MartyConnelly
martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Fri Dec 9 21:51:06 CST 2005
Not the 12/31/75 Montreal Habs/ Russian Red Army game. Ken Dryden vs. Vladimir Tretiak in goal with barely any padding. Same for the rest of the players, most of whom (for the Habs) wore no helmets. Sticks were on the ice and there was no holding. End to End. Pucks bouncing off the pipes. Ask any Canadian the best game hockey game ever and a 3-3 tie. New Years Eve, at the start all the girls were in the kitchen, by the second period everyone was watching TV Now it is almost a tradition in Canada on New Year's Eve, except everyone hopes for a good TV matchup in the Junior's World Cup and not the Pro's By the way Ken Dryden a practising lawyer at the time is now a Senator. Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote: >William, > >Did you follow this link from Joel's article (Developers,...)- >http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html ? > >Looks really funny - he reminds me Canadian (ice hockey) coaches - I did >like to watch ice hockey matches a long ago when I was young (and I liked to >play it too of course. And ice is getting here covering Finnish Gulf >waters - soon it will be possible to go skating or skiing(ski-kiting) on >it. - he's where the source of my nostalgia comes from...)... > >Shamil > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net> >To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" ><accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 1:22 AM >Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: How Microsoft Lost the API War > > > > >>...interesting article but betting against Gates hasn't proved profitable >> >> >in > > >>the past ...but it does remind me of the whole imbroglio with DAO and ADO >> >> >in > > >>VBA ...what a screw-up on MS' part. >> >>...I'm starting to deploy small asp.net apps on intranets now ...just >>getting my feet wet ...but so far, the users love it and I really like >> >> >being > > >>able to divorce myself from their desktops. >> >>William >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at users.mns.ru> >>To: "!DBA-MAIN" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >>Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:21 PM >>Subject: [AccessD] OT: How Microsoft Lost the API War >> >> >> >> >>>The article: >>> >>>"How Microsoft Lost the API War" >>>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html >>> >>>looks like an exaggeration here. >>> >>>But VB6 incompatibility with VB.NET is a bad move IMO, which would have >>>been >>>avoided with not that much efforts. >>> >>>And the technology race lead(?) by MS looks really crazy(expensive) from >>>here for many years now... >>> >>>The "safe" combinations of programming languages a' la MS(i.e. if you >>>still >>>decide to keep up going with MS like I do because I don't have/I don't >>>see >>>any other opportunities) looks like pure C++ programming, with ATL/WTL >>>and .NET wrappers and ASP.NET... >>> >>>This my crazy(?) passage from 1st of May this year looks like becoming >>>not >>>that crazy now in he light of the last Joel's article - >>>http://www.smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s/idlpetit.htm.... >>> >>>Any other opinions? >>> >>>Shamil >>> >>>P.S. Easy to say not easy to do, as well as easy to blame not easy to >>> >>> >make > > >>>it better - that's is clear - this my e-mail is not a "blame attempt" - >>>it's >>>an invitation to talk how to make things better(less expensive, more >>>effective, backward compatible) in IT if possible at all.... >>> >>>....if you, knowledgeable ALL, will say that what happens is natural - >>>let >>>it be - I'm not here to change this World, am I?... >>> >>> >>> > > -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada