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Lets Paint The Kettle Black,Do You Have A Bitch On Whats Going On Around The Site Or Any Thing Negative To Report
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Originally posted by ireland:
FREE,CPU-Z 1.39
CPU-Z is a freeware utility that provides some information on your CPU :
# Processor name and vendor
# Core stepping and process
# Processor package
# Processor current core voltage
# Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier
# Partial overclock detection
# Processor features, including supported instructions sets.
# L1 and L2 cache informations : location, size, speed, technology.
# Motherboard informations : BIOS, chipset, memory, AGP.
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don't forget Speedfan for temp info :3
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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Originally posted by Lp531:
Just Backed-up...with DVDFab Platinum...and the quality came out horrible compared to 1ClickDVD...there is a definite difference in quality...quite noticeable...
I......Love there decrypter...however their compression software is not very good...
I think I'll try CloneDVD 2 on these movies......
Good choice, I love CloneDVD 2 its a great product by a great company.
My personal favorite is CCE w. DVD-Rebuilder but only if the compression is over 40% or if I really like the movie I let CCE w. DVD-Rb run while I sleep.
Originally posted by ZIppyDSM:
don't forget Speedfan for temp info :3
Actually, I would personally advise staying away from SpeedFan.
Under certain conditions it takes over your MoBo's control of the fans and your fans will no longer work until you uninstall SpeedFan.
I almost fried my 6800 GT due to SpeedFan. It showed the temp of my card and I played a few high intensity games then I watched the temp rise to near 100 C which caused the card to start pixelating and at that temp, from what I can recall, your can can become permanently damaged.
Luckily I uninstalled Speed Fan when I noticed it getting close to 100 C and the fan kicked on for about 30 minutes under the Windows Desktop and got the card back to stable heat levels.
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Originally posted by Lp531:
Just Backed-up...with DVDFab Platinum...and the quality came out horrible compared to 1ClickDVD...there is a definite difference in quality...quite noticeable...
I......Love there decrypter...however their compression software is not very good...
I think I'll try CloneDVD 2 on these movies......
Good choice, I love CloneDVD 2 its a great product by a great company.
My personal favorite is CCE w. DVD-Rebuilder but only if the compression is over 40% or if I really like the movie I let CCE w. DVD-Rb run while I sleep.
[quote=ZIppyDSM] don't forget Speedfan for temp info :3
Actually, I would personally advise staying away from SpeedFan.
Under certain conditions it takes over your MoBo's control of the fans and your fans will no longer work until you uninstall SpeedFan.
I almost fried my 6800 GT due to SpeedFan. It showed the temp of my card and I played a few high intensity games then I watched the temp rise to near 100 C which caused the card to start pixelating and at that temp, from what I can recall, your can can become permanently damaged.
Luckily I uninstalled Speed Fan when I noticed it getting close to 100 C and the fan kicked on for about 30 minutes under the Windows Desktop and got the card back to stable heat levels.
Peace[/quote]I don't use it to control fans and disable all that I prefer its temp monitoring ,do you of anything thats better at just listing all the senors?
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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ImgBurn 2.2.0.0,2-14-07
ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD images and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony). You can even use ImgBurn to erase / format your rewritable media!
ImgBurn will do its very best to burn DVD-Video double layer images using the layer break you've specified in the IFO files, but also calculates the best place for you saving you the trouble.
* Added: 'Read' mode for basic (sector by sector) creation of images direct from a cd/dvd.
* Added: Unicode support to everywhere that needs it!
* Added: An 'AUTO' write speed where you can now have custom write speeds for individual media types/dyes on a drive by drive basis. You can also use things like 'CD-R', 'DVD-R', 'DVD+R' etc.
* Added: Ability to preview Cells in the Build mode's 'Create layer break position' dialog box (or doing it via Tools -> ISO -> Display IFO Layer Break Position). This uses PgcEdit's little PgcEditPreview.exe file.
