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Reply to Fake Memo scandal at CBS investigated in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I was waiting for the word "leftist" while reading this. Wow, nothing before the third line. You're slacking Draginol.

Reply to Most idiotic quotes about the tsunami! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Left wingers? [looks left] Where? I see no left wingers on this continent (or very few)...

Reply to Euro Myopia and Tsunamis in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Are we done tooting our own horn here, or are we going to start actually caring for people who need us?

Reply to America Saves the World- Again in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I think a lotof countries in the western world are giving a lot, and I applaude each of our efforts. Norway is giving 181 millions, Britain 96 millions, Australia 1,200 millions, Germany 688 millions, 181 millions, Spain 68 millions... The Canadian Government has said it will match the amount given by the Canadian people; so far Canadians have given 68 millions, so the government will also give as much. Bless the US for giving 350 millions, but if you compare that amount with the size of each

Reply to What Does the US OWE the International Community? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

First, none of the two main parties in the US are leftist. They are both very much to the right; one is just a little more so than the other. Second, the problem in Third World countries in a bit more complex. There is the issue of over-population, yes. There is also the issue of their economies revolving around the primary sector (no transformation, just the harvest of the primary products). There is also the issue of education (or the lack of). And finally there is the issue of corrupt go

Reply to I never really heard of a good black doctor till now! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Oh, I agree with you. Also, brown haired people should only marry brown haired people, blonds with blonds, red heads with red heads, large nose people with large nose people, and most of all people with a mole on their cheek should really stick to marrying other people with a mole on their cheek - and the same cheek too! It's just so unnatural otherwise!

Reply to Parents and schools, bad combo for education in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Well, as a parent I would have added under the sticker "and Creationism is a myth not a theory". For a theory to become a law, it needs to be reproducable with the same results every time under the same conditions. It's impossible to reproduce the Big Bang or Evolution. And therefore, that theory, although the most likely explanation, will never be a law. On the other hand, creationism isn't even a theory, it's a religious myth. Myths may

Reply to Atheist Files New Suit, with Parents, Over 'Under God' in Politics JoeUser Forums

OK, take this in perspective. Lets take a few steps back and try to view this issue under a different light. Lets replace the word "God" with something that you really would have a problem with. What if the oath said "One nation, under Allah [or Buddah, or heck even Satan], indivisable (...)". Now, even if you had the option of not saying it, would you not fight all your might to have it removed? Even if most people had no problem with it? P

Reply to Backing Up Your Files in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

I must admit that I never backed up anything, and in my 20 years of computing history, I've never experienced a hard drive crash. Had CPU burned, had power supply fried, but always managed to get my data back from my hard drive... I guess it's just a matter of time though, but I don't have a DVD burner and it would be a lot too tedious to burn 40 CD's to back up everything...

Reply to Is SiteMeter Wrong? in Websites WinCustomize Forums

Why do you want to use a third party service? Why not install a tracking software on the server and get your own reliable stats? I've used Live Stats before, and it's quite powerful: http://www.deepmetrix.com/livestats/net/ OK, it's not cheap (around $1000) but like you often say yourself: you often get what you pay for.

Reply to Smooth edges in New Users WinCustomize Forums

You're welcome.

Reply to Smooth edges in New Users WinCustomize Forums

Oh, note that the settings I used above are for an appriximate 350 x 200 rectangle.

Reply to Smooth edges in New Users WinCustomize Forums

To make smoothe round corner rectangles in Photoshop: Make a rectangle selection, then go to your channels (Window menu / channels) and click on the "save selection as channel" button (white circle icon). Now click on the new channel layer this just created and deselect (control D). Next go to your filters menu and choose Gaussian Blur. Choose a high radius, like 15 or so and click OK. Now bring your Levels dialog (Control L) and modify the Input Levels to something around 125,0,135. You ca

Reply to MPAA targets core BitTorrent, eDonkey users in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Sharing isn't illegal. What we now call "file sharing" isn't REALLY sharing, it's COPYING. Sharing implies that only one person has that shared object at one given moment. Sharing ususally involves sacrifice, and there is nothing wrong with that. But reproducing a file one thousand times so that one thousand people AND you can have all have it certainly doesn't involve any sacrifice and certainly has nothing to do with sharing. The law prevents you from photocopying a book and distributing

Reply to What are you currently driving and what is your definition of a true ride? in Community WinCustomize Forums

Currently: a 92 Ford Escort True ride: 4 wheels, an engine, and can take me to work and back.

Reply to MPAA targets core BitTorrent, eDonkey users in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Stumpman, a customer is somebody who pays for a good or a service. Not the case here. I recently read an article that made me laugh... Basically, about one teenager out of two massively uses firesharing to download huge amounts of music. According to the survey, stores such as iTunes make no difference. Teens responded: Why pay for something I can get for free? On the other hand, and here is the irony, those same teens will gladly an

Reply to New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Mouse Gestures, IEView (for those few sites that are hard coded for IE), Smiley Xtra (to quickly add extra smilies/images to forums such as here ), Spellbound (spell checker), Firesomething (useless but fun, changes the name of the browser in the titlebar), Google Preview (show a thumbnail of the web page when doing a google search), Tiny URL Creator

Reply to Koasati is older than me..... in Community WinCustomize Forums

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATE

Reply to Has this been identified before? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I think he is refering to the fact that the bottom text portion isn't skinned right on the shutdown dialog anymore (it is on a black background).

Reply to What's next for Google? in Google WinCustomize Forums

joeKnowledge, Access and MS SQL are two different products. Access was never meant to be a competititor against server databases. Access is a desktop database and has very limited use on a server (since it can only handle 8 simultaneous connections), and that's where MS SQL comes in. Microsoft SQL server is very strong and a tough competitor against Oracle. Oracle is still very strong but MS SQL is getting stronger and stronger, especially since it co

Reply to Apple to drop sub-$500 Mac bomb at Expo in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Heh, I never liked the idea of having to buy everything separately. Last Mac I had, the screen died while the computer itself was still perfectly good. The cost of repairing it was ridiculous compared to the price of a new PC. That's when I switched to PC and swore to never buy another all-in-one machine.<br

Reply to New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Wrong. IE had (and still has) its own non-standard code support. It never supported Netscape's non-standard code. In the great cycle of [Internet] life, things go on, companies comes and go, browsers come and go. Today, one is popular, tomorrow it's a different one. IE won't be the exclusive browser forever, just as Mosaic wasn't and just like after that Netscape wasn't either. Coding to support only one specific brand is being short sighted. A stand

Reply to New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

A note regarding "standards". If you design your site in compliance with W3C standards, your site will most likely work with every browser, including IE. Note also that Microsoft wasn't the only "evil" to add extra non-standard code to their browser, Netscape was at the time very guilty of that too. But when the most popular browser changed, a lot of web sites had to be recoded in order to now support the growing IE users. You'd think that web deve

Reply to New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Been a web developper for years, and I have always made my sites compatible for all browsers on all plateforms. Every site I have ever made were tested: - On a PC with the prior version of IE (if IE6 is out, the site works with IE 5.5, etc.) - On a PC with the prior version of Netscape (Netscape 6 at the moment, but have only stopped supporting Netscape 4.7 about 1 year ago) - On a PC with the latest version of Mozilla (my thinking is that

Reply to JALENTORN in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Email is great. Only problem is that it's better when you know the other person's email.