I should also point out that hazing is a big part of this forum and others that have proceeded it.

I would actually agree with that 100%.  I made this account like around 2006 and wanted to get into forums at the time to try to make some connections.

I've noticed that in my replies and just reading the threads people around here will eat you alive and can come across as being asses in the ways they respond.  I think most people here are sarcastic like myself but they do it in a way that your not sure its serious or sarcasm.

That and I've felt a couple times that I've felt stupid after leaving a topic or thread open, not because I was being stupid but they like to point out your flaws in your post and disassemble your logic or something.

The thing with this forum is I think there are only like 10-15? real active members that have been here awhile and I really do think its like being a stranger and coming into a families Thanksgiving day activities.

I've only come back because this was one of the few places I remembered I had an account.

I like this place but I don't know the people that well, I don't know how to gauge what they are saying and I can't get a real feel for most of them because most of the replies most give are sarcastic to others and usually less then a paragraph long.

Just my observations and opinion.

PREP THE BAN-HAMMER!

Actually I had this problem awhile ago and it was weird.  I had an issue with something called Your PC Protection or something installing itself on my computer and I got rid of that with spybot/etc but I still had the google pointing its search results to someplace like search8click.com or something.

From what I dug around you need to goto your 'View LAN Connections' window from your My Computer(if your using windoze).  From there I had to open Local Area Network, click Internet Protocol(TCP/IP), click Properties and thats where the issue is from what I found.

The checkbox SHOULD be on "Obtain an IP Automatically."

Before I fixed the problem I opened that window and I had an IP address input into the selection and the other box was marked.  I guess this is called DNS Hijacking or something.  You can use google but you need to COPY/PASTE the link locations into the URL thing, thats what I did and how I found out to solve my problem.

I hope that helps but don't sue me if Windoze blows up.

My bad, the actual question was something like "What process do you use to separate terms?" or something like that.

Hopefully this works....  Highlight below to see the teachers answer.

The answer that the teacher gave is addition.

It can't be subtraction because that is the opposite of addition and no other function separates terms.

The class I'm taking in elementary algebra and the teacher is doing the class weird.  He's not lecturing for the class and breaking the entire class into groups of 4 and its on each group to make sure each other member knows what they are doing.  He asks theory questions on each test like "What are the differences between slope, slope intercept and slope something else and when do you use each one" and other ones.  For everyone in the group to move on to the next chapter he averages the scores of the 4 and if you all averaged 70% you may move on.  So if one person failed and the rest passed the failer passed also.

Now I actually think its an interesting way to do a math class but the guy doesn't lecture at all and only answers questions after he's seen the group has "put critical thought into it."  Doesn't matter if that thought is in the wrong direction and you've wasted time looking at it wrong.

So yeah.....  I'm basically having to teach myself math from a textbook with little to no help and the textbooks not all that great.

Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy math but I'd rather study it on my own time and not have to worry about dragging down 3 others.  =P

Not 100% but the teacher says that road crews can have crews that go in front of them if they think theres going to be something there.  Its called Cultural Resource management or something and he says they work alongside things like road crews.

I don't think roads go 6' down but I do think they dig stuff up and move dirt around so theres a chance of hitting skeletons or sites.

I don't know, but he made us watch a BBC video called Bones of Contention and thats where the discussion came from.  It happens in Iowa like early 80's a road crew was building a highway and found an indian burial ground so naturally the Indians freaked out and raised all hell.

I'd personally agree with you that he dodged the first answer.  I read something else this guy wrote in a small DIY thing and a couple people have said they like his article but I get about 1/4 the way in and get sick of reading it because he tries to make himself more then he probably is.  Like another friend said, his article is full of 10 cent words.

