Posts by MidiMagic

I suppose that is only part of the equation and doesn't explain the day-to-day fluctuation in the world money market. Like many other things the value of one country's currency is what other countries are willing to pay for it on the various stock exchanges around the world.

My equation was long term.

Short term variations are caused by interest variations, government changing the interest rate, hirings and firings, and world markets. But those cause blips, not long-term changes.

Question: What happened to plain m&m? I don't seer any difference in them, other than the colors.

Have Osama Bin Laden, Al Gore, and Bill Clinton committed. :icon_mrgreen:

Buy the replacement rubber parts for my Dual 1006 (they were still available then).

Demand a 10 percent maximum tax.

Do you or your ISP have images disabled?

Is your ISP so overloaded that it is dumping or delaying image files?

Please realize that you can't embed your player in a web page and have others use it. They can use only the players they have installed on their own computers.

Realize that the user will need the same player to see your page. Not everyone has it.

You need a separate button for each recipient.

What you want is a security violation. You can't edit the contents of a sendmail tag dynamically.

I think it's a lorem ipsum dolor problem. :icon_mrgreen:

I don't see what you are describing, but I do see a white box around the last selection clicked.

What are you calling the "main navigation menu"?

Put the following style on both the a tag and the img tag:

.nosurr {margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0;}

Thus turns off margin, border, and padding.

That's the nature of div.

The only way I can think of is to place something with an absolute width on the screen. It must be wide enough to activate the horizontal scrollbar when the browser window is small enough to cause the div stacking.

It might be that the script that places the ad is the culprit. It may be adjusting the page values to make the ad work.

I see several things you need to check, and a few tips on finding this:

- The <!-- --> tags no longer protect html from scripts. They hide scripts from new browsers.

- Putting scripts in the html file (instead of external scripts) causes all kinds of hard to locate grief. I stopped using them the first week I started writing JS.

- Is there any JS code that changes the contents of anchor tags?

- Does the JS make some kind of covering box that is on top of the links in the top half of the page. A mouse can't click through a layer onto the layer below.

- I note that the top row links in the head box work.

- Have the W3C site validate the site. If it finds errors, fix them.

- Try deleting parts of the page, one at a time, in a temporary copy, and see if removing a piece makes the site work.

Is that supposed to be html or xml?

You didn't tell me how the site fails, or provide a link to the site.

Don't use either of the choices you gave. They are deprecated. Use CSS with width: 100%; Remember that IE and FF handle the styles surrounding block objects differently.

When you have a block object with a defined size:

- FF puts the surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) OUTSIDE the defined size.

- IE crams the surrounding styles INSIDE the defined size.

The cure is to not put surrounding styles on block objects of a defined size. Instead, nest two block objects (e.g. divs), one with surrounding styles and the other with the defined size. Nest them in the order you want the measurements to take effect.

I use FF, with no add-ons. I need a computer uncluttered with baggage.

It looks to me as though you are downloading a corrupt file, or one not designed for use on your computer.

Are you downloading a file for a game machine of some kind, or a file for a different computer platform?

It might also be that there is malware in the download.

I think YouTube itself is freezing. I see that too.

It also might be that your ISP stops the download while scanning for malware. Your browser might be doing that too.

One other thing: In a truly remote area, there is not likely to be a wireless station available within range.

There may be no solution.

Each country has its own radio frequency allocations. Using equipment not approved in that country is a serious violation of the law.

You have to check with EACH country's government to find out what is allowed and what is not.

You may have to carry different connection equipment for each country, and change it when you go through customs.

In IE, go to Internet Options / General / History / Setting.

This also sets other browsers.

Some websites can somehow suppress the address bar.

This is exactly what is wrong with Microsoft. They keep introducing incompatibilities.

The value of a country's currency is generally the value of the total productive work done in the county, divided by the number of units of the currency (e.g. dollars) in circulation.

Productive work is work that produces a product to be sold on the open market.

The column on the right is what happens if you restrict it to traditional poker hands. In a standard deck, there is only the nothing flush and the straight flush.

In the column on the left, the "nothing flush" has the pair, three, four, and five of a kind and full house flushes removed. Those hands are impossible with a standard deck.

