I know this may be silly but meh! We're all getting older here, even you young ones! In saying that, I've never had the notion that I am old. After all, I play video games among other things and (you could ask my wife) I'm probably still considered immature (I'm going to keep it that way too).

However, in the last 6 months my eyesight has been on the decline. A couple days ago I got some reading glasses so that I can see words close to my face. Over the last 6 months I've been noticing (but yet still in denial) that I've been straining to read words close up. It was to the point that I started carrying around a small magnifying glass in my front pant pocket. My wife, who is oozing common sense, went and got me 2 pairs of reading glasses that I now wear (and sometimes both at once). I'm glad I got the glasses but it has made me reflect on the fact that I am now officially getting old. An economist that I work for told me 3 years ago that the eyes will go first and that he used to be 20/20 but now he needs prescribed glasses (he's 65).

Anyhow, I'm just some middle-aged guy that's starting to notice the affects of aging. I guess my question is, what happened to you that made you realize you are not a youngbuck no more? As stated, my eyes have been that turning point for me, how about you?

So therefore my idea: if anyone is interested in registering, register, then copy your share-link to this thread, and the next person who is interested uses that link to register and then posts his own share link here. That way everyone will get +10GB extra: one for joining, and one for the referral of the next person.

I'll start. If you're interested, join can join using my referral link.

Have fun! :)

I am going to get over it by spending the morning in the office catching up on the work I coudln't do yesterday, then four hours in the chair this afternoon having both sides of my neck, and the bottom of the back of my head, tattooed this afternoon :)

Adolf Hitler was a heavy smoker in his early life — he used to smoke 25 to 40 cigarettes daily — but gave up the habit, concluding that it was a waste of money. In later years, Hitler viewed smoking as "decadent" and "the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor", lamenting that "so many excellent men have been lost to tobacco poisoning". He was unhappy because both Eva Braun and Martin Bormann were smokers and was concerned over Hermann Göring's continued smoking in public places. He was angered when a statue portraying a cigar-smoking Göring was commissioned. Hitler is often considered to be the first national leader to advocate nonsmoking, although James VI and I of Great Britain has a better claim to that title by three hundred years.

What is a rewarding career that one can go on to from a degree like mine. Rewarding for me is something where a lot of people will benefit from something I'm producing OR it will make the world a better place OR it will give travel opportunities OR it will allow me more control over the work I'm doing OR it will provide me with the chance to do research into new interesting topics of study - any of those.

I've spoken to a few colleagues in the same profession and a lot of them seem to have the same view though they're hesitant to have it heard so to keep up an image but I hope some answers can be given that will be good advice to me and those with similar thoughts.

Studies across 20 countries show a strong association between schizophrenia and smoking.[1] For example, in the United States, 80% or more of schizophrenics smoke, compared to 20% of the general population in 2006.[2]

Though it is well established that smoking is more prevalent among schizophrenics than the general population as well as those with other psychiatric diagnoses, there is currently no definitive explanation for this difference.[3] Many social, psychological, and biological explanations have been proposed, but today research focuses on neurobiology.

I've always found this bit difficult, and therefore I was wondering what others do in regards to the topic of Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policies and legal mumbo jumbo.
The cost of hiring a lawyer to write such legal information for websites is often extremely expensive and therefore it isn't normally practical for a small independant developers to justify it, however you still need them to protect you from the potential problems that may result from malpractice from your users, and from any approaching third party.

The internet is becoming a legal minefield, and it getting more and more difficult to remain protected.

Do you guys write them yourself, use one of those free online templates or do you actually pay for a lawyer?

Thanks in advance.

http://www.eurovision.tv/page/timeline

A secret passion...

//EDIT

OMG - Romania have to win!!!

Even if Bonnie Tyler (UK entry) is Welsh. That's going to be embarrassing.

A new poll released today shows a large a gap between parents’ perceptions of their children’s weight and expert definitions. According to their parents, 15 percent of children are a little or very overweight, while national data suggest more than twice as many, or 32 percent of all children, are overweight or obese. The poll was conducted by NPR,the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

For more detail, view ht.ly/i6N5D

A car travelled 28km from A to B in 30 minutes. If the distance between A and B is 36km,Then what is the speed of the car in kmph?

