither does the failing organ start to work normally again... or can it? Apparently there are a lot of believers in faith healing and they have been able to witness miracles that most people would think are impossible. That makes the impossible a little hard to define because after watching Criss Angel, you would have to try really hard to stretch the boundaries of impossible and define what is really possible, what is seemingly a trick, and what is actually impossible.

I just want to add that Delicious.com is not owned by Yahoo! any more. It was in the past... I used Delicious.com a lot back in the day and remember Yahoo took over. Then, somebody bought it off Yahoo because Yahoo could not monetize it. ReddIt is pretty much the social bookmarking leader and they made it to their massive size because it's easy for people to create throwaway user accounts by simply choosing a username and password, limiting the number of posts greatly, and having a voting system in place to determine what goes on to the front page. It is easy for a firm to use a few hundred ReddIt accounts to put something onto the front page and that has been used to criticize ReddIt, but it still has managed to keep its lead over other social bookmarking sites.

phpnovice,Are you using the password function of MySQL in both the insert and the select statements? And did you make sure that you typing in your password exactly as you did the first time? You could perhaps store the password into the database as plain text i.e. without the password functions in the select and insert statements to ensure that you are entering the right password - phpMyAdmin or a similar tool to query the database should show you what the password is.

Daddy long legs are harmless spiders that crawl about some hotels and ill-maintained places. There is a MythBusters episode in which they did have a daddy long legs spider bite the guy and it took a whole lot of persuasion to get one of the spiders to give him a bite. It felt like a tiny little sting to him, and I think being bitten by a red ant would have caused him more pain than the bite by the daddy long legs spider. If you do happen to come across a daddy long legs spider though, just let it go - they feed their tiny bellies on little insects and don't mean you any harm.

When the captain of the ship said, "All Aboard!", he meant you too, so welcome aboard the ship of Xisto. We set sail every morning and head off into the sunset every evening.The web hosting and domain names are free in the sense that you do not have to part with real cash and your pockets remain full, but you do have to pay with your time by gaining the association of the people on the forum, posting as much as you can, and sharing whatever interesting tid-bits that you hear about and read about, without simply copy-pasting it. Oh, man, if we could copy-paste, I'd have half the Sahara desert covered with my tracks but oh well.I can't think of any other free web hosting service that also comes with a free domain name though. And I've stuck to Xisto for as long as I remember.

Of all the cars I've driven, the Toyota Avalon 2000 is a real beauty. It has been engineered for driving so it hasn't got all of the fancy Bluetooth, GPS Sat Nav, or MP3 player gadgetry. It is rather silent when new though it isn't super-silent after a few years of driving. The fly wheel is just the right weight so you wouldn't smash the pedal against the floor and wait for it to get moving. The Toyota Avalon 2000 is also longer than the current generation of the Toyota Avalons, or at least it had more interior space by providing more legroom.But, alas, all good things must come to an end. Driving a car from 2000 lacks the availability of spares and parts start to fail so it had to be replaced a couple of years ago. If only there were some form of standardization that required organizations to at least start another product line that shared parts with older vehicles.

There aren't laws against that per-se, but if one party files a lawsuit for slander, the other could have to pay for the damages. I guess the defense could be that the knowledge was not common knowledge, was not easily accessible, and the damages cannot be quantified because of a lack of definitiveness in elections.In either case, public debates always go the way of contradictions. People hardly agree with one another because if they did, others would simply say, "Oh, he's just a yes-man." There is a thing like diplomacy but people don't become popular with being diplomatic.BTW, remember Gandhi? He's typically remembered as a peace-loving leader. People who read about him criticize him for his polygamy and ill-treatment of his family. People who play Civilization think of him as a psychopath who talks about peace and when you turn your back on him, he starts amassing nukes and goes war-crazy... something about a programming bug in the first version of Civilization where his aggressiveness was set to one on a scale of one to two hundred and fifty five. Then, after the Indian civilization discovers democracy, the leaders are given a minus two for aggressiveness. Since Gandhi was already on a one, you would think aggressiveness would go to a negative one, but since there are no negatives, his aggressiveness goes all the way up to two hundred and fifty five! It's the lack of understanding of representing decimal numbers as binary and a lack of code quality that is to blame. If any of NASA's missions failed because of the number systems, that wouldn't be a first either.

Hi Sorch!Good to have you here with us on the forum. Where are you from and what do you do?There are folks on this forum with an expertise in a lot of different things. Ask a question, and you shall find answers to them soon enough. Such is the nature of Xisto :-)Looking forward to more from you.