The best way to do this is to deal each person a hand from a standard deck, record it, and then put the cards back in the deck before dealing to the next person. Then there are no biases.

The following scenario introduces a bias:

Seating 6 people at each table, and dealing 6 hands from a standard deck at each table.

This biases the result, because it is unlikely that two top prize winners will be at the same table.

Seating more people at some tables and less people at other tables favors people sitting at the less crowded tables.

This scenario has no bias:

Having one deck at each table, dealing only one hand at a time, and returning the cards and shuffling before dealing another player a hand.

I am sort of in the middle on this one:

- The concept of "intellectual property" didn't even exist in law until France created it in the 18th century to "protect artists and authors". So it is not a natural right like the right to life is.

- I do agree that the creator of the work does have the right to be recognized as having created the work in perpetuity.

- I totally disagree with the huge period the copyright law written by Sony Bono provides. Ten years is more than enough.

- I consider the new law's extension of the copyright periods of works made before the new law was passed to be an unconstitutional ex-post-facto law.

- I have a BIG problem with someone doing a work only once, but expecting to be paid as though he repeated all of that labor in each and every copy he licenses some manufacturer to make of the work.

- I disagree with the monopoly powers a copyright or patent gives the creator of the work. Monopolies are ALWAYS wrong.

- Exclusive contracts should be prohibited to remove their monopoly powers.

- ALL patents and copyrights should have compulsory licensing (the way sheet music and stage plays are now).

- The copyright or patent should expire when the product is no longer sold on the market, so those who still need it can get it.

- It should be illegal …

The reason that we always get an oddball in office is that there is a bias in the Plurality Voting System we use.

Whenever more than two candidates run, the Plurality Voting System is biased in favor of the candidate most unlike the others.

So the primaries and the national conventions will pick the oddest Democrat and the oddest Republican to face each other.

Then, if there are other parties running in the general election, the Plurality Vote will select the odder of the two candidates mentioned above.

The existence of a third party in the race actually changed the outcome of the Presidential election in 1992 and 2000 (and several other years before 1930). In 1992, Ross Perot handed the election to Bill Clinton just by running, and in 2000, Ralph Nader handed the election to George W Bush.

Satan filed suit against God.

God said he could easily win.

Then Satan said, "Oh, really? Where are you going to get a lawyer?"

In my opinion, Hollywodd is the main cause of the decline in morals. The producers, writers, directors, and actors demand "artistic freedom," but their artistic freedom often teaches people the wrong thing to do.

Some of the Hays production code got cut off by the stupid time limit:

- Defeat of the law shall not be depicted.
- No toilets or body discharges.
- No showing the inside of a human thigh.
- No machine guns, except in war pictures.

Thirty minutes is NOT enough time when transferring information from various sources!!!! Remember that the edit window CLEARS when you visit another website to get info. So you have to save and then edit to add each new piece of information.

The attitude towards war was immensely different for my parents than it was for my generation. Why? Because we saw the grisly details piped in to our homes every day, (something generations for the previous 10,000 years did not have the benefit of.)

Actually, there were several large differences:

1. Anti-war demonstrators were arrested as fifth-columnists in World War II. Protesting wars was considered to be treason in earlier wars.

2. The press was pressured to not report negatively about World War II. The government censored newsreels too. Since they had to go through customs to be shown in the US, government could control what came in to be shown.

3. News networks didn't exist until just before World War II, and television was not in general use until 1950. Customs can't stop airwaves from crossing borders.

4. The Hays Commission production code* forbade movies showing the bloodiness of war.

5. The use of conscription in the foreign-policy-driven wars in Korea and Vietnam changed public opinion.

6. Religion had not been removed from public schools. Christianity is not either pro-war or anti-war, and was the dominant religion taught in schools. Also, the belief in afterlife removes a lot of the fears of war. But after religion was removed from the schools, "scholars" became interested in Asian religions, including the following one:

7. The anti-war Baha'i religion was largely unknown in the US until the 1960s. It was mostly confined to Pakistan and India. …

You can't put one kind of movie file inside another kind of movie just by pasting it.

You are going to have to deconstruct the animated .gif file into its component images, and insert the proper number of copies of each individual image into the individual movie frames.

I can't troubleshoot it unless the code that fails is present.

