Pretty much it is a scaled down database system. You can connect to it like any other database on windows (via OLE or ODBC) and is great for running small applications on a single users machine. You do not have to install Access on the machine in order to get to the database, so the.MDB file is pretty much a self sufficent database (Not totally, the user needs the MDAC also installed, but most windows installations today already have it, so it is USUALLY not an issue.) Also, it is popular because it provides a lot of GUI wizards which allow you to put a front end on the database, just based on the table structure.
Since this is the School of Communications and not the School of Computer Science, I think that they could use Access in the office life. I know plenty of users who have to compile reports by taking data out of the ERP system and analyzing it. If there are less than 65536 rows of data, then Excel does fine, but if there are more, MS Access is the perfect tool. Access allows for easy generation of reports and easily doing data lookups across tables.
And since Ms-Access is installed with some/most business MS-Office installations, it is a sensible choice that the teacher may want to teach them something they will actually have pre-installed on their system.
If you have not done so already, I encourage you to see the movie "Bowling For Columbine." It is a documentary by Michael Moore about Guns in the US. He states quite a few figures comparing the US and the rest of the world. He focuses a lot on Canada, which has one of the lowest murder rates, but still has plenty of Guns and Violent video games. It is a very insightful movie and really gives a perspective on the violence in the US.
Their business decisions are supposed to be limited to those things which don't stifle competition
How is this stifiling competition??? It seems to me by charging for the liscenses, some companies are going to move away from the FAT system and thus they are actually creating room for the free file systems.
Microsoft is going to use this as an example of their new dedication to security. They are going to show how there are no Linux boxes that have demonstrated they can stop a bullet.
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Even though the parent post got flagged as a troll, I think he has a good point. I think a large scale version of Vice City would be fun. Get like 50 people in a city and it would be like a huge game of quake, with a much larger map. You could have snipers on the rooftops, or hide in the bushes until someone is right on top of you.
I think this would be a very fun game and I would definitely love to play it.
If you are cheating and not using a firewall, you are a MORON. If you have cheats, there is no need for them to go out to the internet. That is why I use open source cheats, or I write my own.
I prefer to write my own, I get more functionality and I get what I want. For some MMORPGs, I was able to write a crafting program that did all of my mundane work for me. The program worked on a variable timer, so there was no real pattern to the automation. Since I never released the program on the net, the company had no reason to look at anything wrong in my leveling.
There are a lot of gamers out there that are looking for the easiest way to reach their goal, so even if there were plenty of ways of getting experience, many (not all) gamers would still stay with the camp and kill method. I have met plenty of players online that come from an FPS to an MMORPG, all they want to do is PVP. So they basically just keep camping different spots until they are powerful enough to go PVP. They have no interests in the quests, unless it will make their guy more UBER.
They are basically looking for a different market, more like a MMOFPS.
You could also write to the other members of this committee and tell them that you support Sen. Coleman. Here is what I pulled from the subcommittee's site.
Carl Levin, Michigan Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Thomas R. Carper, Delaware Mark Dayton, Minnesota Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey Mark Pryor, Arkansas Ted Stevens, Alaska George V. Voinovich, Ohio Norm Coleman, Minnesota Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Robert F. Bennett, Utah Peter G. Fitzgerald, Illinois John E. Sununu, New Hampshire Richard C. Shelby, Alabama
Come to think of it, how do they expect to make any money?
One stream of money they can make is targeted advertising. Think of it, let's say you install Madden 2003 on your DISCover box. Since they know you like football games, they may stream an advertisment to you when you are checking for updates. They could easily send you information about the new NCAA football that is coming out in two weeks, or about the new Tiger Woods game with 14 additional courses. They can build a pretty big demographic database that will be very appealing to advertising companies.
Kazaa is not illegal and the RIAA is not claiming that it is, but the RIAA is going after everyone and their parents for sharing songs.
So if a user claims "Well 222 installed Kazaa on my machine", the RIAA will definately come after you in a civil case. If they can prove (not beyond a reasonable doubt, just with enough evidence) that you provided the ability for the person to download songs, you could be held accountable.
Its like when a family sues a bartender in civil court for giving drinks to the guy that killed someone in a drunk driving incident.
You may be held a certain percent liable and thus have to pay some or all of the damages won in the civil case.
IANAL mind you, but you may want to consult one before you go installing Kazaa everywhere.
You are comparing a criminal case to a civil case. They can bring the parents in and say since the parents are providing the computer and they are providing the internet connection, so they can be held partially responsible.
This is like a family suing the bar where a drunk driver was drinking because the driver injured/killed someone (I am not saying this is right, personally I think it is horrible, but that is the way our legal system works). The bartender did not commit the act, but he can still be held responsible in our current court system.
IIRC correctly June fell between May and July last year as well, so the Summer factor will have no affect. They are comparing June 2002 with June 2003.
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Pretty much it is a scaled down database system. You can connect to it like any other database on windows (via OLE or ODBC) and is great for running small applications on a single users machine. You do not have to install Access on the machine in order to get to the database, so the .MDB file is pretty much a self sufficent database (Not totally, the user needs the MDAC also installed, but most windows installations today already have it, so it is USUALLY not an issue.) Also, it is popular because it provides a lot of GUI wizards which allow you to put a front end on the database, just based on the table structure.
As Homer once said:
"Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent.
Forfty percent of all people know that."
