make the buttons dependent on them actually reading the message and having to answer a question that shows they read the text to get to the next screen. Then they have to click the correct button to get past the alert. Be sure and move the button around position wise so they don't just click the rightmost button everytime.

and according to your logic the XBOX and Playstation and Wii are all failures as well.

it is string manipulation at its most basic. unless you are doing math and programming is a end not the means, then math != programming for the most part.

How about using the Internet to look up "acronym" and learn how to spell. While you are at it, learn that every Abbreviation is not automatically an Acronym, Acronyms form pronounceable words, like LASER and RADAR. IMHO is not an acronym.

It could be much much worse, as in having to wear dress shirts and ties and shiny shoes and dress pants. I think you are getting off easy.

and as much as I had to say it PHP is about as efficient as any other language that has a C based runtime at String processing. There is probably NOTHING to be gained by adding the complexity and cost of a lower level language like C++. Now re-writing it in Erlang, that might get you something ;-)

I bet if you made a "donation" he might be more apt to clean up anything you want purged.

I picked up a Brother laser printer at Office Depot for $49US no rebates it came with a "starter" cart good for 1000 pages, the "standard" size toner cart is $26US and is good for 1,500 pages, the "pro" size is $50US and is good for 3000 pages. Cheapest I could get a replacement toner for my mother in laws really old Xerox was $90US. So it is much cheaper to get a newer printer, better resolution and faster for less than the price of a replacement toner cart.

you forget that something that creates pollution had to be used to create the solar panels or the wind turbines and all the wire that is used to transfer the energy to the compressor, which also used some pollution creating process to make it. There is no such thing as FREE energy!

They are cheaper and lighter and more portable and get handled a lot rougher than a $1000+ laptop. Nothing about this is news.

If people don't understand science then everything scientific becomes mystical. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8

you can do with the Accessiblity features of any major OS

Windows and OSX both have extensive "Accessiblity" features that you really need to research.

Create a 6 character base password like qaJdkW5 and use it as a base for everything. Then add a suffix for each particular use like quJdkW5G for Google quJdkW5sd for slashdot. You can then add digits to "version" them for applications that require changing passwords on a regular basis. Then all you have to do is remember the base and you can derive the rest.

they car is a tool, it isn't used to create anything. best advice is keep personal shit personal and vice a versa.