Anyone with Answer && explanation ..

For example:

Group x uses public transport to get from A to B
Using public transport comes with certain difficulties for group x
Group x finds the price of using public transport too high

Should I say "public transport" or "public transportation"?

What do other experts in ageing say?
"When testosterone is lacking, the demand for amino acids to support cell proliferation and muscle-building is decreased, and it's thought that the body then shifts the use of these basic building blocks towards cellular defence and stress resistance," says Holly Brown-Borg, who studies ageing at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. She guesses that the eunuchs were smaller and less muscular, with lower levels of cancer and heart disease.

One year later, the production was greated with great acclaim and Stravinski was carried victoriously through the streets of Paris. In 1940, The Rites of Spring was included in Fantasia as part of a children's musical piece.

This is an exageration (the riots were not that bad) but the musical concepts were new and, for the time, very disturbing. But even the Disney version is disturbing and brings to mind the much later animation for Ravel's Bolero - which is what the animator Bruno Bozzetto meant for us to see but is not as apparent until you view The Rite of Spring after seeing Bolero - with the 'monkey-man' appearing. Ravel's Bolero was commissioned to be a part of a ballet called Fandango - the scene was a smokey cantina with the basoon danced by the 'prima balerina' and the other instruments would emerge from fog/smoke for their part and then recede back into the fog/smoke. The premier was greeted with cheering, shouting and the stamping of feet - it was loved immediately. It was reported that a woman was heard to shout "the madman, the madman"; when told of this, Ravel replied "that lady, she understood". He thought Bolero was one of his least important pieces but it is what he is remembered for.

As a side note, one of Ravels drinking buddies was a world class pianist who drafted to fight in WWI and was shot in the arm and taken prisoner by the Russians. His right arm was amputated. This was Paul Wittgenstein (his brother is Ludwig Wittgenstein the philospher). Paul was pretty depressed since he had expected to have a career as a pianist but he did not give up; he begged the big name composers of the day (Richard Strauss, Benjamin Britten, Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, and the French composer, Maurice Ravel) to write something that would showcase his talent. Ravel was the only one who responded - he wrote 2 pieces for left handed pianists. They are so taxing that most 2-handed pianist who try it cheat by grabbing onto the right side of the piano to drag themselves from one side of the piano to the other.

but I digress

I hope I did not bore you.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-discovery-gatekeeper-nerve-cells-effect.html

"It is known that nicotine improves cognitive processes including learning and memory, but this is the first time that an identified nerve cell population is linked to the effects of nicotine", says Professor Klas Kullander at Scilifelab and Uppsala University.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729080.200-nobelwinner-watson-do-antioxidants-promote-cancer.html

We believe that we have in effect discovered a fundamental 'Achilles heel' for all cancers -- Dr Timothy Bates

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6244715.stm

I started this general discussion because I want to know what kind of standards you all work by with regards to documenting your projects.

I've been steadily working on a system at work since last spring that is automating (extracting, transforming, & loading) data flows within my department. It was a brand new system that has taken coworkers from copying and pasting data-sets into Excel, to automatically downloading and storing data-sets in an SQL Server database. However, I am the only one working on this project, with some help from some great guys from a different department (when I need help). Because of being the only person on this big project, I haven't been able to document very much along the way. I've made ERDs, DFDs, a couple Use Cases, as well as a few other documents that showed progression (not Gantt charts). While this has been alright for me and those involved in my department, I've been thinking about what problems may arise when someone other than me (in the future) has to analyze and fix the problems. Because of the lack of documentation, future maintainenance will be a big issue if I'm not the one maintaining this beast.

All that being said, are you thorough with your documentation and do you document every aspect of your projects? Or, do you have a document writer?

I find documenting is a very time-consuming aspect of system development, necessary but time-consuming, especially for a one-man-show.

Thoughts!?

If I wanted to sell existing novels on this platform, let's use George R Martin's books which are of course quite famous. What legal steps and resources will I need to use to be able to get to the position I can sell these books on my platform.

