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I know Google SketchUp has been released for a long time (on the Internet, a week and a half is a long time), but I haven't tried it out until today. I thought it was another confusing-to-use 3d program. But I was wrong. I decided to try it out today because I had to create a model of our new house. Unlike many programs, the Tip of the Day dialog in SketchUp was actually informative. It showed me the 3-part beginners' tutorial to learn SketchUp. It said the tutorial could be completed in 15 minutes, but I finished in 5 . The tutorial was great. It taught me all the basics I needed to know in order to start using the program. Even though it was a little repetitive at times, it guided you through building a whole house. I felt it could have been a little longer to explain the more advanced features, but I guess maybe they don't want it too long and boring. The controls are much easier to use than other 3d programs like 3DS Max or Blender. That's probably because this was made specially for building houses. When you tried to pull a flat plane into a 3d object, you can line its depth up with other surfaces with just one click. There aren't too many confusing buttons on the Toolbar. You can add pre-made objects in your model, like trees and people (I haven't figured out how yet ~_~). The color/texture and the shadows are just amazing. I just wish they would assign the Pan function to the right mouse button. It's troublesome to have to select the Pan button every time I want to pan. They've already added rotation to the scroll button, so why don't they do something to the right button? I think it's a great and easy to use program. If you have any need to create architectural models, go download it! P.S.: Wow, look at this topic from about 7 months ago. Seems like SketchUp was already pretty well-known long before Google acquired it.

Can you link us to a description page or screenshot of this? I don't like to click on direct link exe's (even if they're from an official site). How does the Alt+Tab look in Vista? How is it different?

The problem is with these lines: $nickname = mysql_real_escape_string ($_POST['nickname']);$nameq = "SELECT __name__ FROM registration WHERE __username__ = '$name' LIMIT 1";$emailq = "SELECT __email__ FROM registration WHERE __email__ = '$email' LIMIT 1";You have to change the name, username and email parts so that they match with the database. You can keep the variable names as they are, as they are just for reference in the PHP file. P.S.: I've edited the previous posts to add in codeboxes. No one wants to scroll through a whole page of code before getting to the interesting part.

3. I think that's because snow crystals are much smaller than ice. The edges of the crystals reflect light most severely. Since ice cubes have larger centers than snow crystals, more light can pass through normally.4. If you carefully watch a wooden log burn, you can see that it actually melts just a split second before it burns. So I think if you can control the applied heat with great precision, you can give just enough heat to make the log melt without burning.

This is the first time a late poster has helped me. I didn't notice this topic before. Probably because I was on vacation during that time.But the "new" version looks great! The startup time was faster by a little bit. And the new icons make the software look much more professional. My favorite interface theme is SentimoX because it's not too flashy with the blue bars, and it has the gradient when the cursor is above a menu item.

Windows does this to try to keep your computer safe. It wants your computer to be as updated as possible, and in order to make changes to your computer, it must restart. That's why it keeps bugging you every ten minutes. It's dementing to competent computer users, but it's necessary for the beginners who actually thinks AOL's anti-fraud/virus software is the best program ever. :PThe restart dialog is like a child asking "Are we there yet?". If the parents say "No", they'll wait a few minutes and then ask again. If the parents say "Yes", they'll open the door and exit the car. If the parents don't respond, they'll assume that they are there, and open the door and jump out, even if the car is going 80 mph right next to a 9000 ton truck on a busy freeway. The car you're driving is very antiquated and does not have a child safety lock installed on the rear doors to prevent the child from opening the door him/herself. (This is an analogy to the missing option to prevent Windows from restarting itself.)

Wow, so according to your screenshot, not only Firefox, but Netscape also does not appear in the taskbar. Does Internet Explorer have the same problem? If all 3 of these programs have the same problem, I think the problem should occur on all programs. But did you say that Itunes does appear in the taskbar? If none of the windows appear on the taskbar, it's very likely that the tasks section of your taskbar is pulled to a bad location. Try unlocking your taskbar by right-clicking on it, as wutske has said, and pull the sections around.

