When I was still at school, a friend of mine doing a paper on the growth of Christianity among Koreans in the US interviewed me as an (extremely minor) authority on Confucianism for my perspective on the compatibility of these two traditions. I thought I was making a fairly innocuous comment when I said that there were some elements of Christian morality and Confucian ethics as they existed in Korean society that seem, on the surface, to be incompatible.
Imagine my surprise after the paper was presented when I was physically threatened (!) for having the audacity to "judge" Korea and Koreans, and this from individuals who routinely attend clubs and bars where non-Koreans are refused entry.
I understand that centuries of being squeezed between major powers can give a nation something of a chip on its shoulder, but I find the whole "No one but Koreans may say anything about Korea" thing silly, an example of ethnocentrism taken to the extreme. People will look at what you do and draw conclusions; everyone is subject to the same scrutiny in this way. Get over it.
I think "de2" is more appropriate for something that you've actually gone out and actively obtained. For something like passively receiving mail "shou4 dao4" might be better.
This is what happens when you've been translating classical Chinese philosophy and read/. to take a break.
I remember that when I started going to college in Boston in 1994 AT&T had a shiny new "Internet Payphone" installed near the bathrooms in the Galleria Mall. When I pressed the "Data Services" button a screen came up that said "Coming soon". I visited the same payphone on a trip a year or so ago, and guess what? Data services were still "Coming soon". In the meantime, I've bought a Libretto, a GSM phone, and no longer have any use for the things. If there was going to be any gee-wiz value to the things at all, it wouldn't been within the first *five years* that the damned things were installed. Makes me wonder about who makes the decisions at our erstwhile Ma Bell.
Consider the nature of the question: how would we deal with non-human intelligence if presented with it? The poster replied with examples of how we deal with sentient or near-sentient animals that are native to our own planet. We know how intelligent dolphins and whales are, and yet countries like Iceland, Japan, and Norway are still happily killing them for no clear reason. For that matter, scientists also know that the octopus is on the verge of self awareness, yet people thing nothing at all of eating one.
The fact is that as much as I don't like it, Mao's old maxim, that "Power eminates from the barrel of a gun" holds true. The reason we don't care about/respect the intelligence of non-human organisms is that they're not in a position to fight back against us. The main reason we'd have to respect an alien intelligence would be because they could toast our butts if we didn't. I suspect, though, that if they were smarter/more technologically advanced than us and thought we looked tasty, we'd have a hard time arguing for our lives considering the human race's own record of dealing with other creatures, even those whose intelligence is surely higher than that of some people you probably know. (and you know that a dolphin is smarter than your boss)
Not sure what you mean about FM Pro being Mac-dependant. There is a PC version of FM Pro that is virtually identical to the Mac version, and this made it possible for Mac and PC users at my last job to use the same DB views at all. Not free, but still...
What I don't understand is why the original poster wants to switch their front end to Access when the back-end isn't MS SQL or Access. If you've already got working FM Pro views and clients, then keep them, keep the views, and offload the actual DB to your new MySQL back-end (whcih FM Pro talks to just fine on PC AND Mac, incidentally)
I used an 8mb diskonchip loaded with DR-DOS to test this out, and the Webplayer is a regular PC. What this means is that its capable of running small linux distros (they have to fit in the 48mb diskonchip, which can be safely erased now that we don't have to worry about breaking the license agreement) that support USB ethernet adapters (roughly $39 nowadays). There is still no BIOS password info that I've been able to find, which means the internal IDE is useless, BUT external USB disks are a possibility if you want to turn this thing into a full-blown workstation.
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When I was still at school, a friend of mine doing a paper on the growth of Christianity among Koreans in the US interviewed me as an (extremely minor) authority on Confucianism for my perspective on the compatibility of these two traditions. I thought I was making a fairly innocuous comment when I said that there were some elements of Christian morality and Confucian ethics as they existed in Korean society that seem, on the surface, to be incompatible.
Imagine my surprise after the paper was presented when I was physically threatened (!) for having the audacity to "judge" Korea and Koreans, and this from individuals who routinely attend clubs and bars where non-Koreans are refused entry.
I understand that centuries of being squeezed between major powers can give a nation something of a chip on its shoulder, but I find the whole "No one but Koreans may say anything about Korea" thing silly, an example of ethnocentrism taken to the extreme. People will look at what you do and draw conclusions; everyone is subject to the same scrutiny in this way. Get over it.
I think "de2" is more appropriate for something that you've actually gone out and actively obtained. For something like passively receiving mail "shou4 dao4" might be better.
/. to take a break.
This is what happens when you've been translating classical Chinese philosophy and read
<p>I think it should be:
nin2 shou4 dao4 dian4zi3 you2jian4</p>
<p>More Chinese-y than "email"</p>
I remember that when I started going to college in Boston in 1994 AT&T had a shiny new "Internet Payphone" installed near the bathrooms in the Galleria Mall. When I pressed the "Data Services" button a screen came up that said "Coming soon". I visited the same payphone on a trip a year or so ago, and guess what? Data services were still "Coming soon". In the meantime, I've bought a Libretto, a GSM phone, and no longer have any use for the things. If there was going to be any gee-wiz value to the things at all, it wouldn't been within the first *five years* that the damned things were installed. Makes me wonder about who makes the decisions at our erstwhile Ma Bell.
Consider the nature of the question: how would we deal with non-human intelligence if presented with it? The poster replied with examples of how we deal with sentient or near-sentient animals that are native to our own planet. We know how intelligent dolphins and whales are, and yet countries like Iceland, Japan, and Norway are still happily killing them for no clear reason. For that matter, scientists also know that the octopus is on the verge of self awareness, yet people thing nothing at all of eating one.
The fact is that as much as I don't like it, Mao's old maxim, that "Power eminates from the barrel of a gun" holds true. The reason we don't care about/respect the intelligence of non-human organisms is that they're not in a position to fight back against us. The main reason we'd have to respect an alien intelligence would be because they could toast our butts if we didn't. I suspect, though, that if they were smarter/more technologically advanced than us and thought we looked tasty, we'd have a hard time arguing for our lives considering the human race's own record of dealing with other creatures, even those whose intelligence is surely higher than that of some people you probably know. (and you know that a dolphin is smarter than your boss)
Not sure what you mean about FM Pro being Mac-dependant. There is a PC version of FM Pro that is virtually identical to the Mac version, and this made it possible for Mac and PC users at my last job to use the same DB views at all. Not free, but still... What I don't understand is why the original poster wants to switch their front end to Access when the back-end isn't MS SQL or Access. If you've already got working FM Pro views and clients, then keep them, keep the views, and offload the actual DB to your new MySQL back-end (whcih FM Pro talks to just fine on PC AND Mac, incidentally)
I used an 8mb diskonchip loaded with DR-DOS to test this out, and the Webplayer is a regular PC. What this means is that its capable of running small linux distros (they have to fit in the 48mb diskonchip, which can be safely erased now that we don't have to worry about breaking the license agreement) that support USB ethernet adapters (roughly $39 nowadays). There is still no BIOS password info that I've been able to find, which means the internal IDE is useless, BUT external USB disks are a possibility if you want to turn this thing into a full-blown workstation.