Posts by MidiMagic

"Wireless technology" is why we are losing our analog TV channels in 2009.

And too much government spending is why we are losing jobs.

All politicians produce carbon dioxide and hot air.

Maybe we need a BIG containment dome around Washington DC, to keep hot air, carbon dioxide, and excess taxation and regulation from escaping.

As with others of this type, it works better spoken than written.

The third word is 'Language', as it occupies the third slot in the phrase 'The' 'English' 'Language'.

Edit: Adding another riddle of my own.

I am a devourer.

All that crosses my path will I engulf, though
some meals I am forced to gnaw on for a time
before I finally consume them.

The fickle wind is both my greatest ally and
my greatest foe. The touch of her breath may
give me new life, or may utterly obliterate me.

As the wind is to me, so I am become to mankind.
He may harness my power for himself, and I will
aid him, but should he grow careless, he too
will I devour.

Though they be held back, the stones of the
deepest earth desire to take on my nature.
Should they be freed upon the world, for a
time they too will devour all they touch,
even as I devour.

What am I?

A shadow?

Put simply wysiwyg mode is a major pain in the proverbial. I'd switch to standard mode for starters, then you won't get any change of font sizes.

I had switched to standard some time ago. I just realized that somehow I got switched back to whizzywig (I think of that clown with spinning hair) without my knowledge. I just changed it back. We will see if this ends what I am starting to call the "lumpy code indenting" trouble.

But I still have the posting delays and the ISP delays. Those are imposed by others.

I did experience a posting delay. I posted this as soon as the posting delay ended. The progress bar is not present, so I do not expect a posting delay.

My editor is notepad, not word.

I wonder if that is the answer. The editor always defaults to whizzywig, and it happens then.

It seems to be that fonts appear in the code when I download code from my ISP file server, instead of getting the file off my backup CD-ROM. If I get the fonts off the backup, this does not happen. But I don't always have that disc handy.

I do still have a problem if I get a phone call while editing. When I return, the edit session won't save. And with the current posting delays and the time needed to log onto the ISP server, half an hour still seems too short.

As I type, the progress bar shows that something is still trying to load. This usually means a posting delay is imminent.

What's wrong with the one in the browser window?

You are trying to do something that belongs to the browser in the user's computer. It does not belong to you.

The loading bar is part of the browser. You are not really supposed to have control until the page has already finished loading. When you try to control the loading sequence, you mess everything up.

I'm really surprised that it works in any browser.

By "pixel size", I mean the number of pixels in the height of the current browser window. I got clobbered by a phone call while editing, saved out, and was unable to change it afterwards it due to the stupid half-hour rule.

I opened all of them and clicked on all of the thumbnails. I even tried opening them in different orders, and changing the browser window size (some of my common debugging methods).

It may be a browser setting, or something your server or ISP is adding.

I do have my browser set to "shrink image to fit window". But none of the images I saw were large enough to invoke this.

It might be a subtle difference, such as the screen resolution, the internet cache size, the default font size, or an oddball font set as the default.

One other little thought comes to mind:

If you are using JS or server-side scripts for several different applications, and used the same namespace for all of them, it's possible that a common variable name in two different applications is passing unintended information back and forth between them.

I'm not. It was one my old employer provided. I can't remember whose it was.

Several times today, the page has refreshed by itself while I was entering a post. One time it happened while I was editing a post (the edit box disappeared and the unedited page reappeared). Each time, I lost the text I entered.

GRIMBIMBLES MOOMSNOPS! (An exclamation from an old Pogo comic strip)

I am still experiencing, at random times, the inability to hold down the scroll arrow and scroll the page. There is always a very fast moving ad on the screen at the time.

A clue: I thinkl the notification problem, the link history problem, and the problem with the "first unread post" arrow taking you to the same post on subsequent visits (even though new material is added) are all the same trouble.

Whatever is happening, the little arrow that takes you to the first unread post has been taking me to the same posts for the last few days, even though more posts were added each visit.

I'm starting to think the post notification trouble, the link history trouble, and the wrong last unread post are all the same error.

Jibberish? It looks like a forum to me.

Didja ever consider getting a code editor to edit code? Perhaps maybe a beautifier too?

