Posts by MidiMagic

The images are Word Art, which is part of Microsoft Word.

First, make sure you have copyright permission to use the document.

Use Ctrl-PrintScreen to take a screenshot. Then use MS paint to paste it into a blank document. Cut out the parts you want, and save them as .jpg images by pasting them into blank images.

You can also use the "Save as Web Page" option in the Word file menu. But it produces a huge messy web file.

Sorry about the flowers and shrubs, honey. GPS is accurate to only 6 feet.

The real money worshipers are Congressmen, who keep stealing more of our money for their nefarious purposes. That's why nobody has enough left to give to the church.

It has to know the filenames and locations too.

Here is how it works:

1. Each small photo is a reduced size and resolution thumbnail image of its larger photo.

2. Each thumbnail is made a clickable device with an onclick to call a JS function for that photo. There is one function for each photo.

3. The function loads the image into an img container for the large picture.

He means those things where you have to type in the letters visible in an image to validate the submission.

This requires a server-side script.

You have an improper nesting. The ul tag pair can't be inside a p tag pair. It kept the p tag pair from wrapping around the image.

Most real-time software has to be rewritten to work with new versions of operating systems.

What OS is the game specified to run on?

MidiMagic, I think, well actually, I know each of the above comments are incorrect. I've used 0px for styles on all the websites I've built and likewise, I've used margin, padding and borders in a single stylesheet element for a lot of those sites.

All my websites validate to W3C HTML 4.01 strict and CSS standards with 0 errors or warnings. So, if 0px is an invalid style, it would have been picked up. Likewise, I am pleased to say that my websites using these stylesheets are pixel perfect between FFX2, FFX3, IE6, IE7, Netscape, Opera and Safari.

Just some food for thought.

0px, 0pt, and other zero values with dimensions kick Firefox into quirks mode, and often prevents the style containing it from operating. It shows up as an error in the Firefox error console. It works, but in quirks mode.

But note that I use XHTML 1.0 Strict. This might be a deprecation in XHTML, but it is not caught by the W3C validator.

I use 4 tests on each page I produce or refurbish:

- Spellcheck

- W3C validation

- Browser rendering correctness and differences between browsers

- Firefox Error Console

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You misread the part about the margins, borders, and padding. What does not work right is putting size styles (width, height) in the SAME tag that has nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding). Nest two tags if you need both kinds of styles.

This second item …

A few points:

- 0px is an invalid style. It causes browser errors. Use 0 for values that are zero.

- Convert all size and alignment tag attributes to styles.

- Use classes, so each set of styles can be used on all tags needing it.

- Use relative sizes, as percentages of the width of the containing element.

- Don't place nonzero surrounding styles (margin. border, padding) and size styles (width, height) in the same tag or style. Putting them together causes browser incompatibilities, because IE nests them in the wrong order.

- Convert one property type at a time. Then test the changes.

- Use tables if you need a structure to hang together when the window size changes. Use divs if you want to allow the content to slide around for maximum visibility without horizontal scrolling.

- Don't use absolute positioning or styles, except for image sizes.

- Test the page with different browsers and screen resolutions. Also play with the browser window size (in restore down), to see what happens when the resolution or window size becomes small.

- Use the W3C validator page.

why do prodestants believe in the bible so strongly when it was a) written hundreds of years afrer it all supposedly happened b) isnt the whole story as books which contradicted eachoteher were not included

It was not written hundreds of years after it happened. The Bible is a collection of records and letters written by many people over many hundreds of years. Most of these events were written down as they happened, or shortly after they happened.

What happened hundreds of years after the events happened was translation into current languages. This must be redone every 50 years or so, because the current language in use by people today undergoes changes.

Most of those books people think are alternate versions of the events are storylines for stage plays written in the second century by Greek playwrights. They were never intended to be accurate versions of the events. But those intent on discrediting the Bible try to persuade others that they were written as fact.

If you want to understand why people strongly believe in the Bible today, try opening your mind up to the possibility that God does exist, and that He is actively working through the people who believe. John 14 and 16 show how this is done.

Let's get rid of this "table vs css" idea. It's bogus.

Use table for tabular data, and other things that must be in clear rows and columns. You can use css to format the table nicer. Even rows of buttons are nicer with tables keeping them in line.

If you need columns, and need them to all be the same height, use tables.

Use css instead of tables where tables were wrongly used to create stuff that is not tabular in nature.

Web designers used to use tables to create margins, borders, padding, and other formatting functions that were originally not provided in HTML. These are the only tables that should be changed to pure css.

Datasheet view shows the data in the database. It also allows you to enter and edit the data. It does not let you change the format of the database, other than minor changes (such as displayed column widths).

Design view allows you to create or change the table, form, or other database object, and configure the fields. You can also set keys and restrict the values entered here. But you can't change the database data in design view.

