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vector graphics + 15 - 25 hours of patience =

before http://www.deviantart.com/view/11768525/

after http://www.deviantart.com/view/13601477/

that is probably the best i have seen. The person that created that used Inkscape.

http://inkscape.org/ download and tinker, it is an open source project, good luck to y'all definitely there will be frustration but if you are successful, you've got something to boast about lol

as long as your laptop has a pc card slot, you should be able to get a pc card to connect

xie xie, ROTFLOL ANODA

Everything in this regard was deduced by people which eventually became a popular ideology. People interprete things differently which is the case for rapture.

from dictionary.com

2 entries found for rapture.
rap·ture Audio pronunciation of "rapture" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rpchr)
n.

1. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
2. An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural.
3. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven.

(the 3rd definition could possibly refer to death as many people do believe that once you die you go to heaven)

tr.v. rap·tured, rap·tur·ing, rap·tures

To enrapture.


[Obsolete French, abduction, carrying off, from rapt, carried away, from Old French rat, from Latin raptus. See rapt.]

rapture

n 1: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, transport, exaltation, raptus] 2: a state of elated bliss [syn: ecstasy]

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University


its not explicitly stated we are just making the assumptions.
FYI - human beings wrote the bible. people interprete things different, also note that it was not originally written in english, some items could be lost in translation no one knows, there are different versions of the bible. human beings do make mistake.

Coming to think about this, In Genesis in regards to the creation of the earth, the person that wrote Genesis was he/she there, was he/she told about the event, how did the person find out.

people were living before jesus was born, what did they believe in, how was their lives?

what are your views in regards to pre-historic times, dinosaur era, carbon dating dating back to millions of years?

No one can definitely answer all these questions, we presume things are what they are because we have being told so.

So what do you think about other religions because each has their own historical believes and the existence of a or multiple supreme beings.

All the opinion we hold about subject matters such as these are from people telling us and trying to convince us it is what it is and could not possibly be anything else. There could be other probable answers but no one knows.

There is ideally no way to tell how to clarify issues like this. why is it only one time in our present day history a female was able to conceive while still being a virgin (virgin mary). That means there was something else to it that we dont know if its by the holy spirit or how ever it was, why are we afraid of cloning humans and we accept the cloning of animals.


IN MY OPINION, SOMETHINGS SHOULD NOT BE ANSWERED BECAUSE THE MORE WE FIND MORE INFORMATION/QUESTION, THE MORE WE QUESTION THE ESSENCE OF OUR EXISTENCE

well that is the only logical thing i could think of cos i dont see there cant be any other reference to cloning. except if he is thinking of clone the entire system like hardware and stuff thats not possible. LOL

If you are talking in terms of making a carbon copy of a laptop onto another laptop with the system and applications, that is possible. just get a software to make an image of the drive, Norton Ghost works well.

that is a fake picture it has being modified to include the message below, RAND corporation was into the space, health, computing business and a whole other stuff.

its a fake, if you are familiar with fark.com i have seen that picture there once.

lol reduce the size of those lips and nose lol

good job kambo that was a good logical reasoning. Well, if everyone assumed same beliefs, lifestyle, and performed similar activities, then the world we live in will pretty much be monotonous. Little/no or extreme advancements will be made since we shall all be on relatively similar wavelengths. No airplanes, ships, internet, computers, IPOD (lol) etc or teleportation, time travel, invincibility, extreme nanotech applications.

For those who see the possibility of attaining a state of invincibility we do acknowledge the fact that science and technology is rapidly changing, things thought of as improbably are now feasible. Not everyone in this world will be as objective to the idea of people turning objects/themselves invincinble. In my opinion, people assume in their respective religions that certain things in life should not be interfered with. The existence of a supreme being according to your individual beliefs has given us the knowledge and intellect to make things possible. we humans are the ones that decided/assumed certain things need not be done. Why do people accept the cloning of animals and do not accept the cloning of humans, animals are also living beings, is it just that they do not behave as human do and we all deem it as acceptable? if so then cultures/traditions do differ from place to play, we dont all act the same and live the same.

In regards to teleportation and time travel. Teleportation for inanimate object could be possible but for animate in my present opinion its never going to happen but as new development come into existence, I may change my opinion (Bayes Theory, by Thomas Bayes - we do hold expectation about what could happen, probably happen or may not happen, however, on getting/observing new information to effectively attain the best outcome, our expectation,opinions etc need to be revised). Time travel dont even know what to say about that.

