Posts by MidiMagic

That's a difference between Java and JavaScript.

Actually, there are certain places in JavaScript where semicolons are required (between statements), some places where they are optional (before a close brace), and some places where they are prohibited (before an else).

Anyone can make UFOs appear at will, if he has a confederate launching lighted balloons.

My version of that is Styrofoam-to-Styrofoam or Styrofoam-to-cardboard.

That's a bad case of the squeebies.

I love the funny brand names at Aldi Foods:

Happy Farms (dairy products)
Pleasant Farms (produce)
Mustard Maid (mustard)
Aunt Mabel's (pancake syrup)
Table-Mate (salt)
Happy Harvest (canned vegetables)
Chef's Cupboard (baking supplies)
Fit & Active (rice cakes)
Welby (medicine chest supplies)
B-bar (meat)
Freedom (bouillon)

I am specifically talking about UPC barcodes.

@midimagic
Look more closely at those bars. Three of them always stands out. one at the begining and at the end and one in the middle.

They look similar to those that depict a 'six' but only longer.
Yes the bars represent exactly the numbers shown, yes i know but this three special bars are not numbered for all to see!

Those are parts of the sync pattern. They perform the same function as the lower case "u" we used to have to type repeatedly to get the autobaud feature to identify the correct baud rate.

And you can't say it looks like a 6, because they purposely made it not match a number. It mnight look like a six shifted one bar left or one bar right. Also remember that the number codes to the right of the center sync area are complemented. So what looks like a 6 on the left dies not look like what looks like a 6 on the right.

I have seen 5 analyses done 4 different ways. All 5 concluded that the single bullet theory was true. In two of the tests, the researcher doing the tests did not know it was a simulation of the Kennedy assassination.

Test 1: The History Channel Special did an analysis of the various movie films taken at the time, including one film which was not developed until after the photographer died. All showed that there was a very tiny interval between when Kennedy was hit and when Connely was hit. Testing also showed that the bullet itself was too small to impart a motion by itself, and that the subsequent motions by Kennedy and Connely were reflex actions.

Tests 2 and 3 were re-enactments of the shooting itself, using a sharpshooter and dummies. The Mythbusters succeeded in replicating the neck and torso wounds, but did not attempt toreplicate Connely's arm and leg wounds. The History Channel Special went further. They also placed a fake arm and leg where Connely got his wounds. Not only did the sharpshooter succeed in hitting all 7 points where the wounds from the single bullet were, but he did it on the first shot. The only difference between the real event and the History Channel simulation is that the bullet bounced off the leg instead of penetrating it.

Test 4, on the History Channel Special, analyzed the sound recording alleging four shouts were fired. By comparing the sound tapes to the films, they …

Just put the caption in a text box under the image, and write to it when you write to the image.

Why not create a stylesheet class for each color?
.

.bred {background-color: red;}
.bgrn {background-color: green;}

Then just insert the correct classes when you put the values in the tables, either directly or through a script:

<td class="bgrn">met</td>

Where is the semicolon that belongs after each alert statement? You have a run-on statement.

The next statement is not executed because the semicolon is missing. The interpreter thinks the statement is not over yet. It then finds it doesn't know what to do with the improper code it finds, and skips to the next semicolon.

Some interpreters incorrectly ignore missing semicolons when it is "obvious" that a new statement has been started. They should not do that. And you should never count on it happening.

A HTML and CSS forum appeared in the Web Design subcategory some time before it disappeared from the main list. I had been posting to topics in both lists. They are now the same list.

I was confused because an older topic from the subcategory list appeared higher in the list than the newer topics I was looking for from the old list. I had stopped looking when I saw the old topic.

It looks to me like what happens when a set of frames is too wide for the screen size. It should be written so a scroll bar appears if the page won't fit, instead of just smashing things together.

That is a non-sequitur way of doing it that most people would not think of. It should be more straighforward.

Marvin, not Martin, is my favorite martian. And I use code tags.

Use relative addressing. Specify percentage of the width.

Or enclose both objects in a div, and address them relative to the div.

Give each one its own div with a width style.

Huh.........well I sure don't hate things because of my allergys man.

You would if they can kill you, and people carry them around in public.

Look at your own post. What character is after the 2?

I'm no scientist, but I do entertain opposing arguments -- much akin to the scientific method -- and try to consider the whole.