Here's the job description:

Minimum Essential Qualifications:

Registered undergraduate student pursuing a degree at the University of [College] related to electronic communications such as technical communications, computer science, design, communications/marketing or similar program
Experience with HTML
Demonstrated skill in Web development and maintenance of Web sites
Proven competency in Web authoring software (such as Dreamweaver) and image editing software (such as Photoshop)

Preferred Employee Qualifications:

Experience using content management software and creating Web page templates and library items
Familiarity with CSS, Javascript or PHP
High-level experience with Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite products
Familiarity with blogs and other Web-related social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.
Interest in photography and video as it relates to the Web including familiarity with photo and video sharing Web sites such as Flickr, and YouTube
Interest in building interactive Web sites that appeal to university students
Strong written and verbal communications skills with experience working in an office environment
Ability to work independently and as part of a team with a strong commitment to customer service
Ability to solve problems and work on multiple projects simultaneously
Student with work-study funds preferred

And here's my resume:

http://i.imgur.com/fqZckuB.png

I had an older member of my fraternity help me with the resumé but I feel like there is way to much fluff in there (such as the 125 words per minute :/). Please don't hold back, tell me anything and everything that is wrong about it.

Thanks.

P.S. I apologize if this is not the correct place for this.

EDIT1: Forgot to add to the resumé that I have experience in PHP.

I'm just really curios. How many people are in the world?

Thanks if you can answer

Thanks,

Cproger

___________________________________________________________________________

NOTE
I haven't been in Daniweb for years and there are so many changes that I don't even know how to create a poll (or maybe this feature has been removed).

Reason

A few days ago, I am starting developing a small open-source portable C++ IDE for fun. My aim is not to compete with any other IDE in term of rich-features. Instead, I focus on simple interface, easy to use, and good for educational purpose. One of our main feature is that it is easy to get C++ code running (no need to creating new project, no need to save the file before able to compile and run, just write code and press F5). So, the reason behind this post is to measure my potential audiences which is people who casually use C++ for doing small thing.

I have a friend who raised this question and it really got me wondering. I'm not so familiar with laws but basically he's going abroad on a holiday and of course is taking his laptop + ext hard drives with him. The problem (or is it?) is that he's concerned about having .mp3 and .avi files which were torrented and from what I saw the legallity of these files is questionable (as there were a lot of movies and tv series etc.)

He's worried about being searched and with the tightened airport security these days fears what would happen if his items were to be searched and hardware storage devices pryed into. What exactly is the ruling on these matters I.E in that condition if he was found with this material what would the Airport security/whoever is in authority do about it?

I am creating a PDF document for my manager that's a combination of PDF files as well as Excel files. The Excel files contain data sets and all I do for them is a simple Save As which is no problem. However, one of the files, after the save, converts its data set into 3 PDF pages where as another file, with a different but similar in size data set is converted to one PDF page. Does anyone here know how I can make the 3 page data set into 1 in the PDF?

Is there a site like this
http://snag.gy/

where I could choose the default position where I could add watermark, or just some hide elemet. I mean I need often to upload pictures but in the corner I need that some information would be now visible.

Snag.gy is good becasue I dont need to save the file on my pc, I just make print screen.

Now everytime I need to edit image manualy and hide the info.

Anyone seen this? Pretty much means that rights holders no longer have rights over their own work without registering them on a work-by-work basis. This allows companies to use, sell and sub-licence your works without asking you permission.

Might be wise to start taking all your pictures off the internet. Anything without metadata (or has had it stripped by Fa...an unscrupulous company) is fair game.

Note that this also extends to sound/music, designs(graphical, mechanical, system) and even software.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvWTnIoQZj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR8fQiskYII

My name is Jeannot Thewissen. I have a question.
What is the value of an Original Microsoft xbox with one controller and 7 games.

I hope to get a reply soon, because I got two of them and I want to sell one.