You don't use one or the other exclusively. You constantly switch back and forth between them while designing your database. Use the View button to do this.

When any database object is open and has focus, the leftmost button on the standard toolbar is the view button. Use it to toggle between datasheet view and design view.

In design view, clicking the View button switches you to datasheet view.

In datasheet view, clicking the View button switches you to design view.

You can select other views with its dropdown arrow.

It is probably the most used button on the toolbar.

I usually use Create Table in Design View to makle the database table, then enter the data with either the datasheet view or a form.

What the W3C wanted us to stop doing is using tables to make margins and borders.. At one time, this was the only way to do margins and borders that worked on all browsers.

My rule is:

If I need a rigid structure, I use a table.

If the structure can be allowed to float, I use divs.

Since frames are not in XHTML 1.0 Strict (which employers want to see), I don't use them.

This is easy:

1. Using the downpointing black arrow mouse pointer (appears at the top of a column), select the columns you want distributed evenly by dragging across their tops.

2. Use the Table menu / autofit / Distribute columns evenly.

1. Sign: DEMOC RAT EXTERMINATORS

2. Why is it that Democrats throw most of the stuff found along the road out of car windows?

3. A man is drowning 50 feet from shore. A Republican throws a 40 foot rope, and requires the drowning man to swim 10 feet. A Democrat throws a 100 foot rope, but then he lets go of his end to run down the beach to save someone else.

4. The problem with Democrat economics is that each Democrat is too lazy to do the math himself, and assumes that some other Democrat did the math that shows the plan works. In reality, the math is never done.

5. How can Democrats blame Republicans for wasteful spending, and in the next breath, promise to support an unnecessary expenditure such as the arts?

6. The easiest job, if you do not want to think, is to become a Democrat politician.

7. How can Democrats portray President Bush as a total simpleton, and in the next breath portray him as such a clever criminal that nobody can catch him in a crime?

8. The one thing missing from most Democrat social programs is a source of income other than a magic fairy that bestows wealth.

9.
Reagan: What is this Pac Man I keep hearing about?

Aide: It's a round thing that eats money.

Reagan: Oh! It's Tip O'Neill.

10. How can a man who has …

A man was given special dispensation to take a bar of gold with him into heaven.

When he got to the gate, Saint Peter saw the gold, and said, "Ah! There's the pavement I ordered. We have a pothole down the street."

I see some things:

- You have an absolute size and a surrounding style in the same style entry. Don't put padding and width in the same block object. You can put a padding of 0 in such a style entry, but that is not what you did.

- When you specify a value of 0, you do NOT put a unit of measure on it. Thus, it should be 0, not 0em. The 0em causes a style error, throwing the browser into quirks mode. It put in the default padding, not 0 padding.

That's why I suggested that only the title bar across the top be the same. Make the main parts of the pages individual. You get it both ways.

A duck quack does echo. But unless the echo has a long enough time delay, you can't tell the echo from the original quack.

I once heard duck quack echoes bouncing off a large boathouse at the other end of the lake.

You need a lot of little pages, not one huge one. Navigate between them with links.

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.

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".

I'm not certain exactly how one would "do atheism" in public. Have you ever seen anything that would qualify? I can't say that I have really, so that one is a bit confusing.

By demanding freedom from religion.

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

And you are currently making this post sitting on an MS-DOS system. Great!

No, I have been forced to use Windows, because the Internet is no longer compatible with DOS computers.

But I have multiple computers. I do my research on the DOS computer, because the timesharing and multitasking prevents it from working on Windows computers.

I would like Windows a lot better if Microsoft didn't keep CHANGING it.

In my opinion, operating systems should never change. Every time a software platform changes, research scientists have to do a whole series of tests to make sure the changes don't change the results of the research. Microsoft has made long term research projects very difficult with its periodic changes.

They get it upside down because usually you have the word "up" on the box with an arrow pointing up. But when you turn the box upside down, it now has the abbreviated word "dn" on it with an arrow pointing down.

"dn" is "up" upside down - or is it umop apisdn

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

Anyone for fruitcake hockey?

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 …

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.

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.

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Democrats controlling the economy.

I have done it. There is a trick to it:

Don't use the same block element for both something using a defined width or size (either absolute or relative), and a surrounding style (margin, border, or padding). Nest them in the order you want them defined.

Why:

- Firefox puts the surrounding styles OUTSIDE the defined width or size of the block element.

- IE puts the surrounding styles INSIDE the defined width or size of the block element.

If you nest two blocks, o0ne with defined size, and one with surrounding styles, then YOU get to define whether the surrounding styles are inside, or outside, the defined sizes.

Supercar (same company, but before Fireball XL5)

See my avatar for a pic.

A close second was Space Angel.

