"If anything I was blaming a missionary..." You have no idea what 'missionaries' do. Thirty eight years ago my wife and I were married by a preacher whom I came to know and love as a dear friend. He supported himself and his family by painting houses, earning about $15,000/yr. He fed his family from a huge garden, and did the canning himself. He took some donations from myself and others who were his freinds, but he never asked anyone for money. He started a weekly radio program in Hoxie, KS called Lesson of Love, which was non-denominational. He grew tired of preaching to shallow, materialistic American Christians and began carrying on correspondence with folks in other countries who wanted to learn about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He began averaging between 4,000 and 5,000 lessons per year. Many of the students began writing him letters about their country and home life, and asking for help. He decided to go to one country in particular, Nigeria. He was 55 when he left for his first visit, taking about $4000 in food concentrates, medicines and a few changes of clothes. He always went into the bush and lived with the folks, in their own huts. He taught, dispensed medicine, bought clothes, bikes and school tuition for kids. He did this for 15 years. After each trip he'd come back 30 pounds lighter, and with dozens of small insect bite marks and other rashes. On three trips prior to his last he came back with Malaria. He never came back alive from his last trip. He had given away all of his medicines and money. A Muslum murdered him in a fake holdup attempt, two days before he was to return. In 15 years Nigerians had named several babies after him and always looked forward to his visits. They hand carved a beautiful casket from a single tree trunk and sent him back to Iowa to be buried in it. His name was Darrel Foltz. He never considered himself a missionary because he never considered those whom he shared the Gospel with to be anything less than his brothers and sisters.
What do you 'blame' him for? Sharing what he believed in by putting his words into practice? Treating eye infections and saving some child's sight? Elevating the status of women? Buying clothes for kids, or bikes for adults? Paying school tuition for kids so they can learn to read and write? I prefer his solution to some of the miseries of man over yours.
When I was comparing the two (MySQL 3.21.33 and PostgreSQL 6.4) I noticed that the MySQL manual gave a list of SQL functionalities that were missing in it.
Sub-selects
Selects into a table
Transactions
Triggers
Foreign Keys
Views
These aren't trivial weaknesses, and says nothing about syntactical differences between MySQL and ANSI SQL 92. I use these features everyday at work. To impliment them in code is possible but would be a royal pain. TRANSACTIONS, for example, can be worked around by creating duplicates of tables and batch processing into them. If all the updates on all the tables goes ok then copy the dups over the original tables. Not practical if the original tables are huge, but can be done at night after backups are done.
It also listed functions which 'exist' only for compatibility (i.e., not functional)
GRANT
CREATE INDEX
DROP INDEX
ALTER TABLE
After that list of don'ts I decided to check PostgreSQL, especially since TRANSACTIONS was missing and MySQL said it would require a 'completely different table layout than *MySQL* uses today.' I understand that they have employed a wrapper technique to supply a 'TRANSACTION'-like functionality. I've had experiences with extending fuctionality with wrappers and they are generally not a stable or acceptable solution.
PostgreSQL has everything MySQL is missing. It has a very powerful set of operators (std, numerical, time-interval, geometric) which can be evoked by name. It also has a similar set of fuctions which can be used to increase the functionality of the operators. Postgres alows attributes of an instance to be defined as fixed-length or variable-length multi-dimenstional arrays, either of base type or user-defined types. (Not exactly like Pick's AMV, but close). I seldom see folks mention a powerful feature of PostgreSQL that MySQL doesn't have - Inheritance. From their documentation:
CREATE TABLE cities ( name text, population float, altitude int -- (in ft) );
CREATE TABLE capitals ( state char2 ) INHERITS (cities);
Here are some quotes from Eric's webpage... "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." -- Patrick Henry, speech of June 5 1788
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen. -- "M.T. Cicero", in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the "militia" referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms... -- Samuel Adams, in "Phila. Independent Gazetteer", August 20, 1789
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. -- Joel Barlow, "Advice to the Privileged Orders", 1792-93
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill, writing on the U.S. Civil War in 1862
Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' -- Mao Tse-tung, 1938, inadvertently endorsing the Second Amendment.
Eric is a free man living in a country that has the 1st and 2 Amendments to the Bill of Rights. So he is entitled to express his opinion regardless of your illiterate rant.
You aren't even brave enough to user your real name. You're the disgrace. And you can't even post a msg without creating a mess...
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Grades measure diligence in busywork (and reasonableness of the grader's expectations), not intelligence.
True. I once did an experiment with a nineth grade science class. (I was an HS teacher for 10 years, before I began my computer consulting business). I gave them a 10 question quiz every day, at the start of class. Seven questions were about yesterdays material, and three were about today's material. During that semester I found that those grades were a better record of emotional problems, family problems and monthly periods than of any academic achievment. In an other experiment I paid 5 dollars to the person with the highest score on each test. Kids who were scaped the bottom of the barrel were blowing away the 'bright' students. They had a reason to study. Those two experiments changed my approach to teaching. But that is another subject.
But you'd know that if you were a teacher, just as you'd know "33" isn't even close to being a valid SAT score.
