runesmithie

Y2K was six years ago. And it never happened anyway. Where have you been living for the past 6 years? It was all just hype to scare people. Y2K means "Year 2000" anyway, so its gone now. It's a joke, kiddo ;) Yeah =\

This is only a problem if you are living in 1999..... I guess I still have 94 years until Y2K, but still! Have to be prepared! :P

Double - U - T- Eff? mate... also, im either blind or i see no video card on there :S *edit, i see it now :P no DDR2? pretty nice though, a monitor and all that for uner 1500.. makes me wonder if i should re-design my comp.. :P and invest in a lcd, instead of my 16in. CRT. I'm not really feeling the need for DDR2 :P I don't really plan on upgrading it too much anyway as it seems it could last a good 6 years with minor upgrades :P (sort of like this computer >.<)

So far I think I have everything narrowed down into this Wishlist, but I know some thing is probably wrong somewhere so I'd like someone to check it over a bit and tell me alternatives and whatnot :) Thanks Forgot to add, but I want to know if this computer setup is Y2K compliant or will it stop working after Y2K?

I think he meant, it is impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times Disproved That girl figured the formula for paper folding (in half) and folded a piece 12 times (however it's impossible on a normal piece of paper ;) ) *A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. That was on mythbusters a while back, and I think they found out the echo occurs almost immediately after the quack

I have been informed that both VB and C# teach very bad programming habits. I dont know either of them, and i refuse to learn them. The four languages i mentioned are very good as languages - they dont teach bad habits, they are powerful and can be used for anything, web scripting or making programs. PHP can be used instead of ASP and ASPX. MySQL can be used instead of MSSQL. C and Perl and Python can be used instead of VB and C#. Microsoft languages teach bad habits. The other languages ive mentioned dont. Bad *teaching* causes bad habits, not bad languages ;) Although I will agree with you on one point. Python is a great language to learn, and as I stated before, it's perfect for beginners because it's simple and interpreted and there are tons of books available

It's around the time for people who took the SAT in May to be getting results back! I got mine yesterday, a 1960 (Soooo close to being above 2000 >.<) 650 Critical reading (ach) 590 Writing (ach, a 7/12 on my essay too :P) 720 Math (My saving grace :P)

It's more of a novelty than anything ;)

It's back up!

He already has an internet connection, it looks like he wants to set up a wireless network. That's quite the biased claim, I've always found nVidia to have better drivers and support. @Stuart_G: Based on some lines like "CPU: only thing that I need with this would be it not being enormous and cant look weird like my old windows 95. " I'd say he wouldn't be that comfortable building from scratch :P Oh, and also... Photoshop Elements 4.0 : $90 Microsoft Office 2003 Student Edition: $149

C and C++ programming are easy to start, but once you get to classes and stuff, its hard. Python - Uses: It can be used to make simple programs, as well as web scripting using CGI. Thinkgeek.com uses a Python script for its billing systems. Difficulty: Relatively easy, but like C, it starts easy and gets more difficult really quickly. Its a lot easier than C/C++, but its less powerful. Perl - Uses: Same as python, really, but its slightly more powerful. You may have seen some websites that use .pl as the filename extension (like tip.it uses .php) - thats Perl scripting. Difficulty: I wouldnt know, actually, but i hear its about half-way in between Python and C in terms of difficulty. If you really want, you could go for some Microsoft langauges, but i really woundnt recommend it, as these have to be run on microsoft systems (well, there are one or two linux systems you can run it on with a fair amound of hacking). VB and C# can be used for programs and web scripting (ASP and ASPX), but Microsoft servers are normally more expensive than linux or unix ones. Hope this helps. For now he's just *learning* it, so it might possibly be best to go with a Microsoft'd language like VB to learn the basics with and not frustrate him like C will :P

I have a Learn HTML in 21 days type book, but it touched lightly on topics where it could have gone much deeper without losing the reader and when I got my Creating Web Pages with HTML and XML from Thomson Course Technology it just blew it out of the water :P Only thing was the $50 price difference

And try to get a school edition textbook instead of ones that are just basically reference guides :P It *will* cost more, but it is worth it

Stereotypical Male Driver (n.) -Less dangerous than the stereotypical woman driver. bah everyone knowes woman drivers are the worst! (just kidding dont get all excited) That's exactly what I said.... read it again :P

Stereotypical Male Driver (n.) -Less dangerous than the stereotypical woman driver.

Actually it's really not that related to java other than by name :P

Can't watch the world cup on a local tv station? Don't worry! All you need to do is A) Open up the Run dialog (start->run) and type in 'telnet ascii-wm.net 2006' (without quotes) For best performance, right click on the title bar and go to properties, then hit the font tab and select 4x6 ooooor for those of us who use linux B) Open terminal and type in 'telnet ascii-wm.net 2006' you shouldn't have to resize as much :P Video: http://www.geocities.com/nvolution/wmascii.html - Flash movie of one of the ads at the end - Very choppy, the actual feed was much smoother :P (And about the IP, it's not useful to anyone outside my network ;) No harm can be done... unless they have a computer in their network using 192.168.1.101

Ugly :)

Photoshop is out of your range, but MS Office isn't!? :?

Not enough time to use a decent antialiased font :(

I would actually kind of prefer the older style ratings (for the T and up games). These just seem like they'd waste a lot of box space :(

Doesn't really matter how many fans you have if it's in a tight spot, since you'll just be circulating dirt buildup and warm air Details on this "tight spot" would be best

Likely if I don't get accepted to my top 2 choices (which is very likely) It's really a very small reactor and a meltdown wouldn't go very far

From what it sounds like (you have xbox live) I think you have DSL But then you go and say the phone ringing disconnects you? =\ That's really odd for a DSL connection Which is it?

And how many people have killed their little kid inside after they hit puberty? I sure didn't.