Absolutely true- to a certain extent. The conspiracy theory is much more a marker of the amount of faith the theorist has in the conspirators than any actual action in reality.
Thus, the way you should read this is thusly- over the last 4 years I have become convinced that W is Nixon II- completely adicted to power and greed and not willing to have *anything* get in the way, not even ethics or laws or the constitution. Many Republicans strike me as supporting Bush to an illogical degree. Thus, in my world, such conspiracies become *possible* if not *probable*.
Exactly! It's always amazing to me how the privacy wonks think that any government intrusion is automatically bad for their side. In reality, it depends on *what really happened*.
Modern Access uses OLEDB drivers for SQL Server, just like the rest of office. ODBC is outdated and slow in comparison.
I've found that using a modern Access Data Project- with a separate adp running on each machine- combined with optimized queries is satisfactory for most usage, even over the WAN. However, the optimised queries are the key- any large recordset or gasp, opening a table directly, both of which are common things to do in Access programming, is going to DIE going across a WAN. Thus, agreed- if you're going to have an access application grow up into an ADP, better to do it as an ADP to begin with and import the data.
Access is horribly slow for any real database usage (i.e. more than a few dozen people).
Depends on how you're using access. I completely agree if you're using the Jet Engine on the back end for the ODBC server. I don't. I jetison jet and hook up an OleDB driver to SQL Server, which scales very well. Do all of my front end in an ADP instead of an MDE- and as long as everybody has access on the desktop, it's easy.
Yep- that's what i meant- it's amazing how many people didn't figure that out. Not only do you get all of the rapid development of Access, but you can also use Access Wizards to write stored procedures on the back end. VERY powerfull combination.
That's what Access programmers do in this situation- use linked tables through the OLEDB driver and create an Access Data Project. I'm amazed that FileMaker can't do something similar- at least link tables up so that you can have some tables from a real database for reporting purposes.
The question was asked- what do Access people do in this situation, and the answer is use Access as a front end to a SQL Server backend. Bet you didn't even know that Access could bypass the Jet Engine entirely, did you?
Also- those limits you poseted on number of fields and records are no longer there in Jet 4.0. Because I'm a Microsoft programmer that hates Microsoft- my theory is that the limits still exist, but at much, much higher levels.
I use it- but perhaps GPS and Windows CE 3.0 isn't a significant number of devices to you. Personally, I'm waiting to get a GPS phone to start programming and testing a GPS-aware Web Browser for Windows CE- I think such a beast could be quite usefull.
And unfortuneately- this is why we can't trust the employer- and worse off, the credit will be just as shot up six months later when the company itself goes bankrupt because nobody was telling the TRUTH.
A good test for how good of a boss you'll end up with is exactly this sort of thing- if you don't want to end up homeless after 6 months anyway then this is somebody you don't want to work for.
Is create an Access Data Project that links to the OLEDB/ODBC data source, thus pulling in the tables and keeping the Access interface. This works because we're already paying for Access anyway as part of our standard office build. I'm kind of surprised that File Maker doesn't offer something similar- Access has *so* many ways of doing this in comparison.
Pretty darn close- they used georadar and mass (microgravity) detectors. The "site" in question seems to be quite a ways up the pyramid, just under the Queen's chamber- and they'd need permission fot that.
See, this is even more confusing to me- when I was that age I didn't care what women THOUGHT- so why would I want to fuck with her head at all? I have a head, I have hair, I have legs- why would I be interested in any of those parts?
Basically, I don't trust these numbers because of who was polled. This was a survery of businesses- and if this recession has taught us anything it's that prvate industry can't be relied on to tell anybody the truth about employment- or even actually the truth after they hire you. My suggestion to anybody taking advantage of growing employment in the tech industry is make sure that severance pay is written into your contract and that it covers at least 6 months of job searching level lifestyle.
WTF? If I got into a girl's room when I was in my early 20s and she was asleep enough to do something like that- her HAIR would be the last thing I'd touch...what kind of horrific hairdresser wannabe sneaks into a girl's room at night to cut her hair?
