Warren Gaebel

I am appending text to document.body.innerHTML, but it doesn't appear in the document until after my script terminates. The code works fine; the output is just not visible. [When I use Firebug, I can see the correct output every time it stops at a breakpoint.]

I am trying to simulate an old-style CGA environment: upper-case white text on a black background with 80 characters per line and 16 lines on the screen (you probably won't remember the TRS-80 unless you're over 30). This means I have to write four functions: inputChar, outputChar, inputLine, and outputLine. Not a big deal, but the user can't view the output until the script terminates. The trouble is that the script can't terminate until we go through the input, output, input, output many times - the ultimate catch-22.

While typing, I figured out that I can redesign the code to make everything trigger on the user's keypress, but that's a major logic rewrite. Can you think of any other way I can show the output immediately rather than after the script terminates?

I am working in phpMyAdmin v2.8.0.1 with a MySql 5.0.91 database. It's a brand new database, so there's nothing in it.

I click on the SQL tab, then enter this one line:

-----> delimiter //

(without the -----> of course). When I click on GO, it replies:

ERROR: Unknown Punctuation String @ 11

STR: //

SQL: delimiter //

According to all the manuals, this should work, but it doesn't. What am I doing wrong here? Or what is it I don't know? All help is appreciated.

First, here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I want to use my static IP address as a cookie-less domain. Let's say my domain is xyz.com and my DNS record points xyz.com to 100.200.300.400 (my static IP address). My code (accessed through xyz.com) uses cookies. I want my images, scripts, and stylesheets to be accessed through 100.200.300.400. I am hoping that this will stop the cookies from being sent along with the images, scripts, and style sheets.

So the question is: If I access my images, scripts, and style sheets through my IP address and never set any cookies on the IP address, will I avoid sending cookies along with every request?

What is the best way to serialize activities between asynchronous JavaScript code? Tight loops that wait for a global variable to be set are too CPU-intensive. Using a timer is too artificial and is not guaranteed to work. Is there any way to use an operating system semaphore? If not, is there any way to create a semaphoring system within JavaScript?

If a bunch of Norwegians take off from Germany to go to Poland, but the plane crashes on the border between Canada and the United States, where will they bury the survivors?

Can you explain the error in the following logic? It's not good enough to just say that it's wrong (I already know that). You must explain the logic error.

If I take off in a very fast airplane and go west to the next time zone, I go back one hour. If I take off in a very fast airplane and go west two time zones, I go back two hours. If I take off in a very fast airplane and go west X time zones, I go back X hours.

Therefore, if I take off in a very fast airplane and go west 24 time zones (all the way around the world, landing at the same place from which I departed), I go back one full day. If the journey takes 23 hours and 59 minutes, I will arrive just in time to watch myself take off.

I am trying to make a list of dictionaries that meet the following requirements:

1. searchable online without giving up any personal information and without logging in

2. British and Canadian dictionaries only

3. MUST break words into syllables

Will you please help? I will post the complete list of links here when we are done.

Which season is longer in the Northern Hemisphere: spring, summer, fall, or winter?

Here's a trivia question for you to play with. I'm expecting a lot of wrong answers to this one, so be careful.

On what date will Queen Elizabeth's reign be exactly as long as Queen Victoria's reign? Hint: It's only a few years away. She seems healthy enough, so maybe she'll make it.

I am referring to British monarchy. Does the queen/king become so upon the death of the previous monarch or upon coronation? Or is there perhaps some other point at which he/she officially becomes the monarch?

Please tell me any jokes like this one:

"I glow; you perspire; she sweats like a pig."

Notice the I ... you ... he/she pattern. The joke says the same thing about all three people, but uses a positive connotation for the speaker and a negative connotation for the absent third person.

I heard this joke and several others like it many years ago, but I can only remember this one. There were a whole slough of others. Do you know any? Feel free to make them up, too.

If any conventions or standards exist, I would like to get links to them. If none exist yet (which is what I expect), I would like to read up on whatever efforts have been made so far. If some group is actively working on genealogical style sheets, I would like to be put in touch with them.

Two trivia questions for you. The first person to get both right wins.

Really old typewriters went ding (a bell rang) as you approached the end of a line. How far before the end of the line did they ding, and what was the purpose of the ding? [If you're thinking of a typewriter that has a power cord, you're not thinking back far enough.]

It's a joke ... The answer's down below.

Farther down.

Keep going.

You're getting there, but keep scrolling.

Not much further.

and the answer is:

"Unlawful" means "against the law" and an ill eagle is a sick bird.

I just built a wonderful new website at http://dir.assimpleasitgets.org./ It is a business directory. Users select the city and the category, then it automatically lists the names, addresses, and phone numbers in that city/category combination. It's as simple as it gets AND IT'S FREE!!! Now the question is: How can I let the world know about this wonderful new service without spending any money???