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  1. Try Simple Machines Forum. Not that it really looks like IPB/vB, but it has the same sort of professional style. That or wait for phpBB3 which comes with this really shiny new silver theme.
  2. Could someone with a free hosting account (the forum supported sort) please show me the output of the phpinfo() command?
  3. Those 100 free offer providers will then have an unreasonably large amount of your personal information. And I would say that information is worth much more to them (in potential value) and to you as well (in the time you'll waste down the line) than $2 a pop. On which note, I've heard of guys making up completely phony identities for this sort of thing, even shipping the stuff to an abandoned building somewhere nearby... Not that I'd recommend that sort of thing.
  4. Is there any way so that I can make changes and then save a copy of the changed page locally?
  5. If you're doing a random draw, sure, could I be in please?
  6. Hi everyone. I'm trying to learn php and I hope you all will help guide me. I'd like any advice and links you could provide that would teach me more php. I currently know a little, enough to write stuff, but I'm still missing a lot. What I'm looking for is not so much individual small articles or basic tutorials but either a book or a course or some other plan outline that can get me from basic knowledge to a pretty good grasp of the language. Thanks.
  7. I think some part of it is that they want the exposure of some place more public. But I do wish they'd ask first.
  8. The mod itself can be open source, in that everyone is entitled to the rights of the license you choose. The mod itself would be your code and not governed by anything the forum makers do. Practically speaking, however, only those with this forum would be able to use the mod, and you might be breaking your agreement with the forum makers if you share the forum itself or try to put some of it into your mod. What you write, you can share, what matters is what you take from other sources.
  9. In the world of Java, at least: Integer.MAX_VALUE Anything closer to positive infinity would just wrap-around. I guess this shows you how much of a computer science person I am. If you're not limiting it to computers, but math in general... and you accept expressions, I think alpha(googleplex) beats everything said currently by far. (where alpha is the single variable Ackermann function).
  10. Every time before that I've seen this tells us that the barber is male and goes on to use this as an example of a set that shouldn't be allowed in formal set theory. I have to admit, that was a clever response, and not one I expected to see. (I was kind of hoping for a debate. Guess not.)
  11. I like this weird range of greens and blues and green-blues that are more vivid than a pastel but still light. This is a more extreme example. I'd prefer something less harsh. Though those of you on a CRT monitor probably see this more pleasantly. My LCD exaggerates brightness. This is probably a mid range color I like. This is a nice... call it sky-blue. Unrelated but A violet that I like... (and an orange I can't find because the color picker is rendering funny.)
  12. I currently play Runescape 2 and have devoted enough time to it that my character's level is an embarrassment in all honesty. The main reason I picked this and not another game a while ago is because the computer I had at the time was far too weak for any of the more graphics intensive games. I don't actually regret the choice so much as I play RS for the gameplay and not the graphics. I admit it can be repetitive, grind-like, and slow at times, and perhaps my time could be spent more productively.
  13. Some of these offers do actually work out, though some don't. It's quite an annoying process as you can never tell how far your "obligations" might go. Yes, it's true: you can actually get an iPod or cell phone or laptop, but rest assured that by the time you have it, the total value of the information you've given and commitments you've made will have far outweighed it. If anything, just the time you'd spend alone is worth more (think: minimum wage) than your "reward" (translation: bait).
  14. I picked: BASIC: As its name suggests, it is very basic. It's probably the easiest language out there to learn, though it's functionality is a bit of a joke if you compare it to what else is available today. I guess it's a bit too late to tell people to start learning with BASIC. Java: Admittedly not an easy language. Though not too difficult either. A wonderful part of Java is that it has an amazing library. A great deal of what you may need (though you should learn how it's written) is already pre-made and available with a single import statement. Java is very general purpose, and from what little I can see of current trends, it's set to replace C++ as an industry standard. Python: I'm surprised nobody else has picked this yet. Python is a surprisingly simple and compact language. It makes a great springboard towards C, C++, and/or Java. It has all the features you would expect from a language, and possibly the other great upside (not to be taken literally) is that hello world is only one line and has no "trust me on this" involved. And what you didn't have but I can't bear to leave out: NetLogo: Python was sort of common. This is just downright obscure, and probably the only reason I know about it is because it's the introductory language of choice in my high school. NetLogo is one of those languages that you could probably explain to a talented elementary school student, and while its practical purpose is limited to certain types of interaction modeling, you shouldn't overlook the fact that NetLogo is actually a pretty complete language, having the concepts of functions (called procedures and reporters) and variables. The nature of NetLogo (and I admit I can't explain this without showing the program itself) forces students (gently) to think and program in a good style, use abstraction, break problems apart, and design things in parts top-down.
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