I prefer having complete control, over having software make decisions I don't want it to make. I always get mad at editors that do things the way they want it done
, instead of the way I want it done.

And I am sick of this edit window adding a newline character every time I stop typing long enough for the stupid moving ad to start playing again!!!! I didn't remove them this time.

The last time I pasted code, it behaved. Maybe there was a glitch in the
edit window software.

Actually, the screen height is not defined in all browsers in that manner. The height attribute of the body tag is the height of the document, not the height of the browser window.

You can use JavaScript to get the pixel size from document.body.clientHeight as the browser sees it, and then poke these values into the height or minHeight attributes of an object on the page

Everything worked OK for me on FF 2.0.0.6. I even tried resizing the browser.

It sounds like something else you are using (maybe an ad from your ISP) is getting into YOUR computer and making a mess.

What is it doing wrong or not doing right in Opera?

Put Al Gore in an assylum where he belongs.

I guess because radians simplify calculations and it's easy enough to turn the result in radians into degrees for human consumption.

I guess it's less work for the people who make the languages.

I can only think of one: function(args). What's the other?

target.function(args)

Maybe they were trying to make the names make more sense to the average computer user. The icon for a subdirectory in windows is a folder after all.

Not originally. Originally the folder icon was a text file, and a box with lines in it was a directory. The change to Windows 3.0 made the change in names and icons.

There's a huge learning curve from programming on a command line to programming GUIs.

That's because Microsoft intentionally MADE it hard. They also require you to BUY an expensive kit to do any programming for programs intended to be sold. QuickBasic had all that was needed to make window objects. It just wasn't compatible with Microsoft's structure for Windows.

I think Microsoft saw itself losing the market to amateurs, and so decided to stop this "dangerous" activity to preserve its monopoly.

Easy and hard are subjective. I think a lot of the newer languages are easier to use because they're really expressive. You can do a lot with a little bit of code.

Wrong. They changed things to allow multitasking.

The old methods had static scoping of variables. The code always did what you told it to do. Now, you …

> Why do they make computers harder to use and program than they need to be? Here are some examples:

Why do you assume that computers are harder to use and program, instead of assuming you were a lot smarter when you were younger?

Because most of the change came with the change to Windows.

> Why do most spreadsheets and programming languages do trigonometric functions in radians, when most people use degrees?

Why do you expect them to behave differently than the behavior they have had in all the history of mathematics? Why do you expect it to default to a version of the function that's usually slower to implement?

Because only mathematicians and Metric nuts use radians.

The trigonometric functions in math textbooks do not have an inherent preference for one measure orver the other. They return the actual angle, not a particular measure of the angle.

> Why do most of the C-based languages (including Java, JavaScript, and Perl) have two different syntax forms to call functions with, depending on which function you want?

What makes you think that having braces anywhere in its syntax makes a language "C-based"?

Nothing. I have followed the devopedment of most of the languages. (and the use of == for an equality comparison is more of a givaway)

> In the 1980s, kids all over were programming computers. With the change to Windows, this suddenly stopped, as Microsoft made programming a lot harder to do. Why?

What …

I meant that the clock might have been changed on the server.

Try this:

<html>
<head>
<title>Nav & Content</title>

<style type="text/css">

.cenx {text-align: center;}
.ceni {clear: both;}
.bxfix {margin: 0px; border: none; padding: 0px;}

.wfl {width: 100%;}
.wlf {width: 33%; margin: 0px; border: none; padding: 0px; float: left;}
.wrt {width: 66%; margin: 0px; border: none; padding: 0px; float: left;}

img {padding: 12px;}
body {background-color: #ccffcc; padding: 5%;}

</style>
</head>

<body>
<div class="wfl">
  <div class="wlf">Navigate 1</div>
  <div class="wrt">Content 1</div>
</div>
<div class="wfl">
  <div class="wlf">Navigate 2</div>
  <div class="wrt">Content 2</div>
</div>
<div class="wfl">
  <div class="wlf">Navigate 3</div>
  <div class="wrt">Content 3</div>
</div>
<div class="wfl">
  <div class="wlf">Navigate 4</div>
  <div class="wrt">Content 4</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

I mean that if he wants to put a caption on the image, so every web user sees it as part of the page (instead of having to play with the mouse to read it), he needs to put the caption in a paragraph. See captions on images on this page:

http://geocities.com/midimagic@sbcglobal.net/collaro.htm

p tags are NOT line breaks. They surround paragraphs.

