Posts by MidiMagic

> Firefox requires the semicolons after the statements. IE lets you cheat.
Bosh. Ecmascript doesn't require you to have semicolons at the end of statements. Automatic semicolon insertion takes place during the parsing phase. There are no browser exceptions to this rule.

Then why do I get errors if I accidentally leave one out?

> And you have not &-coded your < and > characters inside the script.
Bosh. If you do so, they would no longer be comparison operators.

This is required for XHTML. He didn't specify a Doctype.

By the time the JS interpreter gets it, the &-codes are supposed to already be converted. But if the script is not embedded in the html, the &-codes must not be used.

Except for short calling scripts, it is always much better to have a separate JS file.

> The browser thinks they are an HTML tag.
That depends on the DOCTYPE and is only true for XHTML documents.

That's all I use for new pages now. Everyone should be doing this, to ensure future compatibility.

Maybe XHTML Doctypes require the semicolons too.

I still need the answer to this.

Pinball.

REAL pinball, not fake on a screen.

If you don't perform, you will be rebooted.

A duck quack does echo. But unless the echo has a long enough time delay, you can't tell the echo from the original quack.

I once heard duck quack echoes bouncing off a large boathouse at the other end of the lake.

Mass transit doesn't work, unless a lot of people want to make the same trips. In a city like mine, there are so many different possible trips that mass transit to cover even a tenth of them is prohibitively expensive.

There still is no concrete proof that global warming as a large scale effect is in fact happening, and even less that human actions are causing it. What we have are the opinions of "concerned" scientists with axes to grind.

We do have proof that Mars has global warming.

While we do have better light sources, that is not a justification for Congress banning the old ones. There are special uses without substitutes.

Too much of the whole issue is scare tactics, not science.

The best solution for the CO2 problem is to let the rainforests regrow.

Question: how does America's Democratic party differ from Socialists?

The Democrats are farther left.

A common title bar format, title images, and css file, combined with links to the other sites, seems in order.

If Firefox is your browser, then all .htm and .css files are listed by My Computer file types as Firefox files. The extension controls the file type.

I added a "notepad" option to the list of options on what My Computer can do with a file. It affects shortcut menus too. Then I just right click the file and click the notepad option.

You need a lot of little pages, not one huge one. Navigate between them with links.

I don't see that either.

I have FF 2.0.0.11 too.

To do what?

A div can be inside a td, but a td can't be directly inside anything except a tr.

The div contents might also disappear if they don't fit.

I see several errors:

- An input tag does not belong between a tags. Block tags can't be inside a tags.The clickable text or image belongs there.

- There is no title attribute for an a tag. The title belongs between the a tags.

- The alt attribute is required on an image tag. It should contain the text you erroneously have in the title attribute of the a tag.

- target is deprecated in the strict doctypes.

You will probably need a combination of PHP and MySQL.

A good programming practice is to never use the same name for two different things.

You should not have the right to block any function of a browser. This belongs to the user, NOT TO YOU.

I am totally SICK of greedy webmasters who want to control the computers of the people who visit their pages.

You are trying to do something you have NO RIGHT to do.

You want to take over control of someone else's computer. That is a security violation.

Imagine yourself in jail. Then drop this idea.

I would say this is a security violation. If it isn't, it should be.

You have absolutely NO RIGHT to control someone else's computer, or the software running on that computer.

And I absolutely HATE webmasters who do things that destroy my browsing history.

If you need data constants, put them in the script, not in the HTML.

Firefox requires the semicolons after the statements. IE lets you cheat.

You also have some HTML errors.

And you have not &-coded your < and > characters inside the script. The browser thinks they are an HTML tag.

It's better to have the main script in a separate file for the last reason.

If pages don't have different URLs, the web servers can't tell them apart.

A DNS error means that your ISP can't find the computer that the site is supposed to be on.

I can think of several reasons:

- The site is down, voluntarily or involuntarily. (It might have been located in one of the recently flooded areas). I remember people complaining about sites being down, when the sites had been located in the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

- The site might have changed URLs. This often happens when a website provider goes out of business or is sold to a competitor. My site changed URLs thrice over its lifetime.

- The site may have decided that your ISP is an untrusted location, and locked it out. This happened to me several times, because other users on my ISP were spamming.

- Your ISP may have decided that the site is a spam source and blocked it.

- Your security settings may have changed.

- If you are in a corporate or school setting, the administrators may have decided to block either the site, or your ability to access secure sites.

- You may be missing an upgrade that keeps secure sites working.

- Something may be amiss with an internet node in between that is routing the requests to the wrong place.

