Posts by MidiMagic

>My bank couldn't cash my paycheck with the power out. They couldn't open the cash drawers.

They don't have a button?

It's electric.

That doesn't make any sense. It's just a site about gorilla masks.

The worst case of weather forecasting I ever saw was in 1966, when I shoveled 12 inches of "partly cloudy" off the driveway.

The Day After Tomorrow is FICTION, written by screenwriters who are afraid of climate change, but not afraid enough to keep from going on strike.

Positively pixelated.

So in your opinion, what are "REAL JOBS" and how do they relate to tax cuts?

Real jobs are productive jobs, where people work to produce a product or service that other people want and able to pay for.

Taxes take away money from individuals and businesses. That money would otherwise be used to buy the products that would cause businesses to need to hire more people.

Work is the major source of wealth.
Eating and shelter are the major consumers of wealth.

Here are examples of jobs that are not "real" jobs, because they do not produce a product or service that most people want to buy. These jobs consume wealth, instead of creating it:

- Tax collector
- Artist (except commercial art, and the very few who become collectible)
- Actor (except the very few used by Hollywodd)
- Musician (except the very few used by record companies)
- Bureaucrat
- Assessor
- Elected official
- Curator
- Actuary
- Government regulator
- Building inspector
- Planning and zoning expert
- Parking meter attendant
- Teachers teaching nonproductive skills (e.g. classical literature, poetry, folklore)
- Public school team coaches
- Government comptroller
- Customs officer
- Environmentalist

I can't think of anything in the world with a lower level of necessity than this.

We could replace all of them with machines. I know where we can get some used garbage trucks.

I usually take about a minute and a half if I hurry. But usually I don't hurry, because you can break your cube (permanently) if you do.

I use a method that puts the cube together in the following order:

Top edges
Top corners
Equator edges
Bottom corners
Bottom edges

I also made my own cubes, each with different properties:

- Corner orientation doesn't matter, center orientation does matter

- Edge orientation doesn't matter, center orientation does matter

- Center orientation matters too

- Alphabet cube (there are 26 cubies, so each one gets a letter of the alphabet on all of its faces, and all of them must face the same way on each face)

- 3X3 cube that behaves like a 2X2 cube

- Easy cube (all faces but one are the same color)

I once made one with an audio amplifier, an optoisolator, a resistor, and a camera flashgun.

The ball bearing in the jello looked like a sink dyed red (with the ball being the drain) to me.

Where the ad blocker is really needed is in the website server. :icon_mrgreen:

Why are you so picky?

These infractions don't crash browsers or crash the website. They are only minor annoyances.

Don't be annoyed. A noid ruins your pizza.

Depending on how the code is written, you might need to refresh the forum page before using that link.

It might be a limitation imposed by your ISP.

This is especially likely if the ISP is a school computer network.

In order to get it to auto-adjust to browser window size, all of the elements of the page must be able to change size.

Alternately, you can force the browser to use a horizontal scrollbar if stuff doesn't fit.

You need a server-side script.

CSS is not the problem. I use CSS with tables too. The REAL problem is that the div method of making columns falls apart if something won't fit in the allowed space. Usually this happens when the browser window changes size.

It is not a terrible event if you use a table, especially if you must have the parts render in the same relationship to each other. Table is not deprecated. It will force a horizontal scrollbar if stuff doesn't fit, instead of falling apart.

The REAL problem with using tables for layout is that it isn't politically correct. It won't render correctly on devices intended to audibly read a website for the blind. At the beginning of each cell, it inserts verbal text similar to "Table row 3, column 1" into the audible rendering.

The REAL problem with the div method is that there is no equivalent to the tr tag to force stuff to stay in rows. There is also no equivalent to rowspan.

So I suggest that you try to get divs to render what you want. If they don't work, use a table anyway. It will still validate.

What is NOT proper usage is using tables to define page margins. Before CSS margins existed, page authors used table to put margins around the page.

You aren't going to save a binary file as a text file.

The question is: do you want to make a binary dump of the file (displaying the hexadecimal code for the content of each byte as text), or separate out the bytes themselves, leaving them in numeric form?

In VB, use the hex$(byte1) function to turn a byte's internal value (byte1) into the text representing that value. The result is a string with two hexadecimal digits.

It's the old difference between IE and FF.

IE puts all of the paraphernalia (margin, border, etc) around the box object inside the defined size of the box. FF puts them outside the defined size of a box.