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My guess is that Dothan may be held up as well pending GX-NX flag compatibility, without which there's no way to take full advantage of XP SP2 anyway and so nobody will buy.
You trust THIS government to give you accurate numbers on ANY of this? Plus- how the hell can they tell when they don't even know what's in the 1.2 million shipping containers daily that cross the borders?
Have *some* skepticism at least when the facts that you can see right in front of your face aren't matching the claims that the government is trying to get you to believe.
I suppose you also think that IT is still a growth industry with 600,000 new jobs every year as well?
I doubt that we can have an expert system at that level. At that level, then much of human labor will be replaced as well.
We've already got an expert system doing something much more complicated- and it's in your linux box. (to a lesser extent it's also in Windows XP- in a buggy, badly designed sort of way). And yes, that's my ultimate point- labor is in surplus, human labor is being replaced, we don't need people as much any more, so it's high time to abandon the chaos of the market for something that divorces *labor* from *survival*.
Replace the final authority figure with an expert system, complete with a set of sensors right down to the point of sale registers, and you don't need human beings for that job.
Which is something I've been thinking about recently- an entirely automated fast food restaurant that only needs one day of human labor a week restocking it. Wouldn't need any nasty humans for any of it then.
If this technology was available, it would be able to make individual companies make decisions on hiring and firing efficiently already.
It is- but they're not using it, because HR people are luddites and CxOs are usually too worried about *security* and *privacy* to let people have that kind of informaiton.
All research costs resources - researching everything would not necessarily drive innovation.
Innovation is about *connections*, connections between disciplines of science. The faster we discover new things, regardless of whether the market will pay for those new things or not, the more innovation will accellerate. Cost in resources is a problem- but it's a problem we've been solving in operating systems for 40 years now, and we've got some quite good algorithims to achieve it.
Engineers can be bribed too.
Anybody can be bribed, the key is to kill off those who are bribed so that they don't breed and eventually the gene for greed itself dies out.
How was Stalin suspertitious and based on myth?
Every one of his 5 year plans was based on junk science- homeopathic medicine and bad planing based on a wierd form of genetics informed by astrology. My guess is that he actually was doing the best he could, with the limited human-based information systems available back then- but that was before networking was invented in 1969.
How are you going to attain a pure rational / logical system with humans?
We already have it- UNIX! It's a just a matter of having a machine that can follow rules without being corrupted.
Perfect knowledge and perfect selflessness?
Selflessness is just a lack of selfishness- engineering that out is very easy. Perfect knowledge is harder- but quite possible now that wifi sensor clouds are available.
How can you attain pure systems when people are liars, adulterers, murderers, rapists?
Simple- don't use people for the day-to-day decision making, at all, since people have proven themselves to be falible. Use expert systems, neural nets, and resource distribution algorithisms instead.
Also, yes the business cycle makes some rich, but evidence in Bangalore, where the programmers earn ~ 10000 US/year (much more than the local gardener, cook), we've observed that the wages of local gardeners have also increased - 4 fold in the last four years.
That won't last long- soon they'll find a country where it's legal to pay programmers 100 US/year, and all the jobs will leave India for there. In fact, it's already happening. You really didn't imagine that the jobs in Bangalore would last more than a few years, did you?
The problem with government trying to maximize employment is that it doesn't have the macro and micro scale omniscience to know where to employ people and how much to pay them.
In the past, we didn't- but we've got computers and the internet now and can collect that data.
The market (driven by people's desires and needs) will best determine where people are needed.
Horribly old fashioned- and data collection AFTER the fact, doesn't do much good in speed of response either.
If people determine that they want more technology, their checkbooks will drive research in that field (ipods, better keyboards, lcd monitors).
The other option is to research EVERYTHING- which drives even more innovation- and then only produce what people order.
The government is too slow to respond to individual needs and desires. Individual checkbooks respond the quickest.
You're still thinking in the past. Modern systems exist which can collect this data faster than ever.
-- It has everything to do with people born evil. You can't stop the cycle of oppression by economic and political mechanisms alone - people just find another way to oppress and/or cheat.
Which is why the engineers should be in charge- by factoring in the cheaters- the cheaters can be eliminated.
