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Javascript Problem

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:19:48 +0000

var a = 0;
function checkName()
{
    if(document.Form.fname.value =="" || document.Form.lname.value =="")
    {
        alert("Please enter your first and last name.");
        return false;
    }
    else
        return true;
}

function checkFirstQuestion()
{
    var chosenA = -1;
    for(var w=0; w <= 1; w++)
        if(document.Form.Answer_1[w].checked)
            chosenA = 1;
    if(chosenA == -1)
    {
        alert("Question 1 remains unanswered.");
        return false;
    }
    else
        return true;
}

function answerSecondQuestion()
{
    if(document.Form.Answer_1.AnsA1.checked)
        a++;
    else
        a;
}

function checkSecondQuestion()
{
    var chosenB = -1;
    for(var x=0; x<=1; x++)
        if(document.Form.Answer_2[x].checked)
            chosenB = 1;
    if(chosenB == -1)
    {
        alert("Question 2 remains unanswered.");
        return false;
    }
    else
        return true;
}

function answerSecondQuestion()
{
    if(document.Form.Answer_2.AnsC2.checked)
        a++;
    else
        a;
}

function checkThirdQuestion()
{
    var chosenC = -1;
    for(var y=0; y<=1; y++)
        if(document.Form.Answer_3[y].checked)
            chosenC = 1;
    if(chosenC == -1)
    {
        alert("Question 3 remains unanswered.");
        return false;
    }
    else
        return true;
}

function answerThirdQuestion()
{
    if(document.Form.Answer_3.AnsD3.checked)
        a++;
    else
        a;
}

function checkForthQuestion()
{
    var chosenD = -1;
    for(var z=0; z<=1; z++)
        if(document.Form.Answer_4[z].checked)
            chosenD = 1;
    if(chosenD == -1)
    {
        alert("Question 4 remains unanswered.");
        return false;
    }
    else
        return true;
}

function answerForthQuestion()
{
    if(document.Form.Answer_4.AnsB4.checked)
        a++;
    else
        a;
}

function checkForm()
{
    if( !checkName())
        return false;
    else
        if(!checkFirstQuestion())
            return false;
        else
            if(!checkSecondQuestion())
                return false;
            else
                if (!checkThirdQuestion())
                    return false;
                else
                    if (!checkForthQuestion())
                                return false;
                    else
                        return true;
}

function displayAnswer()
{
    if(checkForm() == true && a == 4)
        document.Form.Score.value == "100%";
    else if(checkForm() == true && a == 3)
        document.Form.Score.value == "75%";
    else if(checkForm() == true && a == 2)
        document.Form.Score.value == "50%";
    else if(checkForm() == true && a == 1)
        document.Form.Score.value == "25%";
    else if(checkForm() == true && a == 0)
        document.Form.Score.value == "0%";
    else
        document.Form.Score.value == "404: File Not Found";
}

Here's my situation: I'm trying to make a 4-question test. The checkQuestion() functions check to see if the respective question was unanswered. The answerQuestion(), which is where I'm having my problems, is supposed to check if the answer is the correct answer; if it is, add one to a variable called 'a'. The displayAnswer() is supposed to display an answer in a textbox that says how many answers they got right. When I run it and answer all the correct answers though, it displays that Question 2 is unanswered. So how would I make it work?

PSP = Rotter

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:03:49 +0000

To me, video game consoles fit into one of two categories: the fermenters and the rotters. The fermenters are the ones that have the best games that are even fun years after its release (like the SNES and N64). However, the rotters are the ones that are soon to be forgotten and get low sales, only to escape the minds of people in future generations. A newer example exemplifies this: the PSP.

The PSP, in terms of hardware, is quite possibly the most powerful handheld on the market today. It has the capacity to display movies at an acceptable quality and frame rate, and can display video games near to what the Playstation 2 has. The reason why it's put in the rotters is because Sony didn't do anything with it. Until recently, where big-hit games finally got onto the console (Soulcalibur, Metal Gear Solid, LittleBigPlanet), there wasn't any games that made people want to run out to buy one. Hell, Sony went as far as to say piracy killed the PSP*. On the other side of the coin for that argument, the Nintendo DS has a higher rate of piracy, yet Nintendo has sold over 130 million of them. In real numbers, that's 130,000,000+. You know why? Because of the laundry list of amazing and awesome games that were released for it. Sure, there was a decent game every now and then for the PSP, but still, there was literally nothing to attract people into buying Sony's gadget.

Yes, games have that much of an impact of hardware sales. It's how humans are with video games: go for the console that has the best games. Tell you what, Sony. The next time you sit down to make an all-new handheld console, support it with awesome games. You would be amazed of how many people would buy your console.

*like some of the comments state in the article, like everyone else, I can download physical hardware to my computer. Because of that, I would refer Sony to this site.

Xbox 360 Slim Still Needs to be Fixed

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:58:03 +0000

So the new 360 Slim is out, yet basic, rudimentary stuff that was broken with the regular 360 is still prevalent in the Slim. For example, the whole disc fiasco. If the 360 is moved in a particular way while it's running, it carves a neat circle around your disc. Yes, you are probably wondering why someone would move it in the first place while it's running. Nonetheless, this is a pretty big sized problem, that the console is carving circles in the discs, and probably needed to be addressed before releasing new models.