Hi Miller!I haven't seen you around on the forums much, or perhaps you had a different username when you were on the forum back then. How's the weather out there in Canada? Is hurricane Sandy affecting Canada too, or is it just the United States? Back in the day, we didn't really have any early warning systems for weather, earthquakes, or terrorist attacks, but now people know about events even before they happen. They can even predict childbirths (that's an interesting case at Target, but it's a story for another post, another day).

Mayukh,In your post, you mentioned that air compressed cars are like LPG except for the material being used, the combustion type, and the byproduct.I always assumed that air compressed cars stored energy using an electric compressor in the form of highly pressurized air and then utilized energy released through decompressing the air. It seems rather inefficient considering how much compression would be required to store enough energy for a trip around the city. I imagine the whole of the back of a Volkswagen Transporter van would be needed to store enough compressed air for me to get to work and head back. At that scale, I think I would be using more electricity in a compressed air car than in an all-electric car that used batteries for storage.

While un-manned space missions are considered relatively simpler to deal with, manned space missions are more complex. A life support environment has to be maintained and controlled through frequent monitoring. An oxygen supply has to be ensured and the level of oxygen has to be maintained such that it does not become too high or too low.In a news article today, I read about ice cream being sent aboard an unmanned cargo vessel to the international space station - I read it on the social media, so there may have been some details that are inaccurate. While the idea of having ice cream sounds good, the ice cream that astronauts typically get is a freeze-dried variety that is not as popular among the astronauts as the regular variety. Freeze-dried ice cream has the water content removed and is packed in a gelatinous while forming cubes to ensure that crumbs do not form. This approach makes ice cream cheaper to carry into space (because of the reduced water content) and safer to eat (because of the lack of crumbs being formed - those crumbs can cause problems for on-board equipment).

Carlow,It's good to have you here on this forum. Where are you from and what do you do? Are you a web designer/developer too?It would help to have the technical discussions in the computers forum because that's where all of the tech-savvy folk hang out, but a discussion about Active Directory is something that I cannot hold back from, so I'll post right here because the Introduction threads usually turn into a mish-mash of eclectic subjects anyway.The Microsoft Active Directory is an LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) service that can be created using Microsoft Windows server edition software. What this means is that you cannot use Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Vista Ultimate, or even Windows XP Professional to create and host a Microsoft Active Directory service. You need to use Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, or Windows 2008 to setup a Microsoft Active Directory service. To begin with, you can create a domain name server (DNS, either use BIND on a Linux server, or use Windows server edition to host a domain name service too). When you do that, you can setup the Microsoft Active Directory service, which would be the repository for holding the user accounts of users across the entire network. The Active Directory can also be used to host a domain name service, though before you create the Active Directory service, you have to setup at least one other domain name service, which you can later migrate to the Active Directory. The Active Directory also provides you with the means to replicate the files that you share using Windows. Think of it as a Windows shared folder that appears on multiple computers with all of the files in-synchronization. The Active Directory service can also be used to create additional fields associated with user accounts, or to hold just about any kind of information because it is in essence a database service (or, more technically, a directory service). You can use a directory service for listing printers that are available on your network too. You can use the Active Directory service to install software on computers on your network, make all the files available on the desktop and My Documents folders shared across all of the computers so that you can log in from any of the computers to access all of your files, though you may have an issue when working across different versions of Windows, such as Windows XP and Windows Vista or Windows 7 because they store the user files in different directories.If you do need help with setting up a Microsoft Active Directory service, feel free to drop me a message and I would be more than happy to help. We can either setup a team viewer or vnc sharing session and you can install the software needed within vmware or virtualbox.

Hi Cityzen!it's good to have you join us here in the forums. There are a lot of Internet technologies around, from Oracle's/Sun's Java Server Pages to PHP and even Microsoft's Active Server Pages.NET. Then again, there are web crawlers that are not web applications per se, but they download web pages off the Internet so that you can index them and make them searchable with an indexer. There are also Really Simple Syndications news readers, which are desktop or mobile applications that pick up the articles off websites in Extended Markup Language (XML) format. Pretty much every major newspaper website provides content in XML format, including BBC and CNN, so you can actually provide a news reader!Then again, at the networking level, there are routers, firewalls, and proxy servers which again are Internet technologies so there is a vast vast ocean for you to conquer! :-)There are several web hosting plans and even if you subscribe to the basic plan, you will be able to do lots with it. You can host about half a dozen domains with it, use close to a dozen MySQL databases (and PostgreSQL databases too?), and even setup e-mail forwarding so you can get an e-mail address with your domain name in it. It explains why a lot of people stick to Xisto and haven't gone elsewhere in the pursuit of web hosting. Besides, where else do you find web hosting that is completely free?

