I don't understand the question. This is not helped by the fact that you don't provide:

a) the URL of your site
b) what kind of hosting you have
c) this doesn't belong in the general forum - it should be posted in the programming forum

Typically, all you need to do is to provide some sort of index file (whether that be index.html, index.htm,, index.php, etc) and that's it. But none of us know what sort of hosting you have, so it's difficult to say anything else about it until we do. Again, put this in the programming forum.

At 11/7/09 04:45 PM, Timmy wrote: What is a bossier anyway?

Someone who is more bossy than normal / another bossy person.

And whenever I travel outside of my area, people have difficulty understanding me.

I understood every word you said when I met you and I'm not even from the same country. I just chose to ignore most of what you said. I gest.....

The only times I've ever gotten annoyed at pronunciation and language in general is when someone's told me I'm pronouncing something wrong, or one of my friends family is supposedly pronouncing or saying something wrong. I have two examples:

1. I was in America with family when I was younger and we went to a store to find my Mother a new dress. She picked one out and asked the store attendant if she could try the "dress with the dots" on. The woman looked at her quizically and said, "The what?" This conversation continued for a couple of times, before the woman attendant clicked and said, "Oh, the polka dot dress? You should learn to speak English." a) My mum IS English and b) she was at the time an English teacher (she's since retired.)

2. Similarly, I was on XBL one night and some kid told me I should speak English. Again, I AM English. I don't really speak with any regional dialect, either.

I have no problem whatsoever with different pronunciations of the same words - language and dialects evolve and it would be a very boring world if everyone spoke the same language and with the same accent etc. I don't agree with people who try and shove their own idea of what pronunciation should be applied to each word we speak, though.

I've explained this countless times in the past, but here goes again.

Back when the grounds gold system was new, the site worked differently to how it does now. There were either 9 or 11 (I always get mixed up) sections that you could visit each day:

1. The front page.
2. The flash portal (non-automated).
3. Club a seal.
4. Assassin.
5. Cat dynamics.
6. Beep me Jesus.

etc

After every section you'd visited you could deposit your experience points - like you could just go to one section and deposit one experience point, but that would be you done for the day. You could visit all of the sections and THEN deposit your points.

There also used to be a referral system that allowed you to have an additional five points for each person you referred.

Now, though, you just get 10 points a day if you deposit after voting on five flashes. You get bonus points for certain things when you first sign up, but that's about it.

At 11/6/09 07:26 PM, BabiesAteMyDingo wrote: You might like to try the suggestions thread. But this has been commented on so many times before. You just have to live with it I'm afraid.

I can't find link at the moment I'll post it as soon as I have.

Please don't. If the suggestion, as you've rightly said, has been posted before, then there's no point in cluttering the thread further with repeated suggestions.

I bought a new laptop in August. It came with vista, but as with most computers after January I think, you get the option for a free upgrade to windows 7. I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive.

The new laptop I have is the exact same model that they demonstrated at a MS unveiling of windows 7. I'm not sure whether they had the solid state drive in that machine that I've put into mine, but the demo model did a full boot from cold in 11 seconds. So I'm expecting magic.

The only real way to validate an e-mail address is to attempt to send a message to it and have the recipient act upon that message. We try and make sure that users are entering a valid address, but e-mail validation (and web) expressions are going to get far more complicated shortly, due to ICANN's approval of non-latin web addresses (see here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/83 33194.stm).

Of course, that's going to pose problems for sites that use databases that only support latin characters, but that's another problem entirely.

At 11/3/09 05:53 PM, LynchedJohNNY wrote: It's even worse that they fully knew they were on camera and would be punished.

Well, that's the point - they probably didn't know that they were on camera, since the footage was taken from closed circuit sets attached up high on different buildings.

At 11/3/09 05:05 PM, LynchedJohNNY wrote: As a American I know nothing of why some drunks would attack Mr. Patel, so can anyone enlighten me?

It's ok, I don't think the majority of people in the UK would know of him or know why these guys attacked him, either, given that he's a regional reporter and there are quite a lot of regional news shows that are shown in the area that they're covering stories in.

I'm just speculating here, but a lot of these regional reports are pre-recorded on the street and just require maybe two or three people - the reporter, video and audio guys. I would imagine that the people in this footage kept pestering him when he was filming a story and that gave them an "incentive" to continue whatever they were doing. Unfortunately, some people just see any sort of reaction as being a ticket to kick the crap out of someone.

I know that a lot of people abroad frown upon CCTV circuits running throughout cities in the UK, but it's pretty difficult to argue against this making an easy case for the jury, as it's all on film - and negates the reason to have the case drawn out and the people causing the problems risking getting away without prosecution.

At 11/3/09 12:26 PM, ryanson209 wrote:

At 11/3/09 12:22 PM, Fim wrote: everything he said.

