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In a blind taste test, judges compared the flavor, consistency, and appearance of ten types of canned beer commonly available in the US. Listed from highest to lowest score achieved, they are: Coors Light, Amstel Light, Bud Light, Natural Light, Tecate, Heineken, Miller Lite, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller, Budweiser. Source: …

Hi. I am looking for a few hard-core techy's who are interested in taking a truly incredible idea and turning it into a reality. The only stipulation is you must be a college student but age doesn't matter. What is in it for you? First place gets to share $50,000, …

Hi guys, another internet connection question. What do you think about a 5mbps connection but with 15gb monthly limit? I am currently using 2mbps broadband connection and as far as I know, no monthly usage limit. These two has same monthly bill price of 999.00 PHP. Although 2mbps is good …

Hello, I post on blog http://net.tutsplus.com comments on various articles. But its hard to follow the replies. I cannot find where I could see all my comments. I think diquss is commenting tool and should have that feature. Is it existing? If it is can you tell where?

So... lets play a game where we take the last letter of every word and think of a new word for it... for example **Rob** is the word, and you say **Blue**... get it? This game has been played before, but lets put a twist in it. Depending on how …

The other evening I was visiting my great grandpapa in the old folks home. The TV was running, and we both got captivated by a program on the History channel. It talked about the Mayan calendar and that it abruptly ends in 2012. The winter solstice to be exact. That …

What is that one weird question that you have heard and you can not answer it or at least struggled to answer? For me it was: "What comes first... the chicken or the egg?" (yeah, it took me a while... but i still don't have an accuarate answer!:)) What were …

What's up ladies and gents. I've been lacking motivation to program lately. I've been doing a little programming here and there, but I work so I mostly program for my job. However, whenever I have free time, I use to program a lot, but that motivation and has been gone …

So yesterday i saw a commercial and i thought it was very well designed. It was a MediFast commercial (i think it was medifast) and it showed a person from before (over weight) and after (went through weight loss program) meeting each other discussing their success in the program. That …

Hello Daniweb Members (and hopefully some SysAdmins out there), I am beginning to consider future careers, I am currently studying for my AS and A2 (GCE) exams at Sixth Form and so I need to begin thinking about either a job or further education. I have always been interested in …

At the time of the writing of Charles Dickens', A Christmas Carol, "scrooge" was a slang word synonymous with the word, "squeeze". And "a humbug" was a person who put on false airs as in a person who behaves as if everything is rosy when his life is anything but. …

I got an email from lunar pages [quote] To Whom It May Concern, My name is Wayne Salvino and I’m the Director of Sales for Lunarpages’ Professional Business Division. My sales reps are currently making contact with businesses in your area, who are interested in developing or upgrading their websites. …

A very happy new year to fellow members and Daniweb team. I wish you all a resplendent year ahead

So, I am currently using godaddy, but I found media temple and thought it looked pretty cool... I was wondering what is more perferred by you guys?

Title states all. Best wishes, don't think I will be too active over the actual period so shall say it now :)

Hi folks, Winter 2012/2013 anime season will start in a few days! [Here is a list of the anime](http://atxpieces.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/winter-v3final.jpg) which will air this coming season. As far as initial thoughts go, this season doesn't look *that* exciting. The anime which I'll be definitely following are: * [Chihayafuru S2](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14397/Chihayafuru_2) [unique anime; …

Well for me i want to have a new phone or Cash :)

This may be created already or may not? But find a way to kill me. **For e.g. Throwing me from angry bird's slingshot**

How often do you guys show up in the "Top Members by Activity Points Today".... Do you guys show up there daily, often, sometimes, rarely, never? Just a curious quesiton.

I just picked up on this today. What is the skill endorsement all about?

Went to a Microsoft Windows 8 Camp yesterday and I must say, it changed my view on Win8 entirely. The camp was focused on the store apps, so I'm not talking about the desktop apps that will still work as in Win7. The idea behind it is something I can …

Would you guys recommend me for a mod for Daniweb????

Today is Election Day. I'm gonna vote for Romney & Ryan. Romney will change a lot of things. Ryan will be the first `Generation X` Vice President! It's good to be a `Generation X`

Howdy folks, Fall 2012 season has started airing! The final draft for the series to be aired can be found at the [Neregate blog](http://neregate.com/blog/2012/07/29/fall-2012-anime/). I'll be absolutely watching the following series: * [Bakuman 3](http://myanimelist.net/anime/12365) (Awesome romance, slice of life) * [Jormungand: Perfect Order](http://myanimelist.net/anime/13331/Jormungand:_Perfect_Order) (Prequel rocked; reminds me a bit of …

I dropped out pf programming quite some time back and I want to get back in there. My first project is going to be a quiz game with a board indicating the progress of two teams. I have an artistic flair, and the board is going to look quite good …

I've been trying really hard to figure this one out for a while. I'm fairly certain the solution is something i'm just not getting, but then again, if I got it I wouldn't be posting here. The puzzle is simple enough: I 9 P _ 5 L 14 _ The …

Anyone care to recommend a good file split/join utility? I want to use TeamViewer's file transfer feature to send files to my son in Long Island and I want to split large files into smaller chunks so that if there is an error/dropout I don't have to resend the entire …

Hello DaniWeb, Sorry if this is in the wrong place, I didn't want to clutter the 'Business Exchange' and so the general chat section seemed the most appropriate. I am a teenager, currently studying my A-Levels (UK Qualifications for 16-18 Year Olds), and I have always had a fascination with …

let's now discuss the ways that can give you sweet sweet and sugar plum like infraction points ? ;) lol

it is request to whole daniweb that please give me infraction points as much as you can. if you all don't want me to live here, then give 6 more then i will be lost. just for a small 1 thing, 2 points. so keep giving me points dude! thanks …

if someone (older than you) hurts you and he or she is the person whom you respect from core of heart. Suddenly, someday he or she says you "stop showing your rspect to me, i don't need your respect". then what should we do at that time or stage ? …

if? 1=5, 2=25, 3=125, 4=625, then, 5=? if anyone genius is here reply fast If anyone found answer dont show how you got it?

Hello everybody, I just want to clarify some points about Islam that some of the media has been trying to taint with many false facts. Here are some facts that you may wonder about: 1- Islam encourages and orders Muslims to read and learn and discover everything around them in …

post three words (the most unrelated words a place, an animal and a thing) that you think NO ONE in the world has ever posted on the internet in that sequence.. *Rule* you have to use the last word of the previous post.. PS: its a skill to come up …

Just a quick look at current US Dollar prices per US gallon of petrol in different parts of the globe: **US 3.85 UK 5.80 Norway 6.30 France 5.55 Japan 4.25 Russia 2.10 Kuweit 0.80 Venezuela 0.12**

Just wondered which computer language is best suited for preteen students. Any ideas or experiences?

Heeey guys!! Where's the forum for Batch Scripting!?!? Imma noob if it's Shell Scripting... ~~Zephyr

# Can You Program like McGee in NCIS # I was watching a NCIS rerun and started to wonder about McGee's superhuman programming skills. He sat down in front of a random computer in a suspects house, and yet again, within two to three seconds he hacked the system. This …

> tl;dr: MegaMan's storyline sucks. I want advice in writing it as realistically as possible. I want to dip my toes into the realm of fiction (due to much prodding by my wife). I decided I wanted to start with a fan-fiction project based on the popular game MegaMan (also …

I've secured a year long internship that I will be doing this year before coming back to complete the final year of my Computer Science degree. The company I've got the internship with is quite successful but not really too much in the public eye. The salary itself isn't brilliant …

Just in the news: A Miami police officer fatally shot a naked man who refused to stop chewing on the face of another naked man — even after being shot once by the officer — on a busy downtown highway ramp. Have you read any other strange news lately?

I've been burrowing through a stack of old magazines, and I had a copy of Yahoo! magazine, now defunct, which I'd picked up because the cover story was "100 Best Websites." Okay, I know few people seem to read these days - they just go online and ask people for …

Hi folks, Spring 2012 anime is just around the corner! The chart stating the names of the anime to be aired along with their tentative dates can be found at: http://atxpieces.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/spring-v3/ I would definitely be watching the below: 1. Zetman 2. Accel World 3. Eureka 7 : Astral Ocean 4. …

So my son has learnt Java and has come to a decision point. First, the flashback,:- May, 2011--Back when he was 10 years old and didn't know Java, he gave C++ a try. He understood loops and variables. But when he reached the page teaching functions, he didn't understand a …

before,that even supports Email notifications after getting an answer. but now what I see is 'contribute new article' whenever I try to ask a question.why?It doesn't even support email notifications for new answers

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ Just fun to read.

Ok, I know I'm in a minority here, but anyway... [I left out the 7th option, "Who Cares?"] :) Six Nations Championship kicked off this afternoon, with the following results: France 30 - 12 Italy Scotland 6 - 13 England Ireland TOMORROW Wales Judging by the performances so far, I …

As the title says, Python or Ruby?

Hi Everyone, First, apologizes for my bad English. Thanks in Advance. :) @Moderator: if this thread or my request is not appropriate or as per rules, Kindly delete and forgive my ignorance. My Query is: Lately, I guess my interests or internet history is being tracked big time, specifically this …

I don't know how many of you all know about this already. But I found this pretty interesting. Check it out : [URL="http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html"]http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html[/URL] Enjoy..:P :-O :D