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I never said anything about development time, now did I? It's common sense to know that higher level languages have better development time. I mean...they're designed for...*GASP* development! You've inadvertantly proven my point about assembly. Due to such a high chance of making a mistake, programmers had to do their damndest *not* to make a mistake with assembly. Overall, programmers in the days of assembly were better programmers. Not just for the mistakes reason, either. Erm...I think I mentioned ASM isn't portable. If I didn't I will now: ASM depends fully on CPU architecture. It's not portable. In my post I was mentioning superiority over other languages in sheer programming. Not development time, portability, etc. I believe you may have misunderstood the intent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_hovind He wins by default. I've seen numerous videos made by him (every single one made my brain go on tangets). Those people you linked to are stupid, yes, but this guy takes the cake. http://www.drdino.com/downloads.php Aka: Dr. Dino. This guy not only spent and gained millions of dollars brainwashing people with lies, but he's now arrested by the IRS and could be thrown in jail for over 100 years.

I'v figured about 5 of them out so far. Not enough to give me a headache, but it's a fairly interesting puzzle. And yes they're quite easy. I only had difficulty figuring out the overall layout of the puzzle at first, but after the first level the rest were fairly easy.

I beg to differ. Norton has been listed by many as the worst antivirus ever seen. I've used numerous versions of norton in the days prior to firefox. Not only does norton hog massive amounts of CPU, RAM, HD space, etc, but it also collapse under it's own bloat. Here's a link on it: http://my.opera.com/eztigma/blog/show.dml/155547 EDIT: and one more, read the user comments: http://www.castlecops.com/r235-Norton_AntiVirus.html Really, I know of nobody that uses norton after they've tried Avast. There is also AVG, but it's been falling behind for some time (sadly). You can google for other information about norton. While it may not "seem" so bad, it's like those that say IE isn't that bad. They've yet to experience something better to make them realize how bad it is. By the way: Spybot S&D is sort of slow with updating. Personally I haven't seen anything S&D detects that ad-aware does not. Plus, ad-aware has a better (and less buggy) search method. I've had a few bug-issues with spybot personally. Not sure if they've been resolved, though. You'd be surprised. Do you just reinstall windows? Or do you format? If you got a serious virus, reinstalling windows wouldn't do jack. There is more to computer security than a simple re-install. If it was that easy, why would there be anti-virus programs? Anti-virus programs protect you from the worst viruses that may try to pelt your computer.

First: Remove Norton antivirus (or could it be called a virus?). Second: Install something less crappy. You can buy Nod32, or get a fairly good free antivirus called Avast Antivirus Home Edition. I use the free antivirus personally, and I've never used Nod32, but I've heard it's superior to most antivirus programs. So who knows. Third: Download Ad-aware SE. You may have a spyware problem Fourth: Use Firefox. Althoug recently it's been lagging far behind in popup blocking, it should block most non-updated websites from giving you pop-ups. As well as better security and a wide-range of stuff.

I read anywhere from 3-4 to one at a time. Really, it depends on what I feel like reading. I normally just read a book straight through, and on days where I don't bury myself in the book it's normally at least 20-30 pages per day. So I'm the "One book at a time, start to finish, reading multiple chapters/large sections at a time" personality.

Well, after finding this forum again in my insanely-long list of dusty bookmarks it's about damn time I made at least one post. However I dislike reviving dead topics...yet this was the only one on assembly I could find. I'm personally learning Assemblers language (also known as Assembly) as a first language. Specifically x86-32 or AMD-32. Other types of programming languages (and tutorials) tend to utterly and incomprehensibly fail at telling you, or explaining to you, what goes on behind the scenes. I normally see tutorials go to the effect of "Here are 15 commands, I wont tell you what they do behind the scenes, but here they are anyway". It's one of those weird fallacies where in programming they say "start out with something easy to know the basics". Erm, no. You start out by reading as much as you can so you get the basics hammerd into your skull, then learn assembly, then a high-level language. That way you know how it works, what it's doing, etc. It actually makes the end result a lot easier than doing it in reverse. I also believe it makes for better programmers. Sufficed to say, when you know what's going on behind the scenes, you know how to program better. There is a main reason programmers managed to develop software so well in the days of assembly...they were better programmers. Now days you have high level languages such as C++ that serves as nothing more than a bloatware-infested programming language. There is, in fact, a saying about C/C++ that has been circulating. "Real programmers use C. People that like to call themselves real programmers use C++" As an example of bloatware, lets compare C to assembly. In C, "hello world" is about 15kb. In assembly? That same message is 2kb. Now imagine what 1MB of assembly programming would be (granted, depends on what you're doing) in C or C++ (which is even more bloated than C). However, lets look at a very-main advantage of C. C is a Medium Level language, as it allows for code optimization and the person can actually APPLY their knowledge of assembly to it. Whereas in high-level languages, you cannot use assembly or much to the effect of code optimization. At least so I've read/been told. And as for difficulty, assemblers language is fairly easy to learn if you actually somehow manage to find a tutorial and assembler (by some miracle) that doesn't seriously need rewriting.