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3/\/_|0`/ ? Or are you trying to confuse an 'old person' ?

@ChunkDog I tend to agree with you but at the same time Chinese is supposed to be the most complex and English the hardest to learn because it has incorporated so much from other languages and the rules and structure are all over the place. Also what you point out with it being so flexible that you can make up words ( and misspell them: light=lite), change words to suit your needs (nouns to verbs: Bobbit to bobbitize) or take words from another language and use them (take a pick). With those circumstances, the English language also ends up having the largest vocabulary (600,000 words ?) and German is second with 200,000. Having a large vocabulary allows you to say something with fewer words, which I have seen between translating from English to Spanish. Having said that and not really being sure on the accuracy of my statements, you have to admire those that have English as a second or third language. No matter how well or poorly they speak English. And it looks really bad when a native English speaker is outspelled by a 'foreigner', which I see a lot of. And how many of you 'foreigners' write code also? Code to me is another language, Greek to be exact. Earlier, I indicated that I only speak English. Well I also speak the itsy-bitsiest amount of Spanish.

@Bi0haZarD There have been several scams out of Nigeria using e-mail and regular mail. One way or another they ask you to help them get money out of their country by setting up a bank account with your name and theirs on it and have you put in some honor money. Then bye-bye dinero. I have received two by mail and several by e-mail.

@XtremeMaC I don't think he was referring you your equation. He was referring to something he editted out in an earlier post.

@Tarun And also, I think a Gold Membership would be cool.

@Bi0haZarD I am dead curious as to what you edited out on the first page of this thread. Glutton for punishment . PM me if you want.

@KingXtreme You didn't put your account info in the box did you? Please say you didn't. If you did, then you need to get to your bank as fast as possible and tell them what happened. And I mean fast. IE crashing is going to be nothing compared to the problems you could potentially face. Get with your bank immediatly. Do what prathapml said. Back up important files off your computer and re-install Win98 with a firewall, antivirus and anti-adware programs until you get Win Xp or Win2k and then install firewall, antivirus and anti-adware on that one too. If you got this through e-mail, don't open that stuff up. If you're not sure about something but you know it's not important, just delete it and for goodness sake, do not click on any of the links or buttons, ever. The very least you do when you click on a link or button is let them know you are there and that you are willing to click the right button. Don't.

When I get spam and phishing, it's at work with an e-mail address I have had a long time. Somewhere along the line my e-mail address was picked up by spammers and is now on a list to get spam. I get anywhere from 12 to 30 a day. Most get filtered out by my ISP. The others I just dump. @prathapml I read what you told the guy in the other thread. I agree with what you said and I don't see anything else he can do other than not open up that crap. On second thought, if he doesn't have a virus scanner and a firewall up he needs them. I can't imagine anyone who uses the internet anymore who would not have them though.

@sven If you're talking to me, then please don't bother. If it gets beyond 1+1=something, then it is beyond my capabilities. All I know about graphic calculators is that other people get them to do neat things.

@XtremeMaC You win.

The CitiBank email also contained a virus. I have had several from there and they were stopped by my ISP.

Hey, how about that!!! I confuse myself too!!!

Yeah, I appologies. I should have backed off, re-thought and then posted. I left it to confusing. I knew that when I posted it. edit> Don't even know if I have a cap. I know I have downloaded versions of Linux for multiple CD's and just let the computer go at it. It will download anywhere from 150kbs to 350kbs until it finishes. Only limits I have seen are bottlenecks on the internet or the server I am trying to download from.

What I was trying to say is that at 62kbs (I quickly scratched this out on paper, with a calculator I got 69kbs for 500 MB), in 2 hours you will have downloaded 446.4 MB of info. If your cap is 500 MB in two hours, it doesn't matter what formula you use for 800 MB. It is still going to be 69kbs max download speed for two hours which will let you continue on to download the rest of the file to 800 MB. If you have a max of 500 MB per 2 hours, you won't be able to go faster after the first two hours because you will still have a two hour window in the latter portion of your download that will excede your 500 MB limit.