Your right. I did know that at one time, before my photographic memory was destroyed by NutraSweet. I couldn't remember if it was SAT or ACT, so I just took a guess. Too, bad. I had a 50-50 chance. I use to be able to 'photograph' pages of pchem textbooks in grad school and see them in my mind years later. I had my own computer consulting business for 15 years, concurrent with teaching, and during that time was in command of about a dozen languages. I could scroll several hundred lines of code in my head and read it back over the phone to clients so they could make changes to programs. (Part of my consulting was teaching clients how to program and how to operate Novell networks.) I also did criminal investigations, using my physics and anatomy training. During the 1987-1992 period I was computerizing the college I mentioned, and they asked me to teach, too. So, I was putting in over 80 hours per week and needed something to keep the eyelids open. I thought about caffeine but didn't like coffee. I didn't want to get fat drinking a lot of Coke so I chose diet Coke, or Pepsi. Which ever was convenient. I began that period weighing about 225-230lbs. By 1991 I was drinking 4+ liters of diet Dr. Pepper a day. My weight had balloned to 265lbs. I had a continual headache and an insatiable desire to eat popcorn, which was conveniently dispensed at the student center. I knew something was wrong when I began forgetting the names of students in my classes. Then, to my amazement, I couldn't recall the names, symbols or other information from the periodic table, which I used to recite from memory. The Krebs Cycle, which I had to learn in detail in grad school, and frequently taught, was not even a memory. Integration techniques in Calculus became fuzzy, even though I integrated 2nd degree diff equ's to solve balistic problems in my criminal investigations. I knew I was in serious trouble when names of family members began slipping away and were recalled only by several minutes of concentration. I became depressed and began seeking counciling. (sp?) Sometimes, things recalled came back garbled, like the SAT or ACT scale. I was barely able to finish the programming at the school and resigned the teaching post when I finished the project. The language I was using at the time, AREV, a derivative of the Pick System, stayed with me because I was using it daily and I kept the manual very handy. It, like most of the others, has since slipped into the vaccum. Now, the only language I am good at is VFP, because I use it every day at work. If I had a better memory I could be a *lot* better. My 'glory' days are over.
I took a couple of months off from consulting and programming to rest, during the summer of 1992. During that time I began drinking tea instead of diet sodas. The headaches stopped and I slowly noticed my parts of my memory beginning to return. I marked the problems off to stress and fatigue.
One day, my wife came home from SuperSaver and asked, "do you want a diet Dr Pepper?" She was concerned about my weight. Ok. About 30-45 minutes after I drank it my face turned beet red from the waist up and began to feel a burning sensation on my face like I was looking at the sun. It reminds be of a B6 flush. I began 'sweating' sebaceous oil (oily sweat) and my headache returned. Three days later my skin pealed as if I had been sunburned. That was my first clue that something in diet Dr Pepper was giving me a problem, since regular Dr Pepper did not produce similar symptoms. The only difference was Aspartame. In 1992-3 I did an extensive internet search on Aspartame. That was when I discovered countless individuals who have had similar experiences with Aspartame. I also know the NutraSweet front groups who parot their propaganda (at least I can remember where to look on my computer for my archives), which researchers testified one way during the congressional hearings but changed their testimony after receiving sizable research grants from NutraSweet related sources... If you want any of this info I'll pass along the zip files.
Since 1992 I have recovered some of my long term memories, but most are fragmentary. I find it very difficult to learn a new language because my short term memory empties before it can be converted to long term. But, there are moments.
Sometimes, when I draw a drink from a regular Dr Pepper dispenser I will get a reoccurance of the symptoms. In each case I have asked the store why they put diet Pepper in the regular dispenser and the individual reponded that they were out of the regular and thought no one would notice. The last time this happened was about a week a go when my son and I went to Blimbie's for dinner. We know the owner and he even sat with us for dinner. About an hour later I got the same symptoms and I called Sam and asked if he ahd put diet Pepper in the regular dispenser. He was suprised to learn that I could tell. Maybe younger folks with more taste buds can tell the difference by taste, but I can't. Anyway, I know you got the point of my previous message.
Did you make a special case for this, or do you just believe everything you read?
No and no. Do you believe everything you *read*. I suppose you think that because Barbara and her husband post something it must be true.
*I* am a documented and replicatable case. And I've been tested more than once by skeptics. You've never read about the congressional investigation into R.G. Serle's lab data maniuplation the early 80's? You aren't aware that the individual who was acting chairman of the FDA when he approved Aspartame subsequently resigned and took a lucrative position with NutraSweet.
(big-font underlined blink tags have no bearing on the truth even if they do make for an ugly web site).
Unless you're over 60, sonny, and have more than an MS in biochemistry and have done your own biochemical research and have been published you can't tell me squat about 'critical thinking'. You think that organizations that front for NutraSweet are a better source of unbiased info?
Go do a little more than a quick google search before you bother someone else, you arrogant little twit...
I've stopped visiting McDonald's because everytime I did, no matter what part of our country, I end up waiting in the parking lot for my order. They are not 'fast' anymore, they are not even 'just in time'.
Blimpie's are better, and better for you, and every ingredient is locally purchased.
I retired about ten years ago from teaching Engineering Physics and Calculus at a small, private midwest college.
One year a French foreign exchange student enrolled at a local high school, for his senior year, but tested out of all the courses they offered. So, they sent him to the college where I taught. His name was Stefan. He tested into Engineering Physics and 3rd semester Calculus. At the end of the year he was ranked 1st in both classes. I had many students with SATs of 33 but he could read and write English better than any of them. Was he an exceptional person? I though so, until one day I asked him what he was going to major in when he returned home to France and enrolled in a university. He said he couldn't enroll in the university because his grades were NOT good enough! He was planning to enroll in a trade school and study metalurgy. A year later he returned to Lincoln to study how the Cushing factory used lasers in their manufacturing process.
Indirectly, this experience opened my eyes to what is going on in the world, by studying the European educational systems and their objectives. With a few exceptions, the Multi-Nationals are not investing in the future and living off of the interest. They are spending our capital (resources) for near term excessive profits so that a few can retire early and live a carefree life that having more income than outgo brings. That is also why you have rich Americans taking carribean cruises on luxury ships running under Liberan flags.
The only problem I see with your essay is your basic assumption: all readers of/. are 'Red.'
I'm not. In 1964 I was told that if I voted for Goldwater there would be war. Remember the ad showing that little girl picking peddles off of a daisy, which ended in a nuclear explosion? Well, I voted for Goldwater and we got war! I've voted Republican every since. My favorite President is Magnus Ronoldus. Visiting the Black Hills Monument of the President last year it is interesting to note that he is ranked as the 3rd most popular President ever, coming behind George and Abe. Then came "Read my lips, no new taxes" Bush, who single-handedly destroyed faith in the Republican Party's credibility. NG's 'Revolution' was sidetracked by a collection of self-serving, finger in the wind (created by windmills of the media), Republicans who reverted back to that old me-too-just-not-so-much tax&spending form of the past. Just like the current crop of self-serving Democrats, the Republicans are more interested in getting re-elected for personal gain. That's why the Demo's see-no-evil in the behavior of Clinton and the Republicans didn't have the gut's to impeach. They are all birds of a feather.