I have done it several ways. The easiest is:

Put an image on an input button as a background. Keep a toggle variable on the button, and change the image on the button to match the toggle.

You can remove the border, so it no longer looks like a button.

<html>
<head>
<title>Leaving Reptile Planet...</title>
<style type="text/css">
html {overflow: hidden;}
body {margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #000000;}
a      {color:#2A5D34;}

table {border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0; width: 100%; border-bottom: 2px #2A5D34 solid; font: 12px arial, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', helvetica, sans-serif;}

td {padding: 5px 10px;}
#title {font-weight: bold;}
#link {text-align: right;}
.smallfont {display: none;}
</style>
</head>
<body id="framePage" onload="resizeIframe('idTopFrame')">
<table BACKGROUND="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/Instar/escher_background.gif"> <tr>
  <td id="title">
    <a href="http://www.reptileplanet.net.tc">Reptile Planet</a>
  </td>
  <td id="link">You have been redirected to
    <a ref="http://www.google.com.au/">
      http://www.google.com.au/
    </a>
  </td>
</tr>
</table>
<iframe name="idTopFrame" id="idTopFrame" src="http://www.google.com.au/" frameborder="0" height="97%" width="100%">
</iframe>
</body>
</html>

It's a lot easier to decipher this way.

It looks like straight html to me. But there is some JavaScript and another page in the iframe.

2. I am looking for a SIMPLE Javascript code for a message board, where users can post messages, other users can view the messages, and I (as administrator) can add/change/delete messages,

Please help.

This is impossible.

JavaScript runs on the user's computer, not on your server. So it can't store anything on your server. You need PHP or some other server-side language.

How about spreadiong it out into nice formatted code so we can read it?

Why do they make computers harder to use and program than they need to be? Here are some examples:

- Why do most spreadsheets and programming languages do trigonometric functions in radians, when most people use degrees?

- Why do most of the C-based languages (including Java, JavaScript, and Perl) have two different syntax forms to call functions with, depending on which function you want?

- Why does Microsoft change the name of everything from what others called it before (a "directory" suddenly became a "folder", and a "procedure" became a "method").

- In the 1980s, kids all over were programming computers. With the change to Windows, this suddenly stopped, as Microsoft made programming a lot harder to do. Why?

- Why have all of the easy-to-use programming languages been replaced with the hard-to-use C derivatives?

- Why are they making HTML harder to use by taking away features and not replacing them?

- Why do the operating systems get more complicated and take up more memory? They aren't any more useful.

Since the thread has gone silent, I will post the answers.

The man on the 11th floor is a midget. He is too short to reach the elevator buttons for the upper floors. Since the buttons are the body-capacity type, an umbrella or other object will not activate them. Neither will his hands through insulating gloves. But when he is with someone, the other person can push the button for him.

In the first phonograph record problem, the needle moves 3.5 inches from the outer edge of a 12" record to the runout groove 2.5 inches from the center. The record rotates, not the needle. I threw in a bunch of extraneous information, including a pi substitute.

In the second phonograph puzzle, you need to know the different way these two record changers work:

The Garrard SL-55 uses a falling record sensor, which senses one of the three standard record sizes (12", 10", and 7") as the record drops down the spindle. Thus, it can take the three standard sizes intermixed in the stack in any order.

The Collaro/Magnavox changer senses record size by touching the unplayed stack with the left side of the pickup arm. It can play any size between 12" and 6", but larger records must be stacked below smaller records (the arm feels the largest record in the unplayed stack).

The record set consists of five 12" records and one 10" record (the record company was too cheap to make …

Think about this:

If homosexuality were hereditary, it would disprove evolution.

but that is exactly the point. government is capable of creating jobs. therefore the sarcasm is false by virtue of the statement being true. look at germany before the second world war. while the rest of europe was in depression the national socialists created jobs.(i am no fan of hitler in case someone is going to say so.)