I grew up in the days of the Marlboro Man and my parents and their friends smoked. At least twenty cumulative years of smoking. Half of it one pack a day, the other 2 packs a day. Started when I was about 11 years old at 1 or 2 a day. Quit at 15 and started again at 21. Smoking is bad for you, it's a nasty habit, it makes everything smell, even I can taste it on someone I kiss and I don't like it even though I smoke, I don't like second hand smoke drifting into my face, I don't like the smell of a dirty ashtray, etc..... I also don't like some snot getting in my face and talking at me about my smoking when it isn't bothering them at all or they get in my airspace. I smoke outside, because I don't think anyone should have to breath my smoke also. I have friends who don't smoke and know I am a heavy smoker and if we are in their vehicle (some of them anyway) they have given me permision to smoke in their car, which I don't do. I figure it's going to make their car, clothes and bodies smell and someday, I might not smoke and I don't think I will want someone smoking in my car. Smoking costs. Yeah, it's about money alright. Do the math on cost of smokes, taxes, 'cost of smokers' to public and private healthcare and the taxes come out way on top by a long shot. I wonder where the extra money is going? If we are going to tax smoking because of health costs, then let's have a 'fat tax' to cover those health costs (in the USA, it is very costly). But I guess that wouldn't be politically correct. If you don't smoke now and start in the future, someone ought to smack you around. It is stupid. But like XPero, I like smoking.

250kbs, 1MB=4 seconds, 500MB=2000 seconds, 2000/60=33.3 min., 120 min./33.3=4(roughly), 250kbs/4=62kbs, 62*120*60=446,400kb. You put it into one piece. Edit>Something above isn't correct. But 62kbs x 60 sec. x 120 min.= 446,400kb

I've already gone and got my own this year. 1Gig DDR 3200, 21" flat CRT, Pent 4 3.0 G and 16x DVD dual. On a sideline to this topic. Christmas may not be something that all celebrate. Different religions and beliefs. Of those who are of another religion, how many exchange presents at Christmas time anyway? I have known a few people in the past who weren't Christians but who exchanged presents with others, even when the others weren't Christians themselves. Me being one of them. Best part of Christmas? Watching little kids open their presents.

@ MadGutts All!!! Also, with MDF being wood fiber that has been chopped into very small parts, I think it would be advisable to not use a router if you don't have to. Using a routher will produce a lot of fine dust. There are different grades of MDF, so one can check on that also.

And what happened to the clothes she was wearing that were between her and the fabric of the couch? Don't think I'm coming back to this thread. Ick.

Ignorance and/or greed play a factor in this also. Over the past ten years I have used computers to a small degree and in that time I have gotten off CD's or downloaded many free, share or trial programs. Many of them I have saved to CD's. Don't use 95% of them and haven't even looked at most. Over the past year, I have become more informed about where a lot of these programs come from. Usually a small handful of individuals have written and put together a program and in larger cases like suites and OS's, it's many people. I never really understood who it was that wrote these things and how great an effort went into them. So I was guilty of ignorance and because there is something there for 'free' I am also guilty of greed (look back at the 95% part). In the past three months, I have happily donated to 5 services rendered. I don't begrudge those that can't pay. I hope the free stuff will eventually put them in a position to donate to these things themselves someday. @Prathapml True and it seems to me that the free stuff is 'better' than the paid for stuff. As an example, someone suggested to me to use CDBurnerXP Pro because I had trouble with EasyCD Creator and I had also had problems with or didn't like Nero and Jukebox. CDBurnerXP Pro slapped the other three silly and it's still in beta form. Now, I am happy to 'pay' for free stuff, but I'll give it a test run first.

Yes, it is sad. And yes, I have family members who are divorced. It is also hard on other family members. It can drives wedges where there should never have been divisions. If the people who are getting divorced can behave themselves, then they should be helping the others get over it, not the other way around. Take it easy Sven.

@prathapml Very interesting poll. A German once asked me "What do you call someone who speaks two languages?" answere: bilingual. "what do you call someone who speaks three or more languages?" answere: polyglot. "What do you call someone who speaks one language?" answere: American. Of course, he was asking me these questions in English.

Anybody remember punch cards and ticker tape? Very few. It's in my profile.

And how do you quantify or qualify OS's that get more logjammed with junk as you install and uninstall programs or time goes by with who knows what going on inside? How about the amount of time you use trying to clear it out or go to the old fallback, like I do, of just re-installing the OS? It seems like everyday it gets slower and slower. I'm using XP Home at the moment and though it is relatively easy to use, it takes a real wiz to figure out a new way to modify it in any significant way. At work, I use an old 500MHZ w/ 98SE and it locks up because I use a light weight CAD program on it and it just gets overloaded and sometimes I will install a program that for whatever reason, it just can't handle it. I've used 3.11, 95, 98SE and XP Home. XP Home has done the least locking up, with the exeption of what a keyboard did to it once. You would think that with Windows being the dominant OS and what seems like everybody and his brother writing programs for it and making hardware for it that it would be a lot more stable and adaptable than it is. But, I'm not a techie, never will be one and boy can I butcher the guts of an OS. As the which Windows sucks the most, I vote for the blue one.