* Added: Option of Standard/DOS/ASCII characters set for ISO9660 file systems. (previously only Standard/ASCII was supported)
* Added: Ability to build ISO9660 file systems where files can have no extension at all (not even a '.' (dot)).
* Added: Options to disable warnings when checking 'seamless' or 'don't update ifo/bup files' boxes in the layer break dialog windows.
* Added: Options to automatically check the 'seamless' and 'don't update ifo/bup files' boxes in the layer break dialog windows.
* Added: Support for reading/parsing UDF v2.50 - as used on HDDVD / Blu-ray discs.
* Added: Build mode now has the ability to look for and optimise duplicate files so that only 1 copy of that file actually exists in the ISO/on the disc.
* Added: /EJECT CLI command.
* Added: 'Auto Change Book Type' option to the settings. This is only used for LG and Samsung drives. When enabled (default), it will make the program send the appropriate command to tell the drive to booktype the disc to DVDROM at the start of every burn - obviously just for Plus format media -i.e. DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL.
* Added: Ability to insert a layer break position in the MDS file made by the 'Create DVD MDS File' tool.
* Added: Early warning message on DVD Video builds where the files are probably too big for the destination DVD media.
* Added: Checks for people loading '*.000' and '*.ISO' files in Write mode when a '*.DVD' one exists.
* Added: Ability to burn small images JUST to the first layer on DL media (normally you would split the data between layers).
* Added: Warning message if user specified layer break differs from that in the loaded *.MDS/*.DVD file.
* Added: Additional check for file splitting suitability when doing a read/build to hdd using the FAT/FAT32 file system.
* Added: 'Sector Viewer' button to Read/Verify modes in the 'Source' box.
* Added: 'Cancel' option when loading an IBQ file and none of the images are in the right place!
* Added: Files created in Read/Build mode are now (optionally - default = on) pre-allocated. This cuts down on fragmentation.
* Added: Options to set process priority during Read/Write/Verify.
* Added: Support for reading hdd partitions to an image file suitable for use as the boot image when building a bootable disc/iso.
* Added: A button on the 'volume label' windows to have it insert the current date/time in YYYYMMDD_HHMM format.
* Added: Answer 'Yes' / Answer 'No' options to the 'Don't prompt VIDEO_TS content' option.
* Added: An optional timeout to the auto volume label window (default is ON and 30 seconds).
* Added: Layer break positions are now displayed in the main GUI if the MDS/DVD file loaded in Write/Verify mode contained one.
* Added: Options on the 'Create DVD MDS File' window are now remembered between sessions.
* Added: The option of preserving full pathnames within MDS files created by Read/Build modes.
* Added: Improved logging options for files that have their names shortened due to file system limitations / restrictions currently in place.
* Added: Ability to add device id strings that are really OEM LG / Samsung drives - for use by the 'Auto Change Book Type' feature.
* Added: New 'Filter Driver Load Order' feature so you can see which drivers all your I/O is going through - and spot ones that could be messing things up. (Available on Windows 2000 and newer)
* Added: When the book type commands fail, the 'reason' (I/O SenseArea interpretation) is now also displayed in the messagebox.
* Added: Support for Vista's new 'OnDVDArrival' autoplay stuff - so it now says 'Burn an Image' (using ImgBurn) as an option when you insert a blank DVD. (This had already been implemented for OnCDArrival and I had assumed it would apply to both - it didn't!)
* Added: Support for showing supported write speeds on CD.
* Added: Support for identifying DVD+RW DL booktype.
* Added: 'TOC Information' to the Info panels in all modes.
* Added: Detection/Identification of 'HD DVD-ROM' etc type drives to the log when ImgBurn first starts.
* Added: Detection of HD DVD-RW read/write capabilities.
* Added: Context menu with 'Copy' option on it to the 'Label' field in the 'Previous Image' groupbox on the 'Please insert next disc' window.
* Added: Message in 'Build' mode when user tries to write an ISO image - where they should probably be using 'Write' mode.