The only people with integrity left in the Republican Party are J. C. Watts and Alan Keyes, whom I voted for in my last and final Republican Primary. Alan Keyes, you will remember, was the third in the straw polling when the RP Alanta 'debate' was held. Alan demanded, and should have received, a seat on podium, being a qualified candidate. Instead, he was 'arrested' for distributing anti-abortion literature, driven around town for two hours, and then dropped off in a seedy industrial section of town, a long walk from a phone booth. That behavior by the leadership of the RP showed me exactly what brand of 'freedom' they favored, and it certainly wasn't the freedom guaranteed in the Bill of Rights or for which Americans died for in wars from the Revolution to Desert Storm.
I will say nothing of Demos & RP's incesteous relationship with multi-nationals that care nothing for the Bill of Rights. The MN's greedy patent behavior and the actions of their bottom-feeding lawyers show that. I have never been a member of the Democrat Party, but, that is why I have quit the Republican Party after nearly four decades of membership. In fact, I never left them, they left me, and the principals declared in the founding documents of the US.
I'm now looking at Harry Brown, or perhaps Ralph Nader. Ya, I know Ralph's Left Wing heritage, but how much more damage can he do than Clinton and both parties have already done? Besides, both are men of principal who will do and behave exactly as they say, and more to the point, exacly as they have been doing for years. After Clinton and the current crowd, either would be a refreshing change.
BTW, I remember something about tanks being used against civilians in China, er, no wait, that was Waco, TX. Didn't Nixon fire over a thousand Justic Dept Investigators? Oh, that's right, Nixon fired only one, Clinton fired the thousand to keep them from investigating his connections to the RTC. Wasn't Nixon's aid, Colson, sent to prison for possesing 700+ FBI files? An act the Democrat Party called the greatest danger to our constitution since the Revolution. Oh, that's right, it was Clinton's aids who got and used 700+ FBI files. I guess 700 is not as threatening to our Constitution as 1, so that is why the Demo's and the media arn't screaming as loudly as they did for the one file. Didn't the Chinese execute some disidents awhile back? Oh, your right, that was FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge who shot and killed a mother holding her infant baby. The more the Clinton Justice Department 'enforces the law' the more this country becomes indistinguishable from China.
VA doctors have found neither chemical or biological justification for the Desert Storm Syndrome. Perhaps our officers are punishing our men for what they did under orders. Symtoms created with a MICROWAVE LASER.
The Desert Storm syndrome is symtomatic of methyl alcohol poisoning. What happens when cases of diet Cokes and Pepsi's set on the tarmack and reach 100+ F temps? Aspartame breaks down to form Methy Alcohol. The body oxidizes MEOH to form Formaldehyde, which causes the red rash, oily sweat, memory loss, brain tumors, kidney and liver disorders, carbohydrate cravings and, sometimes, death. Formaldehyde was used as an embalming agent. It oxidizes to form Formic acid, the active agent in Ant stings.
Soldiers didn't inadvertantly bring home some undetectable chemical or biological agent to infect their families. They brought home the idea that by using Diet Sodas to limit their sugar intake they could prevent obesity.
The NutraSweet corp, one of those giant multi-nationals, has a well documented history of fact suppression, doctored test data, researcher buyoffs, and the FDA is in bed with them. Call the FDA because of a reaction to NutraSweet that you can replicate and *document*, and you will be automatically switched to a NutraSweet "Helpline". Their response? "Why, no, there is no documented reaction to NutraSweet like you've described." You think your still connected to the FDA and that they are watching out for your health interests.
I agree. I have started looking around for a computer to replace my Sony VIAO P166. I was looking at Dell. Now I will no longer consider their machines. I saw some well priced machines at buypogo.com, but if they have MS bios traps in them I won't go that route either. Looks like I will be visiting Linux Only retailers who sell clean bios PCs.
Thanks for the mini-review of Mandrake 7.1, Joe! Like you, I've been experiementing with various distros over the last three years. I settled into SuSE and am currently running 6.3 and am very satisfied with it. But, out of curiosity, I decided to try Mandrake 7.1. Your info pushed that decision onto the hotplate. With the reasonable cost of these distros, why not try several?
Herbie, I've been running Linux for three years, and following all the developments closely (I'm a professional programmer in the Windows environment but where I work we are watching Linux closely), and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've read or heard someone recommending that secrataries learn LaTex! In fact, I can only recall one such recommendation, and that one was repeated several times through linking. So it's not like such a recommendation is standard fare. WPO2000 or WP8 or Applix or StarOffice are all fine commercial products that have excellent office apps in them. Where I work, our 500+ workers standarized on WP8. Soon be KOffice and KWord. When we switch to Linux, and I have no doubt that we will, they will not notice any difference execpt one.... "Why don't I get that Blue Screen any more?"
The tide is rolling... and I am bringing myself up to speed on programming in the Linux environment as rapidly as I can. KDevelop 1.1 is helping that process nicely. Very powerful!
Looking at the first 26 comments I am amazed at how many are anti-Linux and/or pro-M$. It seems that Bill is sending out his clueless M$ trolls in masse Keep'm coming Bill!! First, they'll flame... and get shot down because their ignorance about Linux is evident... Then, they try it. Then, the light dawns and the wall of ignorance and disinformation crumbles. Then, they see Windows and the Gates PR machine for what it is... and understand what 'monopoly' means... Then, they get angry, first at themselves for being so deluded, then at M$ for exploiting them... Then, they join the Tux brigades Most will eventually delete their WinXXX partition... especially when they see how Win2K is going to suck up their paycheck...