Just look at Stalin (oppress) and campaign finance (cheat).
Both of which can be engineered out of a rational, logical system- but can't be engineered out of a chaotic system based on superstition and myth (as both Stalinist Russia and the United States are).
I disagree with your last point. You are factoring in "cheaters". In the case you factor in cheaters, the most efficient company can also bribe politicians. All things held equal, my point of the company which offers the right salary for the right people, eliminating unneccessary positions, paying people what they should be paid, will win.
Recent history shows that any such company will be bought out and destroyed as quickly as possible to stop the danger to the business cycle of a truly successfull company. The business cycle, of course, is necessary not just to make some people rich- but to more importantly make other people poor, insuring a supply of labor when it is needed. In other words, oppression.
This pattern of India, China, and the Philipines beying able to do US work on the cheap for US companies, frees capital up for investments in ever increasing sophisticated technologies of which, low end labor will have to provide the manual labor needed in these endeavors (until they are outsoured at a later date).
And I don't buy that logic for a second- there's no reason why we can't set up an alternate system here.
This is what enables innovation - this is why you are using a computer and discussing this subject via the internet. This cannot be planned. Valuation needs to be organic.
Here's another way to enable innovation in the extreme- give the rich a choice- you can spend everything you make over $200,000/year on charity, payroll, or pay it to the tax man. You don't get to keep anything at all beyond that. What isn't spent on charity and payroll is used by the government to give everybody a comfortable living- and innovation comes from the boredom. No need for the CEO at all.
CEOs will be able to give themselves big bonuses by outsourcing your job but that will not last long - soon no CEO will be able to get a bonus for doing something everyone knows how to do.
It won't last long because people like me will start killing the CEOs.
Quit being such a control freak.
If you had faced homelessness as often as I did in the last 4 years, you'd be a control freak too.
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Absolutely true- to a certain extent. The conspiracy theory is much more a marker of the amount of faith the theorist has in the conspirators than any actual action in reality.
Thus, the way you should read this is thusly- over the last 4 years I have become convinced that W is Nixon II- completely adicted to power and greed and not willing to have *anything* get in the way, not even ethics or laws or the constitution. Many Republicans strike me as supporting Bush to an illogical degree. Thus, in my world, such conspiracies become *possible* if not *probable*.
Exactly! It's always amazing to me how the privacy wonks think that any government intrusion is automatically bad for their side. In reality, it depends on *what really happened*.
Modern Access uses OLEDB drivers for SQL Server, just like the rest of office. ODBC is outdated and slow in comparison.
I've found that using a modern Access Data Project- with a separate adp running on each machine- combined with optimized queries is satisfactory for most usage, even over the WAN. However, the optimised queries are the key- any large recordset or gasp, opening a table directly, both of which are common things to do in Access programming, is going to DIE going across a WAN. Thus, agreed- if you're going to have an access application grow up into an ADP, better to do it as an ADP to begin with and import the data.
Access is horribly slow for any real database usage (i.e. more than a few dozen people).
Depends on how you're using access. I completely agree if you're using the Jet Engine on the back end for the ODBC server. I don't. I jetison jet and hook up an OleDB driver to SQL Server, which scales very well. Do all of my front end in an ADP instead of an MDE- and as long as everybody has access on the desktop, it's easy.
Yep- that's what i meant- it's amazing how many people didn't figure that out. Not only do you get all of the rapid development of Access, but you can also use Access Wizards to write stored procedures on the back end. VERY powerfull combination.
That's what Access programmers do in this situation- use linked tables through the OLEDB driver and create an Access Data Project. I'm amazed that FileMaker can't do something similar- at least link tables up so that you can have some tables from a real database for reporting purposes.
The question was asked- what do Access people do in this situation, and the answer is use Access as a front end to a SQL Server backend. Bet you didn't even know that Access could bypass the Jet Engine entirely, did you?
Also- those limits you poseted on number of fields and records are no longer there in Jet 4.0. Because I'm a Microsoft programmer that hates Microsoft- my theory is that the limits still exist, but at much, much higher levels.