* Added: 'Free Space' to the info page in build mode - used as part of the 'Calculate' function.
* Added/Changed: 'Preferred Format Capacity' value to info window for rewritable media. This value is now used during full erase rather than the maximum one.
* Added/Changed: A little workaround for a glitch in Vista with windows using a non resizable frame under the Aero theme. Pixel 0, 0 is not the absolute top left of the window - making the window appear off the screen.
* Added/Changed: The shutdown options / API's now use the 'FORCE' flag if ImgBurn detects the computer is 'Locked' - this can be disabled in the settings.
* Changed: Only the first cell in an angle block is now shown as a potential layer break. Other cells in the block take on the same SPLIP flag as the first.
* Changed: Check for updates defaults to 'Weekly' now. (Beta versions still do it every time it's started)
* Changed: 'Time' column header in layer break dialog boxes to say 'Start Time'.
* Changed: Some of the 'Program Update' code to hopefully reduce the chance of getting a cached response when checking for version updates.
* Changed: When looking for firmware updates, only the model is now passed to the www.rpc1.org search engine rather than make + model.
* Changed: On a fresh install, people with over 1GB RAM get a 40MB buffer, not 20MB.
* Changed: Process priority for Verify mode now defaults to 'Normal'.
* Changed: Some of the little hdd/cdrom pictures to their XP equivalents.
* Changed: New images for the column sort arrows shown in the Queue window (Applies to all OS's prior to XP - XP handles arrows by itself). The previous ones were not very clear.
* Changed: The icon on the DVDInfoPro buttons so it matches the new one used in the latest version of the program.
* Changed: Samsung 'change book type' screen always used to say the current setting was DVDROM. This was 'forced' because the drive doesn't appear to report the current value. ImgBurn now tells it like it is.
* Changed: BD-RE Full Erase code now also writes 0's to all the sectors on the disc. Unlike with DVD+RW erase, the drive doesn't do this automatically.
* Changed: The exe is now compressed using UPX 2.92 (beta). This new version appears to fix the Windows 98 crashing bug that plagued it previously and UPX doesn't suffer from the XP crashes that PECompact does.
* Changed: Update to using NSIS 2.23 for the installation program.
* Changed/Fixed: There wasn't anything 'logged' when a file wasn't readable when building an image in 'Build' mode.
* Changed/Fixed: Errors caught during the sync cache / disc finalisation stages were not taken into consideration when deciding if the burn succeeded/failed.
* Changed/Fixed: Loads of stuff for Blu-ray media / burning. (BIG Thanks to SVP for letting me borrow a drive!)
* Changed/Fixed: Some bits for HD DVD media / burning.
* Changed/Fixed: Now only single session/track data discs can be processed by Read & Verify modes.
* Changed/Fixed: Unless the user specifically overwrites an image in read/build mode, the MDS file will not overwrite an existing one with the same name - it'll rename / create a new one in the 'filename(x).ext' format.
* Fixed: IFO parsing code wasn't processing VMGM / VTSM cell info properly (well, ok, at all!) and so they'd show up as non seamless when they shouldn't have in the layer break selection boxes.
* Fixed: Build mode's layer break code was a little too good at skipping analysis of files it didn't think would work - as such, some perfectly valid potential layer break positions were missing from the dialog box.
* Fixed: Bad/failed copies in a multi-copy queued burn were not being taken into account when decided whether or not to delete an image based on the 'Delete the image when done' setting.
* Fixed: The Patin-Couffin I/O interface caused BSOD's on Windows 9x. This is probably due to changes in the driver as 9x used to use different code to NT. ImgBurn now uses the same code for all OS's. Tested with v36.
* Fixed: UDF Version was displayed using OS's regional setting for a decimal place rather than being fixed as a '.' (dot).
* Fixed: Drag + Drop of folders into the write queue could lead to duplicates if a .DVD and .ISO were present in the same folder and had the same name (well, first part anyway!).