Jeannot Thewissen

index.html

<html>
<head>
<title>title</title>  
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/reset.css" />
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />

</head>

<body>
<div class='header'>
</div>

<div class='wrapper'>
<div class='banjo'>
</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

and style.css

body{
     background:#EDEFEF
}

.header{
     background:#D5DEDF;
     border:1px solid #485253;
     height:125px;
     margin:10px auto;
     position:relative;
     width:85%
}

.wrapper{
     -moz-box-shadow:5px 8px 8px 9px #4D4D4D;
     -webkit-box-shadow:5px 8px 8px 9px #4D4D4D;
     background:#ffffff;
     border:1px solid #7E8A8D;
     box-shadow:5px 8px 8px 9px #4D4D4D;
     height:70%;
     margin:10px auto;
     position:relative;
     width:85%
}

.foot{
     font:9px comic sans ms;
     margin:0px auto;
     text-align:center;
     width:85%
}

.banjo{
     -moz-box-shadow:2px 4px 5px 5px #4D4D4D;
     -moz-transform:rotate(-9deg);
     -webkit-box-shadow:2px 4px 5px 5px #4D4D4D;
     -webkit-transform:rotate(-9deg);
     background:#ffffff;
     box-shadow:2px 4px 5px 5px #4D4D4D;
     height:300px;
     margin:15px auto auto 15px;
     position:relative;
     transform:rotate(-9deg);
     width:300px
}

Works great on Firefox, Opera and my fave Chrome, on IE.... not a chance!
Even the simple margin rule won't render, and the box I've placed (<div class='banjo'>) doesn't even show up on IE.
If I ever get round to actually publishing anything out there, I think a splash screen "View on anything except IE" will be in order!

Well...... thats my rant of the month over...........

http://postimg.org/image/3xq7pyolx/

it is from book PHP team development

So evaluate yourself, how much do you think you have improved? A lot, little, kind of, etc.

(Mods, you can move this thread if you want)

My current computer is a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook A Series (AH530), it only has 2GB of RAM installed and a 250GB HDD making it unsuitable for anything heavy handed, and it has a dual core 2.13Ghz processor (Intel P6200).

I thought it was about time I upgraded, and I've found what looks to be a good priced laptop on Dabs.com, an Acer V3-571G (Dabs or Acer Official)

It still is a dual core, but has a clock speed of 2.5Ghz (3MB Cache) which is a nice improvement on my current PC, and the 8GB of RAM, 750 GB HDD is certainly going to be an improvement. I can't find too much about graphics, so I don't know what it's running but as I won't be gaming on it (nothing major anyway), it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

I'm planning on Dual Booting Ubuntu, with Ubuntu being the main OS on it, it currently has Windows 8 (not sure how it will work with this UEFI issue etc.)

What does everyone think? A decent laptop for £500, for work, media streaming and internet browsing? Does ayone have any other suggestions for about the £500 price range?

Thanks

ps: posted this thread here for i wasnt sure in whether to post this in the java or the C# forums.

I will begin with this meme.

Your turn

For me it was when I "purposely" scared a whole bunch of people about a super hard test and causing them to fail their test. They decided to report me to the teacher and I told him that I didn't do anything against the rules and he said to me (this is word by word), "I know, they are chickens that were going to fail anyways. Since you got a good grade, I will let you off on this one but remember, the next time you scare them make sure you "proof" of how hard it is". He was an awesome math teacher but unfortunately he got layed off a long with my science teacher (accidentally shot her with a water bottle rocket on "accident").

So anyways... if you understood my story, what was the most trouble you have ever gotten in?

For me (so far):

• Joining 3 varsity sports
• Having straight A's through out the year
• Became Sophmore President :) (I am a freshman, but they make us run early for next year.)

Next year I am going to try to get my teachers to give me good recommendations for HARVARD! Who knows what's next for me :)

For those of you who don't know, one explosion went off at the finish line, and one at the JFK library. Two more packages have been found (although unconfirmed) so it is rather worrying, especially considering the London Marathon is coming up.

2 Killed
20+ Injured

Condolences with the families, and hoping that everyone else makes it through fine.

Does anyone have any more information on what's happened?

Apologies for posting this a bit late than usual; normally I post this thread a few days before a new season starts so this technically isn't a preview, but oh well. Anyways, the chart showing the different anime which airs this season can be found at Neregate.

