Posted on 04/29/2015 2:46:07 AM PDT by sneakers
Jim Quinn is back! - and in better form than ever!! The Quinn in the Morning Show airs from 6:00am to 9:00 am, Monday thru Friday. To listen online, go to www.warroom.com and sign up (for a small fee). Or, for those of you in the upstate NY listening area, Quinn is on WYSL 1040 AM in Rochester, NY. If you sign up online, be sure to choose the "auto-renew" option in order to have full access to archived shows and podcasts.
Morning FRiends!
Mornin’ everybuddy!
Happy Wednesday :)
Sitting at work, drinking my coffee, listening to Quinn.
Morning!
Sitting at the kitchen table, doing my hair. Too much stuff here to do it anywhere else. Until son and DIL get settled, we will have to deal with piles of ‘stuff’ (both theirs and ours). Good opportunity to get rid of junk.
Hey peng! Quinn just said that if you’re listening at work, not to let your lib co-workers hear the show! lol!
LOL!!! “Walking ‘round in Women’s Underwear”
Good morning n’@!
I’m typing quickly on the phone so I can go back to streaming (looking forward to Monday & radio out of Latrobe).
I started training on Monday at new version of former job! Yesterday drove w/hubby to OH to move next to youngest son home for summer (I fully understand “piles” of stuff” oldest son is moving back in—for a few months til he finds a small house, he’s ready to buy and doesn’t want to lose money in a lease) so we have multiple people’s stuff here.
Training again today, tomorrow and then actually “work hours” over the weekend.
Glad Baltimore was quiet last night. Did anyone read about Freddie Gray having back/neck surgery a few months ago? There was a thread here yesterday (I read it when folded into back seat of tiny Patriot w/stuff all around me). Makes things a tad different.
Well, want to listen on phone...
Yep, I saw that about Freddie Gray as well. Puts a whole new light on the entire situation.
Still have one more night of cleaning out son & DIL’s apartment. Son will load the rest of the things laying around and I’ll give the kitchen a good scrubbing. The place looks quite nice. They should get most of their security deposit back.
Good morning!
Here comes Bernie Sanders....LOL!
Good luck with the job. Hope everything works out well.
Didn’t hear about the back surgery but that would make sense—otherwise his injuries were perplexing.
May 195h I have to go dahntahn to get placed in a state retrainment program.
AT AGE 66.....BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Is anyone else having issues with the live stream? Mine stops around the time Quinn is talking about Gitmo prisoners. When I start it up again, it repeated most of the show and stopped again about the same place...
I heard that, lol.
The great thing is that I’m usually the only one in my area until about 7 or so - but I put the earphone in so I can concentrate on it better. :)
I went to lunch with two coworkers on Monday. Found out the one voted for BHO twice! The other guy & I gave him a lesson - which by the end, he was agreeing with us. :)
Even so the feed still stops sometimes on mrs p6's laptop. I think it's in the laptops settings.
So...here's something kinda related and interesting.
Looks like Jim was ahead of the curve...again!
This article in infinitedial.com claims AM/FM is all but dead.
Our nationally-representative sample shows that the top form of audio consumed on mobile devices is 'owned music' at 50% of users' time. Looking at the other half of mobile consumption, we see that by far the largest amount of time goes to a single app -- Pandora. Two-fifths of the non-owned half of the mobile pie goes to the colossus from Oakland.
Other Internet 'pureplays' (such as Spotify, iTunes radio, etc) gets 14% of the total, and listening to AM/FM content on a mobile device gets 7%, just a tad higher than podcasts. Details on Edison's Share of Ear studies, including methodology statement, can be found on the Edison website www.edisonresearch.com.
http://www.infinitedial.com/blog/2015/4/26/whats-playing-on-phones
Doesn't really include cars BUT....???
Tried to post the graphic but it was too big.
The width="70%" part sets the image width to 95% of the width of the enclosing container. We leave the height unspecified so that the computer will figure out the correct value so as not to distort the image. If you wish to distort the image you may specify a height as well.