The RRoD was also prevalent in the previous model, and it happened when the hardware would overheat so much it would die. Apparently, to prevent the console from cooking its own guts on a skillet, it now has the ability to shut itself off if a hardware failure is imminent. Yet again, some of you are probably wondering why someone would have the 360 in an enclosed space. Even so, it still runs pretty hot, compared to the original fatty PS3's and their obnoxiously loud fans. One thing I could suggest is a better fan; preferably, one that cools the guts of the 360 to approximately room temperature and does its job. Is that really hard?

Microsoft, I like your OS line, yet you severely screwed up with the 360. Hopefully your next console will be better and will have all of the kinks and problems ironed out.

Once Again...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:09:14 +0000

Yet again, thank you Teka123 for buying me a sub. If you guise ever get a chance to talk to him, be sure to thank him for donating so much to BYOND.

Gamestop Defense

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:17:17 +0000

Earlier today, a few of us in Chatters got into an argument about Gamestop's trade-in prices. So might as well share my opinion with whoever missed it.

If you haven't taken a business or economics class, there is one thing a business needs to stay afloat: profit. Profit is when you are making more money than you are spending, which puts you in the black (and is how Black Friday got its name: businesses mark profit with black marker and losses with red marker). Like any business, Gamestop also needs profit. How they make their profit is by buying your game at a low price and selling your game at a higher price. To get the price, they put it in the following guidelines:

1. How long the game has been out
2. Popularity
3. Profit
4. Current price the game is being sold at
5. Stock

All of this blends to make a good profit. What do they do with the profit? Easy: they pay their workers, they pay the rent, and they pay the corporation, as a whole.

Going back to buying your games low, they purchase them low in order to make a good profit. Don't complain that they buy your game for so low and sell it for so high. They cannot purchase it from you at a high price. Why? Consider the following:

1. How do they know that someone will purchase this copy of the game?
2. How much are they selling other copies of the game?
3. Is the price you want for it match or exceed the price of the other used copies currently being sold there?

Of course, this also factors into the price. And if you still don't agree with the money they'll give you, sell it on eBay or Amazon.com if you think your game has that monetary worth. So don't complain that you sold your copy of a certain game when you got so many options at your disposal.

To wrap this blog post up, think of this when you go to Gamestop to sell your game(s): when you first bought it, did you get your monetary worth out of the game?

Spike TV's Video Game Awards

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:45:12 +0000

So last night Spike TV had their annual Video Game Awards. I didn't watch all of it (I turned to bits and pieces throughout the night), but as the night drew on and on, it got more pathetic (mainly due to the abundance of shitty bands they got and how lousy it was). What has happened to video games that have led to this?

Nowadays, it seems that every other game that is released is another FPS. Sure, back in the day there was FPS's, but the ones that sucked horribly never made it to a sequel. The better games actually spawned sequels which were as amazing as the last and improved on some other things. It's like they have an ice cream machine that just spits out FPS's in one of two flavours:

1.) Yet another generic futuristic space game with aliens
2.) Yet another generic war video game

It seems that video games that are innovative and define a genre are dwindling in place for FPS's. Don't get me wrong, there are great FPS's now (L4D for instance). But then we get more, and more, and more. To be quite frank: ease up on the FPS's and make a more variety of games.

The quality of video games in general is starting to really dwindle, as well. Instead of video game companies busting their asses off in order to make a successful sequel, they do a Copy+Paste maneuver with the previous game in order to make the next game. So on the shelf of any Gamestop (or video game store) is a line of mediocre games and a small section of great and innovative video games.

The main problem is that video game companies like Sony and Microsoft are focusing more on the graphics of the game rather than the gameplay aspect. So what you get is a 360 that spins the disk so loud it sounds like a jet taking off and a PS3 that has to do huge installs on the hard drive to bring it just under a level that completely cripples the console. That is why Sony and Microsoft are coming out with their own interactive accessories: Nintendo focused more on the gameplay aspect rather than the graphical aspect. And you can see it payed off. The sales for the Wii have surpassed those of the 360's and the PS3's sales.

I don't know. Maybe it's just that after 14 years of playing video games, new video games have become, how you should say, stale.

Just a Quick Question

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:21:39 +0000

At the college I'm attending, we're using iMac's running Boot Camp. This brings me to a question:

Who the fuck invented this shit? It's like holding a potato.

New Computer

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:15:25 +0000

So last Monday I got a new computer. Here are the specs (from my Xfire account):

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory: 3072MB RAM
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Sound Card: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Speakers/Headphones: Platinum UBL Series

It did come with Windows Vista Home Premium. So far, nothing has gone wrong with it, which brings me to a question: why do people think it sucks?

A Reason Not to Buy A Macbook Air

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:52:36 +0000

Both from Best Buy

Macbook Air
Display: 13.3"
Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor: 1.86GHz
2GB DDR3 SDRAM
128GB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
1 2.0 USB Port
Price: $2,499.99

Gateway - FX Edition Laptop with Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology
Display: 17"
Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology with interrelated Intel® Core2 Duo processor P8400
4GB DDR3 RAM
320GB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS graphics
4 2.0 USB Ports
Price: $1,149.99

Suck it, Apple

BYOND Membership... Oh Word?

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:39:33 +0000

So Teka123 bought me a membership. I never had one before, so this is a new experience. So if you are reading this post, tell him he's awesome. And Teka123, thanks man.