A lot of my projects cease when I'm unemployed, like right now :-)I don't really have a place where I can plant flowers or vegetables, and even if I did, the weather here is really terrible for either flowers or vegetables to grow through most of the year, though I could still have some plants and cacti. Also, I don't have a dog, though I would really like to have one.I find it difficult to have a conversation on the forums at times too, but your posts usually give me a lot to respond to. I particularly remember the time when you mentioned that you got an all-terrain vehicle and there was a mod for one of those vehicles that could add a roof and turn what looks like a quadbike (and perhaps is a quadbike in all regards, except that it isn't road-legal) into a covered vehicle that you could ride around in a farm. However, the problem with covered vehicles is that in the summer, it gets darned hot and you might as well just ride on a motorcycle instead of a covered vehicle with no air conditioning. If an all-terrain vehicle did get air-conditioning, it would get heavy, then it would need power-steering, and with all the gear-changing, it would need an automatic transmission, and with that comes the difficulty of fitting it all onto a small-sized platform so they would have to extend it, and before you know it, that would become an off-road compact sports utility vehicle. I guess it is just human nature to have something that is in between all of the options that we are provided with - "Sure, those options are really great, but do you have one that has X, Y, and Z from that one, and A, B, and C from this one?"

The Apple iPhone was a revolution when it was introduced because no smart phone manufacturer wanted to cross the price barrier at the time and the use of capacitive touch screens, brush aluminium casings, and a revolutionary new operating system interface and app store were the package for disaster when you considered the price of such a device. Between a computer and a phone that cost the same, most people would have thought that the average person's intelligence would tell him or her to buy a cheap cell phone and a laptop computer for about the same price as an expensive smart phone. Apple decided to go ahead with the idea anyway just as it did in the past with expensive Macintosh computers. However, this time Apple's fortunes were much much better and people actually wanted to get an iPhone despite its price tag. The adoption started because of the carrier subsidies - people eventually paid the price of the phone because of the two-year-long or one-year-long contract that they had with the carrier, but the up-front costs were really low when compared with to the features that the phone had to offer and the lump-sum cost of other smart phones of the time.BTW, you do not really need iTunes to use an iPhone. You can transfer files to it as though it were a USB device. However, you do need to use iTunes for upgrading the iOS operating system on the iPhone and if you want to install applications on the iPhone using your computer instead of downloading them directly onto the iPhone. The former is probably something that you absolutely would need to use iTunes for but you can just install it whenever a new version of iOS becomes available, install the new iOS onto your iPhone, and then uninstall iTunes till the next version of the iOS operating system comes along which would be at least six months to a year unless they discover some really nasty security bug that they have to fix or your carrier decides to send across its own patch for the iOS, such as for locking it to their network or for installing software to spy on you as a result of government regulations.

Mobile application development has been very popular in recent years because users of the applications can simply make micropayments through an official app store that is pre-installed with the device instead of handing out the credit card numbers and the prices can be kept low for market places where a lot of users would be willing to make purchases.The iPhone probably made the concept popular with Android and other app market places following suit. I am not sure of whether newspaper publishers are able to monetize the digital versions of their newspapers but it certainly has worked for game developers and small business application manufacturers. Imagine creating a media player like VLC player and selling it to about a thousand users for roughly $5. That's enough to cover the costs of a month of development (assuming that you are willing to outsource) for an individual developer with the potential to start getting in profits from the next month.If you think about it, app development is the new web development - folks are less willing to spend on web developing with WordPress and other web-building software around. Besides, WordPress development is getting cheaper with online market places too so why would anyone spend more than $30 for a WordPress plugin when the exact same plugin can be custom-developed for $30? App development, on the other hand, is for end-users so each one would probably have to be created from the ground-up so there's a greater opportunity for the developers to create and sell apps.

