Posts by MidiMagic

Put one link on the page that goes to a page of links.

If you want bottom edges to align, use either absolute sizing or a table.

This is one failure of the div method. Divs size themselves to sontents, not surroundings.

One thing to remember is to not put size defining objects or values in the same div with surrounding styles (margins, borders, and padding). Instead, nest them in the order you want them to appear. Set margins, borders, and padding to 0 in size-defining divs with an appropriate class. This removes the differences between IE and FF.

Real time games don't work when you are doing system conversions to make them run. You need the actual operating system the game requires, or it will run s-l-o-w.

Religious beliefs, eh? While I might be getting your drift, I don't know what you mean.

Your statement depends on what you mean by "religious". I do agree that religious beliefs should not become part of law.

I'm don't know how you see spanking as a religious belief. Unless you call whatever anyone holds to be true, or reality, or important, religion. I could go with that if it's what you mean. Certainly not everyone who spanks or is against spanking thinks of their attitude as a religious belief as they think of religion in general.

Please elaborate

The Bible prescribes corporal punishment for misbehaving kids (Proverbs 13:24; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:15)

The Baha'i Faith is an Asian religion that prohibits corporal punishment. The rules of Political Correctness are plagiarized from the Baha'i Faith.

Because both are religious beliefs, neither may be made part of the law without violating the First Amendment.

Murphy's original laws:
1. It's never as easy as it looks.
2. Everything will take longer than you think it will.
3. If anything can go wrong, it will.
4. When left to themselves, things go from bad to worse.
5. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Fitznik's corollary to Murphy's law:
- Originlal documents will be destroyed by the copier.

O'Toole's revelation:
Murphy was an optimist.

Peter's commentary:
O'Toole was an optimist.

Lowery's laws of the lab (see previous post):
5. Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
6. Under the most carefully controlled conditions, the organism will do whatever it wants to do.
7. No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a negative example.

Maier's Law:
- If the facts don't fit the theory, they must be disposed of.

Hynek's corollary to Maier's law:
- Use file 13 (the wastebasket).

Law of selective gravitation:
- A falling object will land where it will do the most damage.

Jennings' corollary:
- The probability of toast falling buttered side down is proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Phumble's Law:
- Do it yesterday.

Pedro's law:
- Do it tomorrow.

Marlow's Law:
- When asked to give the probability of a given technical success, don't.

Ziegler's Law:
- People …

More laws:

Imbesi's law on the conservation of filth:
- In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.
- But you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

Boren's laws:
1. When in charge, ponder.
2. When in trouble, delegate.
3. When in doubt, mumble.

Corollary for cats:
3. When in doubt, wash.

The waste multiplier law:
- If you put a teaspoon of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage.
- If you put a teaspoon of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage.

- If you set n mousetraps, the n+1 mouse gets all the cheese.

Measurement laws:
1. measure with micrometer
2. Mark with chalk
3. Cut with ax
4. Measure once, cut twice

Lurry's commentary on the measurement laws:

Measure once, cut once, measure again, cut again, get another piece and start over because it's now too short.

Lowry's Laws of the Lab:
1. Hot glass looks exactly like cold glass.
2. Once an experiment is fouled up, anything done to improvement makes it worse.
3. For any given result, someone can be found to fake it, deny it, or claim it happened according to his pet theory.
4. If n ingredients are needed for an experiment, n-1 will be available.

Zymurgy's evolving system dynamics law:
- Once …

How 'bout the 3 laws of thermodynamics re-phrased:
1) You can't win
2) You can't break even
3) You can't get out of the game.

Murphy fought entropy and entropy won

Capitalism is based on the false assumption you can win (but government prevents that)

Socialism is based on the false assumption that you can break even.

Mysticism and Transcendental Meditation are based on the false assumption that you can quit the game.

One hemidemisemiquaver at a time.

Click...oops, bumped the power strip, the computer shut down...

That DID happen during one of the exams.

Fortunately, it was in Access, which saves everything. I recovered the file, and had the student finish on another computer (the power cord kept falling out of the back of the computer by itself).

Another weird thing that happened was that the keyboard on one computer locked up. But I found the trouble: the girl's huge purse was pressing the escape key.

I had a friend wake up half-way through one of his finals once...

In bed, or at his desk?

Venus is showing global warming?! Venus has an ambient temperature at about the boiling point of lead (@800 degs C) - it would take quite a change to show warming. It is postulated that Venus was much more earth-like in the past and that some sort of out of control (heh,heh - dang, I just love my sense of humor) global warming raised the temp to what it is now.

Satellites are showing temperature increases. And the icecaps are shrinking on Mars.

What the hell is laws of floating bodies? If you are referring specifically to the idiosyncratic behavior of water molecules forming crystals in hexagonal rings making the specific gravity of water higher than the specific gravity of ice, then what scientists are actually referring to is the ice on the Antarctic continent dropping into the ocean and displacing 'x' amount of water and the ice on the Antarctic continent melting and running into the oceans. Both of these events will raise the levels of the oceans all over the world

I am referring to the statement of one global warming "expert," who stated specifically that if just the ice in the north polar cap that is over the ocean were to melt, it would raise the sea level by three feet. He is wrong. Archimedes proved that a sunken body displaces its volume in water, while a floating body displaces its weight. The floating ice and the melted water both displace the same amount of water …

People who hijack threads with their overly passionate beliefs.

