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Yeah, no. I don't think the US would allow such a breach in security in Google Earth. It would probably be hard to get the exact coordinates of Area 51, because that supposedly contains the remains of the crash at Rosewell and other "top secret" stuff. (Personally, I think the Rosewell conspiracy was just a test plane, but that's another story). Anyhow, I tried to zoom onto Fort Knox once, and once I came in too close, it read "Sorry, no photos available at this elevation". So I'm betting that it's the same story over area 51, too.

If you want a smatphone, try the Droid. You may have seen advertisements for it on TV if you watch NBC or ABC. Anyhow, the Droid is by far the best Smartphone I've ever used. Its mobile internet is ultra fast, the GPS unit is like a Magellan GPS, there's a wide range of applications that you can choose from, ect. It utterly blasts the iPhone out of the water. I own the phone on the T-Mobile network, and I pay $18.95 a month for the unlimited data plan(It includes a 200 text message bonus.)

Probably the best shooter I've played would be Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Now, in games, I'm all for realism. BC2 properly demonstates realism within the game. You only have to shoot people about 3 or 4 times for them to die, explosions look very good, dust flies around the tank when you fire, ect. Now, here are some improvements that they should add to make the game even better: 1.) Probably one of the most annoying things in the Battlefield series is the delay from the firing and the actual destruction. (eg. You shoot a fence, and it takes half a second for the damage to show up, or you crash a humvee, and a second later the hood crumples. Things like that). I believe it is due to the calculations the game has to preform, or maybe some kind of server lag. Either way, it makes the game experience a little less realistic. This also applies when you kill people with a tank. You blast them to smitherines, but they can still run around for a second before they die. They should just drop once the tank fires. 2.) Limb damage. I believe this is demonstrated in Fallout 3, where if you shoot an enemy in the leg, they crumple to the ground. In BC2, you can shoot somebody in the leg with a sniper rifle, and they just keep on running. That's pretty stupid. I say they crumple to the ground, and a teammate needs to go back and pull them into cover. Then the player who got shot in the leg should have to keep pressing a button or buttons repeatidly to stand back up. This is somewhat like WWE games, where it takes you a little bit of time to stand back up if you just smacked over the head with a metal chair. 3.) Explosions. When the tank fires, the explosion from the thing(the tank ammuntion) should be a little more explosive. It just whips up dust and makes a little explosion on the ground. The boom should be big. The C4 explosion could be bigger, also. 4.) Non-regenerating health. I don't see why suddenly all the shooter games abandoned the health meter and moved to regeneratable health. I find that totally annoying. Bring back the health bar! 5.) Explosions should be fatal. When a tank blasts in your general direction, the force from the explosion would fling you like a ragdoll. I think that DICE should make the explosions a little more deadly. 6.) Their so-called terrain effects, as shown in this video here make it hard to drive if you smash up the ground too much. Definately NOT true. It's so easy to go across the potholes in the ground if its beat up. They should make it extremely inconvinient to go across the potholes, possibly extending it so that the HUMVEEs can get stuck if they try to cross. 7.) There should be animation for your army character getting in/out of vehicles. People just hop out of tanks and humvees right when their vehicle's about to explode. They really need to change that, because it gets annoying.. 8.) Real-time tank charging. I hate how when you get into a tank fight, some guy just stands behind the tank with a drill fixing the tank while you get blasted to smithereens. They should make it so that the engineer has to crawl under the tank and press a series of buttons for 30-40 seconds, not just use a stupid drill. Those are my reasons. I'm probably going to ship this off to EA or dice so that they can improve the final game once it comes out. Right now, Bad Company 2 is only available as a BETA. As far as I know, they are not handing out beta keys. The full game is going to come out in March, so stay tuned! Thejode

I hate rapidshare...... I always get crap when I try to download stuff, like "error: Maximum download limit reached" or something like that . Personally, I think you should go with mediafire.com. They're upload speed isn't exactly marathon worthy, but the downloads are very fast for a file uploading site. They also have a free download ticker, and a nice graphic indication of your upload progress. They also haven't gone too corporate, so you have virtually unlimited space. (100 MB per folder. As far as I know, you can make about 100 files) . Very nice features. Megaupload is my 2nd favorite, because it's really quick uploads, so that you don't have to bother to set up an account. That's good and bad, because you can't manage your files, but easy to upload something to a a friend quickly. Their download speed is relatively quick in my opinion. Avoid rapidshare. They're becoming worse and worse by the day.

