Originally posted by asdf

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"Leaving your computer on all the time" simply means to keep it powered on - restarting doesn't matte. And remember: XP wasn't out at that time, and Windows updates isn't a part of that system. You don't necesaarily need to install things regularly too: and I don't see those people doing so.

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Originally posted by asdf

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It derives from a school of thought that when your computer is on, the wiring is hot, and when it is off, it is cold. However, eventually, the soldered wires supposedly become brittle from the temperature change and eventually crack. Another school of thought says that although that is true, leaving the computer on all the time can wear out your hard drive quicker and cause the cooling fan to die a premature death. You just can't win, so ideally, you should turn it off once a day.

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Originally posted by Jules Winnfield

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What does Marsellus Wallace look like? Does he look like a link? How about a visited link?

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Originally posted by Uly

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I see a thin border around the image, is that on purpose?

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Originally posted by Xkeeper

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Originally posted by emcee

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And why is there a little black and white photo of him smirking at the top of every page?

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That's the "back" button. Good luck finding that out without using one of my pages (hint: link in sig).

(hover over mine for a little more information, too)

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Originally posted by The US Constitution

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Congress shall make no law...

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Originally posted by Dr_Death16

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I think your (Dots?) pattern for the blockquote is annoying. Otherwise, I guess it is okay if that's your style.

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Nebetsu: You're right about the menus being annoying, having them automatically pop open when you mouseover and close when you mouseout seemed like a good idea in my head, but in practice it's just kind of frustrating. If I have time tommorrow I'll change them so there's something you click to open and close them.

Dr_Death16: I was thinking of something similar to that, where the code could be manually edit while using it. The only problem is as soon as you make a change with one of the menu options you would lose any manual changes you made. There's probably a way around this, though, it would just take some work. Or maybe, I could just put a link on the output panel to a seperate app for editing the code

Anyway, I just fixed a little bug in it where the "Originally Posted By" text is bigger in the preview than it is in your actual layout.

I'm thinking of adding a save feature, since it should be pretty easy to implement.

Originally posted by Dr_Death16

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What property are you using for transparency effect? Opacity doesn't work in IE, so if that's your problem, you can blame Microsoft--my own layout uses it as well.

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I think its just general flaws in our education system. School hours have increased, credit requirements have increased, and work loads have increased. But is anyone getting any smarter? Grades are supposed to be an indicator of how well someone is learning. But somewhere along the line the grades became more important then the actual learning. The focus of school has moved away from learning and into simply getting credits and mantaining a good GPA. They give the students piles of homework, which they just copy the answers off the one or two of them that knows them. Then they cram information for tests, and it promply leaks back out the next day. And this is not only condoned by the system, it's actually encouraged, because all that matters anymore is the grade.

Think about it, were the people who finished at the top of your class the smartest? Go up to the average high school graduate and ask them basic questions, like "What's a quadratic equation?", "What was the SS?", and "What's a joule?". And most won't be able to answer. They did home work on these things, they took tests on them, but they never learned about them.

The majority of grades are now based on huge amounts of homework. Those who complete it all by copying off each other will excel, while those who don't complete it, even if the are just as smart or smarter as those who do will be held back and not given the opportunity to learn more.

Originally posted by Arwon

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You know, I don't know what those things are either. This is, I assume, because I haven't done mathematics since 10th grade? It's funny, I wouldn't have picked mathematics as the big failing of schools in the US--while I was over there the maths and science teachings seemed pretty bang-on compared to my experiences in Australia, probably even a little better (particularly with regard to science). The real problems seemed to be in English and the social sciences, where the English and History classes I took were quite literally years behind our standards.

At any rate, I wouldn't get too upset, guys. 19th place still means you're beating like 180 countries?

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I tend to believe violent crimes don't happen because they're in video games, music and movies, they're in video games, music and movies because they happen. People tend to be violent, right back to our chimp ancesters (or if you prefer, when Cain killed Able), and if anything video games more likely act as an outlet for aggression rather than a source.

I think its going a bit far, though, to say that young children won't ever try to emulate what they see in a game or a movie, but this isn't really a reason for censorship, just better parenting.