Posts by EnderX

No, it comes from the imagination. It's like Tinkerbell(sp?) in the old Peter Pan plays...

"I do believe in the (yen|dollar|euro|rupee)! I do believe in the (yen|dollar|euro|rupee)!"

We ever stop believing, and there's going to be an interesting run on usable goods and precious metals.

If you have a healthy workforce, then productivity goes up. It's productivity that drives this economy. You should have taken Economy 101.

Define 'healthy', please.

The larger the tax bite is, the less there is for new investment...and, from what I understand, a smaller percentage of that will be actually used, as a large portion of that would also be subject to governmental confiscation/taxation. As a result, new products or services will most likely not be developed; the risk would likely be greater than the expected return would justify.

You're actually getting the HTML code to produce a result, right? I tried copying your code into a file of my own and built a microsized database to go with it, but I can't get the HTML tags to produce any results.

Are you getting some kind of error, or is it simply not updating the information in the database?

I've been requested to write a PHP-driven database report by my boss. The reports will be located on our servers, where PHP is installed. However, the DBs that I'm supposed to read from are going to be located on the client machines.

The servers are running SuSE 9.3 with Apache (not sure what version). The clients may be running Win98 or they may be running WinXP.

I've been informed that there will be a program calling up my report on the client side; I presume this will be done with the ShellExecute command, which means it will automatically haul up the browser. I have also been informed that I can expect the client's IP to be sent over, presumably as part of a $_GET or $_POST block.

The problem is that I have no real clue how I'm supposed to make the connection between my report and the client machines. From what I've seen, I know I'll either need the odbc functions, or else some unified connection package like ADODB. I'm leaning toward ADODB, as I'm not sure I can guarantee the presence of a dsn for the odbc to work with. However, every tutorial I've seen online covering either of these methods appears to start from the assumption that the php installation is on the same box as the database. I don't really know where to start with setting up the connection across the Client/Server gap.

Does anyone know of a good tutorial that covers …

If this is in the wrong place, I apologize. I use ShellExecute only in Delphi, but I am aware that it may not be properly considered part of the language.

I have a program that is supposed to generate a .csv file for an output report. However, my boss wants this file to be printable, which would seem to imply opening the file in a spreadsheet; the simple .csv file wouldn't look very nice if printed out.

On my dev system, the .csv extension is associated with Notepad. Is there some way I can use ShellExecute (or any other call) to force the file to open in Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc instead of opening in Notepad?

I'm working on a Delphi program designed for use with an Access database. In addition to the onscreen output, however, my boss wants me to provide PHP reports for it as well. We have PHP installed on our servers, so that's good, but the database in question is installed on the client box in this scenario; it'll be on the same box as my Delphi system is running on. In order to get the PHP page to read it, at the very least I'll need to be able to have the Delphi program pass the IP address of the system it's running on to the PHP page it's calling. How would I go about using Delphi to find this information?

There are thousands of miscarriages every day. In most case the fetus is flushed down the toilet and does not receive proper burial. Should the woman involved be investigated by the police for potential murder?

Also, should the fetus be a tax deduction?

In general, miscarriage is a non-intended event. If something triggers it, then maybe whoever did so could be held for accidental manslaughter?

Tare, yea, ray

Shadow

Originally there was cutesy reference to "the stork, but "Mommys belly" was the explanation starting around the age of three, when a direct question was asked.

"Mommy, where do baby carrots come from?"
"The stalk brings them, dear."

This moment of absurd humor brought to you by:

Midi specifically said He claims that there is no solid proof other than what Gore claims and then says that he wants "REAL science, not the bad stuff". There is no strawman - he is completely overlooking the scientific consensus as non-existent. The fact is, there is a wealth of science on the matter that supports various degrees of climatic impact and he chooses to write it off as "the bad stuff". Nowhere do I claim that scientists who refute this are not real scientists. I only mention that they are dwindling to a minority. Their stance may in fact be wholly correct and the growing consensus might be absolutely wrong, but to claim that there is no evidence beyond "Gore's blather" is being willfully ignorant of the current state of science on this. That is the problem I have with Midi's stance.

Then prove him wrong by providing the evidence. Factual evidence of historical environmental data, not sound bites from person A in favor of the movement, nor weblog rants from person B opposed to it. If the evidence does exist, and the data is sound, then provided it and show everyone that Midimagic is incorrect.

Is that also include my post?

I don't think my point would cause much of a problem your second item, although the general lack of a widespread internet would cause other problems there. But your first and third items, the one dealing with what I am assuming is betting, the other with buying the Daniweb domain (which also suffers from the no-widespread-internet issue) still would require some form of payment to begin with, and the problem of finding valid available finances would still exist.

