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#279000
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One thing PC Users Can Do But Mac Users Can't
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yeah you know to be honest in my 7 years of using computers. i dont think i have ever gotten a virus that causeds me serious problems. igot one once that shut the computer down every 10 mins but i got ride of it in and hour. also from one year of my lifeb i had an ibook. and the # of problems i had in one year with the ibook was = to the # of problems i had with my pc.
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#277901
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The Best Star Wars Books?
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hmm ihavent read alot of these older EU books, i have mostly followed the new stuff. thrawn trilogy was great. i have probably read around 30 of them ranging from the PT to the newest ones coming out. and these are my top three

traitor
labryinth of evil
destiny's way

the former 2 are good and are just personal favorites over alot of the other books i read, but traitor is by country mile the best starwars book i have ever read.
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#271430
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New Star wars books and other fiction and books thread
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hmm hey man this should go in the general starwars if your talking about star wars.

i havent gotten to allegence yet but its on my list.

i personally amreally liking the extreme darkness of the legacy saga. its almost like anakins fall told properly. there great books jacens character is very interesting. the only beef i have is WHY WHY kill anakin WHY did they have to do it in star by star. they had just spent 2 full books building up his character and then BOOM ANAKIN IS GONE ARG.i dont think ill ever forget lucas fiction for that.
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#270911
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WTF? Anna Nicole Smith Dies!
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over dose seems like a likely explination. however, if that was the case, they would probably be already saying she died of a drug overdose, because she would have been found with drugs around her. you dont take a lethal dose of drugs, then put them away nicely before you die.

who knows though, maybe one of her breat implants exploded, sending silicon gel into her blood causing it to clot in her heart.

or maybe she saw a demontor

or maybe someone case the killing spell on her

or maybe god struck her down for being a bad lady

or lastly, maybe she struck a deal with the devil that if she became famous she would give him her soul at the age of 39. hahaha

my point is wait till you hear what happens, cause none of use will likely beable to guess it, if it already hasnt be released.

anyway RIP nicole, i hope u hada good life, she lived fast, and died young.
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#270248
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Windows Vista
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY

you'll like this.

anyway here are my two cents

I have used both OSX and XP extensively, i owned a ibook for year on loan from my school, and i used them all throughout highschool. prett ymuch anytime i learned something with IT it was on a Mac. at home i still use a PC. why i just like the PC lay out. the only thing that i stole was the dock, which i have on my computer using stardock.

just in aug i bought a brandnew sony laptop, and it seems to me, to be just as good if not better then any of the apple laptops i have seen, that fall in the 1500 range. its like 4 pounds has 5 hours of batt life, 1.8 duo core. and a hybride graphics card. it is the prefect computer for me if i am doing school work gaming or just searching the internet. but last year when i was at UBC i had the misfortune of using a PC for my C programing class. and i can tell you right now if you plan on doing anything programing/graphics related go mac all the way, maybe it was cause i had always used macs for that sort of thing, or that PCs are just bad at it, but I just didnt feel comfortable at all using my PC when doing all the stuff. so there is it, they both have there places for me. p.s. I HATE SAFARIE, i donno why i just really really dislike that program.

one other thing, as funny as the switch commercials are i find themto be a pretty big low blow in the world of marketing. i woulda thought apple would have been above making fun of pc's directly with such biased ads. but meh such is the world, i wonder when if ever microsoft will launch a counter commercail line.
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#267212
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Avian Flu
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Originally posted by: Arnie.d
killing 100 000 chickens cause one had the flu isnt gonna do much, the thing with bacteria is that they are sneaky little buggers and they will always find a way to survive.
The flu is a virus (as you also mentioned in a previous post). Bacteria (or their spores) can survive without a host for a very long time indeed. But I'm not sure about virussen. I know HIV can't survive without a host very long. I don't know how long the flu virus can survive without a host. But killing the chickens will ofcourse enormously reduce the chance people get infected.


sry my bad, i donno why i said bacteria cause of course you are correct the flu is a virus. virus itself cannot exist very long out in the open, at least some of htem can and others can't i dont know where the avian flu virus falls interms of resiliencey, but yes the HIV virus sucks when its outta body. here ill tell you a little know fact about HIV, but dont tell the kids. its actually kinda hard to get HIV via sex. HIV is not a good survivor at all when it is outside of a cell even. the virus itself jsut gets pounced on by the immune system and the conditions in our blood are horrible for it. most of the time when a person contracts the HIV virus its when one of their lymphocytes(a type of immune cell) merges with an infect cell. and from then on its not a very good ride at all. I was talking to my immunology professor the other day and he was saying that doctors are starting to find evidence that the progressiong from HIV+ to full blown AIDS depends on whether people get an auto immune response. its very intrigueing that at a certian stage our own bodies immunesystem starts to distinguish out own T-cells are foreign. And once this happens we get our immune system turning on itself and that is where we have this huge break down in immune system, and simple things can start killing us. anyway back to my original point, because HIV has such a hard time of surviving when it is outside of a cell, its actually very hard to contract it sexually unless there is some sort of open wound and we get a mixing of blood. thats why the disease first appeared in the gay population... jsut think of the mechanics of what they were doing. stretching something that is not supposed to be stretched too much causes tearing... so yeah, also as horrible as it is think africa. at one time, i donno if its still there or not, there was a myth about HIV in africa that stated if you have sex with a virgin you would be cured. unfortunatly sex with a virgin often involved the breaking of a hymen and blood... it really is sad, what misinformation, and being uneducated can do.

what i meant was that killing a 100 000 chickens will not get rid of possible vectors that the flu might have. Biologically speaking a vector is an organism that can carry the disease but is not affected by it. so in this case, they dont go around killing all the crows, all the rodents all the PEOPLE who might have potentially picked up the virus. and therefore you may kill the infect but you dont get the source. its like killing ever cockroach you see, but never going into the walls. its amazing sometimes when i am studying i can almost hear that Ian guy from jurassic park "life will find away"

Very interesting posts Shim, what did you or are you studying for?


thanks, yeah i was studying to be a chemical and biological engineering but i decided that wasnt my calling and am now headed into the field of biotechnology, i find i am insanely interested in diagnosics and immunology, so things concerning illness are always of great intregue.