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Best Buy vs. Demon Customer

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Connected to my TV is the NES, SNES, TG16, SMS, Xbox, PS2, Dreamcast, GameCube, N64, and computer.

I have the Xbox and GC connected via component video to my Sony DE-585. I have the PS2, N64, computer, Dreamcast connected via Svideo to my switcher, which connects to my DE-585 consoles channel. The SMS/TG16 use RF to channel 3 on the TV. The NES and SNES use composite (one to the switcher, one to the TV front panel as I used up the switcher's 5 ports).

Everything is single push button, except that I have to switch between video 1 (svideo/composite input), video 4 (component input), and TV (RF input) on the TV.

I have all my consoles stacked carefully under my coffee table with a Monster Cable power bar (30$ CDN) -- it handles the wall-warts of my NES/SNES, as well as the smarter brick and brick-less ones (PS2/GC/etc). The Xbox and PS2 both have optical inputs, while the GC uses PL2 over the red/white analog stereo. If I move my coffee table, it's like I have a giant, dead, electric spider under it.

Here's an old picture from December. You can't see the TG16 or SMS well in it, but it's all there :)

You have to have a layout layer. That is the HTML page (with help from CSS). Into the HTML page you place your widgets. Be they text labels (IE: text which is variant), buttons, etc. You build them programatically and place them into your page layout.

The same thing happens in programs on your desktop. There is a Glade XML file which describes the look and layout of variables. Into this you place your variables, be they text or controls.

Something like the person I was repyling to asked about would be like a custom control. You place the output into the page, and all apears well. Want to change how the entire page looks? Change the CSS. Want to change how the control is logically designed? Then you change the program logic

You don't sound like you understand how stylesheets work. They take care of practically the entire presentation layer. Consider, for example, my changelog. Look at it in Mozilla. Now, choose View -> Use Style -> {pick one}. Note how the entire look of the page changes. That is CSS. The general layout of the page is accomplished via common CSS markup positions (view the basic page style to see it "stripped"). The calendar is a good example of an HTML custom control. Certaintly, the logic of how the control work is tied a little bit to its layout, because it wouldn't make sense for a calendar to look any other way. But it's not married to that specific page layout, which is what the original poster was asking about.

Could you please reconsider your position on having underlined links on your website?

I don't know about you, but I hate playing "magic mouse cursor" and "computer user, 1st day" as I relearn a new interface for every website I ever browse.

I know I try to keep my site dead easy to use. It still looks good, IMO, and it has such features as underlined hyper links for easy finding. Wonder of wonders, I also have it setup so that if you visit a link, it changes colour. Stops people from accidently revisiting stuff.

This is fantastic news for Cowboy Neal.

Especially on the /. backend (obligitory shot of Timothy working on it), there's just a whole ton of shit flying through it a lot. People who have crackpot schemes or stuff which was posted before will litterally spam and spam and spam for days to get something posted. In the noise good stuff is lost, it happens.

What you need to do is just try again.

That's great, because I sure was getting tired of Monkey vs. Robot.