The only way to fix this is to nest box objects. Define the size of one of them, and put the paraphernalia on the other one. Then you can control which one is inside.

If you want the code to wait until a box is checked, you have to use a loop.

We don't do your homework for your classes.

You need an id on the object you want to make shimmer.

Also. most browsers will not update the screen until the script either ends or pauses execution (as in an alert statement).

You may need to recursively call your function with setInterval

We need to know what these are and what variables and/or parameters they need or affect:

- photoslider.filters
- photoslider.filters.revealTrans.Transition
- photoslider.filters.revealTrans.stop()
- photoslider.filters.revealTrans.apply()
- speed
- processed
- window.onload 

setInterval is a built-in function. You can't use its name for another purpose.

All you need inside the html file is a small piece of JavaScript, just enough to call a function. Those functions can be in a separate .js file.

I see two rendering killers in the above code.

This doesn't work any more with the latest browsers:

<!--
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Get rid of it.

This line confuses the browser's parser:

actm.innerHTML += "<table class='tableborder'>Active Topics Removed</table>"

As soon as the parser gets to the <, it gets lost.

The Weather Channel, the History Channel, and Discovery are pushing global warming so all of the environmentalcases will watch the advertising.

I have a question. If anyone knows the answer, I'd like to hear from you. The question is:

1. Is there really more CO2 in the atmosphere than in past years? (I suspect that there is.)

2. Did it get there because of industrial polution and automobiles (which add CO2) or from deforestation (which reduces the vegatation that consume CO2 and produce O2)?

Hoppy

We really don't know. The "evidence" given relies on ice being a hermetic seal for the atmospheric gases trapped in it.

Ice is NOT a hermetic seal for CO2, although it is for most of the other gases in the atmosphere. CO2 can combine with the H2O in the ice, forming H2CO3 (carbonic acid). This can then migrate through the ice. If the ice is in contact with the ocean or rock, the CO2 is carried away to react with the minerals in the water, or with the rock. This produces insoluble carbonates, and is not a reversible reaction.

Infinity is the tangent of 90 degrees.

Infinity exists. There's a setting of infinity on my camera.

C# makes you B flat.

I liked these:

Hill and Billary Clinton.

JO(hn )KE(rry)

Wonder what kind of label they attach to a 2000 pound bomb?

Point this end toward target.

The concept of no time does not mean there is no communication. Instead, there is no such thing as a sequence of events. Everything is simultaneous (including all of earth's history). The time we experience on earth is a space dimension as seen from heaven.

The big flash (it didn't bang - no sound) is in the center of this four-dimensional space, with all distances from the center indicating time.

What is the second picture?

Power failure!

Proof.

My bank couldn't cash my paycheck with the power out. They couldn't open the cash drawers.

Which ad? I was bombarded!

I heard music, but popups kept covering the video.

Here's another strange geography quiz:

1. What point on the earth's surface is farthest from the center of the earth?

2. What point on the earth's surface is highest above sea level?

3. What is the tallest mountain on earth, from base to peak?

4. What point on the solid surface of earth (ignore whether or not it is under water) is closest to the center of the Earth?

5. What point on the solid surface of earth (ignore whether or not it is under water) is farthest below sea level?

6. Which explorer got closer to the center of the earth when he made his most famous expedition?

- Admiral Richard Byrd (flew over north pole)
- Roald Amundsen (dogsled to the south pole)
- Jacques Cousteau (deepest bathyscaphe trip)

7. Which of those three explorers was farthest from the center of the earth when he made his most famous expedition?

8. What three men jointly traveled faster than any other men ever traveled in history?

9. What three men jointly hold the altitude record of going farthest from the surface of the earth?

10. Name a country with three separated parts of its main geographical area (not counting territories).

11. What country has the longest combined lengths of its coastlines?

12. What three countries have "panhandles" (long thin areas projecting from the main area, similar to Oklahoma's) that spiral around each other?

…

Here are the answers, using the 180 meridian as the dividing line between east and west.

East: Alaska (some Aleutian islands are across the 180 meridian.

North: Alaska

West: Alaska (the Aleutians just short of the 180 meridian are farther west than Hawaii).

South: Hawaii is much farther south than Florida.

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If we use the International Date Line instead of the 180 meridian, only one of those changes. Maine becomes the easternmost state. Those Alaskan islands become the westernmost point in the US.

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Now, if we limit the search to the 48 contiguous states, we get some surprising answers:

East: Maine

North: Minnesota (Lake of the Woods sticks north into Canada)

West: Washington

South: Florida

But I can't say the same for many of our senitors (such as Ted Kennedy) who have been in the Senate for many many years.