But the arguments have to be valid. Affirming the consequent is an invalid argument.

Scientists are NOT going to make simple logical mistakes as MidiMagic suggested.

Most of the people making these claims are social or environmental scientists. They do not follow the rigor that physical scientists use.

Social and environmental scientists usually can't perform experiments, because they will destroy the only sample they have if they try any experimentation. So they observe and record data, and make conjectures.

Infact i think he made some very good arguments against global warming.

Actually, I haven't. My arguments are that their arguments are not valid. We may be having global warming. But the arguments proffered by Al Gore and his henchmen are not valid.

One interesting fact is that Mars is also experiencing a melting of icecaps. This tends to indicate that any global warming has an external cause.

You have given no evidence whatsoever that this is what the scientists claim.

All of the claims I presented as being global warming claims came from the Discovery Channel special as quotes by actual "experts".

However, scientists use science and logic. You are not a scientist. Scientists are professionals.. they have performed many experiments before, and will continue to do so.

So have I. I used to work in labs.

The thing here is that they can't really perform any experiments on the climate.

If any scientist was caught claiming some of the illogical points that you have made, do you not think they would have been fired?

Not if they are working for Al Gore.

Next time prove that the logic you are using in your examples is actually the same logic that scientists use in claiming the existence of the global warming effect.

Try it yourself. Watch the Discovery Channel special and "An Inconvenient Truth." Be careful to look for the stupid science and the cases where they affirm the consequent.

I'll give one example someone pointed out to me. On every bar code image printed on products shown to me, it was pointed out that these series of bars signifying numbers (sales prices, batch numbers and the like) is always preceeded and ended by a longer bar which is a 'six' and then a bar of same lenght right in the middle! Scary aint' it?

We all know how the bar codes work. I checked up myself and this seemed to be correct. The three longer bars in the series of bars are of the same size(in width and thickness) with any of the bar(s) depicting a six. Coincidence? I don't think so!

I have written barcode software, so I know how they work. The "thickness" of any one bar doesn't matter as such. That is not how they work.

Instead, all of the bars are the same width. Some of them are black, and the oithers are white. What you see as a "thick" bar is actually two or three bars the same color which are side by side. As in serial port signals, a black bar is a mark, and a white bar is a space.

The special bar patterns at both ends and in the center are sync patterns, designed to set the receiving rate as the LASER sweeps over the barcode. Then, each digit consists of a 5-bar group. A white bar is interposed between numbers. To add to the mystery (actually, as a data …

Again, do you offer any prove that numbers of names always used the Hebrew alphabet?

All numbers in the Bible are written that way. Both the Hebrews and Greeks used letters of the alphabet for DIGITS. Both used decimal numbering.

Hebrew started using only the first 9 letters as digits, placing higher powers of ten on the right. Spaces were originally interposed if a place had a zero value. The 10th letter was used for zero after the existence of a zero value was accepted, producing a system just like our decimal numbers.

Greek used a different system, because the original Greek alphabet had 27 letters. The first 9 letters were used for ones, the next 9 were used for tens, and the last 9 letters were for hundreds. But they used words in the Bible.

The 666th letter is not waw.

Very funny. Hebrew was using place value then. The only difference is that the right hand waw was the 600.

Don't you see? I could easily do research about 'waw', and throw in some random references just as you did, and claim that the destruction will come from, I don't know, say a homemade pie. lol..

The difference is that it was not my research. The following are well known in Bible study:

- A beast is a government (See the book of Daniel)

- Hebrew numbers use letters for digits. The number 6 is the letter waw.

- Revelation 13:16-17 …

I think many Christians would disagree.. some people believe that humans posses natural rights which were derived from God.

Those are God-given rights, not natural rights.

Maybe the fat lady in the opera sang, and scared all the elements to one side.

:icon_mrgreen:

More likely it has something to do with frames.

I meant that I was waiting for answers.

I was confused becuse the contents of the two lists were merged, and my pending posts were eearlier in the list than one I had posted earlier in the other list.

Go into the Font menu in Word. Choose all of the font settings you want to be your "new document" default.

Then at the bottom of the menu, press the DEFAULT button. This sets your current settings as your Word default.

From then on, every new Word document will be in the font size, weight, and face you selected.

