The Simpleton

Just make sure that you're making some good quality posts and soon you will get updated. Right now the new myCENT system is still in BETA so sometimes the script gets updated within 24 hours and sometimes it seems to be taking longer. We've all been patient for so long so let's just be a little more patient Rest assured that you'll be getting the correct value for your posts so make sure you're making some good posts. Oh, and I'd say kick out IE and switch to some other browser soon

I too am not sure why I'm getting that error in XP but for now I'm not trying out any more new experiments. I'm happy with OpenOffice and my Windows 7 PC runs Office2007 in case of emergencies so I'm quite content for now OO has most of the shortcuts but some of the more in-depth shortcuts aren't present and although I can't remember exactly which ones I'm talking about, I'm sure I don't use them quite often, which is why I rarely get the need to use MS Office. And I haven't found any reason to edit the shortcut keys on OO, although that is really a very useful feature (which is also present in MS Office if I'm not wrong?)

Usually whenever I mention using Linux, I also say that I do have dual-boot and use it rarely; I guess I forgot to put in that line this time My Windows 7 PC gets a very rare visit and that is only when I'm too bored with everything else. I don't dare to connect to the internet when in Windows because somehow it just feels too vulnerable, and more importantly, too slow. For a company like Google, which has a racing spirit, the slow Windows isn't a good choice at all

Microsoft has a good track record of being overconfident and it has shown this through its products throughout its existence. They have come up with some good products but not all of them turn out to be good, and looks like Kinect will be one of them. I'd love to see the response of the international market - if they reject Kinect, MS will learn a valuable lesson and will probably do more research and testing before coming out with something so early. That said, since the competition is heating up, MS has tried to introduce something more unique and the only problem is that it has turned out to be something which is too hot to handle.

rvalkass's logo seems really good. Maybe after seeing so many complicated designs, the simple one is looking very neat and wel-fitting. Since we have so many good contributions, the rotation system is not a bad idea. However, why don't we go ahead another step and introduce more themes to choose from, with each theme having a different logo contributed by our members? That way the members would have more choice and everyone's logo would get equal chance to be on display. Am I making any sense?

using reCAPTCHA and other techniques might seem irritating but nowadays people are used to finding them wherever they go so it won't be anything new. Bots find it difficult to auto-fill the more confusing captcha codes so it would still be a good idea to implement these. I had a bunch of spam comments on my WP blog as well. I didn't do anything to get rid of them but I think I would have chosen to implement reCAPTCHA.

I guess that's a case of missing images(on the server)? If you could mention where you see this bug, then perhaps Opaque could put in the missing images soon. I haven't noticed this though. Will keep an eye out for it.

Lol it's no surprise that anwiii doesn't like football I haven't watched many matches either. In fact I missed the finals, coz it started at midnight over here. I didn't feel it was worth losing my sleep for, so I caught the match on youtube in the morning. In some ways it was a special world cup (shock exits, paul, etc) but it was also a bit boring to be honest. Something special was missing and I hope the next one covers it up.

Lol these countries have a good reason to hate Paul but they could be satisfied with the fact that Paul won't be alive till the next world cup. Octopuses live for around three years and Paul is already 2 1/2 years old. So unless someone is planning to implant Paul's brain in some other octopus, the next world cup will most probably be prediction-free!

Hmm now the discussion is shifting towards whether or not open source is beneficial to the economy or not. I'll just say a quick thing regarding this. Open source fans will fiercely maintain that it is very beneficial to the users who cannot afford to pay for quality software (either that or they do not want to pay). Commercial software vendors will say that they are losing their business due to the open source market which doesn't earn much and is ruining the game for everyone else. Wouldn't it be better if there was some sort of balance between these two communities? The pricing would come under control and at the same time people wouldn't be restricted for choice at any given time. I'm not sure what this "balance" means exactly, but it's a small possibility that could help both the communities support each other.Coming back to google, it's not as if they've ditched Windows completely. They're just trying out new measures to increase their security and it's a good decision that they've taken. Mac already gets a lot of publicity on its own, thanks to Apple.So let Linux hog the limelight for now

I've already finished God of War, am halfway through GOW2 now, and then I'll have to wait for a while before I can get to play the last one. I did indeed want to get an advanced console, but it's like buying a car - after buying it you need to have enough money to refuel it regularly, or else its useless In the same way, even if I had bought the XBox360 or PS3, I wouldn't be able to buy new games for them as they're too expensive for me. Anyway, the old games on the PS2 are still good and they were once popular -I'm just living the magic a bit late

I definitely meant the C++ book, not Visual C++ And there's much less of box-drawing in this one You can take a look at the preview here. I think you might like it a bit.

That's right - local businesses may/may not have an online presence so it's a good idea have those numbers handy. However, there's a much slimmer Yellow Pages directory available in some places and it usually holds only the local businesses' numbers and nothing else. That would be a useful resource for someone who don't need to have the entire directory but just the business numbers. And since it's slim it doesn't use up much paper either.