Unfortunately, this season looks a bit meh (but still better when compared to the upcoming Summer, but I digress). I have seen the first episode of pretty much all of them and the ones to look out for specifically IMO are:

• Shingeki No Kyojin [good action]
• Hentai Ouji To Warawanai Neko [funny]
• Dansai Bunri No Crime Edge [unique setting]
• Devil Survivor 2 The animation [reminds me of Persona 4]
• Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S [2nd season of the famous railgun series]
• Hataraku Maou-sama [comedy with a good premise]

Are you specifically looking out of any of these or would you rather wait for the 2nd season of "Katekyo Hitman Reborn" to start airing. ;)

vodka - 3 parts
tomato juice - 5 parts
herbal tea from dried hibiscus & sage - 1 part
black pepper - 1-2 pinch
salt - 1-2 pinch
citric acid - 1 pinch (lemon juice is unavailable in my country)

What do you think about this?
I have not tasted it yet =)

Right now I've been working on an employee time clock that works with a MySQL database, it has really grown since I first started out!

For me, it could be about 5-9 hours (when i am asleep) but when i was on vacation, it was about 2-3 days away. I tend to check the forums during lectures (in class) on my phone or check the site when i am at a game (when i am playing, when i am in the sidelines of course... i am a starter :D).

How about you guys?

Programming Language Generations

Different types of programming languages are often grouped into large categories known as generations. Each generation consists of languages that behave in similar ways. The higher the generation number, the more abstraction is present in the language and the more indirect is the programmer's interaction with the computer. A first-generation language gives almost direct access to the hardware and operations of the computer, while a fourth-generation language isolates the programmer from almost all of the operational details to perform the desired task.

First-Generation Languages

First-generation languages are the first languages created for computers. (No great surprise there!) Each processor (CPU) uses a set of numeric codes to tell it what to do. Different types of processors (e.g. Pentium vs. Power-PC vs. Sparc) use different sets of numbers for their instructions. These sets of numbers are the first-generation languages. These first-generation languages are often called machine language.

Using first-generation languages gives the programmer the greatest degree of control, but this also means that the programmer must manage every aspect of the execution of the program and programs are not portable, that is, they can not be taken from one computer and execute on another, unless the processor and operating system are identical. Also the programmer must remember or look up what each numeric code means and does. A first-generation language instruction might be represented as:
4E 00 2A 31

This is the hexadecimal representation of the numeric instructions for a mythical processor. The 4E could be the instruction, which tells the computer to store the next value (0) into the given address (2A31).

Second-Generation Languages

Second-generation languages are only one step away from machine language. These languages are often called assembly code. Assembly instructions correspond one-to-one with machine language instructions. That is to say, one assembly instruction is compiled to one machine language instruction. Assembly code instructions generally begin with a mnemonic code, followed by numeric arguments, usually in hexadecimal notation. The mnemonics are easier to remember than the numeric codes of first-generation languages, but the programmer still has to manage everything the program will be doing, at the finest level of detail.

These days, each processor developer, such as Intel or Sun, creates an assembly code for each processor it develops. A second-generation language instruction might look like:
STR #00, $2A31
(This instruction translates into the the example in the First-Generation section, and thus does the same thing.)

Third-Generation Languages

Third-generation languages are what most people usually think about when they think of programming languages. These are procedural languages, where the programmer still tells the computer what to do, step-by-step, but each third-generation language instruction often corresponds to more than one first-generation language instruction. Sometimes, one third-generation instruction is translated into hundreds or thousands of first-generation language instructions. Examples of third-generation languages are Ada, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal and shell scripts. C, and its descendants, including C++, C#, Java and Javascript, are also third-generation languages.

Fourth-Generation Languages

Fourth-generation languages are descriptive languages. The programmer describes the kind of result that is expected, without telling the computer exactly how to do it. It is up to the software to determine how to accomplish the tasks described in the fourth-generation language instructions. Popular fourth-generation languages include SQL (to manipulate relational databases), Postscript (to describe page layout for laser printing) and HTML (to describe how World Wide Web pages look), among others.