* Fixed: Times were wrong in layer break dialog for PGC's using multiple angles.
* Fixed: Having 'Auto Calculate' enabled messed up builds initiated via CLI.
* Fixed: The 'Verify Against Image File' option in the settings (Write tab) had no effect on the 'Build' Mode virtual image and so a verify always compared the burnt disc to the original data.
* Fixed: Just adding VIDEO_TS type files to the source box in Build mode failed to build a DVD Video disc (after you answered 'yes' to say that's what you wanted to do). The operation was aborted instantly.
* Fixed: /LOG CLI command didn't work if the program was already auto saving the log somewhere due to normal option in the settings (Events tab).
* Fixed: Pasting text into ISO9660 volume label boxes allowed for characters that should have been restricted (it bypassed the normal checks).
* Fixed: 'Weekly' and 'Fortnightly' were round the wrong way in the 'check for program update' option drop down box.
* Fixed: Couldn't just specify a filename (no path) for the /SETTINGS CLI 'File Name' argument. It would save ok but wouldn't load.
* Fixed: LBA offset was wrong in one of the UDF descriptors if the file descriptors for a given directory spanned multiple sectors. (Some OS's didn't then show all the files)
* Fixed: Starting the build/write automatically via CLI could mean the autoinsert thread was run after it should have already been terminated. This could cause errors to pop up as the disc continued to burn (so not really damaging anything).
* Fixed: Memory leak if you used the 'Create DVD MDS File' tool.
* Fixed: Incorrect decoding of I/O errors when using the 'Write (12)' command.
* Fixed: A couple of glitches in the GUI on Vista.
* Fixed: A problem where the MD5 hash wasn't always calculated/displayed in the log after a burn/verify etc.
* Fixed: The open file dialog boxes now have the places bar down the left hand side on Windows Me.
* Fixed: 'Chapter' column in layer break dialog boxes was showing a number with a base of 0, instead of with a base of 1 - i.e. it was 1 too low!
* Fixed: Layer break positions in the list view were only sorted by LBA and those with the same LBA could appear in the wrong order - LU / PGC / Chapter / Cell wise.
* Fixed: Tools -> ISO -> 'Display IFO Layer break position' could start with part of an internal (to the program) string in the 'file' box.
* Fixed: Open/Save File dialog boxes were not resizable.
* Fixed: The AutoPlay (on insert blank cd/dvd) 'Burn Image / Build + Burn Image' entries were passing the drive letter with the '/SOURCE' CLI parameter rather than the '/DEST' one.
* Fixed: Some memory leaks when closing the program down on Vista (with UAC enabled) due to it not being able to write certain registry entries.
* Fixed: Lots of error catching code so Borland's internal exceptions are deleted properly and not 'leaked' when the program closes.
* Fixed: Some issues to do with the 'DVDRAM / BD-RE FastWrite' option.
* Fixed: Old CD-R/RW drives that don't report the current media properly would cause ImgBurn to prompt the user to select which type of media they wanted to erase - when CD-RW was the only one it could ever be.
* Fixed: Discovery mode's 'Sectors' box wouldn't accept a large enough number for use on large discs - i.e. HD DVD, Blu-ray.
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14. February 2007 @ 08:04 |
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Now that everyone that wanted a Gmail account already has one they open it to the public. :p
The ads are non-intrusive and help keep Gmail free (ok, they just make Google even more then the ~$9.8 billion it already has in cash).
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14. February 2007 @ 08:09 |
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Originally posted by ZIppyDSM:
I don't use it to control fans and disable all that I prefer its temp monitoring ,do you of anything thats better at just listing all the senors?
No, I do not and like I said as long as its not used to control the fans it should be ok but if it takes over the fan controls this could result in an expensive problem.
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Originally posted by ZIppyDSM:
I don't use it to control fans and disable all that I prefer its temp monitoring ,do you of anything thats better at just listing all the senors?
No, I do not and like I said as long as its not used to control the fans it should be ok but if it takes over the fan controls this could result in an expensive problem.