Are you really so small-minded to associate everything German with the policies of Hitler? I suppose it's convenient for you, since you love to demonize anything at all that has to do with environmental responsibility - and I mean responsibility, not zealotry. Limiting the crap that we dump into the air, water, and land and reusing what materials we can is not some evil leftist conspiracy. If you can't see any effect of pollution at all then you must live in your closet.

He's not making the German==Hitler association. I think you did that, reading it into his writing. MidiMagic is making the Mandatory_Massive_Governmental_Intrusion==Hitler argument, from what I read of his post.

Buying "Carbon credits" and such is pretty stupid in my opinion, but making some effort to be conscious of and lessen the degree to which we completely trash the planet we are stuck with is just common sense. Do you eliminate bodily waste all throughout your house and then move when you feel it's too soiled to live in? Are you against sewage treatment plants as well? Think we ought to just run it all off into the lake to reduce your taxes?

Your selfish stupidity is just plain offensive. If you're too damn lazy to recycle something, fine, just keep chucking all your personal garbage into the landfill that you don't have to look at, but just keep your whining about those who don't want live like that to yourself.

Whereas he (and others like him) …

No I would not be in favor of that, abortion at an early stage in pregnancy is fine.

So exactly when, in your eyes, does the fetus jump from 'non-living' to 'living' and the transition between 'fine' and 'not fine' occur? That seems to be what you're implying here, although I acknowledge that I may be inferring a bit of that.

I may be misinterpreting the original hypothetical scenario, but I'm seeing at least one problem with some responses.

To all of you who claim you'd become millionaires from investing in stocks that -will- do well, I'd like to ask you something. Where are you going to get the money to do so? Unless you were around at the time in the first place, then your credit cards won't have been issued, your checking and/or savings accounts won't be around, and you'll probably be busted for counterfitting when you try to pass 1983+ cash.

It is a silly issue because it is legal to get an abortion. So it is not murder becasue that would be a crime.

Would you be in favor of infanticide (killing a child after they've been born, albeit within a specific range of time) if that were legal according to American Law?

lox, lore, pore

luminous

I really hope to be proven wrong on that assessment if the election comes to it. Truly, I really do.

Can you honestly prove that someone made their decisions based on skin color/gender, rather than on the issues?

Please lay off the intentional mispellings of names, jwenting. I happen to agree with the political and social persona you present here (can't verify they belong to the real-world version, although I would strongly suspect so). However, with the name calling and insulting, you present a rather unpalatable face for your beliefs. This gives those who oppose you a chance to ignore your points in favor of yelling 'hah! Looser!' or the like, and has a fairly strong chance of causing someone who has not yet made up his or her mind on the issue to turn against your viewpoint simply because of the method in which it is expressed.

From what I've seen, insult is never a valid method of argument when the stakes are high. This doesn't stop those who have no other argument from using it, sadly, but for someone who could make a case without using insults to resort to them seems to indicate that they have given up on the actual debate. I would hope that the situation hasn't yet become that far gone.

Bigotry is very much alive and strong in the US. Professor Obama, who is half black half white, will have a hard time succeeding as a black man.

Already the hate e-mails are flying, calling him Osama and telling folks that he went to a muslim school in Indonesia.

Please explain why you're certain that this is the case. It sounds, to me at least, as though you are trying to set up an excuse should Obama not succeed.

I don't know about the 'Osama' part. Most of what I've seen in that direction simply gives the fact that his full name is Barack Hussein Obama, with a slight emphasis (perhaps overemphasis) on the middle name.

I can't vouch for the 'muslim school' bit, but apparently Obama did, in fact, attend schools in Jakarta, Indonesia for four or five years. (Wikipedia lists the time as when he was 6-10.) And Indonesia is predominantly (again according to Wikipedia, 88%) muslim.

Oh yea -- almost forgot your previous stupid remarks about open source making money. If something makes money then its not free and open source is just an illusion.

I'm a bit confused here...please explain your reasoning.

I was under the impression that 'open source' meant literally that. Not that the software didn't cost anything (although I will admit that from what I, personally, have seen much of it doesn't) but that, cost or no cost, fee or no fee, the term literally meant that the source (code) was open; that is, instead of only providing the end product, the original source code would be included so that the end user could modify it for his or her own purposes. Am I incorrect in this?

I have a question related to the issue, although it's not quite on-topic.

I've seen stuff online for programs that look interesting, but aren't released in the United States. One of these that especially caught my interest was released only in Japan, and I don't know any Japanese.

There are some copies of the thing floating around online in English, which I'm assuming are pirate/hack combinations, given what I said about where the thing was released.