Yeah, these days you hear all the time now that facebook is totally ruining peoples lives. It's also pretty unsettling how they updated their TOS so that they can do whatever they want with your pesonal info... FOREVER. I generally tend to avoid social networking. You also hear on the news that too many kids are signing up for facebook when they're young, and entering their first and last name. Their parents never seem to know, either because they're too busy, or they simply don't care. Once you post something online, it's impossible for it to be permanetly erased. These guys back up their systems ALL the time. So if one of their databanks burned down, they'd have extra copies of this stuff. If you say something stupid while your young(15, 16), like kids who create a site devoted to hating their teacher, it can really catch up to them in the long run. I say, if you're going to sign up for facebook, sign up with a fake name, so that your employer can never trace your name back to you. How does your employeer even manage to get acess to go into these places?

Windows Movie Maker does what you wanted to do above, but you mentioned that you didn't want to use it. So, I'm going to have to reccomend Adobe Premire, Sony Vegas 8, or Adobe After Effects. Premire does basic functions, such as snipping, adding backround music, creating captions and credits, excetera. Sony Vegas 8 does pretty much the same thing, except there are more advanced features, such as green-screening, color swapping, and a few basic particle effects. Adobe After effects is very advanced, and it can create complex movie effects, such as key'ed in explosions, green screening, gun muzzle flashes, and cool text effects and motion blur. There's a variety of stuff to choose from. I still think you should just start out with moviemaker, because it has all the basic functions that are nessesary to make a movie seem at least half-professional. I hope you appreciate this list.Thejode.

Okay, it's ridiculous how long I've tried to look for a decent screen recorder. I've tried hypercam, Camstudio, Camtasia, ect. None of them have ever satisfied me. What I'm looking for is a good screen recorder that will record absolutely best sound quality(Not the sucky sound quality of the other products) and very high video quality. I have a pretty decent computer...... Vista Home Premium, 4GB of RAM, 1792 MB GeForce 8600M GT Graphic Card, my CPU is a Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T8300, and I have an extrernal audio card for very good audio. So, my computer can handle quite a bit. I'm not very concerned about lag or anything, just as long as it doesn't use up 3.9 out of my 4 GB(:. I'd be very thankful if someone could reccomend a good quality product.Thanks!Thejode

I love google chrome. I have always been a hard-core google supporter. I use Google Chrome regulary, but not for the forums(the shoutbox screws up a lot. Companies need to be more flexible and develop their websites to work with GC). I find that it loads EXTREMELY fast. Most googleists are probably minimalist(the google homepage properly displays this). I love google chrome for that. No stupid plugins or toolbars that slow down the browser way too much. IE is quite a stickler for that, as it's startup is like watching a snail run a 4k. I don't have a good experience with firefox either, due to the fact that when I ran it once, the URL input bar dissapeared! God, it's impossible to navigate the web when you can't even punch in a website name. Firefox was officially uninstalled.Google Chrome also added the new themes, similar to the ones you can use to decorate iGoogle. That's their first step to beautification. I have to admit, the themes do liven up the browser. Google chrom still has something to prove, but so far it looks good.

UPDATE:There is a wireless pad that you plug into your phone or PSP or whatever, and it'll charge the device for you. I've seen it on TV. I believe a way to transfer electricity via air waves was invented when Tesla created the Tesla coil. The tesla coil enables you to light up lightbulbs from a few feet away. It's pretty neat.

Here's some technical information that should help you out in improving site traffic once you start to have about 10,000 visitors on at a time: Your website is a small HTML file. Make sure to keep your page under 50 kilobytes, or it may delay your website once you begin to get more visitors. Okay, now from a layout perspective: At a first glance, I do like your website design. It looks sleek and shiny, just like it should. As mentioned above, your homepage load is delayed by about 3 or 4 seconds. This is with only, as I glance, 125 people online. In the long run, this delay could pile up to 6, 7, 9, or even 12 seconds. I've seen sites that go this slow because of a large spew of traffic. Your rating box for articles is OK. It could be better. I don't like how it's scale is from "poor" to "best". This should be adjusted to 1 to 5. Your logo is ok. It could be a little more fancy, maybe later, intregating flash into it. Your slogan doesn't really make much sense. "Always for you!" sounds like a poorly translated Asian fast-food slogan. Change it to something that has more of a ring to it. If you can't think of anything at all, just leave it as Casual Techie. I don't think you should code your own polls. They don't look professional at ALL. Example: Poll 1: Will internet explorer beat firefox? A1.)Yes A2.)I am sure,never(no space between sure and never) A3.)Maybe A4.)Possibly A3 and A4 are basically the same thing. Change that. Moving on to the quality of your articles. They are pretty good. I enjoy to read them. Your comment box is good, too. Nice little rich text editor you have going on there. I applaud you for that. Your tips and tricks section is informative, but usually isn't relevant to anything that I need. Try posting something there that everyone is going to be wow'ed about. So far, the tips and tricks section is basically a computer repair manual. Overall, pretty decent job. There are some cons, not much with the programming of the site, simply the layout and accesability. Keep up the good work! Thejode(8/10) Notice from rvalkass: Quote tags added.