There are some disadvantages to hosting at home. First, the connection isn't as good as dedicated hosts. Unless your connection plan is for hosting a server, it'll probably go down every once in a while. Also, if your server attracts a lot of visitors, you'll need a lot of bandwidth to give them your files. Second, your own computer isn't as good as dedicated servers either. If you're using programs that take up a lot of rams, you'll affect the experience of your visitors (I don't know how; Maybe you'll slow down the loading time?). If you're using Windows, you may have to restart every once a week. Third, dedicated hosts usually have technicians. They can recover files if your server becomes corrupt, and they know how to do all the complicated installations. Most importantly, they can prevent hackers from attacking your server, as PocketChange has mentioned. I think it's fine to host a server with your own computer if it's only a small site. In fact, that is exactly what I'm doing. However, if you're trying to create a popular site, it's not a good idea unless you have the proper equipment and training.

Even if that is possible, scientists would never do it within this century. They might transplant someone's limbs on you, but they wouldn't give you a whole new body. While I personally have no problem with it, it's unethical to many people. It's kind of like mind control, except you're directly controlling someone else's body.

Even if you have a jar of peanut butter the size of your fridge, I doubt the resulting diamond would be bigger than the size of a louse. And the energy required would make your electric bill go way up. So I don't think you'll be any richer after you sell the synthetic (which means cheaper) diamond. But anyway, back to the article. How can they "carbonize" peanut butter? Fission and fusion must be involved in order to turn one element into another element, i.e. carbon. If this process does not include fission/fusion, there must be some waste product from the left overs in the peanut butter. Can this process be used to turn pure hydrogen into carbon and into diamond?

I think the best way would be to make something yourself with the code. To get the basics of that language, read some tutorials with example projects and follow along. Once you've learned enough to write simple codes on your own, think of a little utility application that you can write using that language. Than start coding it. When you come to something you don't know, you can look it up online. All the debugging and problem-solving will make it easier to remember the language. Plus, it's much more fun than reading a whole book and doing nothing.

It's a pretty good game to keep you occupied for a couple of minutes. They don't take very long to solve, so you can play them whenever you want. And the puzzles up to this point weren't very hard either.The hardest one I thought was then 10th one, or the second video challenge. The "breaking" thing was difficult, since I kept thinking he said "science" instead of "silence". It was also very hard to put in the exactly right words.For those of you who haven't played it yet, go play it!

You can download Frontpage Express at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. It's a microsoft page, so it shouldn't have any vicious spyware. But this program is really out-dated. There are other free and better alternatives to this program. You could try OpenOffice. I don't know what format you want to convert MPEG-4 to, so I don't know specifically where you can find it. But you can probably find some at Tucows or other download sites. And of course, the best way is Google. The only email program I've tried is Thunderbird. It's a good program. "Website builder"? Do you mean a WYSIWYG program like Frontpage? If so, I'd suggest Dreamweaver. However, it's not a free program.

I got a 30! That's the second highest in this topic. :Pillini319, the faster your brain processing speed, the easier it is for you to distinguish sounds. It is easier to hear a long word slowly (e.g. comfortable), than it is to hear it fast (e.g. cmftble). However, if you don't know the language well (I'm not saying you don't), you'll still have trouble telling what people are saying.If you can't see the Test, you'll need to install shockwave player, as twitch has said. ikram, from your description, I'm guessing that you're using Firefox. Just click the button it shows you, and it should find shockwave and install it for you.

Not really free. (Is this just a series of posts in which we correct other people's mistakes?) You'd have to buy the food for the hamster and take care of it. It'd take a lot of time and effort. And you probably wouldn't want to work your hamster to death right after you buy it. That would be so cruel... Using the hamster to generate electricity might not be practical, but it would be fun to watch. Unless, if you could turn the mass of the hamster into pure energy, then it'd be both fun and practical. (Disgusting...)