No.

You are asking for the ability to commit security violations. Whoever wants this capability needs a course in internet security.

The browser is not allowed to run any downloaded file for security reasons. The browser is also not allowed to unzip the file, since the file could install malware while being unzipped. This is a matter of security, and is also a matter of LAW in many nations, including the US.

The user has the RIGHT to scan all downloaded files for malware before unzipping and running them manually.

The website being browsed has NO RIGHT to install or run downloaded software on the user's computer, without the express PERMISSION of the user.

The browser also might not know how to display the file, since the file type is not known at the time of download. The instructions of what kind of file to create when unzipping are hidden inside the .zip file.

The unzipping function also must use a disk file, not an Internet file. With some compression methods, the software must make multiple passes through the file.

That will not work here, because the expression B1-A1 will return a #VALUE error if the dates are before 1900.

Every video file I look at does the same thing. But I will not let QuickTime on my system, because it messes up too many settings. So I just don't watch .mov files.

The best is none. You are trading use time for space.

When I start PowerPoint at work, all of the premade slide templates are there when I start working.

When I start PowerPoint at home, the image of each template takes about 15 second to appear in the task pane, so it is several minutes before they are all visible.

Why does this happen? I don't see either any long disk activity or any long internet activity while I am waiting for them to appear. I see a blip of disk activity just before each one appears, but nothing else.

If I close the task pane and work on something else, they are all there when I return after several minutes.

I went to the site, and they said, "According to Excel, the world began on January 1, 1900." The date in the cell is not changed into a Julian number if it is before that date.

I think I understand why Microsoft didn't delve into dates prior to 1900.

Before 1800, there were several different calendars operating simultaneously in the Western world:

- The original Julian calendar was in use from the time of Julius Caesar (and modified by Augustus Caesar) until around 1800.

- In the 1500s, astronomers noticed that the equinoxes and solstices were 10 days out of sync with the dates they were supposed to occur on. This is because the year is not exactly 365.25 days. The Catholic Church under Pope Gregory decided to make a revision of the calendar, because the misplaced equinoxes were affecting the date of Easter.

- The result was the Gregorian calendar (which is the calendar we use today). Most Catholic countries adopted it in 1582. when 10 days were omitted from the month of September to bring the calendar back in line. The calendar also omits leap years in years that are even multiples of 100, but are not multiples of 400. This calendar is accurate to one day in 3300 years.

- Different European countries made the change in different years, so the dates in these countries would have to be figured differently.

- Great Britain and its colonies adopted the Gregorian …

I should have all of the updates.

Cell: contents

C2: 7/4/1776
C3: 7/8/1783
C4: =C3-C2

If you put modern dates in, it calculates the number of days between dates. If you put in dates before 1900, you get a #VALUE error.

My Documents is actually in your C drive.

Look in:

C:\Documents and Settings\*****\My Documents

Where ***** is your logon name for the computer.

I was trying to write a formula to find the number of days between two dates in Excel 2003. I decided to test it with the dates of the beginning and ending of the Revolutionary War. I got a #Value error.

Experimentation showed me that Excel; does not recognize any date before 1900 as a date.

Why?

Is Microsoft so business-oriented that it ignores scientific or historical uses of dates?

How do you use dates before 1900?

Here are some of my favorites:

"Look at this cheese! It has holes in it!" (The Wizard of Speed and Time)

"Move that crate! The light aint gonna get any greener!" (What's so bad about feeling good?)

"Isn't it elf-explanatory? I'm an elf." (Santa Claus - The Movie)

"What did I do on D-day? On D-day, I typed up the general's requisition for more toilet paper." (I lost the reference for this one, but it was a D-Day movie)

"Full speed afish!" (The same movie as above)

"The only requisition that's been filled is the one for more requisition paper." (MASH)

"Your hair is always combed, your suit is always white, your car is always clean!" (the great Race)

"Wow! A wall jumpin party. Just like back home!" (The Wizard of Speed and Time)

Sometimes it's to make you upgrade. Whether it's Photoshop, Visual Studio, Office, or the latest game from Blizzard, their business model is based on you buying their product. Software companies aren't the only ones doing this. Look at car manufacturers. The average car will last well over 10 years, but the average car owner probably upgrades well within that timespan. Software companies don't make money supporting and releasing updates for a product, they make money selling you a new product.

That doesn't give them the right to do things that purposely break the old system.

Funny, I swear I've seen 10yrs+ old machines still in use. They work quite well, even on the internet. Ok, well they perform a bit slow at rendering, but seeing as to how the media has changed from text to animated graphics since then, it's really not surprising.