"all kinds of ardent Linux lovers who are quite deluded about the readiness of Linux as a "mainstream consumer product" Gee, thanks for that 'insightful' piece of M$ troll, Herbie J. I'm glad you set me straight about my PC . SuSE 6.3 is the only OS on this box and it's running KDE 1.1 My scanner, zipdrive, printer, ADSL, etc., are all running perfectly. I have two office suites (Applix 5.0 and StarOffice 5.2), two graphics programs (gimp and Blender), QCad 1.0 (Autocad Lite replacement), XEphem (Astronomy), Quanta+ (Awesome HTML editor!), OCRshop, and tons of other high quality software, most free and many not available on WinXXX. And, I haven't crashed ONCE since Linux became the only OS on this box!
Yup. You're right. I must be delusional to think that Linux is ready for the desktop. NOT! Go ask Bill for permission to troll someplace else.
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and I've never had a problem finding a job. For 15 years I had my own consulting company, but got tired of being away from home for 6 weeks at a time, when I didn't need the money any more. I now work at a state agency programming in VFP6. Three years ago I got tired of my box at home crashing all the time (Win95) so I installed a Linux distro. Last January I removed Win95 from my box and run only SuSE 6.3. I have learned & used nearly a dozen languages and am using KDevelop to learn C++. Most of the folks in my department are less than 1/2 my age yet I am the one preaching Linux and they are too scared to try it and afraid that if Linux gets in here they won't have a job, as if networking under Linux was hugely different than under Novell or WinXX. I plan to continue programming until I'm 70, then decide if I want to quit or go on. Why? I'm having too much fun!!! If I quit, what would I do around home except surf the net? mmmm... on the other hand....;-)
Not for me! All things equal, I will purchase the product with the printed manual over a product with only electronic manuals Trees? Who cares. They are a renewable resource, like corn, which is planted every years according to our needs. eco-hysteria --->/dev/null JLK
"WPO2K works on neither Suse nor Slackware and I am still waiting to hear back from their "free" email support. I guess it's easy to make it free by just not having anyone to respond. rob's page "
WPO2K *can* be installed on SuSE 6.3. I did it, with excellent help from Gavriel State (gavriels@corel.com) and Avi Schwartz, plus some hints from the 'setup_log' that was created when my second, manual, attempt failed. The third attempt went fine and all the apps ran well, albeit slow on my P166 with 64MB of RAM. The F1 help key on any app alway fired my homepage, not the help. It was while I was using strace (thanks, AVI) to see what was going wrong that I saw some error msgs that caused me to decide to return the product and wait for the Linux *native* version.
It looks like the DOJ will become the DOG and wimp out again. If I got caught lying under oath in court during my trial but was convicted anyway of extortion, bribery, witness tampering, and falsifying evidence and obstruction of justice anyway, would I go directly to sentencing and hard prision time or would I be able to say to the judge, "No, thanks, I won't accept your judgement or your punishment. Let's negotiate something that seems like punishment to those who don't know any better but in reality isn't even a hand slap. Ok?" A better example of one standard of Justice for the rich and another for the poor could not be found, except for the poor slob who was accused of murdering his girl friend at the same time O.J. was. His trial lasted 3 months and he's doing life. O.J. still visiting golf courses searching for the real murder.
You apparently have never done research. First, who is going to finance your duplication of someone elses work? (That, by the way, is a weakness of the 'replication' leg of scientific verification process.) And even if they did duplicate the work there is still that patent standing in the way of implimenting what they have rediscovered. The need to 'rediscover' is a waste of human resources and finances. Secondly, and more important, is the issue of who financed the original work. I would surmize that you and I were paying for it with our tax dollars. If so, what does it say about the ethics of these guys who get paid to do a job by/for the citizens? When they finally learn the important stuff they don't return the 'dividend' to the citizens, they run off and start their company and patent the knowledge they were paid to acquire. No patents should be allowed or granted on facts learned through research financed by the government.
Right. And the first thing the "FRESH news for nerds" is require registration to prevent anonymous posting, to say nothing of the pornos and script kiddies.
"If Linux wants to success in the desktop world, it MUST first get rid of some of the security features - like the root permissions to use CD-ROM/R/RW, floppy etc. Especially the CDs, the whole world should have permission to access by default, without getting root/su involved at all."
mmmm.... I've been running SuSE since 5.3, and using KDE since 1.0beta. I'm currently using SuSE 6.3 and KDE 1.1 as my desktop. I DON'T have to su to get access to my floppy, CDROM, etc. KwikDisk is setting in my tooltray for easy access. I use my CDROM for music or text as my needs arise. The Utilities icon gives me quick access to other utilities. No su required. The only excuse for not reading the VAST amount of linux info, or fine SuSE manual, is blindness. You must be Dyroff, posing anonymously.
Hydrogen is not as dangerous as carbon based gaseous fuels because hydrogen won't 'flash over'. It is lighter than air and rises above most common ignition points, unlike gasoline vapors, which flow along a floor until a pilot light is reached. The U of Ok has done a lot of work on Hydrogen fuel. It will be what will power your transportation before the next quarter century is passed for two reasons. It will recylce as water in the environment, so it is nonpoluting. Second, fossil fuels are rapidly being exhausted. Even coal has a shorter remaining life span than most folks realize. In fact, today's college students could burn 95% of the remaining available coal during their life time. Well before that event could occur folks will wake up and force the switch to Hyrdrogen. Coal and oil are too precious a source of organics for plastics to be burned for electricity or transportation. Solar power towers will replace many fossil fuel burning power plants. Hydrogen will replace gasoline in either combustion engines or fuel cells.
One question I have is "How can two researchers or the academic institutions they attend make claims to inventions they discovered while they were funded by US TAXPAYERS."
The TAX PAYERS OWN the rights to that knowledge. THe two researchers were paid for their work and will probably be awarded degrees in addition to their stipends. If they want to patent their discoveries they should have funded their own work. Ditto for the universities.
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"If anything I was blaming a missionary..."
You have no idea what 'missionaries' do.