But you can't put anything complicated inside an a tag. It must not be resized, and it must not overlap other objects (especially other a tags).

I see a circular reference error when a mouse hover changes the size of something inside a pair of a tags. A clickable zone must not change size.

I took another look and found my security system in IE reporting the page as a suspected phishing site.

I think your attempt to disguise your email address is causing this.

The CPU usage was my security software reacting to this suspected site.

I did notice that the links at the top right work. I also noticed that the link address fails to appear in the status bar when it is unclickable.

One other thing: Your quoted string in the disguised email address may be longer than the longest string IE can accept.

Why do you need a tree structure? What's wrong with the list structure provided?

He may have shut off the history so you can't see what sites he visited.

Two possibilities:

1. You changed the setting of the number of items to keep in history.

2. One of the sites is selfish, and either deletes or changes the history in an attempt to keep you from using your back button. The webmaster should be marked as spam.

This is still confusing.

Someone has come up with a way to use coal without the carbon dioxide. They bubble the exhaust into sunlit tanks of algae.

Why can't we have huge solar panel fields in deserts? Where there is the most sun, yes it would take a while to build, and it would cost a lot of money, but the amount of energy that usually would be used on sand could be blasted onto a solar panel providing energy for all.

They are mostly federally-protected habitats.

I'd need a time machine.

I want to go to the United States before the 16th Amendment and Franklin Roosevelt happened.

1. Pay off my mortgage.

2. Work to change the following:

- Remove the powers of all governments to do anything other than prevent crime.

- Abolish the Plurality Voting System and all other voting systems with biases built into them.

- Require all politicians in office to pay three times the taxes all other people pay.

- Get Political Correctness and Environmentalism recognized as the religions they are, and treated appropriately by governments. Their tenets would not allowed to be made into laws.

- Limit the amount of tax any individual is required to pay to 10 percent.

- Require scientific reviews by disinterested scientists of all scientific claims presented to governments with the intent to require laws to be passed.

The problem is that I really don't like any of them.

But the ones I really don't want are the ones who would have government take over health care. They would likely remove the alternative medicines I need due to allergies to "save money".

It did it on Firefox for me the night the first post was made. I thought the browser crashed, so I rebooted. It was still there, so I quit the browser. It was gone when I returned two days later.

I haven't seen it since. But it killed two posts I made.

It sounds like they don't allow websites, or they require your site to be built remotely on their server.

In that case, it still might be that the browser can't take an absolute DOS path, or a path in that form.

- It might require a path relative to the location of the web page.

- You might have a case problem. Different web browsers react differently to uppercase in filenames and folder names. All Internet addresses are lowercase.

- Is there a possibility that there are two possible paths that differ only in case?

- Some browsers can't look on other drives, or find network drives.

- Do you have a syntax error somewhere?

- Try copying the object to the same folder your primary html file is in, and addressing it as just a file without a path.

Why must everyone do this?

It is not accessible. It is extremely annoying to a dyslexic when the page changes as the mouse traverses it.

I automatically hit my BACK button whenever I see it. You lose viewers that way.

The script is taking all of the CPU time.

You can't have a script running all the time and expect other functions to work normally and concurrently. The script should either be started by a click, or it should run intermittently (Use setInterval instead of a while loop).

If the script is constantly rewriting the page, then immediately after the page rewrites, windows scans for a mouse click. If you fail to click in the tiny instant between the rewrite and the scan, the click is lost because of the rewrite.

It may be that the browser scans through the links to see if the mouse is on any of them before looking for the click. In that case, it's more likely that a click on the lower half is recognized.

I had the same kind of trouble last year. I had to make the script intermittent to solve it.

Why does everyone have to use popups and moving images for everything???

The menu on the left wiggles like Jello when the mouse passes over it. Yeeesh! Get the dramamine! Is that a website or an aquarium?

I don't see any photos on the left, or any code for them, in the second page.

To make a picture into a link, put the img tag between the parts of the a tag pair.

Watch using mixed case in ids and classes. IE gets confused with this. Until they fix this, all ids and classes should be entirely lower case.

It's up to you. There's no Internet police other than W3C, and they approve both methods.

I usually use the rrggbb method, because I want more control over the exact color. But I then often put a comment to the right of the CSS line with the name of the color I want (e.g. "puce").