If you care to get more of his meandering I have his other piece.
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Priority Number One
by -
With so many activities to keep a person busy in contemporary times, losing a
job and staying unemployed might challenge most people. Instead of keeping methods
to maintain idleness to oneself, share them. Men and women of all ages must
suppress their telos (their purpose in life), and remain unemployed from the field of
their pleasure at all costs. A new telos indoctrinated into
the American public will loosen the drive to succeed from their grip.
A telos of an apathetic, purposeless, zombie-like existence will
make angels of lazy, dirty, uneducated heathen. In this bliss-like
state, men and women will raise children of their own stock or the
stock of others. Scientifically reproduced in a womb of a laboratory,
the children will merely develop few of the original five senses
cherished by countless generations of human families before them.
Identifiable officers will bestow these kids to couples joined together
by a Marriage Matrix. The strange will live among strangers who
are strangers married to each other. Will love exist after generations
of these zombie kids are pulled from the genome? One hopes not.
First, in the opening stages of the human telos decomposition,
adults must behave in accordance with certain activities which
were deemed appropriate by the Holy See, like during the Middle
Ages when the world burned. These activities include gestures
discouraging intent. These gestures generally appear anti-social:
Not shaking hands, use of psycho energy, sexual abuse of men
during teen years, segregation of gender and physical violence.
Emotional mistreatment will work when the abuse happens early
on or after a point when the recipients may no longer describe what
happens to them. Men and women who are forced to mistrust one
another will not continue to procreate. This will make exactly the
right time to begin genome manipulation in human reproduction.
Men and women will begin to recognize small versions of
themselves (children) in places outside of the home, but they will
find themselves powerless to explain what they see. The New Telos
will begin to take hold.

Next, after basic discouragement, any thirst for social interaction
must satisfy those who use the Internet on small computer screens.
The ones who use it may only make acquaintances with images
of people in unknown, unverified places. Being under the visual
control of the Internet will ease and relieve more strongly-willed
folks from their critical thinking skills. They will begin to stare at
each other during the meat meal which will be held six times a day,
at home and in industry. Families will stare into the eyes of one
another while they dine. The meat will be held in the hand. Because
the steak will come from the county laboratory instead of the federal
slaughterhouse, good hygiene will no longer necessitate cooking it.
Dry goods and perishable items must remain locked away in
storage. Those who require tasties will show identification for
access to tasty treats.

Ethically, these ideas are not far off. Clearly the most good
will benefit the greatest number of people when these ideas are
instituted, or put in place. The New Utilitarianism will acquiesce
future generations of “humans” by easing them, forcefully, into a
zombie-like state which they will maintain themselves. The children
of the age of New Telos will slip away from vice and malice like an
avalanche on a mountain side. Of course, the generations between
may feel the pinch, but one may put down resistance if necessary.
In the New Utilitarianism, the New Telos will hit America: Priority
number one. Obviously accomplishing these objectives appear
merely a matter of time; the seeds have been planted, beginning with
the Biological Revolution of the 1970s. Unemployment can turn
people to a cultureless blob, impossible for simple humans to fight in
any way.
_____________________

I just get sick of guys like these and there seems to be a lot of them around these days or seems to be a lot around where I live.

So I'm taking an anthropology class and as part of an assignment we had to reply to others assignments on a discussion thing.  We had to answer a couple questions that the teacher posted.

Question 1:  What would your response be if your relatives(or ancestors) were dug up to make way for a road?
Question 2:  If you were the one in charge of everything(the road crew, contacting state offices and relatives and scientists to study the bones) how would you prioritize things?

So I was reading through peoples responses and came across this little beauty and just wondering what you guys think of it.  Honesty please.  I just want to know if my gut feeling is right or wrong on how I feel about it but I think I should follow my gut.  =)
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Anthropology 100
Discussion Questions