I searched this out because I hate serif fonts.

It's a setting in the browser security. Everyone sets it in his own browser.

Here's a trick for firefox:

Go into tools / content / manage

Find the file type and delete its entry.

Then firefox will ASK you what to do with that file type when you try to open the file. One of the choices is "save file to disk"

Note that if you click "always use this file type this way" it creates the entry in Manage again.

Your image file descriptor must be designed to tell the stylesheet where the image file is from where the css file actually IS stored.

so if you have your html files in your top folder, with subfolders named css and images, you have to get from the css folder up to your top folder, and then down to the images folder. Like this:

url(../images/image.jpg)

the .. says go to the parent folder above the folder the file is in.

the /images says to go to the subfolder named 'images'.

the /image.jpg says to get the image file named 'image.jpg'.

Another way to specify it is:

url(/images/image.jpg)

The / as the first item in the url means to start at the root directory of your site.

the others are the same.

There are several causes to this problem

Mozilla browsers consider any margins, borders, and padding to be OUTSIDE the declared dimensions and positions of a box object. This includes floats.

IE consider any margins, borders, and padding to be INSIDE the declared dimensions and positions of a box object. This includes floats.

So you have to design your page in such a way that this discrepancy doesn't matter. The trick is to nest some stuff.

First the body tag has different defaults in different browsers. If the box object surroundings are getting in your way, apply a style such as:

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

Apply it to the body, and to the image itself if necessary.

You can't simultaneously stretch an image to both the browser window width and height without changing the aspect-ratio on sime computers. This has the fun-house mirror effect on the image.

I prefer to center an image horizontally instead.

There is no value which sets the object to the height of the browser window. The window is considered to be infinitely high. Height: 100%; always takes the height of its container.

You set up a class with the width of the entire table. Put the class attribute in the table tag, not the td tag.

.width100 {width: 100%;}

....

<table class="width100">

It helps to be looking at the right file.

Note that the server must have PHP for this to work.

The blue on orange clashes to the point where it is hard to read. You need contrast in the luminance direction for easy readability.

That's because IE is part of Windows (cheat! cheat!). Other software doesn't have access to internal Windows parameters.

You need the hover attribute applied to the entire menu area once it opens, not just its start tab.

The problem is that FF correctly defaults to centering cointent in table cells, IE shoves it to the top instead.

Set the vertical-align style parameter in the td tag, and this stuff will work the way you want it to in both browsers.

try

{margin: none; border: none; padding: none;}

You need all three, because different browsers have different default styles for both body and div. Apply these styles to both the body tag and the div inside. If you need padding inside the div tag, nest another div inside it and put the padding style there.

Also the name for this is vertical-align: top; And vertical align doesn't always work right if padding is in the same object's style.

Marquee doesn't work on all browsers. It is nonstandard and deprecated.

You need an id on the same object with someclass. That id becomes the target of the assignment statement:

function changeSrc(clicked)
{
changeme.backgroundImage = 'someotherimage.someformat')
}

Put both the class and the id in the object with the background

<body class="someclass" id="changeme">

Funny headlines and newspaper misprints I collected:

Woman collides with police car.
Goliath falls in Cup.
Vaccinations available for whopping couch.
17 remain dead in morgue shooting spree.
Experienced bricklayer and hog carrier wanted.
Specter objects to bill's provision
Shooting reported at firing range
The Plaintiff does not know the whereabouts of the defendant, Southern Pacific Bank.
Stuff happens, but it won't happen quite as often if we read what we wrote.
An unmarked detective's car was parked on the corner.
The bride arrived in a limousine wearing a minidress and a veil. (poor car)
The ship was a floating hotel, with a grand piano made of aluminum with large windows.
Purdue rains as Big Ten champions.
Meeting on open meetings is closed.
Women banging children into the world should know these things.
Blaze destroys fire station.
Space began with the "big band."
His father was driving, and his father was in the passenger seat.
The horoscopes in Thursday's paper accurately predicted the future. They were today's horoscopes by mistake.
Red tape holds up new bridge
The barge spilled hundreds of thousands of asphalt.
All of the sexual harassment papers were provided by city hall. boop.
The Emergency Planning Committee is open during norman business hours.
Weight watchers should use the wide doors at the side entrance.
Identity theft - work at home - set …

Natural rights?

No such thing.