He was holding the camera. Duh!

I mean, who else would film it and slap it on Youtube?

That footage was taken from a CCTV camera. The police use them to monitor the streets, and you can tell from the footage that it's mounted at a high position and has "Cam 43", followed by time/date at the bottom left. That's why the police van turned up so quickly, since it's clear that neither the reporter or his cameraman made an emergency call, they were following it all on camera.

At 11/1/09 06:37 AM, SteveGuzzi wrote: I wonder if they feel the same way about fast-forwarding past commercials on their DVR / TiVo.

I think that's an invalid comparison. When you Tivo something, you're recording and then watching back later. The ads still go out in the shows that people are watching live. Ad blocking on websites is different - you're blocking them as they're shown live.

With respect to the ad sharing stuff - cpmstar (the handler) gets 25% of the ad profit, newgrounds gets 25% (because it costs money to maintain the servers that the ads are run from) and the artists get 50% (the lion's share.)

Store purchases really don't cover even 1% of the costs of the running of the site, so any attempts to justify that being a viable source of main income at the moment are invalid. If more people were buying things, sure, the balance might change, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. Just look at all the t-shirt based sites that are going out of business at the moment.

Those who have said that ads are an outdated business model, particularly when comparing against ads in print... again, invalid comparison. You buy a newspaper/magazine etc, so you've paid up in front, the ads there are just ancillary methods of bringing in income.

Ads are the only way of keeping large websites free to use, the store will bring in a few extra bucks, but nowhere near enough to sustain a site that does as much traffic as this. Adding subscription fees with added bonuses for subscribers would probably infuriate those users who aren't prepared to pay a subscription, so there'd be more bitching and moaning about that.

I don't necessarily think that ad blocking is "stealing", but I do think it's like biting the hand that's feeding you.

Happy Birthday! I'm no artist.

At 10/26/09 12:19 PM, redzone wrote: Plus a computer costs over $1000 for a new one.

I'm missing the part where you have to buy a new computer to obtain a different operating system.

At 10/23/09 02:41 PM, Mechabloby wrote:

At 10/22/09 06:39 PM, liljim wrote: I thought he made some valid points NOW AND THEN, but he still proved to be a total and utter cunt overall.

The only bit that sounded slightly worthy was the truce between Islam and Christianity in England - they don't beat up women and we allow them to stay. I was put off straight afterwards due to the fact of being reminded about how deceptive Nick Griffin can be by that woman that represented the Conservatives.

completely forgot her name

Sayeeda Warsi

And haha, yeah, that's the kind of thing I was thinking about.

I was laughing at whenever Nick Griffin was proven to be a big, elephantitus dick - mainly by the woman he was sitting next to, as well.

and christ knows I've forgotten her name, too

Bonnie Greer

It's pretty funny that he's also filed a complaint against the BBC for being biased in all of this. The truth of the matter is that he's probably not been in front of a forum of people who don't all agree with him, so when he got nailed on pretty much everything he said, it must have come as a bit of a shock to him.

At 10/23/09 01:03 PM, HeartbreakHoldout wrote: Stuff.

Nicely put... That actually reminded me that I haven't filled out the register of electors form, which I've just done.

For those outside the UK, here are a couple of clips from the show last night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iKfrY9l2 kY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVB43xfB RY&feature=related

I have a feeling that the BBC might petition to get them removed from Youtube at some point, so watch 'em while you can.

All of your expressions will fail, since they don't assert start and end points, just that they should contain those characters in succession. For example, your username test.....

#milkymilky####'#####

Would meet the criteria sufficiently.

At 10/22/09 07:00 PM, jonthomson wrote: Also, politics forum ldo, you should know better James :-)

The primary discussion I intended to spark on this thread was to do with the show, not the politics that Griffin represents, which could be summed up in a few words.

At 10/22/09 06:52 PM, wwwyzzerdd wrote: From as much as I've heard about this party, I still really don't see why the BBC would actually offer him a soapbox to stand on. I understand the whole impartiality thing, but can you honestly say that the entire ideology of the BNP is mainstream enough to warrant attention?

That's the dilemna. The trouble is that the party has two parliamentary seats on the European Union - 1 million people or thereabouts voted them into those seats.

Every other "recognised" party is invited to sit in on these debates, so like I said at the beginning, the BBC is in a no-win situation.

Judging by what went on tonight though, I don't think the BNP will get too many people rallying to their cause.

At 10/22/09 06:46 PM, citricsquid wrote: What gets to me is that they ignored all his valid points totally, which I guess is understandable but this is supposed to be bias lacking but oh no, they ignore them totally and then Jack Straw only waffles about irrelevant shit and nobody boos, they just ignore it as if he's a fucking saint.