Thirty eight years ago my wife and I were married by a preacher whom I came to know and love as a dear friend. He supported himself and his family by painting houses, earning about $15,000/yr. He fed his family from a huge garden, and did the canning himself. He took some donations from myself and others who were his freinds, but he never asked anyone for money. He started a weekly radio program in Hoxie, KS called Lesson of Love, which was non-denominational. He grew tired of preaching to shallow, materialistic American Christians and began carrying on correspondence with folks in other countries who wanted to learn about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He began averaging between 4,000 and 5,000 lessons per year. Many of the students began writing him letters about their country and home life, and asking for help. He decided to go to one country in particular, Nigeria. He was 55 when he left for his first visit, taking about $4000 in food concentrates, medicines and a few changes of clothes. He always went into the bush and lived with the folks, in their own huts. He taught, dispensed medicine, bought clothes, bikes and school tuition for kids. He did this for 15 years. After each trip he'd come back 30 pounds lighter, and with dozens of small insect bite marks and other rashes. On three trips prior to his last he came back with Malaria. He never came back alive from his last trip. He had given away all of his medicines and money. A Muslum murdered him in a fake holdup attempt, two days before he was to return. In 15 years Nigerians had named several babies after him and always looked forward to his visits. They hand carved a beautiful casket from a single tree trunk and sent him back to Iowa to be buried in it. His name was Darrel Foltz. He never considered himself a missionary because he never considered those whom he shared the Gospel with to be anything less than his brothers and sisters.
What do you 'blame' him for? Sharing what he believed in by putting his words into practice? Treating eye infections and saving some child's sight? Elevating the status of women? Buying clothes for kids, or bikes for adults? Paying school tuition for kids so they can learn to read and write? I prefer his solution to some of the miseries of man over yours.
These aren't trivial weaknesses, and says nothing about syntactical differences between MySQL and ANSI SQL 92. I use these features everyday at work. To impliment them in code is possible but would be a royal pain. TRANSACTIONS, for example, can be worked around by creating duplicates of tables and batch processing into them. If all the updates on all the tables goes ok then copy the dups over the original tables. Not practical if the original tables are huge, but can be done at night after backups are done.
It also listed functions which 'exist' only for compatibility (i.e., not functional)
After that list of don'ts I decided to check PostgreSQL, especially since TRANSACTIONS was missing and MySQL said it would require a 'completely different table layout than *MySQL* uses today.' I understand that they have employed a wrapper technique to supply a 'TRANSACTION'-like functionality. I've had experiences with extending fuctionality with wrappers and they are generally not a stable or acceptable solution.
PostgreSQL has everything MySQL is missing. It has a very powerful set of operators (std, numerical, time-interval, geometric) which can be evoked by name. It also has a similar set of fuctions which can be used to increase the functionality of the operators. Postgres alows attributes of an instance to be defined as fixed-length or variable-length multi-dimenstional arrays, either of base type or user-defined types. (Not exactly like Pick's AMV, but close). I seldom see folks mention a powerful feature of PostgreSQL that MySQL doesn't have - Inheritance.
From their documentation:
That's why I chose to PostgreSQL over MySQL.
And you're not?
Here are some quotes from Eric's webpage...
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 5 1788
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their
property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
-- "M.T. Cicero", in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the "militia"
referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of
conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...
-- Samuel Adams, in "Phila. Independent Gazetteer", August 20, 1789
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces
totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their
oppression.
-- Joel Barlow, "Advice to the Privileged Orders", 1792-93
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety,
is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-- John Stuart Mill, writing on the U.S. Civil War in 1862
Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.'
-- Mao Tse-tung, 1938, inadvertently endorsing the Second Amendment.
Eric is a free man living in a country that has the 1st and 2 Amendments to the Bill of Rights.
So he is entitled to express his opinion regardless of your illiterate rant.
You aren't even brave enough to user your real name. You're the disgrace. And you can't even post a msg without creating a mess...
problem solved. When I want to return to the
previous site I just close the current window.
Grades measure diligence in busywork (and reasonableness of the grader's expectations), not intelligence.
True. I once did an experiment with a nineth grade science class. (I was an HS teacher for 10 years, before I began my computer consulting business). I gave them a 10 question quiz every day, at the start of class. Seven questions were about yesterdays material, and three were about today's material. During that semester I found that those grades were a better record of emotional problems, family problems and monthly periods than of any academic achievment.
In an other experiment I paid 5 dollars to the person with the highest score on each test. Kids who were scaped the bottom of the barrel were blowing away the 'bright' students. They had a reason to study. Those two experiments changed my approach to teaching. But that is another subject.
But you'd know that if you were a teacher, just as you'd know "33" isn't even close to being a valid SAT score.
Your right. I did know that at one time, before my photographic memory was destroyed by NutraSweet. I couldn't remember if it was SAT or ACT, so I just took a guess. Too, bad. I had a 50-50 chance. I use to be able to 'photograph' pages of pchem textbooks in grad school and see them in my mind years later. I had my own computer consulting business for 15 years, concurrent with teaching, and during that time was in command of about a dozen languages. I could scroll several hundred lines of code in my head and read it back over the phone to clients so they could make changes to programs. (Part of my consulting was teaching clients how to program and how to operate Novell networks.) I also did criminal investigations, using my physics and anatomy training. During the 1987-1992 period I was computerizing the college I mentioned, and they asked me to teach, too. So, I was putting in over 80 hours per week and needed something to keep the eyelids open. I thought about caffeine but didn't like coffee. I didn't want to get fat drinking a lot of Coke so I chose diet Coke, or Pepsi. Which ever was convenient. I began that period weighing about 225-230lbs. By 1991 I was drinking 4+ liters of diet Dr. Pepper a day. My weight had balloned to 265lbs. I had a continual headache and an insatiable desire to eat popcorn, which was conveniently dispensed at the student center. I knew something was wrong when I began forgetting the names of students in my classes. Then, to my amazement, I couldn't recall the names, symbols or other information from the periodic table, which I used to recite from memory. The Krebs Cycle, which I had to learn in detail in grad school, and frequently taught, was not even a memory. Integration techniques in Calculus became fuzzy, even though I integrated 2nd degree diff equ's to solve balistic problems in my criminal investigations. I knew I was in serious trouble when names of family members began slipping away and were recalled only by several minutes of concentration. I became depressed and began seeking counciling. (sp?) Sometimes, things recalled came back garbled, like the SAT or ACT scale.
