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i just though I'd start a thread where we can all talk about anime, though ideally this would be
a sub-forum, as I've had numerous experiences with anti-anime flamers that ruin good threads.
Honestly I like anime because its a really cool art style, and tbh, most anime directors arent
afraid to and even make it a point to address controversial issues or taboos like Adam and Eve and
religion in general. The series are great too because unlike American cartons, they don't
usually go on forever, and its generally one big story arc. no random adventures that ...

The quesion of human free will versus God's sovereignty or the determism of physical law cuts
right across all the lines between religion, science and atheism. So even though I will start this
discussion in the following paragraph under the assumptions of the Christian world view, all
comments and discussion of the quesion of human free will are welcome.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ The division within
Christianity between those who believe in human free will and those who do not, has a long history.
One critical point ...

Hey, not sure if this is the right forum, but I was just curious about open source software and
operating systems (like Linux). How do programs that are open source make any money for their
creator? Are they only produced with intent to better the computer-using portion of humanity? Or
do their creators somehow make money. Also, out of curiosity, how does one edit open source
software; With a text editor, or is it more complicated? -Kyle...

Just to update AstaHost moderators on what's been going on at Trap17 1. Do we continue to
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Hey everyone, I just thought I'd start a discussion on Final Fantasy X, one of the most
beautiful in the entire series of FF games. What do you think of it? Do you like the characters?
Personally, I find all the characters well rounded and original, and love the game. I haven't
beaten it yet (though I'm pretty close) so NO SPOILERS unless you give a warning at the
beginning of you post! /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0"
alt="biggrin.gif" /> -Kyle...

QUOTE When you’re setting up a site using CSS, it’s a good idea to do a little planning ahead
and think how you’ll be using your styles, otherwise you could end up spending much more time later.
As a case in point – for a site I’ve recently built, a basic style sheet was put together, with
entries for matters like headlines, section headings, item headings and so on. When it came to forms
on the site that needed headings next to the data entry boxes, the logical choice was the item
headings style. It helped maintain a consistent look across the site, but it came bac...

*ENDING and STORY SPOILERS* The ending felt like an episode of Quantum Leap. Your character makes
all things right, and is forced into another time jump. Lame.... Let's talk about the use of
Time Travel in this game, since I'm a nerd about time travel. Ok, so in the beginning of the
game, Krone sets a bomb and goes back in time to create a new reality. You see the bomb go off, and
follow him into the alternate reality. You essentially take down his entire army and kill Krone.
With Krone's suit, you somehow jump back to your original reality several secon...

Hello all, I am curious as to how many people still actively play a mud or even know what they are.
Is it a dieing breed of game? Opinions all!?...

What are some good books that teach professional web design? I do not mean books that just tell you
how to use html codes and frames and such, I mean books that teach you how to do great graphic
designs and scripts and things like that. I want to learn how to make professional web sites. Does
anyone have any suggestions on good books that I can read in order to learn how to do this? Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle"
emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /> Notice from vizskywal...

I have discovered that some of the best text based RPG games out there, are server called MUSH's
or MUX's. Now most people don't know about MUSH or MUX, so let me explain it a little. MUSH
stands for Multi User Shared Hallucination. All MUSH's are based on a coded server, usually
using the C/C++ family of coding. Some more modern servers are built from Python and Perl although
there are very few. A MUSH is connected to using a client, or Telnet(not recommended). Once the
server is up and running, you then build within the actual server and build your gam...

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Ok well this is an all around halo discussion thread. I'm gonna post some questions and stuff
like fav weapon and stuff. ...

Hey, when I was looking how I could get a free .com domain name, I found DDboard.com . It's a
place where you can get points for posting, and you can 'buy' a domain name with those
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Enjoy /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />...

Is it just me or is starcraft the greatest game ever devided, i am simply in love with that game.
When i first started playing i hated it, because i didnt know how to do anything, so i used cheats
alot when i was playing single player, but as i progressed i used less and less cheats. Eventually
i wasnt using any cheats and i thought i was so good and bad a$$, until i played battle.net and
couldnt beat anyone at all no matter the rules lol. I truly love this game, one of the reasons for
this is that theres always something new, a new Use map settings map, new people, n...

It's been many months since I have really done anything in Delphi and even longer since I have
use UnDelphiX. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any recent updates to it (I'll be heading
for some googling soon) or if anyone plans to have a go at improving it? I'd also like to know
if anyone else here uses it themselves and if they can give any advice or possibly build up a list
of learning resources for applying the use of Delphi and UnDelphiX together to get started with
games, basic, advanced, what ever. Iv'e begun some simple shooters and very bas...

Dear Friends Today I would like to discuss an issues regarding bandwidth and data transfer of which
every one here is accustomed to. So I am drawing a scenario for the said issue. Say for example, I
have a free web hosting account which supports PHP, MySQL, and many other server side technologies.
But its server space and bandwidth are limited, further if I have a file hosting account which
provides unlimited server space and unlimited bandwidth which does not support server side
technologies. If I upload a file to my file hosting account and provides the link in my web...

