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Because it's a WELL documented fact that your computer willingly sends this information in order to communicate? That's like being disturbed that the postman knows your house address.

LMFAO. EDIT: Never mind, I see why you said this. The easiest way to back up your files would be to get a external USB hard drive and put them there, then BANHAMMER your hard drive and reinstall Windows.

1) What I find most disturbing is that you people actually think those things are "scary" or "creepy". 2) What the hell does your/their ISP have to do with whether you have access to espn360.com? Unless you're in China or North Korea, you have access to it.

Upload your copy of RuneScape[Caution: Executable File], the one that your antivirus says there's a Trojan in, and send me the link. I'll find out if anything's wrong with it.

You should be forced to upgrade. I am so glad Microsoft is making it difficult for average users not to install IE8. Newer software is better. Also, the speed issue is not IE8's fault. Minutes to switch between tabs? Mine takes something like a few hundred milliseconds. Time to reinstall your OS. Also, if the addons are not working in IE8, that is not IE's fault. That is the addon writers' poor skills who wrote the addon, or their lack of foresight on updating it to be compatible. You need to learn to place blame on the proper people.

Don't worry about the data - image the drive and copy the image to the new drive. No need to reinstall anything or copy any files.

No way. Most users have no idea how to do this, at least with an open wireless network you can blame it on someone else.

...which, again, can be circumvented. It's almost pointless to ban IPs. Also, this "special ID" you are referring to is probably the MAC address. I just happen to have a program here that can change it. As said in Russia... "there is always a roundabout".

not really true. My internet / chat computer can run RSHD on full details with 1 GB of RAM, a 1.8GHZ P4, and a ATI 3650 PRO AGP. If the game is lagging on SD, chances are your internet connection is having troubles or you have too many processes hogging system resources. Try speedtest.net and post the results, as well as a screencap of taskmanager sorted by CPU usage. Finally, you may want to get some more RAM (20 bucks should get you another 512MB, which is plenty for RS). Well, that might be. I still maintain that a new computer would be in order (i'm not pushing the idea). I suppose he could try with Chrome. You people. Web browsers. Lag. I fail to see the correlation. Another web browser won't do anything.

Freaking flimsy laptop keys.

Like what? Visual Basic teaches you to think of problems in a more linear fashion. C++ and C# are both more heavily object-oriented. Visual Basic is a higher-level language. In other words, you don't have to think about a lot of things you would in another language, since it's all taken care of for you. You don't have to worry about memory management, pointers, or even too much about data types. Those are just some I could find. But most the the people Ive heard from or read are mixed. So :? ...and what does that have to do with the IDE? Nothing. You know the difference between a language and an IE, right?

No. They deserve no credit. They've had years and years to do it, and they've failed. Their crimes against web design are unforgivable. IE is at a despicable level of web standards compliance. Of course it will improve, there's nowhere else it can go. 1. Opera gets a 100/100 "With issues" according to Wikipedia. (See Acid3) Safari is currently the only browser that passes 100/100 without any issues (Chrome fails the linktest). 2. Oh, wow. They had seven and a half years in which to improve it, and they did! 3. Not all of them apparently. I know they've had years to do it, and I'm angry they have not done so a long time ago, BUT they are trying now, and although they've started extremely late, they've started. It's fine to be critical of MS for such a late start, but DO give them credit for doing anything at all. Sometimes you have to forgive. "IE is at a despicable level of web standards compliance. Of course it will improve, there's nowhere else it can go." You repeated what I said, in different words. OK. On 1: That was from 2008, I believe. I don't know if it still has that issue or not, but no doubt it will be fixed in the final release, which is what counts. You know what Alpha means, right? I said Opera 10 owns, not Opera 10 Alpha. It's not a perfect world. Some people are slower than others, and we just have to accept it. Focus on the future, and getting Microsoft to do good work NOW, rather than focus on past faults.

EW!!!!!!!!! For me, I basically set Windows up how I like it, then go on Microsoft Update so everything's fully patched. Then I install all the programs I need... set up browser addons while they're downloading. If it was a store bought PC I'd reinstall Windows as previously mentioned by others. The manufacturers seriously mess it up. >.< I didn't reinstall Windows on my laptop since I know and work with the person who did it and he did it from scratch for me anyways, so it was fine.

Like what?

Don't mess with settings in IE if you don't know what you're doing. Try resetting IE to all default settings, if that doesn't work, reinstall Java (latest version), and if that doesn't work, reinstall IE8 also. You SHOULD be working by then... if you aren't then come back and we will take further actions to remedy your issue.

Its better the have it, then not havn't it. I'd have to disagree. AntiVirus = False sense of security. This is true in many cases. But anti-virus programs DO work, they do the job they're meant to do, it's no scam or gimmick, it's just that they cannot catch everything, which sort of makes them useless. They catch some threats... which you won't get in the first place if you know what you're doing. It's really up to you to get anti-virus or not. If you want one, get Kaspersky. It's Russian so you know it's good. :) I think that there is one key thing to remember. Computers are entirely logical machines. They do nothing without reason, and never defy their programming. No operation on a computer can be hidden or secret, because NOTHING... is safe from the decompiler.

He cannot use Firefox.And where did he say that?