Others:

Colonel Bleep
The Jetsons
The Flintstones
Road Runner
Ruff and Ready
Astro Boy
Josie and the Pussycats
Star Trek (animated series)
Archie
Clutch Cargo
Johnny Quest
Top Cat
The Astronut
Mr. Magoo
Beanie & Cecil
Marvin the Martian

The thing I always hear is that Christmas marketing starts "too early." But look at everything they sell in stores nowdays. If you don't buy seasonal items 3 months before the season starts, you can't get them.

Just try to get winter boots or gloves in January, when you discover that yours fell apart in the closet over the summer. They are having the clearance sales for those now, to make room for the swimsuits for Spring Break.

It's not just Christmas. All of marketing is three months ahead of the actual season.

I did see one bright product this year: Solar powered Christmas lights.

The security setting usually causing the block is of the form "disallow content from multiple sites."

I found a dilemma that disproves life happening by chance:

In order for a cell to reproduce, a cell needs the blueprints (DNA) for building another cell, and it needs the device to read the blueprint and build the parts (ribosome).

Let's assume that one complete cell came together by random chance. It has DNA formed by random chance, and it has a ribosome.

It's the second cell that bothers me. There are two events that must exist together independently that don't make sense. Assuming the first cell got its ribosome through random chance, how did the second cell also get one.

Case 1: Assuming that the ribosome independently developed away from the DNA, how did the instructions for building a ribosome get recorded onto the DNA, so the second cell could have one?

Case 2: Assuming the plans for the ribosome were on the DNA before the cell came together, what was used to read the DNA so the first cell could have a ribosome?

This is sort of like making a compact disc recorder-player and a blank compact disc, and upon inserting the first blank compact disc into the recorder-player the first time, finding the blueprint for the recorder-player already recorded on the disc.

The fact of the matter is you blatantly said that the volume of ice is equal to the same mass of liquid water. This is FALSE!

Truth: The volume of ice must be greater than the same mass of liquid water.

That is true. But because the ice is FLOATING on water, the extra volume is the part sticking up into the AIR. 90 percent of a floating piece of ice is below the water level, but the other 10 percent is sticking up into the air. A floating body will displace its weight in water, with the rest of the volume of the floating body sticking up into the air. Otherwise, we couldn't have boats.

What I said was that AFTER IT MELTS, the water that used to be ice displaces the same amount of water that it displaced when it was ice. The extra volume in the ice displaces air, not water.

Here is an experiment for your (naughty bits deleted) to do: Make some ice cubes, you will notice that the ice takes up more space than the water. Put a coke in the freezer.. the water expands and the can will burst.

Now drop that ice into water, and notice how much of the ice sticks up above the surface of the water. It's EXACTLY the extra volume the ice has over that of the same mass of liquid water.

Argument: "Global warming is occurring, because the glaciers are melting."

Truth: Statement is affirming the consequent.

Argument: "The amount of CO2 in air trapped in polar ice is a lot lower than the CO2 concentration today."

Truth: Ice is not a hermetic seal for CO2, which can diffuse through it by combining chemically with H2O to form H2CO3. This will especially happen if the ice is in contact with rock or sea water, for the H2CO3 will react with the minerals present to produce carbonates.

Argument: "If the ice on just the polar seas melted, it would raise sea level by 3 feet."

Truth: This totally ignores the physics of floating bodies. A floating body displaces its weight. A submerged body displaces its volume. But if the floating ice melted, it would still displace the same amount of water, because it is water. So the sea level does not change. On the other hand, ice sitting on LAND would raise the sea level if it melted.

Argument: Man is causing global warming.

Truth: If this is so, how is man causing global warming on Venus, Mars, and Europa?

Argument: The average temperature has increased 1/2 degree F since the 1700s.

Truth: The standards we use today were not defined accurately enough in the 1700s to make such a claim. They degree F was also changed in 1901 by an international treaty, so the old values must be adjusted.

Argument: Greenland …

In so far as marijuana is concerned, nearly all of these claims are without merit and show a great ignorance of the matter.

No, it's from reading both sides of the issue, not just the liberal spiel that says there is nothing wrong with pot.

The original event of making pot illegal WAS in that Wiki site, but they glossed it over, just giving the place (New York) and the date (1900). It was made illegal for two reasons:

1. People using it in the workplace were getting injured.
2. Those injured people, and those who wouldn't work because they didn't care, weren't earning the money to pay their taxes with.

In other words, government feared losing tax revenue. The racial component came later.

Do more reading on the things I've posted. Don't just take my word for it. (I highly doubt I have to worry about that too much).

I have read all that stuff, and much more that contradicts it. I don't believe the pro-pot part of it (probably because it looks like it was written by pot users justifying themselves). I also notice that liberals never believe anything a conservative says that contradicts the liberal dogma.