There are quite a few reasons I am making this post here. One reason - being outrightly honest - is
that I would be doing it for the hosting days I get from AstaHost. /smile.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Jokes aside, I think we have
had quite a few threads that seek to know more about making a game. Here are few of the threads
which I have lurked in: Help me create text based turn based game How can I start on Game
Programming Newbie seeking make games These and other similar threads have been the drive for...

Dear Members As you all may be aware of the spywares, trojan horses,viruses which are troubling us.
I have found out a descent way of protecting owr PC's from these harmful stufs. I run a cyber
cafe and use windows xp home version. I am describing my way of protecting pc's:- 1. Frist of
all I have downloaded the windows XP service pack 2. 2. Then I have downloaded Avg Free. 3. Lastly
I have downloaded Windows Defender. 4. What I do is that, I have created two accounts in my
computer. One Admin which have Administrator rights another guest account. I use the ...

well, you must have been aware of gmail service offered by google, they are giving 2GB's to its
users, aren't you stunned that how they can manage such a big storage, beause it become popular
very sooon and now it have millions of user world wide, so which data storage technology they are
using, if the answer is traditional storage technology then i think this is not the answer as our
magnetic storage technology is not that efficient and slow too and handling trillions of GBs in free
is.....what can i say now? i think they are using HOLOGRAHIC data storage, holog...

I'm currently in the process of programming the basic engine for an Isometric Massively
Multiplayer Online Game. Here's the basic idea behind the game: You build your own country
including it industry and army. There is a massive amount of land available to build your original
nation on (meaning you can expand your nation by colonizing, buying, or taking land) You can setup
roads, cities, build rivers, canals, lakes, castles, forts, forests, farms, etc... Everything you
build or buy will cost money Players can trade for money or give money to other players...

In your opinion what is the best video codec available in terms of video quality. Theoraticaly the
best one will be H.264, also known as MPEG4-Layer 10, but I dont believe there is a stable and with
the features that make that format better than MPEG-4 (remember that the famous XviD and Divx are
MPEG-4 Simple Profile, there may be some MAIN Profile features). Another aspect that I believe to
be verry important when deciding which is the best codec, is the processing complexity, on other
words the processing power required to encode a video (the encoding is allways the m...

Hi guys, I propose to add twitch aka guy as a global mod here. He's been of immense help both
here and at Antilost and is quite well-known for his helpful nature, besides being a damned good
graphic artist. What do you guys say ? Feedback required. /smile.gif' border='0'
style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> Regards, m^e ...

Well I was hoping to get some help from a few of you that have experience a range of SLI
motherboards, I currently have a ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard 2x 6600GT's Well funnily enough I
am wanting to setup another computer (i'm greedy) but I'm not wanting the ASUS board again
(stoopid chipset fun was stuffed when I got it so replaced with northbridge heatsink much
quiter).Plus I want to try sumthing different. following boards are available for me to buy here in
Australia, WA ABIT-AN8-SLI Series DFI LanParty Series Gigiabyte A8N Series Epox EP-9NPA Now from ...

A young man named Adam wakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a decrepit
subterranean chamber. Chained to the opposite side of the room is another bewildered captive, Dr.
Lawrence Gordon. Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood, holding a .38 in his hand.
Neither man knows why he has been abducted; but instructions left on a microcassette, order Dr.
Gordon to kill Adam within eight hours. If he fails to do so, then both men will die, and Dr.
Gordon's wife, Alison, and his daughter will be killed. Recalling a recent murder investigation
by ...

Hi peeps.... This is more likely a discussion not a tutorial. Its my idea of creating a members area
in a website using the CGI - Perl and cookies. I am sharing this so that people out there who have
more knowledge about this technique will be able to share their idead about this and they might be
able to correct errors or maybe offer an alternative design or approach in solving the problem.
Anyway... so here it is.. the whole idea is to have some pages in the website that only members of
the site can access it. To implement this I am planning to use cookies and CGI - ...

What is everyone's favourite windows theme? What about the different appearances and backgrounds
etc.? Anyone got any really good and legal pictures for us to use as backgrounds for our desktops?
Please post here, and by the way, do not post the images here, please send them to
infamousflame@hotmail.com and I will place them on my imagehost, otherwise, you might waste your
bandwidth or your disk space and in any case, you are only allowed to upload so much to these
forums. Thankyou. /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0"
alt="biggrin.gif" ...

Hi all, I have recently discovered the wonderful world of VOIP phone service. After reading much
about both "Vonage" and "AT&T CallVantage" I decided to go with the AT&T CallVantage. I made this
decision due to some controversy I read about the 911 service problems that Vonage has. True,
Vonage's price is about $5 less a month, but having 3 daughters... the idea of them not being
able to reach help if the need ever arose bothered me. I've now had the AT&T CallVantage
service for two months, and absolutely love it! Not at all like I had anticipated it might ...

Starting this new topic here until a better place can be found. This is in reference to Mambo
Open Source Content Management System . OpaQue has suggested that he would like to make some
changes to the way that the Xisto websites work. These aren't hosting changes or anything that
will affect the overall concept of the posting for hosting system. As I gather, he is interested
in pulling all of the various domains together into a more easily managed website. Basically, every
change to the AstaHost forum needs to be made to the Trap17 forum as well. This do...