People who are annoyed by thread hijacking. :icon_cheesygrin:

- Too many people are basing their demands for action on the dire predictions of what "might" happen if global warming in fact occurs, instead of on whether or not global warming has been shown to be occurring.

Wow, I can only just say 'wow' - where to start --- okay, let's stick with just CO2, CO2 is a gas and it dissolves in water; gases dissolve better in cold liquids better than they do in warm liquids so as the oceans warm up, less gas is dissolved into the ocean, in fact the oceans start to give up already dissolved CO2 adding more CO2 to the atmosphere. Then there are the water-vapor tests, evaporative tests (this one is really cool, kids in schools all over the world go outside and place a pan of water (a pre-measured, known amount, the same every day) out in the same spot and the water loss is measured this experiment has been going on for 50 years.

This is exactly what I meant. If the warming is NOT occurring, the outcomes of these tests are irrelevant.

They are putting the cart before the horse. First find out if global warming is in fact happening, before using scare tactics based on any possible effects of the warming.

And offsetting the fact that more CO2 will be in the air is the increased efficiency of plant life in a warmer climate.

What kind of idiot texts when driving??? I can't even climb the stairs properly when I'm texting!

The guy who knocked down the tree across the street.

dont know. Iamthewee is a bit wierd sometimes, just ignore it

Maybe his user name explains that. :icon_cheesygrin:

Two questions:

1. are you parsing the values before adding or multiplying them?

Right now, it looks like you are multiplying the 1 in your sample by the equal sign.

2. Are you taking into account different lengths of numbers?

I use a stack when I parse for a calculator, since ordinary arithmetic uses infix operators with algebraic precedence.

But that depends on what monitor resolution someone is using.

Security??? I think of security as keeping people from breaking into a computer and doing damage, or keeping them from stealing Social Insecurity numbers. I don't think of someone downloading an image from your page as a security issue, but a copyright infringement.

Something tells me that copyright will disappear in ten years or less, because the Internet will make it cost-prohibitive to enforce.

For your "security" reasons, you should store the watermarked image on the site, instead of the plain image.

But note that watermark-removal software is easy to write.

Many browsers leave an object that has had a content change at the largest size the object has needed to be so far, to avoid having to change it again. They also don't like to do unnecessary work.

"Secure" and "JavaScript" can't exist together.

Anyone can read your JavaScript text by downloading the page. Thus, they can know how to access the secure connection.

And makes consumers pay through the nose just to keep what they already have.

More like, keeps them in a job. Zing!

Make-work is never economically feasible. It is a huge drain on the economy. We are in such a drain right now, because of the forced change to HDTV.

HELP!!!

I have Windows XP and Office 2003.

When doing a spelling and grammar check in Word, I occasionally get a "comparison - revise text?" error on text. I have no idea what this error means, or how to correct it. The text looks fine. All of the tenses, persons, numbers, and other grammatical points match. It gives me the error every time I compare two values verbally in what is to become a mathematics text.

Since I don't know what kind of error this is, I don't know if I am making a grammatical error I don't recognize, or if I am violating some provision of the Politically Correct religion that Microsoft likes to cram down people's throats (such as using gender-specific wording).

(It also once wanted me to change the word "black" (in an accounting balance sheet) to "African-American.")

What does this mean?

Trying to adjust the monitor for hindsight.

There are two requirements for a good password:

1. Nobody else would think of it

2. You can remember it

My biggest problem is that I have 12 accounts with different passwords. I keep forgetting which one goes with which account.

I think it would be better to have multiple short passwords, instead of a longer password. Of course, the software must not give clues by rejecting as soon as one password is bad. It should wait until the last one is entered.

> - Fake science in globbal warming.
Completely ignoring legitimate climate change science.

I agree that there is some real science going on. Most of it implicates the sun getting brighter (Venus, Mars, and Titan are showing global warming too).

On the other hand, I have caught a lot of scientists and polluticians doing bad science:

- One hack said that melting the icecap over the Arctic Ocean would raise sea level by three feet. He totally ignored the laws of floating bodies.

- The studies of air trapped in ice ignore the fact that ice is NOT a hermetic seal for CO2. It has a CO2 removal mechanism - the same one that makes caves.

- They say that global warming is a cause of glacier melting. Then they turn around and say that, because glaciers are melting, global warming must be occurring. Using that same faulty logic, I could prove that you were driving drunk solely because you were in an accident.

- The studies of temperatures over the last 200 years ignore the fact that the instruments available at the beginning of the period did not have enough accuracy to be able to report the change the study reports.

- Those same studies ignored the redefinition of the Fahrenheit scale in 1901 to be an exact conversion to and from the Celsius scale, and the fact that most US Weather Bureau (later National Weather Service) temperatures come from airports, which …

I think I fell asleep during the news, and absorbed some of the schpiel.

