Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Nov 4 21:18:51 CST 2012
Quit wimping out, you are hardly too old. ;-) JIm -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 3:02 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless I am growing way too old for debates of this sort, but on the other hand my best friend and co-author Peter is almost exactly ten years older than I, and he compels me to plod on. If you have not read Peter's post, then do a Google and learn from an amazing mind. The fact that I have had the privilege to co-author a few books with him, wow I don't even know how to complete this sentence What I am trying to say is that the best friend that I ever had in my life is Peter Brawley. I love him to pieces and this will never go away. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>wrote: > On 2012-11-04 2:11 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > >> Ahh, yes excellent subject. >> >> Have you ever considered doing a matching book using Postgres? As this >> database seem to be the next step in OS SQL database evolution. >> >> Right now Larry is in the process of throttling the goose to wring out the >> last drop of profit, MySQL adoption has gone totally flat and at least >> three >> or four forks are now under development, until king Larry sues them to >> oblivion. New developers are looking for the next set of options and >> Postgres is really hot now. >> >> Jim >> > > Hi Jim, > > Interesting. Can you perchance point me at some market share numbers? > > P. > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dba-tech-bounces@**databaseadvisors.com<dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.co m> >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces@**databaseadvisors.com<dba-tech-bounces at databaseadv isors.com>] >> On Behalf Of Peter Brawley >> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 11:04 AM >> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless >> >> On 2012-11-04 11:31 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote: >> >>> "Our book" ? >>> >>> Jim >>> >> http://www.artfulsoftware.com/ >> >> PB >> >> ----- >> >> -----Original Message----- >>> From: dba-tech-bounces@**databaseadvisors.com<dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.co m> >>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces@**databaseadvisors.com<dba-tech-bounces at databaseadv isors.com>] >>> On Behalf Of Peter Brawley >>> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 7:45 AM >>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless >>> >>> On 2012-11-04 8:58 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: >>> >>>> Recently I came upon the following sentence, which reminded me of why I >>>> dreamed of becoming a writer; but sadly, never achieved such exquisite >>>> sculpture as this: >>>> >>>> The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a >>>> large population of people, often with well-developed literary and >>>> scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to >>>> undertake analytical thought. >>>> >>>> -- Peter Medawar >>>> >>> Interesting. >>> http://www.online-utility.org/**english/readability_test_and_** >>> improve.jsp<http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_impro ve.jsp> >>> gives that sentence a Fox Index of 27. >>> >>> The Fog Index is said to indicate the number of years of formal >>> education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text >>> on first reading. Many decades ago, a secretary (yep, that long ago) was >>> quietly cursing a paper she was typing into the computer. When she was >>> done, I put it through that year's version of the Fog Index. It said >>> understanding the paper would require 82 years of education. >>> >>> By way of contrast, the first para of our book, which you wrote, gets a >>> Fog Index of 10. Seems you accomplished your goal. >>> >>> PB >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Arthur >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> dba-Tech mailing list >>>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>>> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-tech<http://databaseadvis ors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >>>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-tech<http://databaseadvis ors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-tech<http://databaseadvis ors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-tech<http://databaseadvis ors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-tech<http://databaseadvis ors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-tech<http://databaseadvis ors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> > -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com