Since this is the School of Communications and not the School of Computer Science, I think that they could use Access in the office life. I know plenty of users who have to compile reports by taking data out of the ERP system and analyzing it. If there are less than 65536 rows of data, then Excel does fine, but if there are more, MS Access is the perfect tool. Access allows for easy generation of reports and easily doing data lookups across tables.
And since Ms-Access is installed with some/most business MS-Office installations, it is a sensible choice that the teacher may want to teach them something they will actually have pre-installed on their system.
If you have not done so already, I encourage you to see the movie "Bowling For Columbine." It is a documentary by Michael Moore about Guns in the US. He states quite a few figures comparing the US and the rest of the world. He focuses a lot on Canada, which has one of the lowest murder rates, but still has plenty of Guns and Violent video games. It is a very insightful movie and really gives a perspective on the violence in the US.
Don't forget to cc your home address, so you can look at it later :)
Their business decisions are supposed to be limited to those things which don't stifle competition
How is this stifiling competition??? It seems to me by charging for the liscenses, some companies are going to move away from the FAT system and thus they are actually creating room for the free file systems.
Microsoft is going to use this as an example of their new dedication to security. They are going to show how there are no Linux boxes that have demonstrated they can stop a bullet.
I thought you were going to say RIAA, but organized crime works too.
So C# is just VB.NET with squiggly brackets? MS are geniuses.
Don't forget the semicolons.
We need to make a game where people jump off a cliff and kill them selves
Have you ever heard of the game Lemmings??
Obligatory Billy Madison quote:
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Even though the parent post got flagged as a troll, I think he has a good point. I think a large scale version of Vice City would be fun. Get like 50 people in a city and it would be like a huge game of quake, with a much larger map. You could have snipers on the rooftops, or hide in the bushes until someone is right on top of you.
I think this would be a very fun game and I would definitely love to play it.
Hey I can't blame them... when I was at a university I was hammered pretty much every day.
I can print all of the money I will ever need.
I think that this is great....
If you are cheating and not using a firewall, you are a MORON. If you have cheats, there is no need for them to go out to the internet. That is why I use open source cheats, or I write my own.
I prefer to write my own, I get more functionality and I get what I want. For some MMORPGs, I was able to write a crafting program that did all of my mundane work for me. The program worked on a variable timer, so there was no real pattern to the automation. Since I never released the program on the net, the company had no reason to look at anything wrong in my leveling.
There are a lot of gamers out there that are looking for the easiest way to reach their goal, so even if there were plenty of ways of getting experience, many (not all) gamers would still stay with the camp and kill method. I have met plenty of players online that come from an FPS to an MMORPG, all they want to do is PVP. So they basically just keep camping different spots until they are powerful enough to go PVP. They have no interests in the quests, unless it will make their guy more UBER.
They are basically looking for a different market, more like a MMOFPS.
You could also write to the other members of this committee and tell them that you support Sen. Coleman. Here is what I pulled from the subcommittee's site.
Carl Levin, Michigan
Richard J. Durbin, Illinois
Thomas R. Carper, Delaware
Mark Dayton, Minnesota
Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Ted Stevens, Alaska
George V. Voinovich, Ohio
Norm Coleman, Minnesota
Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania
Robert F. Bennett, Utah
Peter G. Fitzgerald, Illinois
John E. Sununu, New Hampshire
Richard C. Shelby, Alabama
From what I have heard it can also cause hair to grow on your palms... no wait a minute that is something else.... nevermind.
Come to think of it, how do they expect to make any money?
One stream of money they can make is targeted advertising. Think of it, let's say you install Madden 2003 on your DISCover box. Since they know you like football games, they may stream an advertisment to you when you are checking for updates. They could easily send you information about the new NCAA football that is coming out in two weeks, or about the new Tiger Woods game with 14 additional courses. They can build a pretty big demographic database that will be very appealing to advertising companies.
If this does not work out for Max he can always sue these 53 people. 53 more lawsuits means he would never have to work again.
Kazaa is not illegal and the RIAA is not claiming that it is, but the RIAA is going after everyone and their parents for sharing songs.
So if a user claims "Well 222 installed Kazaa on my machine", the RIAA will definately come after you in a civil case. If they can prove (not beyond a reasonable doubt, just with enough evidence) that you provided the ability for the person to download songs, you could be held accountable.
Its like when a family sues a bartender in civil court for giving drinks to the guy that killed someone in a drunk driving incident.
You may be held a certain percent liable and thus have to pay some or all of the damages won in the civil case.
IANAL mind you, but you may want to consult one before you go installing Kazaa everywhere.
You can charge $50/hour showing some nitwit how to install kazaa, and hes all the happier. And they love you :)
You better watch it with this, or you may get hit with a subpeona from the RIAA.
You are comparing a criminal case to a civil case. They can bring the parents in and say since the parents are providing the computer and they are providing the internet connection, so they can be held partially responsible.
This is like a family suing the bar where a drunk driver was drinking because the driver injured/killed someone (I am not saying this is right, personally I think it is horrible, but that is the way our legal system works). The bartender did not commit the act, but he can still be held responsible in our current court system.
You better watch yourself. Based on the title of your comment, the RIAA may come after you for violating the Village People's copyright.
IIRC correctly June fell between May and July last year as well, so the Summer factor will have no affect. They are comparing June 2002 with June 2003.