If I were to officially buy the Japanese copy, but then install one of the English-language copies instead, would that still qualify as piracy? And how would it stand relative to what's been discussed here so far?

>> From were Money Comes???
Many people think it comes off a money tree.

It's not a tree, it's a small plant.

That would produce one heck of a lot of algae. Someone has to come up with an algae powerd car to solve that surplus problem.

Please be quiet and finish your algae-burger.

And what does the H stand for ? I could be wrong but I didn't know He has a middle name.

He doesn't. I don't recall what it stands for, but it's off of some of the materials used in the Roman Catholic institution, which are emblazoned with, if I recall correctly, the letters IHS. I can almost see the 'I', as in pseudo-Latin, the name would have been Iesvs (I don't know enough Latin to say if that'd be correct for the original or not), but I have no clue where they claim the H and S come from.

That's their problem, not yours, so long as you can recognize the reference. If you allow that to offend you, then you've given them power over you.

Of course the ultimate utopian society would have at its disposal the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. This has to be an integral part of its survival against the many "bombers" of the world.

Nah, the real survival technique there would be a workable defense against the assaults of the 'bombers'. But keep the WMDs on hand; MAD might have a deterrent effect on some of them. Then again, it might not...

oooo political in-correctness there uniquestar!
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Where? All I see is a semi-accurate assessment of the situation.

How many Lawyer Jokes are there in the world?

Three. The rest are all true stories.

How about the old "Press any key" joke?
I wonder if people ever did call in looking for the "any" key???

According to the stories cataloged at Techtales.com, yes.

I believe my favorite was one where a company actually had specialty caps made for their A keys that followed the 'A' with a smallcaps 'ny'.

Another tale (possibly from the same site; it's been a while since I read it) relates how the 'Any' key is in fact the F10 key. Apparently, they had a system that, at the 'press any key to continue' marker, wouldn't accept keypresses from anything except for F10.

The website mentioned is a fun one to browse around on.

Well, maybe it's also part of a pattern of how one handles personal responsibility.

Expand please. Are you saying that those who hold to the Bible are among those who handle personal responsibility well, or among those who handle personal responsibility poorly?

So what are your thoughts, should the government/groups step in and allow a ban on rap music (which degrading, illicit, voilent) and could decency ever return to the way it was decades ago?

No. While I personally find rap 'music' to be degrading and morally repugnant, allowing the government (in the form of any government agency) to step in and ban it would give the wrong message, especially should the ban be successful. Were this the case, a massive blow would have been given to true free speech, and the politicoes behind the ban would have an extra precedent should they choose to attempt a ban of some other form of speech...say, political dialog that shows them in a negative light.

I'm not certain exactly how one would "do atheism" in public. Have you ever seen anything that would qualify? I can't say that I have really, so that one is a bit confusing.

Offering continual smackdowns of anyone showing even the slightest modicum of faith and/or religious beliefs, regardless of how and/or if it affects the person giving the smackdown. Would this not qualify?

I have to wonder, who is driving the ad campaigns, buyers or marketing? Where are they getting the idea that these zany / absurd, and for that matter, insane, ads are actually selling their product more effectively than would the imparting of useful data?

That would depend on the 'useful data' in question, wouldn't it? What if, for example, the 'useful data' on a particular brand name of, oh, minivan showed that it was solidly in the middle of the pack as far as performance, while a competitor's was at the peak? You're not going to want buyers to see that; it'd act as a negative influence in their decision making.

Actually, Santa Claus is based on a misunderstanding of the Dutch pronunciation of St. Nikolaus (sp. is various) back in the day when New York was a dutch city and from a coke ad in the 1930s (this is where he picked up the fat, jolly look). Nothing pagan about Santa; though some consider it an anagram of Satan (ain't it the truth, Church Lady!).

It is interesting to note that dictionary.com defines both pagan and heathen as "One who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew" - this sort of bothered me so I looked it up in my REALLY big dictionary (I am getting too old for the compact edition - anyone wanna buy me the full sized ed. for xmas? - I need one of those magnifying lamps read this thing) but the OED defines heathen (mostly) the same but adds (after a full page of dithering) mostly polytheists when uncultured and uncivilized; but says that pagan derives its roots from civilian or non-military (a Christian soldier reference) and rustic or villager (more rural vs city stuff).

but I digress HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Disagreement with the Coke Statement.

And while I don't know about 'Heathen', I vaugely recall reading about 'pagan' being a descendant of 'paganus', supposedly meaning 'country dweller'.

I'd say some of his observations sound pessimistic (sometimes even wierd); but they are surprisingly realistic.