Speedfan is not perfect dosent find all the sensors on all older boards but all in all its a good sensor listing program.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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14. February 2007 @ 08:23 |
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I know quite a few people that are senile already and have not had the "snip"!
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14. February 2007 @ 08:26 |
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Originally posted by ZIppyDSM:
Speedfan is not perfect dosent find all the sensors on all older boards but all in all its a good sensor listing program.
I agree.
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I also had problems with Speedfan....
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ye teenagers now lost some of ye rights to privacy
Big Brother has arrived at a high school in New Jersey. Determined to stop their students consuming alcohol at weekends, staff at Pequannock Township High School in Morris county are to start using a controversial test that can detect if students have been drinking up to a week earlier.
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PREVENTING DISEASE
Miss Bea was in her 80's and much admired for her sweetness and kindness to all. The pastor came to call on her one afternoon early in the Spring and she welcomed him into her Victorian parlor. She invited him to have a seat while she prepared a little tea.
As he sat facing her old pump organ, the minister noticed a crystal glass bowl sitting on top of it filled with water. In the water floated, of all things, a condom. Imagine his shock and surprise. Imagine his curiosity; surely Miss Bea had flipped! But he certainly couldn't mention the strange sight in her parlor.
When she returned with tea and cookies they began to chat. The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl and its strange floater, but soon it got the best of him, and he could resist no longer.
"Miss Bea," he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about this." Pointing to the bowl.
"Oh, yes," she replied, "Isn't it wonderful? I was walking down town last fall and I found this little package. It said to put it on your organ and keep it wet, and it would prevent disease. And you know, I think it is working. I haven't had a cold all winter!"
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Originally posted by ireland:
ye teenagers now lost some of ye rights to privacy
Big Brother has arrived at a high school in New Jersey. Determined to stop their students consuming alcohol at weekends, staff at Pequannock Township High School in Morris county are to start using a controversial test that can detect if students have been drinking up to a week earlier.
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Good job I live no where near there then!! LOL!
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My bitch is these twats that think by writing a guide for the software they're trying to sell here it makes it ok. This site costs $$$$ to run and pricks that think they can use our forums as free advertising really piss me off.
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Originally posted by Nephilim:
My bitch is these twats that think by writing a guide for the software they're trying to sell here it makes it ok. This site costs $$$$ to run and pricks that think they can use our forums as free advertising really piss me off.
If the guide is comperhenise and the program not overly crippled shareware would there still be a problem?
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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My bitch is these twats that think by writing a guide for the software they're trying to sell here it makes it ok. This site costs $$$$ to run and pricks that think they can use our forums as free advertising really piss me off.
NEPH i was the one that picked up on those guys doing that on the dvdxcopy forum found his post here and told and gave a warning to creaky and ddp about the stuff he pulled..and creaky removed his post here at afterdawn..
i Deactivate him..
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link to where he posted that crap on the dvdxcopy forum
http://dvdxcopy.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/436915
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hey, ireland or whoever can answer this.
I F^&%ed up my directx yesterday. When I was installing directx 9.0c or something, it just froze. I restarted the computer and ran the installer again. It says it's already on my computer, but it's not. I can't run WOW (world of warcraft). what do i do. I hate directx and i hope it gets dead!
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GO TO SYSTEM INFO TO CHECK YE DIRECT X IN SYSTEM TOOLS
Using the DirectX Diagnostic Tool to diagnose problemsIf you are experiencing problems when running Microsoft DirectX applications, the DirectX Diagnostic Tool can help you find the source of the trouble. Here are some of the things you should be looking for:
Incorrect versions of DirectX components. In the Notes section of the DirectX Files page, look for warnings about beta and debug files. Beta files are early test versions and should not be installed with commercial programs. Debug versions, which are used in program development, should not be installed with the final product. Debug versions of the components can cause programs to run much more slowly than they would with the retail versions.
