Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Feb 1 16:51:02 CST 2012
Not wanting to deviate too far from MS Access, so I will make this brief. "Survival of the Fittest" does not imply the most predatory... It is those who will work together for a common good, those who will sacrifice for their families and those who will share their good fortune with others. Those are the types of people and their descendants who will go on and prosper. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 1:46 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Burn-out Thanks for your visits to my (our) blog. I finally figured out how to include my best friend and collaborator Peter Brawley as an active creator, and we have adopted the convention of signing each missive, so that it's clear which of age, disease and bad habits contributed which missives. Please continue to visit. And to comment upon our missives. P.S. Steps toward the see-through burqa have been taken. I should be able to release virgin 1.0 within a month. Even lined up a couple of models for the photo-shoot. (Q: Is there anything hotter than a smart South Asian woman? A: Not lately!) I think this burqa concept is going through the roof. I have received several hundred requests to purchase. I have not bothered to divide the buyers yet. But apparently, I am onto something, and this pleases me immensely. I want a world in which all humans are equal. A nice principle, conveniently ignoring class in some nations, wealth in others, genetic inheritance in others. So what does "All Humans Are Equal" actually mean? I'm not even vaguely sure. Obviously one can draw any number of dimensions/behaviours/propensities etc. -- 1. We differ in height. average weight, pigmentation, intelligence, musical skill and so on.. 2. There are gigantic differences in wages, housing costs, medicinal coverage, golden parachutes, etc., all of which contribute to our radical inequality. 3. There are huge swings in the measures of intelligence. No matter which test you use, the results are widely varied but almost always tend toward the Bell Curve. Despite all the new-education prognoses, any five-year-old can scout her classmates and pinpoint the dunces and the geniuses (or if you're PC, the challenged and the gifted). Darwin's maxim "Survival of the Fittest" has often been misinterpreted to mean "Survival of the Most Predatory". Even a cursory glance at what is happening in the oceans ought to be enough to refute this idiotic interpretation, but let us press on. In previous centuries, physically strong men were valuable: plowmen, blacksmiths, etc. In the latter half of the 20th Century and thus far in the 21st, physical strength is worth less and less, while computational strength is worth more and more. This does not refute Darwin, but rather reinforce his conclusion; "the fittest" implies the current environment -- the Fittest in the contemporary situation. In one century it might be A, in another B, in another C. Way back when, sheer height might have implied superior hunting skills; now it implies an NBA contract and not much else. Conversely, where would a gift for algebra have got a peasant just a few centuries back? . Sad to say, so might I, depending upon the sense of humour of certain people who might visit this, or merely Google and end up with a hit to my blog. So be it! I'm 64yo and my murder would rob me of what, 10 years at best? So what! The abyss looms. SuddenlyI I feel the Freedom! 1. To say what I've always stifled, lest I offend friends, colleagues and strangers.Glimpsing now the Knight of Death on the horizon (c.f. Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"). 2012/2/1 Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> > Hi Shamil: > > I was thinking of creating a blog site and have been watching Arthur's > progress with some interest. (Initially thought about building my own but > fortunately that thought passed) Now that I have supposedly retired, I am > suppose to have all sorts of time?...hardly...but soon I will be able to > start posting some experiences...but now is tax form season. :-( > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov > Shamil > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:21 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Burn-out > > > Hi Jim -- > > Thank you for your reference to the new JavaScript standard extensions > brief > description. > > As for your "pseudo ASP.NET" it would be interesting to know a bit more > how > you do it - maybe you can find time to write about this technique in > dba-VB, > just briefly, without excessive details but more than you outlined here?... > > JavaScript and WinPhone 7: yes, it could happen that the first (sample) > application/web site I will develop for WinPhone7 will be a jQuery Mobile > one (http://jquerymobile.com/) - at least I have already read all the > jQuery > manuals using WinPhone 7, and it was a rather comfortable reading. Now, I > have to find how to handle jQuery Mobile forms, fill them with data, store > edited data to the backend db (via web service?) etc... > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > > 01 февраля 2012, 07:22 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: > > Hi Shamil: > > > > You are right but JavaScript is a strange bird...somewhere in-between. > > > > You can make objects and assign properties and you can make class as > > attributes...but in the truest sense of the book description of what a > class > > and object is, it would be a fairly liberal interpretation. In the > future, > > looking at some of the development work in the latest ECMAScript 5 (New > JS > > industry standard) Here is a article describing the objects and > properties: > > > > http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-objects-and-properties/ > > > > ECMAScript 5 is even starting to address techniques for accessing local > > hardware that will yet again speed the processes. > > > > When I describe basic JavaScript, I think of sizing windows, translating > > input, doing simple math, creating substring etc....from then on there is > no > > real limits; graphic editing like you have showing, calling for data, > > replacing sections of your screens, new forms or images, creating invoice > > forms (being populated and being updated, in real-time), charts, managing > > inline data...this can all get really complex really fast. > > > > Fortunately, there is JQuery and hundreds of small apps, forums and a > very > > active community that is keeping the momentum up. > > > > Presently, most of my development uses what I call pseudo ASP.Net. I tend > to > > use .Net to the basic design windows, forms, build the BE data > connections. > > After I remove much of the extra code and resource directory and strip > > everything down to the layout and JQuery calls. Then all the AJAX > management > > and user interface is up to me. > > > > One day I will be able to write everything from top to bottom or have > enough > > "field-tested" code to just cut and paste and patch...but not today. > Right > > now it is this vertical learning wall. > > > > I suspect before you are an expert with you Windows Phone, you will know > a > > lot more about JS than you ever wanted to know. :-) > > > > Jim > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com