Yuck! God, I'd rather live in a cardboard box than in those apartments. Beats waking up and looking around at some nasty trash(now that I think of it, there's probably trash on and in the bed.).If I were those people, I'd just dump all the trash over the edge. I would imagine that health arond that area would be really poor, because all the mold would be in the air, and mold doesn't exactly compare to febreeze. The goverment should enforce better enviromental laws around the area. Without that, the place is just going to get utterly disgusting. I say the goverment ships some cleaning supplies, and the people to actually aim for the trash can rather than their neighbors yard.

Hey, I'm pretty new here too(well, it shows up that I joined in May, but I've been doing a lot around here anyway). I looked at your site. Pretty good. It would be nice if you spaced out your site, as #armynavy123 mentioned. I posted a test comment on page "test 7" (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/). You CSS is a bit messy off to the side, as "PAGES" is slightly cut off. There's also a lot of white space behind the main navigation tools, so you might want to fix something there, too. You might want to edit the "about" page, because it lists: This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress. You probably want to take that off. Nothing looks more unprofessional than setup information on the page. Just give a little summary of your site on the about page. Actually, list that on your homepage. I didn't really know what the site was about until I read through some of it. Remove your test pages, too. They look pretty dumb. On your film review pages, try to list more information per page. I shouldn't have to click each "Page 1", "Page 2", "Page 3", ect buttons. Give your homepage logo a little more flare. That'll definately make your site a little more professional. If you don't have much experience with photoshop, can't pay too much money for logos, or just don't have time, go to logoease.com. They provide a pretty decent logo service, that provides you with a gratifying logo. Just a few tips. Keep up the good work. I may have generated quite a list, but it's called "constructive critisism". Have fun earning myCENTS! They really have a neat program going on here. Sincerely, Thejode P.S I now realize I have become off-topic by reviewing your website. Ah, a little extra credit never hurts.

That is pretty neat... Ah, what am I saying? It's pretty gross. To me, I want to remember my loved ones via a grave. I'd rather not wear a ring or something made out of them. To me, that's like sporting around someones guts on your shirt. I believe they compact the ashes together so tightly that it forms diamonds. They have to use some kind of very large crusher to squeeze it together with such strength. Too bad superman doesn't work at their company . He could just squeeze those diamonds together.

You didn't list what type of iPod you had, so this is kind of a guess, but might be able to help......You might have corrupted your iPod, because you unplugged it while it was still connected to your computer. If you unplug it while synchronyzing, it could really screw it up. Try formatting it and reinstalling your songs. Try calling Apple support and have them help you repair your iPod(Personally, I've had a bad experience with them. Maybe you'll be different.) Try resetting your iPod by holding down the menu button and middle button at the same time. It should show the little Apple logo and boot up the iPod. Best of luck,thejodeHey iGuest guy(or girl, or dog, whatever),How come you posted on this topic about a bazillion times? And why is half of your text always wrapped in tables? It's really weird.Puzzled,Thejode.

People can live up to a month without food, that's because their body begins to use up fat and muscle tissue to power your body's main organs(heart, liver, brain, ect.) But when it comes to water, parting with it for 3 days can prove fatal. Blood is mostly water, and your muscles, lungs, and brain all contain a lot of water. Your body needs water to regulate body temperature and to provide the means for nutrients to travel to all your organs. Water also transports oxygen to your cells, removes waste, and protects your joints and organs. No water, no you. Simple as that.

This is possibly the worst rumor ever started by some anti-arachned group. Daddy longlegs are definately not posionous enough to kill you. If that was true, you'd hear of people dying every other second just because they decided to clear out their basement. If you've ever watched mythbusters, they even debunked the myth right on TV. I say that we really need to clean up that stupid rumor, and get the word out that daddy long legs are NOT poisonous. I repeat, NOT POISONOUS. Hopefully people will stop spreading lies. -A message from the "Spiders Rock!" Club

Therory has it that for teleportation to be possible, you would need all the computing power in the world x4 just to break the person down from biological form into data bits. Who even knows how much space that would take up? I don't see how the software for that kind of thing exists. I do agree that WAY more advanced hardware is needed to achive something as monumental as this. But how could anyone have developed the software? As I mentioned earlier, it would take way more computing power than currently available just to send whoever into data form. So how could the software even have been developed in the first place? The receiving platform would have to be so incredibally complicated to recreate human structure, that we will never see teleportation until the technology is developed. And even when we had all the nessesary tools to complete teleportation and its nessesary steps, what would happen if the system is faulty? You wouldn't want to be stuck in some cyber world for the rest of your life, or be rearranged incorrectly. That would probably hurt. A lot. If someone is going to invent teleportation in my lifetime, I definately don't want to be a test subject . I say teleportation is a very undeveloped area that we're not wired to understand. Leave teleportation and other subjects to the people of 2080.