Lack of hardware acceleration. Some programs run very slowly or not at all unless Microsoft DirectDraw or Direct3D hardware acceleration is available. On the Display page, look under DirectX Features to see whether DirectDraw, Direct3D, or AGP Texture acceleration is marked "Not Available." If so, you might consider upgrading your hardware. Or if you are using a product in the Windows Server 2003 family, you may need to enable graphics acceleration. You can do this by opening Display in Control Panel, selecting the Settings tab, and then clicking Advanced. Select the Troubleshoot tab, and then move the Hardware Acceleration slider to Full.
Device not connected. If a joystick or other input device fails to respond, it may not be properly set up. Make sure the device is accounted for on the Input page of the DirectX Diagnostic Tool. If not, add the device through Control Panel.
Unsigned drivers. Microsoft has not tested unsigned drivers for full compatibility with the latest version of DirectX. It is recommended that you use drivers that are digitally signed by Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL).
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@antomic, that sucks buddy :( Hopefully you'll get the problem solved soon.
My non-bitch of the day:
Neph, even if you don't read this thread, I would like to publicly say thank you for closing the "Good news blue-ray is going to win the [format] war" thread it was really starting to bug me and I actually thought about asking for it to be closed so thank you for closing it.
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Neph, even if you don't read this thread, I would like to publicly say thank you for closing the "Good news blue-ray is going to win the [format] war" thread it was really starting to bug me and I actually thought about asking for it to be closed so thank you for closing it.
I totally agree. The same should happen to every "this vs that" thread too. They are pointless, just encourage flamewars and bad feelings.
{It's a little script that can make all the difference.. just add "*vs*" to the banned words list} Apart from possibly blocking mention of CVS I can't see it having any other effect other than stopping all these rubbish ps3 vs 360..and whatever vs some_other_sh**e threads we really have better things to do than read.
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If the guide is comperhenise and the program not overly crippled shareware would there still be a problem?
It depends on the gut feeling I get about it and the history of the poster. The one I nailed today wrote up a guide on "free download" (euphemism for "pay-for") software and it was his/her very first post to our site - it was pretty obvious and a no brainer for me. A dead giveaway is affiliate links in the guides ;)
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Neph, even if you don't read this thread, I would like to publicly say thank you for closing the "Good news blue-ray is going to win the [format] war" thread it was really starting to bug me and I actually thought about asking for it to be closed so thank you for closing it.
That thread was beyond ridiculous. It baffles me as to why these people (some are otherwise very intelligent) keep going back and forth when everyone knows everyone else has their mind made up which format they like which is why I ended the thread with this,
"This thread has become completely and totally asinine. Everyone already has their mind made up which format they'll be a slut for and this thread reminds me of a cage full of monkeys throwing poop at each other - everyone gets covered in crap with nothing useful being accomplished. Closed."
Great gif for the spammer ireland - subtle yet strong :P I like your style.
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The same should happen to every "this vs that" thread too. They are pointless, just encourage flamewars and bad feelings.
That, my fair lady, is why I keep a close eye on all that I see or just outright close them. Sometimes they can go a while and stay rather informative and lively before turning to crap, but that's only sometimes..................
Good night all :)
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Do we really need a daily shower or bath to stay healthy?
Asked by Sarah Murdoch and Karl Stefanovic Today, Nine TV Network, Sydney, Australia
One of the most widely held myths of modern society is that we humans need to shower or take a bath each day (or even more often than that) for good health.
In modern industrial society today we shower and otherwise bathe for mostly social and aesthetic reasons rather than for those of health. The general rule of thumb is: "If you can stand it socially, you can probably get by hygienically." But in saying this, it must be stressed that bathing is necessary as one can get skin diseases and worse from not bathing at all. But the "one per day" frequency of showers and baths is somewhat unnecessary.
Our great grandparents, our grandparents, and perhaps even our parents probably showered or bathed less often than we do now. It was not so many decades ago when entire families routinely bathed in a common bathtub once a week. Families were larger then, so if you were fifth or sixth in the tub - you can imagine.
