Well, I found them very funny actually. :laugh:

Yes, I've seen that. Substracting 1 from this "100000" returns 65534.

Does someone has Office XP / 2007? I was told this version has a huge bug: inserting "=850 * 77.1" retuns 100000. Can anyone confirm this?

Hello everyone. We're having a serious problem with Toshiba and we wanted to ask you all if you know someone at the company who can provide support. On January we've bought a Toshiba notebook and after a few months it stopped working. Toshiba has accepted this to be their responsibility, but after almost 4 MONTHS THEY STILL HAVEN'T REPAIRED IT and don't know when they are going to!! You can see the details below. We've called Toshiba almost 20 times and all they say they don't have the replacement part and to keep waiting. If someone can provide support, please let me know. Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------- Notebook: Toshiba SATELLITE A135-S4467 Toshiba case number: 1-638604777 / 1-685307327 Serial number: 17112830K Model: PSAD0U-03M00P Bought date: January 31, 2007 Waiting for repair since: May 2, 2007.

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Most SPs have been improvements over whatever was there previously. XP SP1 was better than XP, and XP SP2 is better than XP SP1.

Oh, I get the idea, I love iteration!!! :laugh: for (i = 2; ; ++i) System.Console.WriteLine ("XP SP" + i + " is better than XP SP" + (i - 1)); Anyway, that's de idea of a Service Pack, isn't it! :confused:

I'm glad. Adobe has been unable to produce a simple stable PDF reader, and as far as I know they didn't really open the standard to allow other full-readers to me written. All version of Acrobat Reader I've tested had bugs. Even the current Acrobat Reader 7.0.8 has a critial resource leak which causes Windows to crash. I reported it about a week ago but hasn't been fixed yet, but I had to reboot my PC several times: Here's how you can check it: 1 - Save all opened documents. 2 - Open Task manager. Show column GDI Objects. 3 - Open a PDF File in Acrobat Reader. Select File->Print. 4 - Move the page cursor from one page to another several times. 5 - In the task manager you can see how GDI Objects are allocated and never released. 6 - After a while, Windows is left out of resources and system crashes.

I'm not sure. It requires XP!!!! Damn, I'm using Windows 2000!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I finally managed to start downloading it. Here's what I've done: 1 - Send login information. You'll receive a message saying that page can't be found. 2 - Retype the full address again. 3 - Fill in downloading information. Note: It's 220 MB long. Downloading will take a while!!! :mad:

I'm having problems to download too.

I've tried it. It looks very nive, but as far as I've seen it does not support image upload. Unfortunately this feature is very important for project documentation.

Thanks, I'm downloading it now.

We require a WIKI application to document some projects. We're looking for a free wiki site which supports image pasting and user login. Does anyone known a good one? -- modified at 16:15 Thursday 4th May, 2006

Are you using C++ or C#?

Sorry Dave, I've been out-of-office. Here's some information. I downloaded some models from: http://www.gen3d.de/Actors/actorst.html\[^\] Using MilkShape you can de-compile the .act files. It will generate a Genesis3d File and many .mot files with motions. You can then import the .Genesis File and export it as MilkShape 3d TEXT file. This is a text file describing the model, and it's quite easy to import it. The file contains one or more meshes, followed by the bones information. Each vertex of every mesh has an index to one of the bones, so after rebuilding the bone structure you should adjust the mesh to it. In the bone structure, each bone has: - bone name - parent bone - a translation (X, Y, Z) - a rotation (rot X, rot Y, rot Z) The .mot files can also be imported. The describe the bone movement, but instead of describing the rotations with 3 parameters (around X, Y and Z) they use a Quaternion. Quaternions are a 4 parameter rotation model: an axis (X, Y, Z) and an angle. You can convert from one format to another. Animation can be performed by interpotating from one animation to another.

Sorry Dave, I've been out-of-office. Here's some information. I downloaded some models from: http://www.gen3d.de/Actors/actorst.html\[^\] Using MilkShape you can de-compile the .act files. It will generate a Genesis3d File and many .mot files with motions. You can then import the .Genesis File and export it as MilkShape 3d TEXT file. This is a text file describing the model, and it's quite easy to import it. The file contains one or more meshes, followed by the bones information. Each vertex of every mesh has an index to one of the bones, so after rebuilding the bone structure you should adjust the mesh to it. In the bone structure, each bone has: - bone name - parent bone - a translation (X, Y, Z) - a rotation (rot X, rot Y, rot Z) The .mot files can also be imported. The describe the bone movement, but instead of describing the rotations with 3 parameters (around X, Y and Z) they use a Quaternion. Quaternions are a 4 parameter rotation model: an axis (X, Y, Z) and an angle. You can convert from one format to another. Animation can be performed by interpotating from one animation to another. ----- The .X file describes the mesh in DirectX format. You can also use this. I've not used .X files, so I don't know much about this format. I'm currently using DirectX to render the animation. In the previous version I used OpenGL, but DirectX seems to run faster and provider superior functionalities. I'm using .NET instead of C++ for testing purposes. However, .Net DirectX aplication runs 20% slower than C++ DirectX ones. I consider DirectX programming is more complicated than openGL. Try rendering a triangle. After that, try loading a Milkshape text file and render the meshes. Then try loading the bone structure and attach the meshes to it. The final step (and the more complicated one) is animation.

I've been playing with 3d characters, considering a game development, so I guess this could be of help. But it depends on what you are planning to do. Animated 3d character animation (as seen in games) is not a simple task at all. If what you are looking for is a simple 3d animation, I recommend you to use 3d studio. If you are looking for something far more advanced, you can create the 3d character model and animate it programatically. I've found the simplest way to create and animante a 3d character is using Milkshape. You can download it from www.milkshape3d.com. This programm is not intended for character creation, but for converting from one format to another, and you can use it to create movements. I'm not using milkshape 3d library to animate the character so I don't know what's like. I have programmed my own 3d library. If this is what you are planning to do, let me know so I can help you.

I'm installing it right now. It looks great!!!:-D Hope it is as good as it seems, I'm really looking for a better browser.

> a much safer browser, yes: Firefox I haven't tried it. I'll give it a try. I tested Opera and Netscape. They are very good, but I still find many problems when surfing the Web. Most of the world uses IE and many sites have only been tested with it. > IIRC That's a good idea, I'll add it.

Clipboard data can be stolen when surfing the Web with IE, using javascript. I have IE 6.0 and all latest service packs, and this problem is real.:eek: http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm[^] Hope you haven't copied any confidential data when surfing, I had done this many times!!!! What's more, I use to store site:user:password in an encripted system, from there I copy it using copy-paste. Will someone ever be able to create a secure Browser?

This could be really dangerous!!!! It could make the phone useless!!!! I once tested a programm on a HP48 calculator, which turned it off as soon as it was turned on. As there was no time to disable the programm, the only solution was to hard-reset the calculator to erase all memory. If a virus is designed to work on the same way it could be really harmfull. Do these phones have a hard-reset button to erase memory? I don't think taking off batteries would work, as they use to have an internal battery to save data.