Fifth-Generation Language

Fifth-generation languages are constraint-defining languages. Rather than describe the tasks to be done, or the kind of output desired, a programmer uses a fifth-generation language to describe the limits of a problem and then the program determines the solution set based on the given constraints. Prolog is probably the best known fifth-generation language.

Please guys share with us, the screenshot of your Desktop .
we want to see your desktop .

Im trying to send emails from my eCommence site and seems not to work. It works on my local server though so I know it is not a configuration issue. Is there a way I can try out if the port is blocked or not?

Thank you

Something like a Yahoo answers but with smarter people (no offense) I mean discussing/debating/asking questions that matter, of all types such as what will humans evolve into, is homosexuality hereditary, when will earth become uninhabitable. Some interesting type of stuff answered by an intellectual (at least a bit) community.

I recognize this is a weird request. But anything will be appreciated. I have a lot of time at work when I'm waiting on someone to do something and something that will keep the brain awake and occupied will be great :)

The main point of the article is that the conventional wisdom that says that when you roam outside, in public places, you can't expect privacy (i.e., people (incl. authorities) could be watching what you do) doesn't work when it comes to roaming the cyber-world (visiting sites, blogging, chatting, posting on forums / leaving comments / tweeting, etc.) because, in that world, people can collect and analyse all of your actions (past and present) as a whole and this way, they can infer so much about who you are, what you do, who you associate with, what your views are, etc..., that it amounts to things that anyone would consider to be their "private business". And in most countries, private citizens (and by extension, companies) are not allowed to look into other people's "private business" too much (i.e., it's illegal, and usually a felony), and authorities are not allowed to do that either unless they can show "probable cause" and obtain a warrant.

Currently, many agencies and private companies are taking huge liberties in this regard, enjoying the legal void and the lack of any serious policy to guarantee people's right to privacy, to do anything from customer profiling (to drive product suggestions and ads) to full-blown cyber-espionage.

What are your opinions about this?
Do you expect your cyber-activities to be private?
If not, what about the sum of all your cyber-activities and all the information that can be inferred from that?
Can you think of a practical way to guarantee people's right to privacy in this information-rich environment?
If information collection and analysis needs to be controlled, what does that imply for internet freedom and net-neutrality?

My hosting company uses AwStats and some of the numbers are conflicting and/or confusing.

What is the difference between "pages" and the other option?

Thank you

should i put them in my resume? or those games are way too basic and i shouldn't put them on resume? what u guys think.

People say i am built like Michael Ray Garvin/Dwight Howard and they say i act like Bill Gates (i don't know why i would be like him... they could be referring to my parents :D)

Let me know! :D

My current, active projects are World Community, Malariacontrol, and Rpsetta (inactive are UFluids, Lattice, and SpinHenge) on my laptop; on my desktop are climateNet, Einstein, SETI, QuakeCatcher, and a couple others I am too lazy to look up. My group (whick is just me) is Patosi and I am, of course, GrimJack. I know that DaniWeb has its own team.

This time the goal is to utilize our new API launched last month.

There's a lot that you can do with our API. Essentially it allows your application (web, desktop, mobile, etc) to tap into DaniWeb's backend. Your own application can use DaniWeb's login mechanism, you can write a native mobile app for DaniWeb, you can create your own completely unique front-end for the site, there really are limitless possibilities.

Unlike previous programming contests on DaniWeb which judged submissions based on style of code, efficiency, etc., this competition will be based on the overall final product.

First Prize: $300 Amazon gift certificate
Second Prize: $125 Amazon gift certificate
Third Prize: $75 Amazon gift certificate

Code submissions should be posted within the code snippet library for their language. Downloadable apps, websites, etc. should be posted within the Show Off Your Projects forum within Business Exchange.

Be sure to tag all submissions with both daniweb-api and daniweb-api-contest-submission

Good luck!!!!! :)

Was just wondering if anyone here has been through such situations and could share how they tackled it ? I'm not looking for a magic wand but it could be helpful to see if someone tried an interesting approach and it worked.

Speaking of amazing success, what was the greatest success you have had/felt?