I wouldn't put it past the Republicans to release their own information anonymously and then blame the Democrats for "hacking".
They seemed to always want me to sign at least an NDA when I was working- perhaps because I was always in R&D.
I use it- but perhaps GPS and Windows CE 3.0 isn't a significant number of devices to you. Personally, I'm waiting to get a GPS phone to start programming and testing a GPS-aware Web Browser for Windows CE- I think such a beast could be quite usefull.
And unfortuneately- this is why we can't trust the employer- and worse off, the credit will be just as shot up six months later when the company itself goes bankrupt because nobody was telling the TRUTH.
A good test for how good of a boss you'll end up with is exactly this sort of thing- if you don't want to end up homeless after 6 months anyway then this is somebody you don't want to work for.
Is create an Access Data Project that links to the OLEDB/ODBC data source, thus pulling in the tables and keeping the Access interface. This works because we're already paying for Access anyway as part of our standard office build. I'm kind of surprised that File Maker doesn't offer something similar- Access has *so* many ways of doing this in comparison.
Pretty darn close- they used georadar and mass (microgravity) detectors. The "site" in question seems to be quite a ways up the pyramid, just under the Queen's chamber- and they'd need permission fot that.
See, this is even more confusing to me- when I was that age I didn't care what women THOUGHT- so why would I want to fuck with her head at all? I have a head, I have hair, I have legs- why would I be interested in any of those parts?
It's always amazing how much you can fit on a 3"x5" card if you print out in a 6 point font.
Basically, I don't trust these numbers because of who was polled. This was a survery of businesses- and if this recession has taught us anything it's that prvate industry can't be relied on to tell anybody the truth about employment- or even actually the truth after they hire you. My suggestion to anybody taking advantage of growing employment in the tech industry is make sure that severance pay is written into your contract and that it covers at least 6 months of job searching level lifestyle.
in my ex-roommate's case, cutting thier hair.
WTF? If I got into a girl's room when I was in my early 20s and she was asleep enough to do something like that- her HAIR would be the last thing I'd touch...what kind of horrific hairdresser wannabe sneaks into a girl's room at night to cut her hair?
My guess is that Dothan may be held up as well pending GX-NX flag compatibility, without which there's no way to take full advantage of XP SP2 anyway and so nobody will buy.
You trust THIS government to give you accurate numbers on ANY of this? Plus- how the hell can they tell when they don't even know what's in the 1.2 million shipping containers daily that cross the borders?
Have *some* skepticism at least when the facts that you can see right in front of your face aren't matching the claims that the government is trying to get you to believe.
I suppose you also think that IT is still a growth industry with 600,000 new jobs every year as well?
I doubt that we can have an expert system at that level. At that level, then much of human labor will be replaced as well.
We've already got an expert system doing something much more complicated- and it's in your linux box. (to a lesser extent it's also in Windows XP- in a buggy, badly designed sort of way). And yes, that's my ultimate point- labor is in surplus, human labor is being replaced, we don't need people as much any more, so it's high time to abandon the chaos of the market for something that divorces *labor* from *survival*.
I'd be for limiting inheritance taxes to *cash* and *non-primary-business* assets if it meant never having to hear this stupid argument again.
Replace the final authority figure with an expert system, complete with a set of sensors right down to the point of sale registers, and you don't need human beings for that job.
Which is something I've been thinking about recently- an entirely automated fast food restaurant that only needs one day of human labor a week restocking it. Wouldn't need any nasty humans for any of it then.
If this technology was available, it would be able to make individual companies make decisions on hiring and firing efficiently already.
It is- but they're not using it, because HR people are luddites and CxOs are usually too worried about *security* and *privacy* to let people have that kind of informaiton.
All research costs resources - researching everything would not necessarily drive innovation.
Innovation is about *connections*, connections between disciplines of science. The faster we discover new things, regardless of whether the market will pay for those new things or not, the more innovation will accellerate. Cost in resources is a problem- but it's a problem we've been solving in operating systems for 40 years now, and we've got some quite good algorithims to achieve it.
Engineers can be bribed too.