I have smoked a little pot long ago. I have not in quite some time. I still manage to develop software for a living, so I guess I've managed to maintain some semblance of logical thinking. Enough at least to be a responsible wage-earner and citizen.

The problem is that our long-term permanent memories are serial, like recording tape. The problem isn't that you can't remember something, but the rewindatory gap. That's the time it tales to find and retrieve the memory.

My memory can take 24 hours to complete a search cycle.

I would put used car salesmen ahead of corporate leaders, and lawyers ahead of both.

Most corporate leaders are honest. The news media always focus on the few that aren't.

But politicians top the list. Among their lies:
- National health care can actually work.
- The minimum wage actually helps the poor (only the ones it doesn't throw out of work).
- We need more tax money (eliminate the huge sports and arts subsidies instead).
- Arts are necessities.
- Sports are necessities.
- Entertainment is a necessity.
- Our ejukashun sistum is the wurld's finets.
- The other party caused all the trouble.
- A living wage can coexist with social programs.
- We need to keep track of every person in the country.

The one attribute that would make a politician one I would want to vote for is the lack of desire to run for office.

Sometimes I wish there was a death penalty for politicians.

Where is this script located in your code?

It must be below the place where the images are loaded, or the script will run before the images load (and it won't find any).

It's also possible that your browser has settings to prohibit recursive functions (It's a common worm propagation method).

The problem with the non-table methods is that they fall apart when the browser window size is different than the size planned for. Instead of making page image scroll (as it should), the browser lets the structure created by divs fall apart. It was a good idea theoretically, but the implementation stinks.

I choose to use tables whenever the div method can't be successfully achieved in FF and IE after half an hour's fussing around with styles and settings.

And there are several block elements that can NOT have div columns inside them. No browser works correctly when div layoutss are nested inside these other elements (e.g. list elements) without resorting to kludges to make stuff go where it belongs.

Until they can fix it so you can lock parts together sideways, the div method is a kludge (and a pretty poor one at that). And it will still be a poor method once they do come up with a fix, because older browsers won't support any possible fix they come up with.

If accessibility laws prevent fixing the layout of the page, then it's time we either removed some legislators and threw out those laws (PC is a religion anyway), or redesigned the browsers so they can be set to present tables used for layout in a different way than they present actual tables.

WE NEED COMPATIBILITY MORE THAN WE NEED PERFECT ACCESSIBILITY!

I question whether accessibility is a problem when the table …

Potato chips.

The problem is tht the hover attribute is on only the header, not the entire dropdown menu.

Mumbo in front of jumbo?

Isn't that a description of declaring variables?

The last thing I want in a government is efficiency.

What we need are limitations on what government is allowed to do:

Government must be absolutely be prohibited from doing any of the following:

- Spending ANY tax money on sports, the arts, entertainment, recreation, parks, land banks, monuments, museums, memorials, venues, advertising, businesses, and anything else which is nice, but not essential..

- Doing anything which violates any religion.

- Forcing people to disobey their religions.

- Taking more than 10 percent of anyone's income in taxation.

- Requiring identification or keeping track of honest people.

- Doing anything that competes with business.

- Placing power in the hands of nonelected people, other than trained professionals needed to implement traffic and safety laws.

- Prohibiting any activity that only annoys someone, but is not a real hazard.

- Trying to control wages or prices.

- Conscription.

- Eminent domain for any purpose other than transportation or water supply impoundment.

- Owning schools or utilities.

- Creating monopolies by requiring franchises to operate certain kinds of businesses in a given jurisdiction.

- Limiting the number of businesses doing business in a given industry in a given area.

- Allowing incumbents to run for office. They should have to work at real jobs before being allowed to run for office again.

Who do you mean by they? Well Intell and Microsoft gave them their wish. If you don't like that then you are always free to remove the MS-Windows and *nix from your computer and replace it the MS-DOS version 6.X, then you will be back to where we all were 15 years or so ago. Of course you will not be able to play any of the current games or access the internet.

They gave BUSINESS its wish, at the expense of other users.

But we can't run the special scientific applications we need on Windows So we have to use DOS.

Except that we can't find new computers that run DOS 6.2 anymore, and the old ones are dying.

Oh yes it is -- using Windows Explorer highlight a group of files then change the file extension of one of them -- they will all be changed to the same file extension.

But suppose I need to rename the series of files:

ted001.txt, ted002.txt, ted003.txt ... ted246.txt

to

bev001.txt, bev002.txt, bev003.txt ... bev246.txt

It doesn't work! I end up with:

bev001.txt, Copyofbev001.txt, Copy2ofbev001.txt ... Copy244ofbev001.txt

What! Those are still available in win32 api functions and *nix functions. C and C++ languages never ever supported them as part of the language.

But the languages they took away DID support them. They took those functions away because they don't work with Windows running all the time under them.

I wrote a …

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.

Put Al Gore in an assylum where he belongs.