I hope the Internet makes copyright become so impossible to enforce that it must be abolished.

It's a monopoly power.

I always wonder why the "equal pay for equal work" people don't attack patents and copyrights. It's certainly unfair pay for little work. (So are sports salaries.)

The 20 things I dislike most:

1. Promotion of sinful activity by government and by Hollywodd
2. Daylight Saving Time (The time change twice a year)
3. The State favoring the religions of Atheism, Environmentalism, and PC
4. Government taking property from poor people to satisfy tax debts or mortgages.
5. Bicycle riders causing hazards by breaking traffic rules
6. Perfume and chewing gum at public events (my allergies)
7. Chewing gum displays in the checkout lanes (allergy)
8. Politicians who think it is necessary to cheat to win elections
9. The unfair Plurality Voting System (and its use in political polls too)
10. More than 10 percent of income taxed away (only workers really pay taxes)
11. Lying politicians.
12. Untrained politicians making traffic laws
13. Government overregulation
14. Government spending on nonessentials (e.g. new pro sports arenas)
15. Monopolies and monopoly powers, including copyrights, patents, exclusive contracts, and copy protection
16. Microsoft changing the operating system every three years
17. Scents in every home product (allergy)
18. Government banning products
19. Companies discontinuing products
20. Minimum orders (In order to get 4, you have to buy 1000)

In addition, I have a few new ones:
- Bad science
- Moving ads on web pages
- Computer watermarks behind text
- Constant change in computer operating systems and programming languages (e.g. Microsoft)
- The fact that all HR people are so right brained that they can't correctly hire a left-brained job
- The very existence of landlords
- People hating Christians because they are required to tell others about …

>Are you kidding? I've seen tons of people who use welfare, and don't need it. Where I work, I've had to processes orders (people who use government aid such as food stamps, WIC, etc.), and I've taken stuff out to their car.. only to find that they have a brand new Mercedes... hmm...

People of all income ranges can suddenly lose jobs or face disaster. I remember a truck driver on TV who was mad because someone showed up for Hurricane Katrina food relief driving a Cadillac. (As though there was a car dealer still around where they could trade it for a cheaper car.) As it turned out, that Cadillac was being used to deliver food to several families without transportation.

There is a lot of misinformation about the number of the beast. It is 666. But the beast is not a person. Beasts in Scripture always denote governments.

So the beast is a government.

The name of the beast is what the number stands for. The beast forces you to use the number. Without the number, you can't buy or sell.

We also have to remember that the numbers of names always used the Hebrew alphabet. The first 10 letters of the alphabet are also the digits (with 0 last).

The letter waw is the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. So 666 is waw waw waw.

Waw is equivalent to the English letter w.

So 666 is www.

The beast will be a government that forces a cashless society on us over the World Wide Web.

It reminds me of a squirrel with a stroke I saw in the 1970s. It kept running in circles, because half of its brain had shut down.

They go the wrong way around the track.

Time flies like the wind.
Fruit flies like bananas.
Pop flies like the sun.
Smoke flies like the clouds.
House flies like garbage.
Tsetse flies like humans.
Pie flies like seltzer water

The real problem is that they are using faulty logic to "conclude" that global warming is real:

1. Global warming causes glaciers to melt.
2. Glaciers are melting.
3. Therefore we have global warming.

Using the same faulty logic, I can "prove" the following:

1. Drunk driving causes traffic accidents.
2. Joe was in a traffic accident.
3. Therefore, Joe was driving drunk.

NOW you can see the fallacy in the arguments Al Gore is using. It ignores other possible causes for the observed effects.

Note that all of the global warming proponents are politicians, usually liberal. Many are social scientists Very few are physical scientists.

Notice that the following errors have been made in global warming "research":

1. They claim that air trapped in ice shows much lower CO2 levels, so man has greatly raised the level.

WRONG! (buzzer sounds)

That ice core experiment ignores the fact that a bubble of air in ice, while hermetically sealed for most other gases, is NOT hermetically sealed to either water or CO2. They can react with the ice itself to change their concentrations.

2. One global warming "scientist" is totally ignorant of the physics of floating bodies. He said that if just the ice floating on the sea melted, it would raise the sea level 3 feet.

WRONG!

A floating object displaces its weight in water. A submerged object displaces its volume. So when the …