1.   If deceased relatives of mine were displaced by a road grader during the development of a highway, I might cringe.  The irony of the situation would be numbing; a place of eternal rest may ease the mind of those who visit, a highway could never resemble such a place.  Highways to modern Americans, folks which necessitate the existence of highways themselves, are looked on with despair and frustration.  Highway traffic is a loud and constant source of noise pollution.  How can a person’s prayers to the dead compare to noise pollution?  One cannot see noise anymore than one may see a dead relative inside of a tomb underground.  
   Still, progress makes progress.  One who hates highways because interred relatives were cast aside by a bull-dozer during the highway’s construction may offer a refreshing aspect on hatred of highways.  Because highways might represent noise to urban dwellers, who then hate highways, may gravitate to a rural type who connects directly (by the relatives’ un-interment) with such a permanent, sterile, inhuman, immovable manifestation of American culture.  
   On the other hand, the highway development plan may come of a design by karma.  Envision a family very social, very political, and very influential in the ancient past.  Perhaps this family originated a profound type of religion.  Perhaps the family in mind were independent thinkers, scientific types during time prior of the agricultural revolution.  Perhaps they knew a terrific recipe for fried-chicken.  In any-case, respected, loved, feared, or admired, the highway should not pass anywhere except over their gravesite.  The spot those bones rested for thousands of years leaked fumes of success, joy, whatever, and anyone who drove over the spot at which they rested may find the same terrific experiences the ancestors in question invented, if desired.
   Further still, roads are roads.  The ancient folks of Pueblo Bonita knew the trigonometry needed to build a straight road.  Modern Americans know how to build them too, except with more curves which add scenic perspectives from a quickly moving vehicle.  All the same, if the ones who built the first roads walked, the road necessitated straightness.  
   Imagine a time with wide expanses of time, the earth a place of invention; an original human.  Of course things changed, original invention undertaken in the basement may still take place, with some limitations.  If my relatives’ remains shifted in the soil, then sifted through gigantic machinery which design roads, it would probably only come because of ignorance of the location of the gravesite.    The dense irony of the situation would make me feel numb.


2.   The project must reach completion, and I know the way to complete it.  The desires of several parties must get satisfied.  The family of the interred relatives, the contractors designing the road, the state offices which find special labor for the project, and the desires of fellow scientists need to know they are all working together on the project (road).  Again, the project does not belong to them; it belongs to me.  They just need to know of the presence of one another so they can use each other when necessary.   For example, the state offices alert a contractor’s union special labor called “Archeologists” would work on the site; prepare for, or hire, some.  The contractor’s union may reply, “Why, Jerks?”  To which the State would reply, “Because, of the demands of such-and-such a group.”  By knowing the structure of an excavation effort toes would not get stepped on, fewer feelings would get hurt.
   So, the tricky part:  Notifying who cares about who’s in the ground about what will cover the ground after the project finishes.  How might one begin finding the appropriate nation of people a gravesite will be paved over with two feet of limestone gravel, steel re-bar, and concrete?  This may take a while without the help of a few state offices, perhaps within which anthropologists may exist.  If I may find an archeologist, a biological anthropologist, a cultural anthropologist, or an interpreter I would immediately ask him/her to begin a file on our project. I would then command, “Contact folks who may have relatives in-ground, or who might know of folks with relatives in-ground and where those folks may be found.  Then alert these particular folks to the urgency of the situation!”  If no anthropologists exist, I would quickly begin to invent a new science; I would have much work to do before the road could go down.  
   Assuming the scientist(s) available well versed in Native American culture and reach a point of interest in three dimensional spaces, the gravesites would resolve their hidden locations to the mystical relatives.  The relatives portray the locations to the archeologist of the State, who would begin the systematic destruction of the gravesite.  
   I expect labor would patiently watch, everyday, until the excavation reached completion to the satisfaction of the pleasant relative(s) of the bones.  After, the road with cars on it would be hex free.  All parties involved could come together, with some food to share, and speak about the experience we shared with one another.

(EDIT: Typo, best fixed or face severe ridicule by the jury.  =P )

Wh1rl3d 0F Warcraft is THE 5H1t!!!  Pwn face!

I played that for awhile and I actually hate that game now, boring and extremely repetitive.

A few of my favorites are;

FF2(SNES) but I heard FF5? was way better
Contra
Shadow of the Colossus(PS2)
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver(PS1)
GTA: Vice City(IMO, San Andreas was horrible, in some ways better but Vice City was better)
Soul Caliber(Dreamcast)
Planescape: Torment(PC)
Simcity 2000

Some others are in the mix but I'll stop there.

You know, my two cents on the whole thing is its only real selling point is the sfx.  The plot is generic, very generic.  The action is predictable and the only sweet scene is the aerial combat towards the end but the whole fight in the woods when whats her name is going to take on the walkers, so damn predictable.

I downloaded a version of it because I knew I wouldn't like it and the only way I'd spend money on seeing it was in 3D.

