Ed,

Great, you did reply ! keep up the good work, you usually don't reply to me when you're totally wrong.

>>At least you didn't let me down. I knew you were going to respond.

>Good - wouldn't want to disappoint the ethicless pinhead brigade!

Boy oh boy, i'm leaning new words and expression from you each day, give me some more.

Ed, your fighting a loosing batlle and you know it. You can't win a battle by simply insulting people. But feel free to continue and let the whole UT see what you really are. I must note that i've grown a very thick skin against insults toward me, so just go ahead, you can't hurt me. Remember, i've got nothing to loose, you've got nothing to win.

>>I won't argue this. It's the way that John, is arguing and behaving like a jerk.
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>As opposed, to you, who've proven to be an uninformed, profane and utterly valuesless jerk?

Well a few more invaluable expressions, thank you ed.


>>>This certainly applies to my view of your participation, so that would apply equally well to your expositions on topics you've got no clue on.
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>>I'm rarely involved on topic where i don't have a clue on.
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>Right. How's the C typedef parser coming?

Come again ? Do you mean the enhancement of the struct class of cristof ? I've had a discussion with cristof about that and he said it was not worth the cost and that instead he would define some classes in which many of the standard structs would be included. I decided that it wouldn't be worth the cost to deepen myself into this issue. B.T.W. who said that I don't have a clue about C-structs. I've programmed in various C/C++ versions in my student time. I'll not say that i'm an excellent C/C++ programmer but I certainly know what structs are.

>>Well, my observations of the rushmore technology, in particular the DELETED() tag was not a contribution to the VFP community ???? I suppose you're still indexing every table with the deleted() tag. Further on I suppose you did skip the messages about crystal reports ? Of course since we've got an excellent VFP report writer who needs Crystal Reports ? So my discussions with Jim Booth where not a lesson to us all, (not arguing about who was right or wrong, since much of these I consider a matter of taste) ?
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>Walter I pointedly skip your messages; the bullshitometer pegs to the right, and it's hard to keep fine instruments properly aligned when pushed past the limits on a consistant basis.

Having a hard time to deny my arguments ? You're just trying to compensate this with nonsense. Oh well, I guess you have a hard time with my messages. It's really hard to admit your wrong isn't it ?

TIP, keep your bullshittometer pointed toward my messages instead to your head. It might give you another clue.

>If you hadn't commented in a stream whose content is of interest to me, what's going on in FPA and where it's going, I'd have wandered right on by. Unfortunately, I couldn't just ignore the existance of the message, and felt obliged to speak up on behalf of someone who's made consistently excellent contributions to the VFP community with a good feel for the technical directions of the MS-oriented database community. That is not you.

I can't and won't deny the contribution of JVP in the VFP community as a whole (since i'm not really interessted in the topics he talks about or I Personally have a total other viewpoint). I was talking about the contribution to this forum. Mainly, what I saw from JVP in the last 2 years here was his vocubalary regarding insults.

>I got far more technical guidance from my sister's dear departed pet pooch than your pointless meanderings.

I didn't know that your sisters pet was called JVP, sorry. It explains why your knowledge contains serious black holes.

>>I deeply respect your contribution to the VFP community in general, especially your knowledge in certain fields like hardware, WSH, C++, API etc, but this seems to have gotten you the attitude of knowing it all. Just saying that I have no clue about relation databases (I graduated to that subject), while you've no other argument than saying that you've heard CJ Date , speak in public (about what ???? having a cup of thea ?) and just saying you've got fairly solid knowledge of the relational theory. Sorry, I don't buy that!
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>I'm not selling that, particularly not to you. I have clients (people who have ethics, and dollars they're willing to expend) than might disagree with you on this.

Do they pay, while you're insulting them when they disagree ???

>>You've made a few fairly big mistakes which degrade your credibility from my POV. For example being fairly rude toward Jim Nelson in a discussion about preemptive multitasking. Jim was right all along. When I came with a reference to jims standpoint you were too pride to admit you were wrong.

>Your expertise in the area of operating systems is lacking. Your understanding of basic concepts of preemption are lacking. I've no need to express my feelings on Jim's statements; I've made them already, and there's no need to reheat old battles. I'd suggest reading Harvey Deitel's books on OS theory some day. Or, since you're probably a bit more interested in the Windows environment, Richter and Petzold's books which detail various modes and implementations of multitasking and multiprocessing in the Win environment.

You're totally wrong to this subject. I qouted a paragraph from a book, I gave the name, and ISBN number of the book. You really disappoint me here Ed, again, you can't admit you're wrong..... while it's certain you'll even have to look up the word preemptive in the dictionary when you're talking about preemptive multitasking. I wonder if you really got a clue about operating systems in general or you just rely on the contents of your MSDN subscription.

Do yourself a favour, talk about preemptive multitasking with a real expert (not implying I am) in this field and get ready to feel humiliated. These basics were just a subject on universaty, you disappoint me that you've missed them.

>>Also in a discussion about the usage of xbase DML commands you've showed to have no clue about upgrading to client/server. When I explained some of the options I never got a reply.

>I don't waste bandwidth on the completely clueless.

No, you just waste bandwith by insulting people who are trying to tell you you've got it wrong, good job..

>>I'll guess that your problem is to admit that you're wrong (hmmm.. at least JVP did at times). And if you're proven wrong you either choose the way of being rude or not respond at all.
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>No idea what the number for Rent-A-Clue in Europe is.

There isn't one here. It's invented in the US by uninformed, profane and utterly valuesless jerks.

>>>He has a more appropriate view of where VFP sits as a player in the VS game than you do. Your ongoing lack of insight into the valuie of developing using other than monolithic, VFPp-only approaches is well-established.
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>>How about the VFP sits as a player in the rest of the world ? For your information, How I like to develop VFP only solutions I'm being forced to use other components also (like Crystal Reports). You clearly have not any clue what problems this generates when distributing hundreds of applications with more components than only VFP. This a really another subject, but if you're sitting next to the applications you support this might not be a problem, (causes can be determined quite quickly), but if all you've got is a phoneline, e-mail and an system administrator (or worse just an ordinary user which has still has problems to use the windows explorer) the story goes quite different. I presume you're not in this situation, since you clearly have got no clue)

>I think I have a slight clue about the issues involved in multi-tier, multi-component development and application implementation; in fact, a large part of what I do is develop other people's installation processes. YMMV. Perhaps I don't understand the registry? COM? Installation requirements? Debugging? If I need guidance on do it yourself colonoscopy, I'll be sure to ask your advice.

For your information, (if you really want it, which i doubt), the problems mostly occur within the external components. what do you do when an GPF occurs on a client machine about 200 miles away, no debugger, no exact info about the client configuration etc.. I've got a rule of thumb: " The more components your application consist of, the more potential and complex problems" ). Software evolution is not up to reliable create multitier maintainless standard software, though this might be only a matter of time.

>Well, I've said what needed to be said. From my POV, I hope JVP continues to provide insight into the directions of FPA and to make his contributions to the VFP community regarding the technical directions of the MS-centric development environment in general. I still have less than no use for you, and would hope you'd crawl back under a rock and stop wasting time and bandwidth.

I don't have a problems JVP providing insights, like you clearly don't understand, I've got a allergic problem with insults toward others (i could not care less if you insult me, because it says more about you than me).

Like John K said before: "Anyone who supports JVPs behaviour is on my shitlist"

>I so enjoy these pointless heart to heart exchanges with you...

Ditto.

Walter,