Morning Ladysmith! No problems here. I listen on my laptop at home. I’m now at work and listening on my desk pc. I’ll be working in the basement later, and will use my tablet. Haven’t had any problems with that either. What browser are you using? I have to switch from Firefox to Explorer when I listen to certain stations.
Thanks!
With the proliferation of display devices, screens now come in a wide variety of sizes and aspect ratios. The image below illustrates the range of screens possible. Differing aspect ratios are shown on the diagonal lines with the ratio in circles towards the lower right.
Given the wide variation in screen resolution and size when we step from mobi to fondleslab to display to HDTV it is lunacy to specify screen position in term of pixels. There is no way to know what sized screen you are imaging to so it is best to reference screen sizes and positions in percentages instead. The resulting size is the percentage of the width (or height) of the enclosing container. This is most useful when specifying positions and sizes of tables and images. The HTML for the image above looks like:
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Vector_Video_Standards5.svg" width="95%">The
width="95%"part sets the image width to 95% of the width of the enclosing container. We leave the height unspecified so that the computer will figure out the correct value so as not to distort the image. If you wish to distort the image you may specify a height as well.Things that are text related, such as the whitespace around a paragraph or header and text sizes are best specified in
em. Oneemwas originally the width of an M in the current font. In a multi-lingual world where not all alphabets have an M in them, the meaning has evolved to mean the height of the current font. As the user changes the magnification on a page the size of anemchanges with it. This produces a pleasing scaled effect to the eye not possible when spacing objects in pixels.Other unit values available are
ininch,cmcentimeter,mmmillimeter,exx-height of a font (x-height is usually about half the font-size),ptpoint - 1/72 of an inch,pcpica - 12 points andpxpixels - a single dot on the screen. If no units are specified pixels are used by default. Best results across the broad spectrum of displays are achieved by exclusively using em and percent to specify size and distance. Try not to do anything else.
Any element (anything between tags) can be explicitly positioned by either putting it in a table or centering it <center></center>. Beyond that, explicit positioning is purposefully made as difficult as possible so that you won't do it. Your page will be displayed on a variety of devices of differing sizes and the less you constrain where the elements are positioned the better the general result will be across the broad spectrum of displays.Inside tables you can use the attribute
<td align="right"> ("left|right|center|justify|char")are acceptable values. The "char" option is mishandled by all the major browsers so it doesn't see much use. Align can also be used with images and horizontal rule,<img src="http://mumble.com/image.jpg" align="right">will work. So will<hr align="right">This is all in the HTML 4.01 idiom that we are trying to make go away.To summarize, using HTML you can Center an element or put it in a table to control its position. This is why tables are wildly overused.
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Bobdobbs.png"><p> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Bobdobbs.png" width="30%"> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Bobdobbs.png" width="15%"> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Bobdobbs.png" width="7%"> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Bobdobbs.png" width="4%"> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Bobdobbs.png" width="2%"> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Bobdobbs.png" width="1%"> .Yields:
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J. R. "Bob" Dobbs receding into infinity...
<img src="http://mumble.com/image.jpg"> substitute the actual source of the image for http://mumble.com/image.jpg This image must be out on a server on the web someplace, not on your machine. This is why people have flickr and picassa accounts. You can easily find out the URL of an existing picture on the web by right-mousing over it and selecting Open Image In New Tab. This will open a tab on your browser containing only that image. The URL of that tab is the one to use as your src="" value.
Some of the photo storage sites on the web (flickr) try to drive web traffic to their site to harvest advertising by providing a convenient pointer to their site that isn't a URL to a .jpg To get the proper URL try right mousing over the image and select Open Image in New Tab. This should get you the naked image itself, without all of the surrounding advertising. This is the URL you want to use.
Access Denied! - No Hotlinking - Occasionally you will see an image that looks good on the site of origin but won't show up if you use it in a posting. Many sites block what they term as "hot-linking" thinking that people who link to their images from pages that are not theirs are stealing their hard paid for bandwidth. They have a point. Either use another image or host it on your own site to fix this problem.