You heard wrong, or the person your heard it from was not qualified to make that statement. Many very large commercial applications are developed using Microsoft Visual Studio and in my experience it's a quite good IDE. Eclipse is good also, but I pretty much use that for Java only.

Another person to add to the list of Tip.It administration that I know. How interesting...

C, C++, Python, PHP, Ruby, and pretty much any other language which uses reserved words to denote a function is case-sensitive. It's not a pain, really - just get used to the syntax. I see that you want to program games, but let me let you know something - you're literally going from walking in a meadow to drowning with sharks. Start easy and basic with a programming language that's well-suited to game development, perhaps some Flash (*shudder*), or preferably some Java. Python's up and coming in game development too, but the resources to actually learn that are scattered about the four winds. For a beginner like yourself, Python and Java = pure win. Then move on to C++ when you're ready. First of all, you said part of what I was going to. One thing that is very important for beginning programmers is to write your code cleanly. For this reason I recommend Java (using Eclipse IDE) as your starting language and use Eclipse's formatter to keep your code neat. I once helped a college freshman solve a programming problem in his class, and although the error was completely and utterly trivial, it took me a good 10 minutes to help him find it, even though I am a seasoned programmer. His error was that he was missing a }. And his code was formatted so poorly that it was impossible to see where it was missing with a glance... which is why it took 10 minutes. He thanked me several times, and I sent him along his way with some tips about good formatting. I hope he will follow my advice. Anyways, Java has no pointers to melt your brain, but you should learn them later when you are more experienced. No programmer is a good programmer without understanding how pointers work. For example, how many of you with programming experience understand this? public unsafe virtual BITMAPINFOHEADER* Header { get { fixed (BITMAPINFOHEADER* val = &this.header) { return val; } } set { this.header = *value; } } This is an accessor in C# which gets the actual reference to the "header" member variable, which is a struct and is thus passed by value and not by reference, when using the accessor under normal managed constructs, which is basically turned into a method at compile time - it's not direct access to the member variable, just syntactic sugar. In other words, it gets a "pointer" to the object we want, instead of a copy of it. It is faster, and in the instance in which I have used it, prevents the code from working improperly for reasons I won't bother to explain here. LIGHTNING STORM! This post is not finished, I'll edit it on my laptop (cordless! haha!) in a moment. I don't like my computer on during storms... BRB! --- So... the storm is as loud as damn nuclear bombs when I get off my desktop, yet after I use the restroom, brush my teeth, and bring my laptop upstairs with me to bed, I can barely hear it. Life. -.- Ah well. I'd planned on settling down to read my book anyways (surprisingly, a book on software engineering and business - who'd have guessed?). So... to finish my post. BTW, I brought my USB mouse, my mousepad, and a thin hardcover book since I hate the laptop touchpads. Genius eh? Also, due to an incredible invention called batteries, I'm not on AC power so lightning can't blow up my laptop. Haha! Take that, nature. Oh yes. Finishing my post. So... after what I said on pointers, I'll need to clarify: pointers are not needed in 90% of the code written today, and in production code they are "downright dangerous" as Joel Spolsky puts it, something I quite agree with. But what both Joel and I will tell you is that it is very important to understand pointers if you wish to be a good programmer (wow - I'm getting to type pretty fast on a laptop keyboard (I never use laptops)) even if they aren't used much at all, or ever, in any of the programs you write in your career. It is simply good to understand them. It's basically this: you can, in a sense, "program" some of the programs you use... let me think of a good example. Let's use JavaScript for lack of a better one. The JavaScript alert function shows a message box with the text you specify. But do you know the code behind the alert function that actually makes IT work, and behind that? And so on? Understand pointers is fundamental to understanding software from the ground up. If Russia accidentally wiped out the world tomorrow, and you were the last computer scientist on earth... you'd better know pointers or we're not going to have computers again for a while. I'm not saying languages with higher abstraction, like Java, are bad... in fact they are very GOOD... but it is simply fundamental that you understand what's behind them. Also, programmers tend to be particularly picky and critical people... working at the finest level of detail. I don't know if we develop this, or are just born with it. Notice how I formatted the code example above. I was careful to write that block with an EXACT, perfectly defined formatting style. When you're a software developer, it's critical to be critical. Always criticize your work and try to improve upon yourself, and success will come to you. I think I'm done. I probably forgot something, but whatever.

Drop the quickly. It takes a lot of time and work. Read lots of books and websites, and always try to improve yourself. If you stick to it and have the right mind for it, you will become great programmer.

Sorry, I don't watch Chinese/Japanese programs. I hate it when people slap Chinese and Japanese together in a sentence for no reason... totally different countries and cultures.

You get Vampire dust. That's SOMETHING. :)

"Your prize is void, we're giving it to someone else, you lose"? ;) ...or maybe the page just won't render in anything but IE8 because of some specific feature or something... whatever. Most likely they just parse the user agent string...

Hey Eric, I've heard a lot about you. I recently completed the minigame (May 12, viewtopic.php?f=78&t=794149) and just noticed your guide today. Congratulations on the promotion! I have monster examine scans of every champion except Imp, and Leon d'Cour in my monster examine guide. Feel free to use them in yours if you like. ;) Happy hunting, everyone.