Anybody can be bribed, the key is to kill off those who are bribed so that they don't breed and eventually the gene for greed itself dies out.
How was Stalin suspertitious and based on myth?
Every one of his 5 year plans was based on junk science- homeopathic medicine and bad planing based on a wierd form of genetics informed by astrology. My guess is that he actually was doing the best he could, with the limited human-based information systems available back then- but that was before networking was invented in 1969.
How are you going to attain a pure rational / logical system with humans?
We already have it- UNIX! It's a just a matter of having a machine that can follow rules without being corrupted.
Perfect knowledge and perfect selflessness?
Selflessness is just a lack of selfishness- engineering that out is very easy. Perfect knowledge is harder- but quite possible now that wifi sensor clouds are available.
How can you attain pure systems when people are liars, adulterers, murderers, rapists?
Simple- don't use people for the day-to-day decision making, at all, since people have proven themselves to be falible. Use expert systems, neural nets, and resource distribution algorithisms instead.
Also, yes the business cycle makes some rich, but evidence in Bangalore, where the programmers earn ~ 10000 US/year (much more than the local gardener, cook), we've observed that the wages of local gardeners have also increased - 4 fold in the last four years.
That won't last long- soon they'll find a country where it's legal to pay programmers 100 US/year, and all the jobs will leave India for there. In fact, it's already happening. You really didn't imagine that the jobs in Bangalore would last more than a few years, did you?
The problem with government trying to maximize employment is that it doesn't have the macro and micro scale omniscience to know where to employ people and how much to pay them.
In the past, we didn't- but we've got computers and the internet now and can collect that data.
The market (driven by people's desires and needs) will best determine where people are needed.
Horribly old fashioned- and data collection AFTER the fact, doesn't do much good in speed of response either.
If people determine that they want more technology, their checkbooks will drive research in that field (ipods, better keyboards, lcd monitors).
The other option is to research EVERYTHING- which drives even more innovation- and then only produce what people order.
The government is too slow to respond to individual needs and desires. Individual checkbooks respond the quickest.
You're still thinking in the past. Modern systems exist which can collect this data faster than ever.
-- It has everything to do with people born evil. You can't stop the cycle of oppression by economic and political mechanisms alone - people just find another way to oppress and/or cheat.
Which is why the engineers should be in charge- by factoring in the cheaters- the cheaters can be eliminated.
Just look at Stalin (oppress) and campaign finance (cheat).
Both of which can be engineered out of a rational, logical system- but can't be engineered out of a chaotic system based on superstition and myth (as both Stalinist Russia and the United States are).
I disagree with your last point. You are factoring in "cheaters". In the case you factor in cheaters, the most efficient company can also bribe politicians. All things held equal, my point of the company which offers the right salary for the right people, eliminating unneccessary positions, paying people what they should be paid, will win.
Recent history shows that any such company will be bought out and destroyed as quickly as possible to stop the danger to the business cycle of a truly successfull company. The business cycle, of course, is necessary not just to make some people rich- but to more importantly make other people poor, insuring a supply of labor when it is needed. In other words, oppression.
This pattern of India, China, and the Philipines beying able to do US work on the cheap for US companies, frees capital up for investments in ever increasing sophisticated technologies of which, low end labor will have to provide the manual labor needed in these endeavors (until they are outsoured at a later date).
And I don't buy that logic for a second- there's no reason why we can't set up an alternate system here.
This is what enables innovation - this is why you are using a computer and discussing this subject via the internet. This cannot be planned. Valuation needs to be organic.
Here's another way to enable innovation in the extreme- give the rich a choice- you can spend everything you make over $200,000/year on charity, payroll, or pay it to the tax man. You don't get to keep anything at all beyond that. What isn't spent on charity and payroll is used by the government to give everybody a comfortable living- and innovation comes from the boredom. No need for the CEO at all.
CEOs will be able to give themselves big bonuses by outsourcing your job but that will not last long - soon no CEO will be able to get a bonus for doing something everyone knows how to do.
It won't last long because people like me will start killing the CEOs.
Quit being such a control freak.
If you had faced homelessness as often as I did in the last 4 years, you'd be a control freak too.