But they didn't really create lasting jobs. They used slave labor in the prison camps to generate the money to hire others.

Maybe true in some countries, but not here in usa. The jobs the government creates when it spends money gives people an income who in turn pay taxes which gives the government more money so that it can create more jobs. The federal government gives a state $100 million to build a new bridge and the state must hire 50 people to do that job. Those 50 people get paid a salary which is taxable, and at the end of the year (for most people) the send some of that money back to the federal government in the form of taxes. Where in that scenerao do you see the government increasing everyone's taxes? Our taxes are lower now than they were 8 years ago.

Except that taxation and government spending is too inefficient.

Government does not collect taxes from all of the jobs it "creates", because some are low income jobs. And the bridge building jobsd are temporary. Also, unless an employee produces a salable product, he doesn't create any wealth.

The fallacy breaker is that YOU, with your untaxed salary, can buy more with the money you didn't pay in taxes than government can buy with the same money taken in taxes. The process of tax collection wastes a lot of money. And a lot of the reason you can buy more is that you don't have to pay for a purchasing department full of bureaucrats and putting purchases out on bids.

Your argument is the …

When I get on certain DaniWeb pages, holding the mouse button on the arrow point boxess at the ends of the browser vertical scroll bar (at the right) causes only one line of scroll to occur. It won't auto-repeat the scroll - I have to press the mouse button again and again to scroll.

This doesn't happen on any other site.

I often have to wait on:

- My ISP's login sequence (and ads berfore I can access)
- DaniWeb's ads to load.
- Several tries to get the spacing right again.

2 hours would be plenty.

DSid someone change the system clock? I can imagine this causing such behavior.

Did someone change the system clock? I can imagine this causing such things.

If you actually want captions, you have to use p tags (or equivalent) before or after the image.

Older browsers don't know what a .png is.

Always poofread your work to see if you any letters or words out.

I have used a button, and changed the contents of the button itself.

You could put a huge checkbox image on a button.

We need the css too.

You are asking for the impossible. It might fit YOUR browser, but the following items will change the final size of any page:

- Different video card screen resolutiuons
- Different browser window sizes
- Different browser base font
- Different font assortment available on computer
- Different VIEW menu font adjustments
- Different settings on what to do with oversize images

You re calling the function from the arrow key buttons with three arguments, but from the number buttons with two arguments. Thus, one arguiment is undefined.

Is there a way to do it which is browser independent and does not open another window? I just want a momentary sound like the windows navigation sounds.

This sounds like something damaged the OS or an application. Reinstall.

This could be disk format damage.

Something else may have happened.

We all know how the lyrics of most rock songs are buried under the guitars. This means the censor has to listen for changes from published lyrics.

It may be that the censor, listening for lewd content, detected lyrics that didn't match the
expected lyrics, but was unable to understand the lyrics he heard in time to make a decision without error. Since there is a fine for letting lewd lyrics through, he may have erred on the side of safety for the firm and pushed the button.

I can imagine several lewd phrases the censor could have heard instead of "George Bush" when it is buried under guitar.

Well, OJ DID do it (if you're referring to the brutal murder of his wife).
It's only because he's black and a celebrity that he got off.

Wrong. He was acquitted because the evidence was planted:
- The alternating scenes of massive amounts of spilled blood and tiny little amounts of blood depended on whether the area was open to the public, or was under OJ's lock and key.
- The gloves were too small.
- A detective brought the blood sample given by OJ to the scene.

Safer than what? I'm pretty sure it's safer than swimming in a tank with a swarm of piranhas for example, or sunning on a riverbank of the Zambezi river (famous for its maneating crocodiles).

In actuality, it is more dangerous to ride a bicycle on a sidewalk than on the street. The danger occurs when a bicycle rider enters a crosswalk at speed, without realizing that a right turning driver can't see the bike until the last second. So it is illegal to ride a bicycle on a sidewalk in most locations.

The government is excellent at creating jobs. Not that the people holding those jobs are very productive, but they are jobs.
Now if the statement mentioned that the government can create economic value, that would be wrong.

Wrong. For every 10 jobs the government "creates", 11 are lost to the higher taxes needed to create the 10 jobs.

And politicians know full …