Yes, this seems wrong to me as well. There is a very good play called "Breaking the Code" by Hugh Whitemore (1986), that starred Derek Jacoby in the London and New York premiers. It may have used material from the above biography, I can't remember. I think I'll pass on this movie, and Tom Stoppard is my favorite playwright. Anyone who would ignore the heroism and tragedy of Alan Turing is not a person I care to hear from on this subject.
Huh? I make my living developing software, but my company doesn't make any money selling it. We sell memory chips. Our code never leaves the company.
I think you'll find that the large majority of developers don't develop shrinkwrap software, but develop applications for internal use only, that are used to support a company's real business. We protect our IP the old fashioned way, by not telling anyone about it! This is what makes Mundie's blatherings even more disingenuous than they would seem on the surface.
I used Slashdot a lot on 9-11 and the following days, and I noticed something. Slashdot got all the same rumors that all the other media outlets reported, but because of the instant feedback that comments provided, the untrue rumors were debunked much faster than on the TV networks.
Just my $.02. I agree that filtering sounds more dangerous than the disease it is supposed to cure. Who gets to be in charge of this, Jon? Isn't it a better (long term) solution to improve our educational system to produce citizens with better skills in critical thinking?
I know that this will be swamped by many other replies, but I hope some one who keeps Slashdot up and running reads this. Thank you so very much for working so hard to act as a conduit for info, and for keeping us informed. I first found out about the tragedy on Slashdot, and most of the major developments I found out about on Slashdot first. You've done us all a great service, and I just wanted to express my thanks.
You shouldn't have to link the tables in Access, as other posts have suggested. You can do what is called a pass-through query in Access, that will allow you to send a query directly to ODBC without any pre-processing. The good news is that this allows you to do your processing server-side, and you don't use Access' peculiar dialect of SQL. The bad news is that you have to use ODBC's version of SQL, which is its own special kind of fun. Go to MSDN and look on their Universal Data Access site for ODBC, or look in the MSDN Library.
That having been said, I have to agree with the posters who have questioned the wisdom of this move. Access should work fine as a desktop report generator (as long as you don't have to support the messes that management will make of it), but MySql doesn't sound like as good a choice for a back-end database as MS SQL Server. Sometimes you have to look past ideologies and Do the Right Thing for your customer.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, this seems wrong to me as well. There is a very good play called "Breaking the Code" by Hugh Whitemore (1986), that starred Derek Jacoby in the London and New York premiers. It may have used material from the above biography, I can't remember. I think I'll pass on this movie, and Tom Stoppard is my favorite playwright. Anyone who would ignore the heroism and tragedy of Alan Turing is not a person I care to hear from on this subject.
Huh? I make my living developing software, but my company doesn't make any money selling it. We sell memory chips. Our code never leaves the company.
I think you'll find that the large majority of developers don't develop shrinkwrap software, but develop applications for internal use only, that are used to support a company's real business. We protect our IP the old fashioned way, by not telling anyone about it! This is what makes Mundie's blatherings even more disingenuous than they would seem on the surface.
I used Slashdot a lot on 9-11 and the following days, and I noticed something. Slashdot got all the same rumors that all the other media outlets reported, but because of the instant feedback that comments provided, the untrue rumors were debunked much faster than on the TV networks.
Just my $.02. I agree that filtering sounds more dangerous than the disease it is supposed to cure. Who gets to be in charge of this, Jon? Isn't it a better (long term) solution to improve our educational system to produce citizens with better skills in critical thinking?
Brook
I know that this will be swamped by many other replies, but I hope some one who keeps Slashdot up and running reads this. Thank you so very much for working so hard to act as a conduit for info, and for keeping us informed. I first found out about the tragedy on Slashdot, and most of the major developments I found out about on Slashdot first. You've done us all a great service, and I just wanted to express my thanks.
Brook
You shouldn't have to link the tables in Access, as other posts have suggested. You can do what is called a pass-through query in Access, that will allow you to send a query directly to ODBC without any pre-processing. The good news is that this allows you to do your processing server-side, and you don't use Access' peculiar dialect of SQL. The bad news is that you have to use ODBC's version of SQL, which is its own special kind of fun. Go to MSDN and look on their Universal Data Access site for ODBC, or look in the MSDN Library.
That having been said, I have to agree with the posters who have questioned the wisdom of this move. Access should work fine as a desktop report generator (as long as you don't have to support the messes that management will make of it), but MySql doesn't sound like as good a choice for a back-end database as MS SQL Server. Sometimes you have to look past ideologies and Do the Right Thing for your customer.