Posts by MidiMagic

Yes, but those NT4 systems and Win95 systems are as close to stabilized as they'll get, and the consumer is [apparently] satisfied. No more need for official support. That's my point: legally forcing a company to maintain servicing resources for somthing that old is too costly.

So you support requiring businesses and consumers to continuously pay for the upgrades instead? I would rather it cost Microsoft more, rather than costing the rest of us.

The idea of the requirements is to keep old versions COMPATIBLE, and to keep Microsoft and other companies from rushing out new versions every 3 years.

It means that you don't have to upgrade before you can buy new software you need.

Microsoft already supports Vista, XP, and 2000 SP4. Adding Windows NT and Win9x adds the additional costs of both simply retaining existing resources, plus training for anybody who joins the team.

GOOD!!!!

That means there will be fewer versions released! Maybe one every TEN years, instead of the mad 3-year rush they have now.

I'm thinking of protecting the consumer, not Microsoft.

It's not like the employees familiar with the source code necessarily stick around that long. Heck, 5 years on the same team at Microsoft is a rarity.

They get fired that often? Or do they burn out quick like CFLs on a security motion detector fixture?

What do you do when the ISP won't let the older versions of Windows on their systems?

How …

I've taken a breath for some intra on your spective. I also recognize that we have wandered beyond sight of spanking.
However, I am enjoying this, now rare, attempt at reasoned, logical exploration in search of illusions; mine as well as yours. So, a request. If (when, more likely) we are invited to cease, may I send you a P.M. to arrange continuation?

Bobwhaler, you need to replace your idea bulb with a CFL. Government said so.

If you had any clue how much "nicer" the world was when it was inhabited by a better model of human beings, you'd cry.

There's no such thing. You can't create nice. Human nature has a predictably fixed ratio.

If you want a nicer world, cut taxes to 10 percent total, so people can live on their incomes.

Two suggestions:
- Compose your response in an external text editor and paste it as needed to preview or submit.
- Use tabbed browsing for looking up any other info you need.

When I use tabbed browsing, when I come back to the post window, it is empty. Everything I already put in it is gone. I have to save the post to have the text there when I come back.

No, with high taxes, you can pick only one.

I am going to take that as a personal feeling of yours and not as a fact obtained based in a lifetime of worthless research.

Does personal observation count?

Every election, our local Democrat party lays a trap to win the election. They pick the front-running local Republican and create a false scandal about him two or three days before the election:

- They accused a Republican running for school board of desiring to bring prayer back into the schools. They had absolutely nothing to back up that accusation.

- They accused a local tree expert running for office of having a business in violation of zoning. His business was grandfathered, because it existed before the zoning law.

- Four years later, they accused the same tree expert of tearing down a property owner's historic wall on the National Register of Historic Sites. The wall was only 30 years old, it was not on the register, and he was hired by the owner to tear it down, and rebuild it after removing a tree.

- They accused a local developer running for office of clear-cutting an "old-growth" forest to build a new subdivision. When I was a kid in the 1960s, that land was a carefully planted Christmas tree farm, not "old growth." It grew into a forest after the owner died.

- Likewise, they accused another developer of cutting down "old growth" on land that had a few landscaping trees in 1964. It …

Does that mean you have to be a real beast to run for president?

The problem is that anyone I would vote for for President is the kind of person who would not run for office.

Every politician is a type A who wants to create more and more government programs. That's exactly the kind of person I don't want in office.

I would not equate the freedom to polute with puffing your smoke into somebody's face in public. That is just plain old rude, just the way farting in a restaurant would be!

I don't know how one would prevent it. You can prevent the noise, but not the venting.

You are right about that, unfortunately. And schools should loose their accredication for allowing that to happen.

Loose? accredication?

Speaking of the uneducated....

I'm going to loose my accredication, so it can come bite you! I'm an educator.

Try "lose" and "accreditation."

Scared of taxes: Most people, when attempting to earn money, do so for themselves. As far as I can tell, working to make money for another, rather than doing so for yourself, especially in the manner of paying off a debt, would seem to be indentured servitude. Given that the current American tax bite is large enough that the supposed Tax Freedom day lies about one-third of the way through the year, this would imply that, for that first one-third year, every working man and woman in America is, in fact, an indentured servant of the government.