I have no idea why its up for all these awards and got best picture at one of them that I heard.  Best Drama or something...  Seriously?

The only strong point it shows is humans mow down whatever for something that want.....

I've seen older sci-fi's that are better sci-fis then that pile.  I saw District 9 before Avatar and District 9 is SOOOO much better and the effects were just slightly less then Avatar.

I'm scared to see what the future of sci fi movies is going to look like because of this movie.  I am a fairly big sci fi fan so I hope it boosts the genre decently but I hope the stuff is better then Avatar and I hope its more original and doesn't use such a set formula.

Special Effects imo should be used as a wow factor to make things pop off the screen, they shouldn't carry the film.

Thanks everyone for the feedback.  I'll be taking it all into consideration.

I do appreciate the good feedback though since its actually hard to find people to share it around the net.

If you are familiar with Drupal, stick with Drupal. Joomla would be a step down (and Mambo is dead, it just doesn’t know it yet). I used to use Mambo/Joomla pretty heavily, but I found it just too limiting. I particularly hated Mambo/Joomla’s limited ACL. Oh, and subcategories, it was really frustrating not being able to organize content the way I wanted. For me, the only major advantage Joomla has over Drupal is its ability to bridge with SMF (and things look bleak for the future of the J1.5-SMF bridge). Of course, since Drupal gives you so much more control over your site, it takes much more time and effort to set it up.

IBM has a great series of articles on Drupal

There are several good forums out there that deal with design, traffic, etc. Obviously there is SitePoint. I’ve found Earners Forum very useful. And then there is WickedFire. Watch out for the black hat seo stuff there!

First, thanks for everyones replies on this.

Second, Milifist, thanks for saying what I couldn't about mambo.  I've never used it mostly because I heard the Joomla team broke off to do that so that sends a bad signal to me saying what does the Mambo team get done but fight?  It could still be great quality but the whole separation thing got me off the bat.  Drupal to me is still so complex and fairly confusing but seems like its so adaptable, but I think the themes are so rigid unless you can code(which I can't).  It sounds like you have experience in the drupal field?  I'm holding off on building this site until 5.0 comes out which is hopefully soon.

I do have another set of questions for you all, which is more specific now or maybe just one question.

I'm also thinking of making a "creative" based site where I write stories about whatever(just to keep my mind creative) and have a list of inspirations I draw from(songs, art, etc).  Since I have a collection of graphics of around 10,000, I'm actually starting to think that I should just host the entire collection at thise creative site because it might detract from my "webcomic" at the site previously mentioned in this topic.  It'd be confusing for people to see a gallery of 10K pictures then on the same site theres this small gallery of comic things, I think that would take away the uniqueness of it.  I guess I'm basically talking(typing) this out, but would you agree?  I'm actually split though where to host my blog because I'd rather not have 3 domains for this crap, like to keep it kind of compact.

Catwritr: Thanks for reminding me about the site index.  I'm not sure I could export one but I know I could just make one myself and keep adding to it.  I think it has to be linked from the frontpage, I forget?  Or called sitemap or something so it stands out to google??

On a sidenote, this is a totally separate idea I have but what would you all picture as vital to a brainstorming community?  I'm picturing a wiki, forum, blogtype tool...  Anything else you might think of??

Having said that, I can't comment on your design because I can't read half of it!

So if you want to have an integrated forum for example, you can create a forum template that will only be used on forum pages.

I suppose I could've wrote it long hand before I took the picture.  I always write in shorthand for my own personal stuff.  I apologize for this.  DV8 is pictured I would put on deviantart.com, so its basically what I consider my art.

Thats actually pretty sweet mambo lets you theme different sections.  I know very little about mambo except a large group left it and made Joomla.  I've never used mambo before, is it easy to work with?  I've tried using Joomla but the admin side of it is actually really confusing to me as everything seems to be inside some container.  Like the factory install, I try to delete all the posts and info but I can't figure out where the hell the sections or whatever are.  I delete a category, says something in it, I delete that, says somethings in that and I can't find where those are and I can't delete until I delete those...

How are the themes for Mambo?  A lot out there and free?  I'm about half concerned with this as I am with over doing my site.