I'm considering getting my nephew one of those minispeakers for Christmas this year.... I've done some research and come up with a few of these: 1.) Hamburger Speaker-http://www.meritline.com/laptop-mini-speakx?source=fghdac 2.)Another Hamburger Speaker-http://multi-com.eu/?utm_source=techgsm&utm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=not-mapped 3.)X-mini-http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/9e68/ 4.)Nokia Mini Speaker- https://www.google.com/shopping I'm looking for something under 30 or so dollars..... If you know of anything bettter, please feel free to post! Thanks, Thejode

Well, you would probably start off by destroying all the ISP's(Internet Service Providers) in the world, because they are the people who provide the internet to you. They send you a bill via the mail about your internet usage and stuff, so if they got taken out, you would never get internet to your house. Hence, no internet.

Heck, is HTML really that hard for you? You sound like you know a little bit about computers. If you've ever looked up "website creator", you can find a few decent website creators out there. Weebly is personally my favorite quick website creator. I pay for the premium version, and I find it really easy to create quick websites if I need to. Since you can't get the hang of HTML, you can try to get a book at the library about HTML(That's what I did. I also learned Visual Basic and Python that way). If you're like me, don't try to take tutorials online. I, personally, cannot read more than four or five pages on the computer without my eyes getting strained. (In fact, that's how my cousin convinced me to get a kindle, but that's another story). If you seriously can't learn HTML, you can just look up free templates on the web, and try editing those with a program such as Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver can be used for 30 days without any payment needed. I commonly use it to edit HTML and CSS(similar to HTML, just to increase functionability of webpages and make them look pretty) that I don't really understand. I find it the hardest to postition pictures just right on a webpage, so I commonly use dreamweaver to help position the picture for me. It's basically like editing a Word Document. You can move around pictures, edit text, insert widgets, ect. After 30 days, your trial expires, and you have to pay for it. I believe it is something like $400, so only unless it's going to be a long-time investment, don't buy it. (Dreamweaver can also be used to design Javascript applications). If you don't want to use dreamweaver, a free alternative is Notepad++. It convieniently highlights text for you, to indicate arguments, stuff that will and won't work, widgets, ect. It doesn't have a pretty interface like dreamweaver, but works all the same. I always store a copy of it on my flash drive. I hope this helps you out, dude. Please feel free to reply. Sincerely, Thejode.

That thing looks like a flintstones car from the outside. Myself, I would'nt purchase a wooden car. I prefer solid metal, as probably the majority of us on the board do. 88Km/h is impressive for wood, but I bet it gets an C- in safety. Just look at it! Wooden cars are probably not the safest rides to smash up in a demolition derby. If I saw this thing in a parking lot, I would definately take a picture of it. Hopefully the wood's pressure treated, or it'll collapse while you're riding on the highway . Anyway, we're still pretty far from wooden lamborgini's, but the person who designed this car has an awful lot of patience to build something as crafted as this. I applaud whoever made it. Maybe soon enough, we'll see wooden subways. Ah, that'll be the day.

Ah, I think the movie making companies these days are simply pumping out movies that, as you said, are more "dazzling" than actually having any kind of thought-out plotline or emotional effect. I saw a 60 minutes episode on Avatar, and it looked a lot like a kids movie. Probably not something I'd like to see in the near future. If you looked at it, you'd understand what I'd mean. It kind of looks like that movie that came out earlier this year, Delgo. In fact, I'd say they practically look alike, except the dudes in Avatar are blue. If they make a more mature version of these movies, I'd probably have a little more enthusiasm for the release. Otherwise, to tell you the truth, I remain uninterested.

I think the guy might have been trying to invent something by dipping his gum in the citric acid. I know NOBODY who dips their gum in citric acid. Doesn't make much sense. But the citric acid itself shouldn't have caused the explosion to occur. I believe that he accidently dipped the gum in the explosive material somehow. Or maybe his family members were trying to bump him off (KIDDING!) Anyhow, once the "unidentified chemicals" are identified, maybe we'll actually know what happened to the dude. This is totally bizzare. As I said earlier, he probably was trying to invent something.

Holy Moley! People seriously need to spend their money on something that is a little more worthwhile. Sure, I guess it would be cool to be the only person on your block to have a gold PS3.