The bbc is supposed to be impartial, they can't account for the audience, though. If the majority of the audience is against him from the start, then the bbc can't do much about that.

Furthermore, they hosted the show in London, which is probably one of if not THE most multi-cultural cities in the world, so anyone preaching racism of any sort is typically going to be lynched there.

I'm guessing they had to host it in London due to security reasons (getting enough staff around to keep people from beating the man to a pulp.)

Is that Rump Steak I smell?

No, it's Nick Griffin's ass being served up on a big silver platter.

I thought he made some valid points NOW AND THEN, but he still proved to be a total and utter cunt overall.

Yes, it takes time both ways. I paid some money across from my paypal account to my bank account last Thursday. It cleared into my bank yesterday, despite having being "completed" a few days earlier from my paypal account. Just have patience.

At 10/22/09 02:16 PM, Ass-Crumb wrote: Unless I'm greatly overestimating the British population here.

Well you are and you aren't. There's a bunch of people running around in protest about this, but the main problem is with the media and the coverage they give to this kind of thing. I mean, there were a million protesters over the war in Iraq marching up and down London and they received less news coverage than the couple of hundred people who turned up at the television centre over this matter.

If you must, I think you probably need to do something like this:

window.opener.document.form.doOtherStuff();

At 10/22/09 01:49 PM, Calintz wrote: Not British... How come Newgrounds can't seem to hire any Canadian Staff?

PsychoGoldfish is Canadian (and now an American Citizen.)

At 10/22/09 01:50 PM, JustsTrollingAlong wrote: that's aimed at all british people who accept the current system of government in britain

Not all of us accept it, but it's a democratic country. I can't do much about who other people vote for, that's their choice. The Nanny State irritates me greatly.

At 10/22/09 01:50 PM, citricsquid wrote: Someone told me that their biggest problem with the bnp was not that they have ridiculously racist views, but that their views cost the tax payers because being a political party costs us. Any idea if this is true?

They have two elected parties in the European Union. All political parties that have been elected, I THINK (but I'm not sure, since I'm not big into politics) receive public funding, including EU candidates:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6 065322.stm

At 10/22/09 01:50 PM, Gagsy wrote: What time is it on?

10:35pm BST

At 10/22/09 01:51 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: Stuff.

The trouble with all of this for the bbc is that it's supposed to remain completely impartial and not get involved in siding with one political party or another. It's a publicly funded service, rather than say, Fox. They're two different ballparks.

So yeah, the bbc is in a no-win situation here really - if they let the guy on the show, there are those who will protest about it, and if they don't, there'll be another group (though I would imagine it'd be a much smaller group) who protest about it.

At 10/22/09 01:46 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: Whether anyone agrees with Nick Griffin or not, people should still support his right to free speech.

I completely agree. I'm just looking forward to the circus.

At 10/22/09 01:46 PM, Timmy wrote: Perhaps I'll run to the loo during the commercial breaks.

The bbc doesn't run commercial breaks during shows, fool.

Anyone in the UK watching this tonight?

Brief background for those who're not familiar with the programme: it's a political show that has a set of panelists, some of whom are politicians, some of whom are celebrities or newspaper columnists etc. There's an audience and they pose topical questions to the panelists.

This evening's panelists include Nick Griffin, head of the BNP, which is a right wing facist and racist party. People are up in arms over his appearance, to the point where some activists have broken into the broadcasting headquarters in protest:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8 321157.stm

People are upset over his appearance for his political beliefs, but more so over the fact that he's being allowed to appear on this show. I say let him go on there and show himself for the twat he is.

Personally, I'm quite looking forward to the show... If you're in the UK and use digital television services, you can press the red button and see a list of comments that stream in throughout it. They almost always make me laugh.

At 10/22/09 01:07 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 10/22/09 11:45 AM, liljim wrote: Unicode support in PHP5 (software we use for writing the dynamic stuff on the site) isn't so good. This will be changed in future. Please see:

heh, I'd always assumed it was intentional, quite a few websites accept unicode characters and quite a few unicode charcters can be used for tom foolery, I always thought it was intentional that Newgrounds didn't allow them :D

These other sites probably aren't XHTML compliant and besides that, this is an English speaking website, so providing support for characters that other languages use are really on the lowest rung of the ladder of priorities. PHP6 will provide better support for that stuff, but I wouldn't expect to see those characters popping up as they should any time soon.

That's not what I read. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/nort h_east/8287297.stm

For those who're wondering who this guy is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/extra/video/
p004bwks

(the one with the glasses.)

Unicode support in PHP5 (software we use for writing the dynamic stuff on the site) isn't so good. This will be changed in future. Please see:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-wor ld/php-6-boost-internationalization-unic ode-993

Just putting the original image here in the even that the link goes dead.