Wow I had no idea that the opinion about Natal was so negative! Now that I think of it, all these arguments seem true - it's very likely that Kinect will get a shaky start and MS will hurriedly make some changes to it before it becomes stable and works perfectly. Also, it might get tiring and boring after a while to play without a controller. So all we have to do is wait and see what a spectacular success/failure this turns out to be! Will be waiting for a review from those who've pre-ordered it

Thanks for the article. To be honest, there weren't many good reasons in there - as always, MS set out to prove something but just ended up generalizing the article too much. Still, it was a good read and there were at least two reasons that were satisfactory, but not enough to purchase a whole new suite again! I've tried to install 2007 on 3 different XP machines (all SP2) but none of them were able to install it. Perhaps SP3 is the way to go to install 2007 and 2010, and maybe it could just be the fault of those three machines. In either case, I'm more happy with OpenOffice I use OpenOffice most of the time as well, but in some situations, MS Office seems a bit faster in dealing with the work at hand, especially with some shortcuts, so just for these situations I switch to MS Office. Otherwise there is no real need to leave OpenOffice

If only the other countries had this luxury. Hmm maybe the other countries do not care too much about security like Russia does! Now it's only a matter of time before some Russian hacker leaks the code.... Till then you could install Ubuntu Linux inside Windows, as a separate drive. Try it out if you want You won't regret the decision. We're all waiting for the day when Linux finally supports gaming on a large scale. That would certainly bring in a large chunk of Windows users over to Linux. But the game developers have to start supporting Linux as well otherwise there won't be any major shift in the gamer community.

For many people the world cup was over when Brazil and then Argentina exited suddenly. After that quite a few people (including an octopus) expected that Spain would win easily over the Netherlands. They did win, but not exactly in style. Spain won the world cup but they certainly got a good fight from the opposition. Still, they deserve the victory, so congratulations Spain! This was a weird world-cup in many ways and I'm glad it's finally over and I'm even more glad that it went off peacefully. That's an important thing for the host country. So where is the next world cup gonna be? Lol I'm so weak on Soccer GK

Project Natal, which was widely talked about when it announced, now has a name - Kinect. It was unveiled at E3 recently, and what was evident from the presentation was that Kinect can only be enjoyed in casual games or "family" type games. That means hardcore gamers will have to wait for a while before they can dream of playing their fav genre games. All we have for now are games like Tennis, Dance Master, Dance Central, etc. (List of Games using Kinect)So while it may seem exciting to play a game without actually touching any controller, we have to wait before we get any "real" games using this technology. There is also the Playstation Move to look forward to, but it looks like as for now, nothing can beat the Wii when it comes to breaking the rules of traditional console gaming.

I'm still surprised this thread hasn't been moved to the sports section. Anyway, today's the final so let's not talk about that It's wonderful that Spain and Holland, which figure in this poll, are contending in the final today. For some weird reason, I'm hoping Holland will win, because Spain was one of the favourites from the very beginning and an upset in the final would be cool So here's hoping Holland will have the last laugh in the last cup of this decade.

Lol the crackers can't just inject malicious code on a Linux machine just because they can modify the original source code. Cracking a Linux machine takes much more skill than it does for Windows. Have you used Linux before? If so you might have noticed that visiting malicious websites from inside Linux doesn't affect your system at all, and you can try executing Windows' worms and get away with it Plus it's super-fast and many popular Windows applications run comfortably inside Linux. So there are many good reasons to use Linux over Windows. In some aspects Mac OS X is much better, but Linux is free while you need to pay a premium for a licensed OS X. @rob: It's excellent that of all companies, Google decided to take this step, because it's the biggest one out there and this might encourage smaller companies to follow their lead. Ultimately this could mean a large increase in the user-base of both Linux and OS X.

Hello there Carl - welcome to the forums! You've joined at a very good time, as our reputed myCENT system is back online, so each post you make will fetch you some good virtual money which you can use to purchase some quality hosting and domain services.If you get lost in the large forum, feel free to open a thread in the relevant section about your doubt and one of our members will get to is ASAP. I hope you have a good time in the forums Happy posting!

It's true - there are still people who feel the need for these books, like you do. So maybe it would be useful to find out how many people need these books and then only those people could request for these books to be delivered. Making these books out of recycled paper is further a good measure to conserve paper. So instead of simply delivering the books to each and every person, it would be better to inform people in some way (ex. through their phone bill) that if they need these books, they should place a request (or order! ) and only then will they receive it.

I'm a vegetarian and although I wouldn't call myself to be fully fit and healthy, I'm not in a bad shape. I eat lots of food and junk food as well (all vegetarian of course) and never felt the need for meat - either for nutrition or for variety. I know in some places of the world it's hard to get a good choice of vegetarian foods, but luckily I'm in a place where the vegetarian population is pretty strong so there's no dearth of variety. As for who will live longer, frankly I'm not bothered because during old age, most people would be eager to die soon than to live a few more years of suffering