I was barely able to finish the programming at the school and resigned the teaching post when I finished the project. The language I was using at the time, AREV, a derivative of the Pick System, stayed with me because I was using it daily and I kept the manual very handy. It, like most of the others, has since slipped into the vaccum. Now, the only language I am good at is VFP, because I use it every day at work. If I had a better memory I could be a *lot* better. My 'glory' days are over.
I took a couple of months off from consulting and programming to rest, during the summer of 1992. During that time I began drinking tea instead of diet sodas. The headaches stopped and I slowly noticed my parts of my memory beginning to return. I marked the problems off to stress and fatigue.
One day, my wife came home from SuperSaver and asked, "do you want a diet Dr Pepper?" She was concerned about my weight. Ok. About 30-45 minutes after I drank it my face turned beet red from the waist up and began to feel a burning sensation on my face like I was looking at the sun. It reminds be of a B6 flush. I began 'sweating' sebaceous oil (oily sweat) and my headache returned. Three days later my skin pealed as if I had been sunburned. That was my first clue that something in diet Dr Pepper was giving me a problem, since regular Dr Pepper did not produce similar symptoms. The only difference was Aspartame. In 1992-3 I did an extensive internet search on Aspartame. That was when I discovered countless individuals who have had similar experiences with Aspartame. I also know the NutraSweet front groups who parot their propaganda (at least I can remember where to look on my computer for my archives), which researchers testified one way during the congressional hearings but changed their testimony after receiving sizable research grants from NutraSweet related sources... If you want any of this info I'll pass along the zip files.
Since 1992 I have recovered some of my long term memories, but most are fragmentary. I find it very difficult to learn a new language because my short term memory empties before it can be converted to long term. But, there are moments.
Sometimes, when I draw a drink from a regular Dr Pepper dispenser I will get a reoccurance of the symptoms. In each case I have asked the store why they put diet Pepper in the regular dispenser and the individual reponded that they were out of the regular and thought no one would notice. The last time this happened was about a week a go when my son and I went to Blimbie's for dinner. We know the owner and he even sat with us for dinner. About an hour later I got the same symptoms and I called Sam and asked if he ahd put diet Pepper in the regular dispenser. He was suprised to learn that I could tell. Maybe younger folks with more taste buds can tell the difference by taste, but I can't.
Anyway, I know you got the point of my previous message.
Did you make a special case for this, or do you just believe everything you read?
No and no. Do you believe everything you *read*. I suppose you think that because Barbara and her husband post something it must be true.
*I* am a documented and replicatable case. And I've been tested more than once by skeptics.
You've never read about the congressional investigation into R.G. Serle's lab data maniuplation the early 80's? You aren't aware that the individual who was acting chairman of the FDA when he approved Aspartame subsequently resigned and took a lucrative position with NutraSweet.
(big-font underlined blink tags have no bearing on the truth even if they do make for an ugly web site).
Unless you're over 60, sonny, and have more than an MS in biochemistry and have done your own biochemical research and have been published you can't tell me squat about 'critical thinking'.
You think that organizations that front for NutraSweet are a better source of unbiased info?
Go do a little more than a quick google search before you bother someone else, you arrogant little twit...
Hell, I bet in 10 more years, downtown Tiajuana looks like downtown San Francisco and downtown Honolulu....
Interesting thought.... Could it be that the Multi-Nationals are the vanguard of the New World Order? In disguise?
Fast food?
I've stopped visiting McDonald's because everytime I did, no matter what part of our country, I end up waiting in the parking lot for my order.
They are not 'fast' anymore, they are not even 'just in time'.
Blimpie's are better, and better for you, and every ingredient is locally purchased.
I retired about ten years ago from teaching Engineering Physics and Calculus at a small, private midwest college.
One year a French foreign exchange student enrolled at a local high school, for his senior year, but tested out of all the courses they offered. So, they sent him to the college where I taught. His name was Stefan. He tested into Engineering Physics and 3rd semester Calculus.
At the end of the year he was ranked 1st in both classes. I had many students with SATs of 33 but he could read and write English better than any of them. Was he an exceptional person? I though so, until one day I asked him what he was going to major in when he returned home to France and enrolled in a university. He said he couldn't enroll in the university because his grades were NOT good enough! He was planning to enroll in a trade school and study metalurgy. A year later he returned to Lincoln to study how the Cushing factory used lasers in their manufacturing process.
Indirectly, this experience opened my eyes to what is going on in the world, by studying the European educational systems and their objectives. With a few exceptions, the Multi-Nationals are not investing in the future and living off of the interest. They are spending our capital (resources) for near term excessive profits so that a few can retire early and live a carefree life that having more income than outgo brings. That is also why you have rich Americans taking carribean cruises on luxury ships running under Liberan flags.
Gee, let me hazard a guess.... French?
Very well written and nicely formatted, too!
/. are 'Red.'
The only problem I see with your essay is your basic assumption: all readers of
I'm not. In 1964 I was told that if I voted for Goldwater there would be war. Remember the ad showing that little girl picking peddles off of a daisy, which ended in a nuclear explosion? Well, I voted for Goldwater and we got war! I've voted Republican every since. My favorite President is Magnus Ronoldus. Visiting the Black Hills Monument of the President last year it is interesting to note that he is ranked as the 3rd most popular President ever, coming behind George and Abe. Then came "Read my lips, no new taxes" Bush, who single-handedly destroyed faith in the Republican Party's credibility. NG's 'Revolution' was sidetracked by a collection of self-serving, finger in the wind (created by windmills of the media), Republicans who reverted back to that old me-too-just-not-so-much tax&spending form of the past. Just like the current crop of self-serving Democrats, the Republicans are more interested in getting re-elected for personal gain. That's why the Demo's see-no-evil in the behavior of Clinton and the Republicans didn't have the gut's to impeach. They are all birds of a feather.