BizB said:  KISS

This is what I'm more concerned about with this idea because like you mentioned, people usually only go somewhere for one thing.  My problem is how can I make it seem like your viewing only one thing?  If you understand me.  I've read peoples blogs and thought some people were interesting, but I also noticed a ton of links to other sites for programs, etc.  I'd just like to have those at my site without being pushy and say, check them out.  I'd like to share more about myself then just my blog since I am more then just a blog kind of guy.  I also see this as people wanting to learn more about the person that made the site instead of just linking to my blog which is the alternative to just "link out" all my other domains on the nav menu.

I do wonder how well this would come across in a CMS because I'd want each area separated from the other so, like you side, you wouldn't come across a post of my blog when loooking for something else.  I'm just wondering how much is to much is a mish-mash of content?  I guess I have to get a list of specific questions I need to put together and answer more for myself because this idea could spiderweb out of control and just look like crap, but if everything stays inside its own category, it'd be decent.

So if everything is separated into its own category and you don't run across stuff you don't want to, unless you go looking elsewhere, do you think this would be tolerable or just a bad idea overall?

You also mentioned Web 2.0.  This site would not be web 2.0, it'd have little user involvement other then forums, comments, and ratings.  I'm looking at another idea that relies entirely on users.  Can I ask how it is you got users to your sites?  Like I made a forum based off and idea but never threw the link around(when I did it got spammed) and I'm wondering when I go to make my community site how to get people to register?  Did you write articles and say they could write their own or(like Drupal) write a story that others could add to?  Did you just keep updating, putting your link or info in forums around the net and people just get interested?

I've just wondered how a no-name site can get itself advertised and more traffic without spending money and done a little faster then word of mouth.

Awhile ago I drew up what I wanted my site to be.  Basically an all around site for everything about me.  Blogs are one sided as they are journals.  I want to share my picture collection, my favourite files, have a forum, have my blog, have a place to host my "projects", make a webcomic or three, have a place for movies.

http://doomedtoreality.com/files/Website/sitemap.jpg

I also added a type of theme I wouldn't mind having(the tribal looking one).  I'm wondering which theme would be best to make this off of or how to get the image behind the menu system if on sidebar?

I'm familiar enough with drupal(ran it and setup a few times) to know it can do all this.  I'm just wondering yours all opinion on having a site LIKE this and how well a CMS could handle this.

My main problem is setting up section homepages where they look a bit different and not just have the entire site a ton of links to every other section.  Ideally I'd want it looking SORT of http://weareall.doomedtoreality.com/drupal5/ .  I'm don't like having a "normal" website, with side navigation, and white backgrounds.

My other problem is I'd hope in setting this system up it'd be simple to keep track of and not hard to find something to edit it.

Well, I'm basically wondering your opinions on having an all encompassing site related to things about me, where as I could run a lot of this stuff on separate domains specialized to its thing.  Like the webcomic, I'd want that to stand out, and it could have its own domain, but how would I make it stand out as a "speciality" to that site?

Just still mashing over this stuff in my head.

Hopefully the image works, or just "view image" or something.

I'm building a test site at http://weareall.doomedtoreality.com/drupal5/ and I'm looking for opinions before I build the actual production one.

This one is by no means finished or fine tuned but its the basic over all layout and scheme I'm looking at and wondering what people think.

I'm looking at hosting a webcomic, my massive collection of art(that I've stolen from all over the net), my blog, videos and when the module comes out, some files and a forum.

I could always go for the more generic website look with standard left nav menu, content, other crap but I hate the generic white websites of nowdays, theres no variety or color.  I've always liked dark schemes and I actually like that front page.  I need to put somewhere though what the sites about and I'd want to find a way to emphasis the webcomic more then the other stuff..

I could maybe make 2 galleries and one dedicated to the comic and the other to the collection...  hmm, thats not a bad idea..

BTW, I'd fancy it up, but do you think that logo thing is fairly lame and I should make a more graphical one?

Anyways, if you want to take a look and critique I'd mucho appreciateo it.

Thanks.

PS - Whats the post # to post in tech at this point? 100 yet or 50?

I will if their nickname is "UDP"

Which yours is not so I won't insult you unless backed into a corner and provoked.