I have tried Amazon a couple of times to order books online, and they were able to deliver to an address all the way in Dubai, though the shipping costs did make up about half the order value. If they did have more storage locations worldwide, they could perhaps ship from someplace else and reduce the shipping costs.I didn't really have a problem with a system that required information that I did not have. If it asks you for a P.O.Box, you may be able to enter a rural route number in the same field and hope that the books do get delivered and give them a call if it does not. The expedited shipping options do help because the shipping is through a courier service such as FedEx and they make a best effort to deliver to the extent that they will even make a phone call to deliver the package to the location where you are at a time of your convenience, though at times they do insist that the delivery has to be made at the location specified by the consignee. They are flexible on time and can deliver it during any of their office hours and even have the option of having you collect it from their despatch center instead if you prefer. The problem usually comes up when they insist on delivering the package to the address specified on the package and your office hours match their office hours so you would not be able to stay home to pick up the package and sign the receipt. I guess the kind of delivery is dependent on the service because some consignments are required to be delivered at a specific location.Recently, I've also noticed that some courier services require a photograph of the person who received the package using a camera mounted on a hand-held PDA. It is probably something that they would use when handling documents or objects of a high value to prove that they actually did manage to deliver the package to the specified person, though they would have no way to determine that the person being photographed is actually the same person who is supposed to receive the package.

Hi!The credit system is definitely working. I do not post all that often, but when I do post I find that the credit system does not give me credits right away, but in a couple of days I do receive an email telling me that I have got credits added to my account for posting. It may take a bit of time, but slowly and surely it will evaluate your posts and give you the credit that is due.It would be pretty neat if we could transfer credits between user accounts though. It could emerge into a kind of a market place.

sheepdog, Biological ecosystems are complex such that the implications of any change made does not immediately seem apparently till the effects are felt. Researchers can easily provide or disprove a point by the manner in which they perform their research therefore there is a peer-review process and the requirement of having to disclose details of the organizations providing funding for the research to help in reducing bias (not that bias still does not creep into research in some form, but it does help mitigate the problem by a bit). When we talk about dams, we need to consider that they create some stagnation of water and an accumulation of matter that would normally just flow downstream or get washed ashore. This accumulation causes a greater opportunity for micro-organisms to work at decomposition of whatever matter they can find and the anaerobic conditions tend to accelerate their growth. Remember the oxygenation process that some water processing plants use for the treatment of water? When a dam is constructed, it creates a greater depth of water. Think of the forlorn fish that could just swim down a few feet to get a bite of the sea weed (I don't really know, do fish even eat sea weed?). It now has to travel farther to get to the sea weed, assuming that the sea weed can still grow at those depths. Then, there is the issue of decaying sea weed because the fish decides to migrate to shallower waters so when the sea weed does die out, the necrosis-ridden leaves are left at the bottom of the river bed and the anaerobic bacteria can party all day with the reduced oxygen at lower levels of the river bed because of the increased water depth. Scientists seem to go into the intricate details to determine the effects of a phenomenon and therefore can catch the little details that seem to escape us. They draw upon previous research by performing a literature review prior to even getting funding for their research and they do encounter cases when half the research points one way and the other half of the research points the other way. They do eventually decide to go ahead with the research anyway and their own research can seem to point one way with the results but then after a statistical analysis, it points the other way. Using quantitative measures in a research study at least seem logical and scientific. You ought to look at the qualitative research studies that seem to focus on the thoughts and feelings to draw themes or patterns from the thought processes of the research subjects. While trying to get a grasp of the research process myself, I have read about different kinds of studies and have seen research papers based on surveys - when you go about surveying a group of people, what is the likelihood that he or she is telling the truth, even if you do claim that all of the data that you collect is going to be kept private and confidential? And even with the promise of keeping the data confidential, the person administering the survey could take a quick peek at the options marked in the survey response for all we know as respondents so there's again another incentive to lie on a survey response. Oh, and remember how employers decide to terminate their employees based on their FaceBook postings? What assurance do individuals have that their employers will not have them terminated over information provided in an interview or a survey response? With the supply and demand tipping in the favor of organizations that are recruiting, they can easily hand someone a pink slip and decide to hire somebody else to replace him or her quicker than you can say abracadabra. There are a whole lot of variables that go into a research study and it is not possible for the researcher to control them all, so we just assume that the effect of the factors that are beyond the control of the researcher are negligible in nature and so we take for granted that the research study supports a particular view (though we never really say that the research study proves or disproves anything because there is almost always a margin or error or an anomaly, and there's the fact that the study is performed on a sample of the population so the research study attempts to generalize the findings from the study to the population. There are studies performed on whole populations as well, but those are few and far).