(I wasn't kidding about that 1/3 year bit.)

And that tax freedom day covers only direct taxes. Including indirect taxes, such as the consumer paying all business taxes in the purchase prices of products, the reductions of salaries by the employer half of payroll tax, and the renters paying the landlord's real estate tax in the rent, moves tax freedom day to September 19.

Scared of foreigners: Actually, I'd say the condition here is a bit different. From what I've seen, most people who actually speak on the issue aren't 'scared' of foreign people, so much as scared of national dissolution. If those coming in were willing to become part of the 'melting pot' that the United States of America was once known for being, there would be little problem.

The people who are really scared are union laborers afraid of losing their monopoly.

What rights are homosexual couples supposedly missing …

Darwin award.

not quite MM, I had long discussions about that when I was a student of physics with my professors.
We came to the conclusion that while c is disallowed speeds over c are not (at least in theory).
While some formulae will have to be expanded outside the realm of real numbers, that causes no theoretical problems.

This is a new discovery. ALL objects travel at c. There is no possible other speed - just other directions of motion.

Objects appearing to go slower (such as a car going 55 mph) are just following almost parallel paths. Acceleration changes the angle of motion, not the actual speed. This changes the visible speed. A visibly stationary object is moving parallel to the observer in the time dimension at c.

We can't see the time dimension, because it is contracted to zero observable length. We experience our motion at c as the passage of time.

This new version of relativity neatly explains WHY all of the effects of relativity occur, including the fact that each observer sees the other observer's clock slowed down when they are moving relative to one another. It also explains gravity.

THE FRANK EDWARDS UFO SIGHTING

Solving this case was simple - I saw it too.

October 12 1961: News commentator Frank Edwards saw a UFO that looked to him like a rotating sphere with a belt of white lights around the middle, a red light on top, and some green lights on the bottom. He was in a multistory building in downtown Indianapolis Indiana, looking southeast. As a result of his reaction to (and broadcasts about) this sighting, he was fired from his job at WTTV TV. He then started on his first UFO book, "Flying Saucers - Serious Business."

On that date, I was with my family at the Twin Aire drive-in movie on the southeast side of Indianapolis (corner of Keystone and Hoyt, now the site of Canby Park). We were watching the Disney film "Pinocchio". There, I saw a row of bright white lights with a red light over it and two green lights under it, in the sky behind the car. The white lights seemed to appear at the right end (my right), move across, and disappear at the other end. There were gaps in the lights. The whole thing looked like a slowly rotating disk with white lights around the rim.

I asked my father what it was. He said to keep watching it and I would find out. It flew closer, and I could then see that the lights formed capital letters, moving across the sky. It was an ad …

Do UFOs exist? Yes.

UFO is Unidentified Flying Object. It is something seen in the sky that nobody has identified yet.

Ironically (for the UFO "buffs"), if an alien space ship is ever positively identified, it ceases to be a UFO. It is an AFO (alien flying object).

The reality is that most UFO cases are eventually solved as being a misinterpretation of a conventional object. The reasons are perceptual:

1. NOBODY can determine the distance, size, altitude, or speed of an unknown object more than 30 feet away that is seen against the sky. The human vision system is not equipped to make those measurements.

2. Nobody can tell whether a point source light is brightening or dimming, or moving radially with respect to the observer. Both give exactly the same visual stimulus.

3. Many people don't understand wind direction. All weather services always report wind direction as the direction the wind blows from. Laymen tend to assume the opposite.

4. Some people don't want the truth about a sighting to be found, including people making profit from mystery, people trying to win tabloid prizes, tabloid newspapers getting revenue from mysteries, UFOlogists wanting the ET hypothesis to be true, Hoaxers and pranksters, in trouble with the law if discovered, Publicity seekers, Tourist businesses, the military covering up observed secret aircraft, and UFO authors.

5. Information obtained from "official sources" is misleading. Officials won't admit that they don't know what's going on. …

Actually, there's nothing in Newtonian or Einsteinian physics that prevents one from travelling faster than light.

Actually, the speed of light IS the speed limit of everything - and (through study of Einsteins and Lorentz' work), I have discovered that there is only one speed in the entire universe - the speed of light. We don't notice it, because it is the speed we move through time.