At this moment for those believe it is impossible for us to make objects invincible, hopefully as years go by they may begin to assume differently

Hikaru Utada - Hikari

lol i attended federal govt college ogbomoso for about 4 years

anyone can provide hundreds of tutorial links, help sites, video tutorial, and opensource application for people who want to learn how to development of improve their skills for FREE.

so why u want to charge people for something you might have probably downloaded and cracked or bought of the street or gotten from someone else. which is unethical.

possibly you might be referring to the Video Professor series lol. oh my gush

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ipowerweb = $2.95

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So where did you get your fact from that godaddy is the number 1 domain registration company in the world as long has you have cute girl in cute outfit on tv bouncing up and down looking sexy people registering shouldnt be a problem> if you have used their services and in your opinion still consider them the best in the world, well good for you else yikes. If you can provide reliable sources, I am not going to change my opinion about godaddy but will only give them thumbs up. there are numerous measures of performance one can use.

GODADDY STILL AND WILL CONTINUE TO SUCK
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you register then you will find out oh u need something and you have to pay to use it.

Well hope you guys are reading carefully because I clearly stated that if you can self teach and be good and you can prove yourself fantastic, congratulation you are definitely going to be a valued contributor to the growth of the IT industry. Realistically there are some and there will always be those who claim they are web devs but cannot perform and I have provided some possibled ideas that might makes things a little bit better. also in your opinion, is it feasible to regulated the IT industry in nigeria>

It is virtually impossible to say learning in a formal environment eg school in an IT field is not beneficial to anyone being that its theoretical. Well, I am sorry to say that the kpali you are referring to as useless is absolutely useful and I made no mention to someone having a kpali to succede. Education doesnt necessarily mean having the kpali. You can take training/coaching classes, prep classes etc but as long as you have the basic foundation of the IT industry that is definitely a step forward. If you are confident that you can learn/understand/implement solo then you need not have any problems. On the other hand, someone can have the formal education and still not be able to perform in a business environment. Logically such an individual ought to be able to recognise his/her abilities. thats why many people go to unis, fail classes and switch majors.

FYI, you cannot compare the society in which the top IT performers in the world operate to the nigerian society. the highest IT performers in the world, where are they from, where did they grow up, where did they reside and where are they now? Even in the 1980s and early 90s, these guys had the resources to operate, how many nigerian families comparable to the time period have pcs in their house, reliable internet access? The ability to improve ones skill is also determined by the availability of resources.

For instance, some of my friends who are always telling me they want to be web devs in naija, am like do u have a pc (because you need to have access when you need it instead of leaving the house and going someplace), and their response no that they will be going to a cybercafe or someplace that they can use a pc. My response will always be well if u have a buddy there or the money to spend fine give it a shot all the best if u have any problems send me a mail. I do encourage each and everyone who is looking into getting specifically into web dev to try it out hopefully they like it and they can last long.

kazey if you read my post carefully, i acknowledged those who do not have formal education and are succeding. I did not mention anything about kpali or no kpali, having a formal education is contextual. If you have a part time teacher, thats a formal education, going to school thats formal, lesson teacher thats formal, technical school thats also formal. so I don't understand where you are going with your kpali issue. This is not about pride because I am working with IT newbies that are performing very well in their fields. Its about recognizing the fact that there are some bad apples and what possibly could be done.

in regards to seun comment, I am not not equating web devs to scammers. Scammers have their own playing field which if i had the means, i would be glad to clean up. Some of the websites I have seen that i have being able to detect/trace as being fraudulent i did file report/complaints here is the link http://www.ic3.gov/. I did look up some of the sites after months of reporting some where pulled down others were still up and running. if anyone else is interested further instruction is available here http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/how-to-report-scams.html. Definitely not every case will be followed up due to the magnitude of cases/complaints filed. Am sure they do what they are capable of doing to make things better.

in respect to afam's questions, everyone/businesses would absolutely like to have the best IT guys to work on projects at the cheapest price. Some nigerian businesses website I have seen are absoultely fantastic the user-interface are extremely good. However, majority are whack. Am not such if such businesses require individuals to have portfolios before they can start work because that will definitely tell. And if the businesses saw the portfolios and they agreed, well shame on them. If businesses do summon the courage to invest in IT guys specifically web developers then that will weed out crooks. Cos most web devs get jobs by referrals.

Things would be better if business require web devs to

1. have at least 5 original provable works in their portfolios. (to include at least 1 database driven)
2. provide at least 3 references (not teacher nor professor but businesses they have worked with)
3. take an aptitude test in regards to concepts, technologies, and implementation
*4. though not likely many will opt for this option, have a web developer certification program similar to this. http://www.ciwcertified.com/certifications/webdev.asp?comm=CND&llm=2

If this could be possible as the minimum requirements businesses should accept then competition would increase for the best of the best.Nothing is easy to regulate, with willingness and effort progress will be made.

