That is a great answer; I now understand completely. Thank You Tadeusz Westawic Sum quid sum.

Harold, Yes, I was referring to SSE2. Almost everyone has it. And, I just never worry about the voting, but it seems seems other Helpful Harrys have bumped it up. Dave.

SpeQ[^] will do this. The J Software[^] F#[^] language works too, but isn't a calculator.

No it isn't, just the ones less than 10 billion. As far as anyone knows, the complete list is infinite. :rolleyes: You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

This whole thread is hilarious. But "Twitter" is ROTFLAMO! :laugh: until :(( dude.

You might also consider the "Visual Studio Standard" edition. It is really close to the Pro, but at a fraction of the cost. Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Playing with Kubuntu Linux.. Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com

Tadeusz Westawic wrote: "Some people would rather be right than happy." "... and some people are to dumb to be right."

Sounds like the language used to describe the character of Bloody Stupid Johnson, who in the Discworld is a kind of "inverse genius," i.e., he can produce triangles with three right angles and circles the ratio of whose circumferences to their diameters is always 3. Inverse genius is defined by Sir Terry Pratchett as, "As far away from incompetence as normal genius, but in the opposite direction." I think the Discworld novels have to win the prize as the books who use buzzwords and also who do it in a very pleasing-to-read manner.

No flamewars, please!! I have scanned what web and sdk stuff I could find and will go with DirectX. The DirectX docs are full of terms familiar to me (including 'blitter') and I understand 90% of the stuff on first reading (volume, not necessarily import). The OpenGL stuff I scanned was full of exciting things and the hw website credits of well-known games, etc was impressive. While I knew of the tems and processes described, I have never worked with them outside of coursework (and it has been a long time since then). I feel that I am choosing the right tool for the job and for the programmer. Thank you all for your input. Tadeusz Westawic Some projects are born to fail, others achieve failure, and yet others have failure thrust upon them. origin unknown

You can also just hit the delete key.