The only people with integrity left in the Republican Party are J. C. Watts and Alan Keyes, whom I voted for in my last and final Republican Primary. Alan Keyes, you will remember, was the third in the straw polling when the RP Alanta 'debate' was held. Alan demanded, and should have received, a seat on podium, being a qualified candidate. Instead, he was 'arrested' for distributing anti-abortion literature, driven around town for two hours, and then dropped off in a seedy industrial section of town, a long walk from a phone booth. That behavior by the leadership of the RP showed me exactly what brand of 'freedom' they favored, and it certainly wasn't the freedom guaranteed in the Bill of Rights or for which Americans died for in wars from the Revolution to Desert Storm.
I will say nothing of Demos & RP's incesteous relationship with multi-nationals that care nothing for the Bill of Rights. The MN's greedy patent behavior and the actions of their bottom-feeding lawyers show that. I have never been a member of the Democrat Party, but, that is why I have quit the Republican Party after nearly four decades of membership. In fact, I never left them, they left me, and the principals declared in the founding documents of the US.
I'm now looking at Harry Brown, or perhaps Ralph Nader. Ya, I know Ralph's Left Wing heritage, but how much more damage can he do than Clinton and both parties have already done? Besides, both are men of principal who will do and behave exactly as they say, and more to the point, exacly as they have been doing for years. After Clinton and the current crowd, either would be a refreshing change.
BTW, I remember something about tanks being used against civilians in China, er, no wait, that was Waco, TX. Didn't Nixon fire over a thousand Justic Dept Investigators? Oh, that's right, Nixon fired only one, Clinton fired the thousand to keep them from investigating his connections to the RTC. Wasn't Nixon's aid, Colson, sent to prison for possesing 700+ FBI files? An act the Democrat Party called the greatest danger to our constitution since the Revolution. Oh, that's right, it was Clinton's aids who got and used 700+ FBI files. I guess 700 is not as threatening to our Constitution as 1, so that is why the Demo's and the media arn't screaming as loudly as they did for the one file.
Didn't the Chinese execute some disidents awhile back? Oh, your right, that was FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge who shot and killed a mother holding her infant baby. The more the Clinton Justice Department 'enforces the law' the more this country becomes indistinguishable from China.
So, why move?
VA doctors have found neither chemical or biological justification for the Desert Storm Syndrome. Perhaps our officers are punishing our men for what they did under orders. Symtoms created with a MICROWAVE LASER.
The Desert Storm syndrome is symtomatic of methyl alcohol poisoning. What happens when cases of diet Cokes and Pepsi's set on the tarmack and reach 100+ F temps? Aspartame breaks down to form Methy Alcohol. The body oxidizes MEOH to form Formaldehyde, which causes the red rash, oily sweat, memory loss, brain tumors, kidney and liver disorders, carbohydrate cravings and, sometimes, death. Formaldehyde was used as an embalming agent. It oxidizes to form Formic acid, the active agent in Ant stings.
Soldiers didn't inadvertantly bring home some undetectable chemical or biological agent to infect their families. They brought home the idea that by using Diet Sodas to limit their sugar intake they could prevent obesity.
The NutraSweet corp, one of those giant multi-nationals, has a well documented history of fact suppression, doctored test data, researcher buyoffs, and the FDA is in bed with them. Call the FDA because of a reaction to NutraSweet that you can replicate and *document*, and you will be automatically switched to a NutraSweet "Helpline". Their response? "Why, no, there is no documented reaction to NutraSweet like you've described." You think your still connected to the FDA and that they are watching out for your health interests.
Dream on.
I agree.
I have started looking around for a computer to replace my Sony VIAO P166.
I was looking at Dell. Now I will no longer consider their machines.
I saw some well priced machines at buypogo.com, but if they have MS bios traps in them I won't go that route either.
Looks like I will be visiting Linux Only retailers who sell clean bios PCs.
Thanks for the mini-review of Mandrake 7.1, Joe!
Like you, I've been experiementing with various distros over the
last three years. I settled into SuSE and am currently running
6.3 and am very satisfied with it. But, out of curiosity, I decided
to try Mandrake 7.1. Your info pushed that decision onto the
hotplate.
With the reasonable cost of these distros, why not try several?
Herbie, I've been running Linux for three years, and following
all the developments closely (I'm a professional programmer in
the Windows environment but where I work we are watching
Linux closely), and I can count on the fingers of one hand the
number of times I've read or heard someone recommending that
secrataries learn LaTex! In fact, I can only recall one such
recommendation, and that one was repeated several times through
linking. So it's not like such a recommendation is standard fare.
WPO2000 or WP8 or Applix or StarOffice are all fine commercial
products that have excellent office apps in them. Where I work,
our 500+ workers standarized on WP8. Soon be KOffice and KWord.
When we switch to Linux, and I have no doubt that we will,
they will not notice any difference execpt one....
"Why don't I get that Blue Screen any more?"
The tide is rolling... and I am bringing myself up to speed on
programming in the Linux environment as rapidly as I can.
KDevelop 1.1 is helping that process nicely. Very powerful!
Looking at the first 26 comments I am amazed at how many are
anti-Linux and/or pro-M$.
It seems that Bill is sending out his clueless M$ trolls in masse
Keep'm coming Bill!!
First, they'll flame... and get shot down because their ignorance about Linux is evident...
Then, they try it.
Then, the light dawns and the wall of ignorance and disinformation crumbles.
Then, they see Windows and the Gates PR machine for what it is... and understand what 'monopoly' means...
Then, they get angry, first at themselves for being so deluded, then at M$ for exploiting them...
Then, they join the Tux brigades
Most will eventually delete their WinXXX partition... especially when they see how Win2K is going to suck up their paycheck...