I hope they can do that too. However, that technology would be much more advanced than plain voice recognition. The music in the background will just confuse the program. I've heard of a site that allows you to tap a key to enter the rhythm of a song onto the site. Then it'll search for songs with a similar rhythm and display them. It's a pretty good idea, but too bad its music database is too small.

Wow, you've made a lot of those boxes. How many hamsters do you have? Have you tried putting 2 hamsters in one box? Maybe that could make it move much faster. (Not that you'd want it to. It's just for experimentation.)

Yay, so I was right. I wonder where I got that information... I was just researching about that layout a few days ago. I think it's much better than QWERTY (though I've never tried to use it), since all the keys on the home row match the most frequently used keys according to my WhatPulse. The amazing thing is that new layouts are still being developed right now. There is a layout called Colemak that was released January this year. But I don't really see the point of this. Since a keyboard is very important to interaction between the user and the computer, it'll be very hard for people to consider switching to another method of typing. Even a slight difference in the movement of the mouse can cause great discomfort. I've used the mouse on a Windows computer for many years, and I'm used to the ratio between the movement of my hand to the movement of the cursor on the screen. When I got a Mac, the speed of the mouse was just slightly different (I can't configure it to move exactly like on Windows), and it has discouraged me from using the Mac. It's like going to the doctors to replace your normal leg with a fully functional, yet different, prosthetic leg. Even if you can use it, it still makes it weird.

After I made an example site in HTML, I rewrote it again and again and found that it did not have any problems. So, I consulted my XUL file (which is actually where I have the problem) and tried to fix the perfect page to make something go wrong. However, I could not. So I tried to adapt the XUL file into an HTML file, and miraculously, the page worked. Now I know that this Javascript problem exists only in XUL. (By the way, if you still want to see my example site, it is here.) Do you know why this happens in XUL? If you don't know, could you tell me about classes?

I thought there were also some UNIX systems that didn't understand extensions with over 3 letters? I didn't know it was Windows DOS's fault. I read some tutorials that told me to always use .htm because some web servers wouldn't accept the long version. And DOS systems probably wouldn't be used for web servers.

Firefox uses the Gecko engine created by Mozilla to render pages (and to render its windows' layout too!), while Internet Explorer uses... uses its Internet Explorer engine. IE's engine uses many many codes that Microsoft invented on their own. However, most of them do not follow web standards. The Gecko engine closely follows web standards (it's very hard to completely follow them -- only 2-3 browsers can currently do this), so the codes you write for IE probably won't be executed by Firefox. But if your code follows web standards, IE will probably understand it, though there might be a few exceptions.

I have a page that requires many Javascript functions. In order to make the coding easier to read and edit, I decided to seperate them into 3 Javascript files. Two files will each do a specific job. One file will have the shared functions that both other 2 files will need to use. They are all linked to a page using three <script> tags. The difficult part is that after the page calls a function in one of the special code files, that Javascript file will need to call the functions located in the common Javascript file. The file will call several functions, and it will an argument with it each time. When I try to call the function as if it were on the same file, the script stops. I Googled for solutions (14 different queries and over 10 clicked results), but only a few sites had information relevant to my question. This page was the closest to helping me solve the problem. However, the page (and possibly server) no longer exists, and besides, the solution on the cached page didn't help me.

Thanks for letting me know about this! These are very detailed statistics.Hmm, I didn't get that message. Are you sure you've registered correctly? Have you put any pages on your server yet? Maybe you just need to wait for some time before the server can update your new account.

Read more here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I don't think this is any new invention. It's just like a speech recognition engine embedded into Google. Why would they even need to patent it?

Did you have Flash plugin installed on your Firefox before? Which version of Firefox did you update from? I did get an update from 1.5.0.1 to 1.5.0.2, but it didn't mess up my Flash plugin. Why are you trying to reinstall it?