I have a 1997 computer that is still in use. But they made things so it can't be used:

- Nothing new is compatible with Windows 3.1. But I have software I don't want to lose, because the company went out of business after the attempt to change to Windows 95 bankrupted them after they made the change to Windows 3.1.

- One ISP I must use won't allow any version of Windows older than XP or NT.

- The files made on the Win 3.1 computer, other than .txt files and .bmp files, are incompatible with current versions of Office. And none …

As government keeps stealing more and more of the economy, the economy will crash. This will definitely happen if any of those promising national health care is elected.

I write every line myself. The code is tighter, and you know what every part of it does - no surprises.

The white box is supplied by FireFox around the link that would activate if ENTER is pressed. The TAB key moves it to other links.

IE doesn't have that.

If I understand what you are saying, I think you need to link the tables together with a key field (account number?).

Don't embed scripts. Call functions in external scripts instead.

Your quotes need to be escaped.

It may be a difference in the way a particular browser stores cookies.

It should be made impossible to do this. The fact that it can be done is a way crackers can sneak into computers.

Check to see if any of the methods or functions you are using are nonstandard IE extensions to JS. Other browsers can't use them.

- You have "Value" at one point, and "value" at another point. JS is case-sensitive.

This sounds like something changed the settings on how IE connects to your ISP.

The history is in:

My computer
C:Documents and Settings\*****\Local Settings\History

Where ***** is replaced by the name of the logged-in user.

Be quick, because it is kept for only a week.

Film works

It does?

Life-changing films:

- A thief in the night (entire series)

The collecting of cards from different decks in different places is going to make an even larger statistical mess.

It would be better for each rider to carry a deck. Then, each checkpoint shuffles the deck, and removes a card from the deck, puts it in an envelope with the rider's number on it, and gives the remainder of the deck back to the rider.

The envelopes are then collected and the poker hands are evaluated using standard poker rules.

No -- they have to make money somehow in order to give their employees jobs and paychecks. If everything is free then no one would (or could) work.

But if nobody worked, then there wouldn't be any products in existence to be free either.[/quote]

If you write a book don't you want to get paid for it? Shouldn't musicians and actors get paid for their performances.

Only to the extent that people in the free market will pay to read the book, listen to the music, or watch the performance. These people don't have a right to collect more than the public at large will pay.

And it must be a free market price, not a price set under monopoly power.

Are you proposing to just shut down the copyright and patent offices?

No, just limiting the patent or copyright to remove the monopoly powers.

This is one of the arguments that bugs me the most. While I can understand the logic you're using, it's still inaccurate. I'll use Photoshop as my example. How many people are honestly willing to spend $650USD so they can dink around with photos on 4chan, or otherwise use the software for a hobby? And yet, how many people acquire a disc or a disc image with which to install and use the software? Adobe's getting none of the payback they deserve for all these users.

Nobody "deserves" money for creating a work. If I create a product nobody wants to buy, I don't deserve any money for it.

It's a matter of how many people will pay for the work at the price the monopolist sets. This is the argument I made earlier that the creator of the work expects to be paid as though he created the work over and over to make each copy. But the monopolist should not have the power to set a price. Prices should be set by the actual market.

When they charge exorbitant prices for software, it causes piracy. $650 is a ridiculous price. They can charge it only because they have an artificial monopoly power created by government. $65 is a more realistic figure, but they want to get more money from businesses and government by demanding a huge price. This forces individuals out of the market, because they can't afford the $650.

If the monopoly power could …

He tried his best :P
But seriously Everyone could do more to help 'Save' the planet. Recycle more, compost every little strand of waste cooking that isn't meat, etc. But it is all voluntary at the moment, we are not forced to recycle and reuse everything, why can't we be like the Germans for once, they have brilliant recycling and reusing of items facilities at the end of streets, and they had that years ago, so why can't we have the same? It's like the USA and the UK governments don't want us to 'save' the planet! They just want us to spend more on fuel (especially in UK) so the PM gets more taxes from us poor citizens, to spend on his luxury Jet Plane to get from place to place.

Because we overthrew Hitler to get rid of that mentality.

Anyone who wants government to force us to obey the religion of environmentalism is going to be treated like Hitler by the rest of us. This is supposed to be the land of the free, not the land of the environmentalist dictator.

You don't even have any solid proof that anything is wrong, other than the blather spewed by Al Gore and his bad science. I want to see REAL science as proof, not he bad stuff we hear today.

I encourage everyone to find alternate sources of energy. But the fears of a bunch of crybabies are not sufficient to require the force …