ALL motion obeys this equation exactly (Use Excel formula notation for expressions) as observed by one observer:

w = SQRT(c^2 - v^2)

Where:

c is the speed of light
v is the velocity of the observed object, relative to the observer
w is the speed through the observer's time dimension

w/c is the time dilation factor.

A v faster than c causes the square root to not exist.

Coincidentally, there was a recent "UFO sighting" in Texas. Stevensville, I believe is the city name. It has recently received national attention.. apparently many people saw some 'unidentified' object.. The initial two responses from the government were that they had no idea what the object could have been. However, the government recently made a new statement saying that there were actually F-16s in the area. This, of course, has created no government conspiracy theories..

Another bunch of pranksters with fire balloons.

If it's solved, what was the solution?

It seems kludgy to me to change the attributes of the page.

It is not at all elegant, and makes debugging harder.

It reeks of self-modifying code.

The link is broken.

Two points:

1. The internet has been making false "can't find page" errors over the last few days.

2. Your use of the triskellion symbol may offend certain people, as it has been used by pagan religions and the Third Reich.

If you want your websites to be handicap-accessible, do not use hover images.

Rollover buttons are for pinball machines, not web pages. Without them, pages are a lot easier for people with disabilities to use.

You have some busted code:

1. Where are the doctype and html tags?

2. The title tag must be first in the head section.

3. The lack of the doctype and html tags forced the browsers into quirks mode.

4. Remember that putting surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) and defined block object sizes (absolute or relative heights and widths) in the same block tag will ALWAYS cause incompatibilities between IE and FF. FF puts the surrounding styles outside the defined block size, IE puts them inside.

That does not always work.

It is impossible to make a page that exactly fits any browser window, and that works on all browsers, all window sizes, and all screen resolutions and aspect ratios.

Use the above suggestion, but don't waste your time trying to get it to always work.

Questions:

1. Why do you need this specific font?

2. Why not just designate a commonly available font as a substitute?

3. Can you capture the image of your text in the font you want, and display the image instead? With a .gif file, you can even make the background transparent.

This seems to me to be doing things the hard way.

What's wrong with using a simple button object that always calls the same function? Then use if statements in the function to determine what the button should do (including nothing). It seems a lot easier than playing with attributes in the page elements.

Playing with the page attributes for this purpose seems to me like using a 10-ton hydraulic press to crack a peanut out of its shell.

Remember that Firefox puts all surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) outside any measured block object size. IE crams them inside the measured size.

The trick is to nest box objects the way you want them, one with measured size, the other with surrounding styles.

IE7 worked for me.

Check the Internet security settings in IE.

If they are too strict, this will happen.

It sounds like the ISP has the router as the device it expects to see. It may interpret the others as security violations.

The slowdown is not in your connection to the ISP. It is an overload in the ISP connection to the rest of the Internet.

This is easy:

1. Using the downpointing black arrow mouse pointer (appears at the top of a column), select the columns you want distributed evenly by dragging across their tops.

2. Use the Table menu / autofit / Distribute columns evenly.

Look for the following:

- Two versions of the file in different folders.

- A cached version of the file.

- A macro intended for a different spreadsheet is running when Excel opens.

Both work and home came with Office 2003.

CPU Intel Pentium IV 1.79 GHz
RAM 384 MB
HD 40 GB, 30GB used

Like I said, I don't think this is a system capability problem, because I can speed it up by clicking on the the unfilled thumbnail boxes.

Check the settings in the sound mixer.

Check that you didn't plug the speakers into the wrong hole.

Check that the speakers have power.

This incompatibility is what I hate about Microsoft!

MS is saying to try another email company, not another program on your computer. Suggestion: Yahoo isn't too bad.

In other words, they say you will have to subscribe to a different email server, and change your email address.

One thing: find out if either the email service you have, or your ISP, has its own email browser.

For example, AOL doesn't work very well except on its own email browser. So either use the AOL browser, or give AOL the heave-ho.

Spank all politicians.

BTW, the poll is broken as Multiplayer / Single Player games are not genres but playing modes.

ALL polls on DaniWeb are broken anyway, because they must use either the broken Plurality Voting System (multiple choice) or the broken Approval Voting System (check the boxes). Both introduce biases.