I prefer MS-DOS over any of the current systems.

What I DON'T need is the multitasking/timesharing. It prevents certain kinds of scientific research.

"The Dog Deleted My Homework"

Now that I am teaching, I have come across several odd excuses people gave for missing their examinations or not showing up on time:

- "Yesterday was Monday??? You're kidding!!!" (She accidentally set her clock back a day when setting it back an hour for Daylight-Saving Time.) --- Wins the Strangest Award!

- "I forgot."

- "I had to go visit my cousin in Chicago."

- "The police had the roads blocked off." (This one was true. What police thought was a sniper turned out to be a law student shooting at his tort-law textbook in the parking lot of his apartment building. But they blocked off all traffic on the two highways that go from the center of town to the college - they pass on opposite sides of the apartment complex. I wouldn't have been there either, except that I knew another way to get there using back roads.)

- "My boss scheduled me to attend a sales convention in Chicago." (She had a note signed by the boss, so I granted taking the test with another section on a different date.)

- "I got a speeding ticket trying to get here on time for the test."

- "My computer account was suspended for playing games online." (He showed up, but couldn't log in to open the test.)

- "My 4WD got stuck in mud in my driveway." (An hour late for a 3-hour …

"Well, where did you have it last?" (I'm looking for the cat.)

Most of mine are what people do in traffic:

- Bicycle riders breaking the law, endangering themselves and others in the process. (Bicycles are the same as motor vehicles in most states.)

- Drivers who are in too much of a hurry to be safe or obey the law.

- Drivers who don't use their turn signals.

- Drivers who don't leave enough space when changing lanes.

- Pedestrians who don't realize that pedestrians don't always have the right of way.

- People jogging, skating, or skateboarding in traffic (all are illegal here).

Others:

- Microsoft changing the software every three years.

- Government officials greedy for more taxes, when they are already getting 72 percent.

- Fake science in globbal warming.

nationalised healthcare works. We have had it for 40 years

I am very afraid of it. Our tax rates are high enough that adding national health care would push it over 100 percent.

I trust government about as far as I can throw it.

I am also afraid that the alternate medical procedures I need because of my allergies will be eliminated to save money.

I laughed at it too, for half an hour, the first time it happened. It was the first time I ever woke up from a dream laughing.

I have several repeating dreams:

- I am building huge databases about really stupid stuff (e.g. the number of tacos eaten daily in each state) in Access.

- This cute girl is after me to the point of becoming a pest.

- I am working on a construction site. Suddenly I hear the "Jaws" theme. After the first 8 notes play, an expensive drain assembly falls off the pipe and shatters on the floor.

- Democrats have destroyed the economy with their health care program to the point where the only jobs are illegal underground ones. You can't work unless you hide from government.

- Judge Judy and Judge Milian are suing each other in Judge Alex's court.

- The guys from Law and Order burst into my house and force me to replace my analog TV and tapes with digital.

It doesn't matter what science says about spanking.

Both spanking, and the desire to abolish spanking, are religious beliefs. Both are protected by the Constitution, and neither should become part of the law.

I have seen several times where the long text is cut off at the edge of the box around the post. Occasionally, I see it go under the ad on the right and reappear on the other side of it (with parts hidden by the ad).

I would look at the page the shortcut accesses for the trouble.

This is a control that belongs to the user, not to you.

I am getting very tired of people w2ho want to take over the computers of people who are viewing their pages.

You have no right to control how the user's browser looks or what toolbars are displayed. Attempts to do this are security violations, and might violate federal law.

I can't do it when an ad has taken control of system time, until the ad finishes running.

If Microsoft weren't trying to stifle competition, it wouldn't be changing the OS every 3 or 4 years.

These changes make software developers have to start over on the software they sell.

It could be a fake program - a trojan horse.

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/

You need to change one of the drive names to a different letter.

You will lose some customers who do not believe in electronic fund transfer for religious or security reasons. Always continue to allow traditional payments.

Why do you want to hide images? If you don't want people to see your images, don't put them on the Internet.

You aren't going to stop people from copying your images either. Anyone can do a Ctrl-Print-Screen and recover the image in MS Paint.

Margin is outside the border. Padding is inside the border.

Does the ISP allow server-side scripts?

Those items you want to remove are part of the MySpace portion of the page, not the portion you write. You can't change them, because they are added by MySpace at the time someone opens the page in their browser.

What relationships are you creating between the table? That is central to the ER diagram. It shows the relationships.

Look here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa224825(sql.80).aspx

Figure 2 is quite instructive.

I would suggest looking at Microsoft Access, since it comes with Microsoft Office.

You need to show the following:

- A box for each table in the database, with all of the variables listed inside the box.

- A line connecting each relationship. It runs between the variables in the two tables that are related.

- Indications of whether the relationship is one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many. These are usually a 1 for the "one" end of a line, and an infinity symbol for the "many" end of a line.

Microsoft Access uses ER diagrams in the Relationships window to let you use the mouse to create and remove relationships.

Google "ER diagram" to see more.

You need a server-side script that interfaces to your database. Try PHP.