"all kinds of ardent Linux lovers who are quite deluded about the readiness of Linux as a "mainstream consumer product"
Gee, thanks for that 'insightful' piece of M$ troll, Herbie J.
I'm glad you set me straight about my PC . SuSE 6.3 is the only OS on this box and it's running KDE 1.1 My scanner, zipdrive, printer, ADSL, etc., are all running perfectly. I have two office suites (Applix 5.0 and StarOffice 5.2), two graphics programs (gimp and Blender), QCad 1.0 (Autocad Lite replacement), XEphem (Astronomy), Quanta+ (Awesome HTML editor!), OCRshop, and tons of other high quality software, most free and many not available on WinXXX.
And, I haven't crashed ONCE since Linux became the only OS on this box!
Yup. You're right. I must be delusional to think that Linux is ready for the desktop.
NOT!
Go ask Bill for permission to troll someplace else.
and I've never had a problem finding a job. For 15 years I had my own consulting company, but got tired of being away from home for 6 weeks at a time, when I didn't need the money any more. I now work at a state agency programming in VFP6. Three years ago I got tired of my box at home crashing all the time (Win95) so I installed a Linux distro. Last January I removed Win95 from my box and run only SuSE 6.3. I have learned & used nearly a dozen languages and am using KDevelop to learn C++. Most of the folks in my department are less than 1/2 my age yet I am the one preaching Linux and they are too scared to try it and afraid that if Linux gets in here they won't have a job, as if networking under Linux was hugely different than under Novell or WinXX. I plan to continue programming until I'm 70, then decide if I want to quit or go on. Why? I'm having too much fun!!! If I quit, what would I do around home except surf the net? mmmm... on the other hand.... ;-)
Not for me! /dev/null
All things equal, I will purchase the product with the printed manual over a product with only electronic manuals
Trees?
Who cares. They are a renewable resource, like corn, which is planted every years according to our needs.
eco-hysteria --->
JLK
"WPO2K works on neither Suse nor Slackware and I am still waiting to hear back from their "free" email support. I guess it's easy to make it free by just not having anyone to respond.
rob's page "
WPO2K *can* be installed on SuSE 6.3. I did it, with excellent help
from Gavriel State (gavriels@corel.com) and Avi Schwartz, plus some
hints from the 'setup_log' that was created when my second, manual,
attempt failed. The third attempt went fine and all the apps ran well,
albeit slow on my P166 with 64MB of RAM. The F1 help key on any
app alway fired my homepage, not the help. It was while I was
using strace (thanks, AVI) to see what was going wrong that I
saw some error msgs that caused me to decide to return the
product and wait for the Linux *native* version.
It looks like the DOJ will become the DOG and wimp out again.
If I got caught lying under oath in court during my trial but was convicted anyway
of extortion, bribery, witness tampering, and falsifying evidence
and obstruction of justice anyway, would I go directly to sentencing
and hard prision time or would I be able to say to the judge, "No,
thanks, I won't accept your judgement or your punishment. Let's
negotiate something that seems like punishment to those who don't
know any better but in reality isn't even a hand slap. Ok?"
A better example of one standard of Justice for the rich and
another for the poor could not be found, except for the poor slob
who was accused of murdering his girl friend at the same time
O.J. was. His trial lasted 3 months and he's doing life. O.J. still
visiting golf courses searching for the real murder.
You apparently have never done research.
First, who is going to finance your duplication of someone elses work? (That, by the way, is a weakness of the 'replication' leg of scientific verification process.) And even if they did duplicate the work there is still that patent standing in the way of implimenting what they have rediscovered. The need to 'rediscover' is a waste of human resources and finances.
Secondly, and more important, is the issue of who financed the original work. I would surmize that you and I were paying for it with our tax dollars.
If so, what does it say about the ethics of these guys who get paid to do a job by/for the citizens? When they finally learn the important stuff they don't return the 'dividend' to the citizens, they run off and start their company and patent the knowledge they were paid to acquire.
No patents should be allowed or granted on facts learned through research financed by the government.
Right. And the first thing the "FRESH news for nerds" is require registration to prevent anonymous posting, to say nothing of the pornos and script kiddies.
"If Linux wants to success in the desktop world, it MUST first get rid of some of the security features - like the root permissions to use CD-ROM/R/RW, floppy etc. Especially the CDs, the whole world should have permission to access by default, without getting root/su involved at all."
mmmm.... I've been running SuSE since 5.3, and using KDE since 1.0beta. I'm currently using SuSE 6.3 and KDE 1.1 as my desktop. I DON'T have to su to get access to my floppy, CDROM, etc. KwikDisk is setting in my tooltray for easy access. I use my CDROM for music or text as my needs arise. The Utilities icon gives me quick access to other utilities. No su required. The only excuse for not reading the VAST amount of linux info, or fine SuSE manual, is blindness.
You must be Dyroff, posing anonymously.
Interesting post, Abigail.
Hydrogen is not as dangerous as carbon based gaseous fuels because hydrogen won't 'flash over'. It is lighter than air and rises above most common ignition points, unlike gasoline vapors, which flow along a floor until a pilot light is reached. The U of Ok has done a lot of work on Hydrogen fuel. It will be what will power your transportation before the next quarter century is passed for two reasons. It will recylce as water in the environment, so it is nonpoluting. Second, fossil fuels are rapidly being exhausted. Even coal has a shorter remaining life span than most folks realize. In fact, today's college students could burn 95% of the remaining available coal during their life time. Well before that event could occur folks will wake up and force the switch to Hyrdrogen. Coal and oil are too precious a source of organics for plastics to be burned for electricity or transportation. Solar power towers will replace many fossil fuel burning power plants. Hydrogen will replace gasoline in either combustion engines or fuel cells.
One question I have is "How can two researchers or the academic institutions they attend make claims to inventions they discovered while they were funded by US TAXPAYERS."
The TAX PAYERS OWN the rights to that knowledge. THe two researchers were paid for their work and will probably be awarded degrees in addition to their stipends. If they want to patent their discoveries they should have funded their own work. Ditto for the universities.