I apologize. Perhaps the spacing I used made it difficult to recognize the context I was giving.

The phrase 'Murphy was an optimist' is the 'law' called O'Toole's Commentary. As you yourself pointed out, the hypothetical original Murphy would seem to have been somewhat, if not severely, pessimistic. So how pessimistic must O'Toole's outlook have been?

O'Toole's Commentary:

"Murphy was an optimist."

Who is this "Ur" you speak of? A caveman?

Technically, it would have been an inaccurate quote. 'Ur' was the name of a city.

I don't really recall very many of my dreams, although I do have a few that stand out.

One was a river tubing event of some sort; I remember being in the tube, and seeing others in tubes of their own the river as well. Then, shortly before we arrived at what I felt was some sort of base camp, I woke up.

I've actually had that happen several times; I'm dreaming that I'm about to reach someplace, and I wake up. It's not goal-oriented, I don't think, because I always get the impression the place I'm about to arrive is somehow 'home' in the context of the dream. Any sikowanalists want to take a shot at that?

Any of you ever tested the Bible before? A fair-sized portion of it is historical data, and to the best of my knowledge, while much of that data has been verified by the discipline of archaeology, none of it has ever been disproven in like manner. If you're going to claim it's a massive lie, then would you please point out where it is, in fact, testably inaccurate?

66%, which is a bit strange considering I'm a teetotaler.

Your wish has been granted. You'll soon discover that this is its own penalty.

I wish I knew something else to wish for.

No, I think the term 'adventure' has a specific, narrowly defined meaning that Zelda doesn't fit. I've always heard games in the mold of the Zelda series as 'action rpgs'.

Business is a logical result of Greed. And Greed all too often does not ascribe to ethics.

Mind explaining that logical jump, please? I'll agree with your second statement, but I don't see business as the logical result of greed, and I'm wondering how you're getting to that point.

To prevent fools from voting is difficult right now too. Voter exams have been outlawed in previous times.

For reasonably good reasons.

And besides, don't the foolish deserve representation in the government as well?

Thanks for the insult, You remind me of the heroes of world war II.

From the thrust of the comment, I'm assuming you're tapping at the boundaries of Godwin's Law. I am also presuming you are being sarcastic here, but I wish to ask you this:

How many people here and now, do you think, would agree that those doing degrading acts to others might qualify as somehow unhuman? At the very least, they would have had to desensitize themselves to the results of their actions. There's a reason the name for that action is 'dehumanizing'.

>>But it is made up of many countries
There is nothing in the explaination I read that said an island has to be made up of just one country (or nation).

Point in case: Haiti/Dominican Republic. Would you define that as 'not an island' simply because there are two nations there?

I'd like to second the mention from niek_e. I've had it happen four times on me in the past ten minutes; each time, backing out and clicking the same thing got me the page I wanted.
First time occured during an attempt to give a reputation comment to Jwenting in the Geek's Lounge, in the current 'Influential Game' topic. It didn't appear as though the reputation link was working, so I attempted to open in a new page, which came out looking as described.
Second time was an attempt to hit the Software Development bar (forum2) in the menubar above; same effect.
Third time was an attempt to do a search in the Delphi and Pascal forum.
Fourth time was a repeat of the second; I hadn't seen if the actual page were visible under the others (backed out too quickly) and went back to do so. It took three backout/reload tries to correct this time around.

I also saw a small picture of the words 'All the best, Dani' just above the last line of code on that last attempt. I'm not seeing the image anywhere on the page now that it's been reloaded, although I haven't checked the page source for them yet.

If this is in the wrong place, I apologize, and humbly ask that my query be relocated to the correct forum. Thank you.

Recently, my boss requested that I put together a Delphi program for use on a number of computer systems in the area. Some of these systems are using Windows XP, as my own develpment box does, others were using Windows98. The program was delivered a few days ago, and it seems that the 98 boxes are having trouble with something.

On two Win98 boxes so far (others have been told not to install until this gets solved), installing my program from the CD seems to have done something to the Novell networking software on the systems. After installing my program and rebooting, the systems in question apparently throw an error somewhere near the Novell login screen, freezing the system before it can get into Windows.

The error message being given is "Unable to load the Dynamic Link Library novellDP.DLL one of the lib files needed to run this application could not be found 'something' on all of the following 'something' not available." Sorry, but the only copy of the message I have is a handwritten copy that was faxed to us; I have no clue what the two 'something' instances say.

I packaged my program to send out with InstallShield Express. In addition to the .exe file, Installshield wanted to include the following list of files:

In the System32 directory:
CALWIN32.DLL
CLNWIN32.DLL	
CLXWIN32.DLL …

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