Standards in the degree of tolerance of body smells emanating from ourselves and others were different then compared to those of today. The advent of indoor plumbing boosted rates of bathing. It also boosted standards of laundry cleanliness. The one (or more) bathroom(s) and the one washing machine per home made cleanliness convenient to average people for the first time in human history. Cultural expectations shifted, especially over the last century or so to demand a cleaner population - ourselves and others.
Yet still today, nations and cultures differ as to the expectations of bathing. Many factors impinge on this behavior: Amount of readily available water (desert countries often have water restrictions), availability of bathing facilities (much of the world does not have easy access to a private bathroom), occupation (physical labour versus office work), lifestyle (the more athletic, the more showers), season of the year (more bathing in hot summer weather than in cold winter weather), age (teenagers bathe most frequently, the elderly least frequently), religion, other cultural beliefs, etc.
Who are the cleanest people on Earth?
The title of "cleanest people on earth" may go to the Australians. However, research is difficult to come by on this point.
According to an October 2006 survey of 400 people conducted by EnergyAustralia (the supplier of electricity for much of Australia), every Australian takes at least one shower each day. Specifically, "62 per cent of people showered once a day, 29 per cent twice a day, and nine per cent showered three times a day".
These figures imply that no Australian goes more than a day without a shower. This is arguably the highest rate of national showering anywhere in the world and qualifies Australians as the cleanest people on Earth. The survey also found that women take slightly longer showers than men (but only less than a minute more) and teenagers take longer showers than people over age 40. Any arguments?
Stephen Juan, Ph.D. is an anthropologist at the University of Sydney. Email your Odd Body questions to s.juan@edfac.usyd.edu.au
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WHO HAS A LITTLE TAPEWORM RUNNING AROUND IN THERE BODY ?
How much damage does a tapeworm do to the human body?
Asked by George Gomez of Concord, California, USA
Tapeworms produce surprisingly few physical problems for the human body in infected individuals. But it is still to be avoided.
In The Odd Body 3 (2007), it is pointed out that the subject of tapeworms is an often-asked Odd Body Question even though tapeworm infestation is less of a problem in modern industrial societies as the quality of our food is higher. Thank the inventor of the refrigerator for much of this.
Tapeworms come into the body via contaminated food. Many organisms live on and in the human body. A tapeworm can easily survive and thrive indefinitely inside us. A tapeworm in a human can range in length from 1/250 of an inch (.0063 cm) to an incredible 50 feet (15.23 meters)!
Tapeworms have no digestive tract so they must eat food already digested by another animal. That is precisely what they do as a parasite inside our intestines. Tapeworms absorb nutrients directly across their skin (cuticle). They also reproduce inside us. There are many species of tapeworms, not all can infest humans.
Tapeworms are simple in design, but ruthless in action. They consist of two organs. The first organ (scolex) anchors the beastie to the wall of the intestine with suckers and hooks. The second organ (proglottid) is really a series of organs that grow out from the scolex with each having full reproductive capability. Proglottids form a chain of varying length. The last segment of the chain eventually breaks off and is passed out with feces.
Tapeworms resist being destroyed by the body's immune system or digestive juices. Tapeworms cause health problems around the world and can even kill since they rob us of nutrients, block our intestines, and take up space in organs that stop them from functioning normally. A tapeworm cyst can settle in the brain, eye, liver, and elsewhere.
Although little is known about the origins of tapeworms in humans, it is well known that some tapeworms live in both animals and humans. Some tapeworms have such a complex life that they are required to live first in an herbivore (such as a cow) and then in a carnivore (such as a human) where it only then can reproduce [Source: Arnold, J. (2001) Scientific sleuths track the origins of tapeworms in humans. ARS U.S. Department of Agriculture, 23 October, p. 1.]
Stephen Juan, Ph.D. is an anthropologist at the University of Sydney. Email your Odd Body questions to s.juan@edfac.usyd.edu.au
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