CD********@FortuneJames.com wrote in
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On Feb 9, 12:25 am, "Lyle Fairfield" <lylefairfi...@aim.comwrote:
>On Feb 8, 10:16 pm, "saint...@hotmail.com" <saint...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Where are you going with this? I love Access. Jet is very
capable and flexible for a *lot* of applications.
I loved my 55 Chevy but not as much as my 67 Parisienne hardtop with
the 396 4 barrel (TTBOMR). I'd love to have either today as a toy,
but I wouldn't use it; my 4 cylinder Toyota is superior in almost
every way. Somewhere, maybe 1976, between the Parisienne and the
Toyota a model ended and I evaluated the choices available to me and
left GM. My question was about the possibility that when a new
"model" of Access comes out, we might upgrade to it without assessing
our needs and other technologies that might meet them, because it's
comfortable. You're reporting that you don't find Access 2007 to be
comfortable. So I ask, why not something else?
BTW my understanding of the Access 2007 "JET" is that it is a private
version called ACE, maintained by the Access team for Access 2007
only, and is not usable by other applications. The old JET that we
know and love has been part of Windows. Is it part of VISTA? I don't
know but it seems that it's days are numbered.
The last time I was in Toronto I saw a large Toyota sign from the
QEW. It would be wise to find out which Toyota models have assembly
lines in Canada
Corolla and Solara models are assembled in Cambridge. One of Toyota's
trucks will or has recently joined this duo, I believe.
since your retirement is financed by Canadian
workers :-).
My retirement is not financed by Canadian Workers. All my princely
federal pensions are clawed back (this is a reward to the thrifty and the
wise). I have contributed heavily (6% - 9 % of my gross annual income
every year for 35 years) to any other pension funds from which I may
receive benefits. The Ontario Government, in charge of these funds lent
them to itself at 3% for most of these years, when the going rate was 8 -
10%. I do contribute between 20000 and 30000 CAD each year to the general
welfare through income tax, several thousand more in GST and PST and 7000
in property tax; I suppose all Canadians, including Canadian workers,
benefit from the taxes. Possibly some do not actually pay any. I have
apologised to the federal, provincial and municipal governments many
times for being successful, but they have all remained steadfast in their
determination to punish this behaviour.
In the U.S. I believe that Honda and Toyota products
have higher percentages of U.S. parts than GM so the slogan "buy
American-made" doesn't mean quite the same thing it did a few years
ago.
Sure it does. It means buy a poorly designed unreliable vehicle ...
always has. When the union cries the blues I like to tell the story of
watching Fords come off the assembly line (in Dearborn?) in 1965. The car
jockey spun the wheels for about 50 feet every time. Everyone watching
seemed to raise their eyebrows. I asked the executive showing me around
if this was good for business and why someone didn't tell the guy to
smarten up. He said something like, "We can't do anything about it
because of our agreements with the Union". And I never bought a Ford car
afterwards (but I did win one, a 1994 Windstar van; at 50000 km,
everything broke; Ford did $17000 warranty work; then I traded the
vehicle on a Toyota van; it's still running ... no repairs yet, oh wait
.... we had to replace a cable to the rear hatch lock because of rust.)
I'm all in favour of unions and think they have done wonderful work and
are indispensable to social fairness. Eugene V Debs is one of my heroes.
But that takes second place to my reluctance to being screwed around.
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In:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....rowse_frm/thre
ad/43a04f8f17dcaac0
you mention that you are using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
Edition.
In that case, maybe a better analogy would be in comparing car models
rather than car companies since you haven't really changed car
companies.
True. But often I use DreamWeaver. I am victim to greener grass on the
other side of the fence every couple of weeks... always have been.
In terms of database technologies, which one is your Toyota? Is
Access your GM? What's your Honda? Your Kia?
I experimented with SQLite a few weeks ago. It seemed pretty Honda-ish to
me ... high rpms and I couldn't sit up straight in the driver's seat.
Ignoring ACE's application-centric implementation temporarily, how
express is Web Express compared to developing in Access?
Web Express is sort of like molasses in January compared with Access as
deprived of sex rabbit ejaculation.
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Also, I note that many new technologies are coming out. Some were
even purchased by your car company (I believe Groove was purchased by
MS). Many of the new technologies are free for initial development,
but you have to watch out for that balloon payment that your customer
will face eventually, especially with portal software.
I have another, somewhat OT question. Do you prefer security to be
service implemented or to be implemented at a SQL Server level when
using web enabled technologies?
I have no solution to the security question. It worries me. Recently in
my applications I have built a false trail; that is a number of fairly
complex functions entitled "encrypt" and "decrypt" and "getPassword" etc,
which actually do something but not what one might think. I run another
concealed stratum of passwording, security, decryption etc.
>
As usual, I look forward to your comments.
You mean mindless rambling, I expect.
James A. Fortune
CD********@FortuneJames.com