I still like the idea of bubbling the exhaust of a coal plant through beds of algae.

The current breed of "environmentalists" are purely political creatures who don't care about the environment except as a means to an end, the end being absolute political power.

They are socialists who want to gain socialism through environmental means.

Honestly you need to give the enviromentalists a break. They're like this nagging voice at the back of your head that keeps you from sticking envelopes in your slot-load drive...

I thought it was illegal for government to enact the tenets of a religion - which Environmentalism is, given the way they behave.

I'd say use prisoners in giant gerbil wheels then. We certainly have enough of those and it's not like they have better things to do. Let them walk on wheels all day generating electricity.

(Edit: Clarification: I refer to convicted criminal prisoners - not people taken prisoner for labor.)

Then we should then make politicians really RUN for office.

Public transport, that's what that is. However, you could go roller-scating. Just make sure that wherever you go is always downhill. Use gravity power!

No you can't. In most areas, it's illegal to skate either in the street or on sidewalks. Skates are considered toys, not vehicles.

Taxis are very expensive. And they are not publicly owned.

Note that all of the mass transit proponents live in southern California. They don't know about freezing temperatures, bridge bottlenecks, unpaved roads turning into quagmires, foot-deep snow on unshoveled walks, thunderstorms, and flooded sidewalks.

Note that mass transportation is not necessarily equal to public buses. :icon_cheesygrin:

But you still have to endure all of those just to GET to and from the transit.

The real problem is that, in most areas, not enough people make the same trip at the same time for even carpooling to work, let alone mass transit.

I usually see less than 3 people riding on our public transit buses whenever I see one.

My main complaint is all of the costs of changing to a new operating system:

- Upgrading costs money.

- Most real-time software (such as music studio software) usually doesn't work on the new OS, causing the user who has such software to wait a two-year development time to get new software that works on the new OS. This really hampers laboratory work.

- Colleges have to replace their computer curriculum (no small cost).

- The military needs a stable base for software, not upgrade mania.

- NASA is still using 80386 computers and MS-DOS in the Space Shuttles. Reliability requires that they not change anything.

- Long -term scientific studies are often ruined because, the scientists can't prove that the change in OS didn't change anything in the study.

- Too many businessmen don't understand the above limitations, and order all of their employees to upgrade the instant the new software comes out.

We need two things:

- A law requiring software companies to support products for 20 years, so companies develop new products less often.

- Compulsory licensing for all copyrights, not just sheet music and stage plays. That way, anyone who needs the old versions can get them. The monopoly power must be removed.

I wish they had broken Microsoft up into baby Bills back in the 1990s.

Republicans read the financial pages in the newspaper. Democrats use them to line the birdcage.

Republicans always close their blinds, though there is seldom any reason why they need to. Democrats ought to, but don't.

Republicans consume three-fourths of the rutabaga produced in the US. The remainder is thrown out.

Republicans sleep in separate beds, sometimes in separate rooms. That's why there are more Democrats.

1. Sign: DEMOC RAT EXTERMINATORS

2. Why is it that Democrats throw most of the stuff found along the road out of car windows?

3. A man is drowning 50 feet from shore. A Republican throws a 40 foot rope, and requires the drowning man to swim 10 feet. A Democrat throws a 100 foot rope, but then he lets go of his end to run down the beach to save someone else.

4. The problem with Democrat economics is that each Democrat is too lazy to do the math himself, and assumes that some other Democrat did the math that shows the plan works. In reality, the math is never done.

5. How can Democrats blame Republicans for wasteful spending, and in the next breath, promise to support an unnecessary expenditure such as the arts?

6. The easiest job, if you do not want to think, is to become a Democrat politician.

7. How can Democrats portray President Bush as a total simpleton, and in the next breath portray him as such a clever criminal that nobody can catch him in a crime?

8. The one thing missing from most Democrat social programs is a source of income other than a magic fairy that bestows wealth.

9.
Reagan: What is this Pac Man I keep hearing about?

Aide: It's a round thing that eats money.

Reagan: Oh! It's Tip O'Neill.

10. How can a man who has …

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A man was given special dispensation to take a bar of gold with him into heaven.

When he got to the gate, Saint Peter saw the gold, and said, "Ah! There's the pavement I ordered. We have a pothole down the street."

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