Often the poster will see the image that hot-linking is not allowed for while other users are whining about no image present and red X's. This is because the poster's browser has cached the image and doesn't have to go to the blocked site to get it. A refresh of the page should show what is what.
Size: You can easily vary the size of a given image by specifying it. You may specify size in terms of pixels, em (one character height-width), or percent of enclosing container. Given the wide variation in display platforms the best results are usually obtained by using percent to specify size.
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Bobdobbs.png" width="15%"> Yields:
If you are specifying the size of an image it is best to do it in only one dimension and let the computer figure out what the other dimension should be. This will result in images that have not been distorted. Another neat trick is to specify the image size as a percentage of the width of the container the image sits in. This results in a uniform presentation of the image across all possible platforms without having to compute the image size at all.
The native size of the J. R. "Bob" Dobbs picture above is 324x216 pixels. Typical screen pixels per inch numbers for normal displays are in the range of 75 to 150 so the original Dobbs'Head will likely appear on your screen somewhere between 2.88 to 1.44 inches wide.
The next row of Dobbs'Heads are scaled to the width of the enclosing container. We use the width because its value is mostly apparent on the screen. The value of the container's height is less so. The first Dobbs'Head is scaled to 30% of the width of the container. The next at about half that, and so forth... This produces a line of attractive Dobbs'Heads receding into infinity that occupies about half the width of your page, all without needing to know how wide your page is. The size of the images will change if you grab the edge of the page and make it wider or thinner. This is the reason you want to scale images (and anything else, really) by percentages rather than pixels.
In the past it was best to keep your scaling to powers of 2 to minimize scaling artifacts. Current smoothing algorithms and processor speeds make that pretty much unnecessary. Remember that scaling up will not introduce new detail into the existing picture.
Stationary images usually end with .jpg or some variation. Moving images are possible using images which end in .gif The .gif format allows for short sequences of stationary images to be presented like a very tiny movie. Another common format is .png which is a static image format from Microsoft. You will also see images that are .pdf Postscript Document Format. Images in .pdf format will often not post on websites because the .pdf file can easily be a virus container.
You can position an image relative to its surrounding elements by adding the attribute align="middle" to the tag. Recognized attribute values are top, bottom, middle, left and right.
<p><img src="http://enemiesforeignanddomestic.com//sj/images/61cb2_zQLMZ.gif" align="right" alt="Kittie doing its nails."></p> Yields:
This is some text to show how it flows around the image. This is before the image in the source HTML with a paragraph called out before the text. Isn't the expression of the cat's face just priceless? ♣
And this is text right after the image. I have found left and right attributes to be useful, the rest not so much. You really seem to have to have quite a bit of text for the behavior of the flow to come out. Dinking with the browser width seems to help illuminate the behavior of the flow. Perhaps a smaller picture in the x-axis? But it's sooo cute.
Does adding a paragraph move the text down below the image? Nope, sure doesn't. Think of the anchor as the upper left corner of the image and as far as HTML is concerned that corner goes right after the club following "priceless", but it is aligned right so it starts on the line with the club ♣ and hangs to the right.
In general, if you are posting images it is beneficial to place the image in a paragraph of its own and use a closing tag with <p> </p> as it helps the browser software properly place images.
The alt="Kittie doing its nails." specifies the text that appears when you mouse over the image. Some folks use these descriptors by running them through vocal-synthesis software. The blind using computers find these descriptors quite helpful. It's important to remember that an image (as well as any other element) can be used as the clickable part of a hot-link.
Using Firefox, too. Did some quick maintenance on the system, seems good again.
P6, interesting info. My brothers and I tend to use MP3 players for our music. One brother does listen to 60s oldies on the radio on Sunday but otherwise, radio is for talk shows, football and baseball. Not sure that all bodes well for talk show radio in general, though. But I have to admit I rarely listen to talk shows through the radio anymore. My main three are easier to listen to online, although I could listen to one on the radio.
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