Why is someone who killed someone drunk driving allowed to be in office?

Tax cuts are drastically needed, so we can have REAL JOBS again.

Some of our statutes are as amusing as some of our statues.

I collect these:

- In Indiana, it is illegal to get a fish drunk.

- In Michigan, you are not allowed to possess a motorcycle helmet unless you own a motorcycle.

- In Boston MA, it is illegal to open an umbrella in the presence of a horse.

- In Nashville IN, the colors allowed on the exteriors of houses and buildings must conform to a short list of "historic" colors.

- California regulates consumer exposure to certain substances in products to the OSHA levels people who work in factories (and receive much higher exposure times) are limited to.

- In Indiana, it is required that parents take their children to get immunizations, but it is illegal to force a child to get into a car if the child does not want to.

- A Missouri law states that when two automobiles meet at an intersection, both shall stop, and neither shall move until the other has left the intersection.

- It is illegal in most states for welfare payments to be used to pay a mortgage payment, but if the person loses his house to foreclosure, it is legal for welfare payments to be used to pay a rent payment that is much higher than the mortgage payment was.

- In Philadelphia PA, it is illegal to walk backwards during a concert.

- In Montana, it …

The problem is not the mouse.

It's that the scrollbar is invisible against the gray right margin. I can't see it. In Firefox, the scrollbar and the right margin are rendered the same color. I can see the buttons at the ends of the scrollbar and I can see the handle, but the scrollbar itself is invisible.

I usually scroll by screens, using the part of the scrollbar that is now invisible.

I can't see the edge of the scrollbar to tell whether or not the mouse pointer tip is inside the scrollbar. Unless the handle or one of the end buttons is near the pointer, I can't tell if I am on the scrollbar or not.

No, I have not changed the color scheme in the Control Panel / Display settings. It is the standard Windows color scheme. But I am using a high screen resolution.

All of the pages are missing their title tag pairs. They belong right after the opening head tag.

It is a good idea to make all JavaScript programs external files.There are too many components in JavaScript programs that can confuse html browsers.

The problems are:

1. We aren't mind readers. We don't know what all of the parameters and variables represent.

2. Your lines are too long. The right ends of many of your statements are cut off by the window edge.

I don't know why, but that title brought to mind Godzilla stomping a cookie factory. :icon_mrgreen:

I don't know the code to do that. Note that it will not work with strict doctypes.

Normally the portrait/landscape setting is stored in a document, or (in the case of a web browser) is set as a default.

Your links are broken.

Does the CSS contain the font-size attribute 'larger'? If so, each time it is encountered, it makes the font larger, relative to the lastr time it was encountered.

If the web surfer is at work, he will be very mad when the sudden burst of sound causes massive prairie-dogging in the cubicles.

I make mine in Corel PhotoPaint.

Your title tags are missing, for one thing. They are required.

You have < characters and unencoded quote marks in your JavaScript. This confuses the rendering. You need to remove those characters from the JavaScript, or use an external JavaScript file, to prevent this.

That attribute does not belong to the web designer. It belongs to the owner of the computer that is displaying the web page. It's in his printer settings on his hard disk. It is an Internet security violation for a web page to change the internal settings on a user's computer.

Think of the lost business time a user might incur if his printer orientation is suddenly changed without his knowledge. He might print twenty documents, and then walk over to the printer and
find that he has to print all of them again. A certain basketball coach might throw the printer across the room.

IE has a nonstandard way to change the print orientation from a website (and puts it back after the user leaves that site), but it doesn't work on other browsers.

Just ask the user to make the setting change before printing.

You opened the "height" can of worms, and now the only way to recan them is to get a bigger can.

First of all, whether the getElementById gets the correct value depends on how that value got there.

- The value is available if it got there through rendering of the original web page, or if it was set by the JavaScript program.

- A former value is returned if some dynamic content other than the JavaScript changed the attribute. An example is a div resizing itself to hold an object that was not loaded when the original page was rendered.

You have at least 3 troubles there:

1. Possible copyright law violation if you don't have permission to use the materials.

2. A security violation. All files for a given page must usually come from the same server. Unless the user and the ISP severely reduce their security settings, anything else is suspected as malicious code by the security features.

3. Windows and frames are made to contain web pages. Div tags are not. You will have to strip the file to only some inner-body content to display it in a div. A popup is a window, not a div.