It is absolutely appalling that now everyone i trying/claiming to be a web developer. A couple of years ago, Oracle was the almighty IT area in Nigeria, now its web dev, so what next. It is very important to inform people about the availability of profitable opportunity in the IT industry. As for me, I initially felt that programming was my calling. I am an excellent programmer, written several small application/modules, now I realised probably just in my opinion that programming is somewhat boring to me and repetitive. So now am into Business Intelligence (Business Objects) this I definitely find satisfying. I have acquired a formal education in general IT and Business Intelligence. It is cool to have a wide range of knowledge in the IT field so as to leverage ones potential. Well, for those who have a formal education in IT good job, for those who are self taught and are excelling good job, and for those who are self taught but screwing everything up stop making the good ones look bad. Definitely we can all be IT pros, web devs in our own rights. However, the knowledge to apply standards/protocols is what differentiates a professional, a wannabe and a newbie. In my opinion it will be great to have some sort of regulations and standards in the IT industry in nigeria.

A couple of days ago, I was looking at the different sites for each state in nigeria, some of them had a .gov extension which is appropriate others had .com. Same goes for universities some had .com, other .ng. or some crazy thing. Its sad that in sectors like this in Nigeria, people cannot come together to reach an agreement on how things should function and the appropriate methods to use. I have seen/met several nigerians who claim to be web devs, but whenever I see their works, men I feel like crying, its sickening and ugly. I do not claim to be the best web developer I would not normally build websites for people but people do consult with me on how to achieve a certain task, my work is mostly dealing with desktops/data warehouses.

This pattern can be changed but the difficulty in getting everyone together on a similar page is daunting. I wish there is a way to ban the bad apples in the Nigerian IT industry messing up opportunity for others who are the true professionals of their fields. My opinion about Nigerian scammers and spammers is extreme, there ought to be extended incarceration time for offensives committed in my opinion.

This is my observation and would like people to express their views as well about non-professional IT men/women.

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read your book

Greatest goal ever

any seconds

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/130499/longest_free_kick_scored/

the most beautiful people in the world are arabian chicks in terms of the ratio to the population, awesome people arab chicks are drop dead gorgeous

you can watch it online for free www.sopcast.org. download the software and cctv 5 or the other first sports channel though the only thing is that the language is chinese which is no biggie else if u have a decent connetion, streaming is fast and video quality good for online streaming

in any instance of requesting opinions/asking questions that may seem questionable in terms of collective acceptance, why would people always refer to the issue being discussed/asked in terms of A FRIEND OF MINE or using a third person?

well the picture sux, there ought to be a law banning purple, black, silver and other funny colored lipstick.

Google is about to release its minimalist web based spreadsheet application. Fulfills basic needs of spreadsheet functionalty.

Finally microsoft's got someone to look out for, looking forward to Google OS, and application

http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html

www.isc.ro

you download a software and play with people online

well the demonstration in the video is aimed at using computing technology to project object in thin air, the cars, helicopter flying, buildings on the table, you cannot physically touch them (meaning your fingers will pass through the images/nonsolid) they are a images projected into thin air. the breaking part i feel its just an addition used in the presentation there is really nothing to the breaking.

what i am trying to get at is that today we have the power, knowledge to do things that were tot to be absolutely impossible to achieve. the augmented reality demonstration is target at several projects such as city development. instead of building cities and hoping for the best. using this technology demonstrated in the video, you can easily create the city for example in you living room, with people, cars, trucks, offices, skyscrapers to have a feel or where things should be then if u dont like it, just carry a building or item and place it where you deem fit. its all about the possibility of having the flexibility to make/create things the way we would like it to be.

if you can project images such as those in the video in thin air, then invisibility is absolutely possible

If u look for FaceGen Modeller 3.1 it is very straight forward, once u have a picture of your face you can easily create a modelled picture of you. i think it has a 30 day demo use and all the features are active

you have the ability to tweak facial expression, colors, makeup, each facial component, nose, eyes, lips, color of lipstick as well.

lol we've got anoda one.

if u don't know what u are saying just keep quiet. java is an OOP language. Apparently u are still a beginner of web development.

FYI majority of websites you visit daily use PHP in some way or the other. Go back and read

There are so many ways to go about making an object look invisible to the naked eye. Take for instanace, the sun emits different wavelengths, the human eye can only see a range of wavelengths called optical spectrum. Pretty much if u can apply the other wavelengths not visible to human eye and make an overcast or enable the object or person to emit the other wavelength or by some other means apply the non visible wavelength to an object, i believe it is possible.

as far as going to far, well personally i do feel its going to far but there is ideally nothing someone or a government can do to stop this form of research. governments will be extremely glad to have such technology to give them an upperhand in warfare and technological development

Using the human cloning research for example, some countries have regulations in place to limit the use/application of embryonic stem cell. Well good news or bad news, other forms of stem cell research are being carried out and there are other countries that do not have such regulations. All a scientist has to do is relocate and continue his/her work

all we have to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the ride