keith said:
> Slow down a bit BB,
oh dear sweet lord...
> You are misunderstanding something here.
> I leave out the html part because
> that is a different matter which
> you can have out with don!
yeah, well, gee, keith, that's very unfortunate.
because "the html part" was the on-topic part,
the relevant part, the part we were talking about.
I did realize that the HTML part was your main objection.
Yet, we been "there and back again" far to many times on formats
and I could give no new points nor counter points, so
I decided not to discuss this point of use of HTML further.
so don was the one who was "misunderstanding".
because -- as he admitted in his last message --
he had shifted the topic to his use of wordpress
as a _storage_mechanism_ for existing html/css.
Whether the subject/thread was hijack was not my fault.
Of course I could have change the subject.
If I were mean I could accuse you of the same as my post
had nothing to do with HTML and do not want to go into
it for said above reasons. Though I have to admit you
started a new thread. So, that ball is yours.
[snip, snip]
what if i want to "use" one of the files by submitting it
to an exterior spell-check app? or grammar-check?
what if i want to merge all of them into a single file?
what if i want to do a specific search-and-replace on
any files that contain graphics, but a different one on
any files that do not contain graphics, except for the
ones which contain front-matter, plus i need to do a
separate search-and-replace on the reference section?
Well, I could take your general position on hypothetical systems.
We really, do not it full scale or how far it is developed no any of its
design parameters.
Since you ask. Here are my thoughts.
It could be as easy as check out what you want, do whatever you want
with it and submit it back. Just the same as I would have to do when
I would use your system if its repository was stored on a server.
Of course you could allow everybody to convolute the server you are using,
but I do not think you would allow that and I would highly advise against
such a practice. The only difference is that the user would have to use your scripts
instead of interacting with the front end of a database.
> You see the database is first and firmly just
> a filing system for the files! Just like the OS is!
except those systems aren't "just like" each other by
any stretch of the imagination, since the file system
is understood implicitly by every average user because
it is utilized every day in the course of normal practice,
OH, My Gosh! BOY are you wrong on this point.
The average user knows finale sticks about the file system of their
OS. They know have to use the GUI, which is just a front end!
They know nothing of the file system whether it is a flat file system
or not. On Windows, how many know which registry enters they can change
for changing how the system works with file types, or which ones
are set when programs are installed into the system?
How many know that when their system gets sluggish(or even notice it)
that they have to defragment their drives and do they know where to find it.
I know a lot of average users and they keep coming to me a Mac person
for help and to repeatedly show them!
How many know how to mount servers, use ssh, etc.. Ask them what it means
to mount a server and what happens when they do. The list goes on and on.
whereas only a tiny percentage of them know databases,
and only a few of _those_ people can manipulate mysql.
LIKE I SAUD there is/should be a FRONT END to the database which
is just as easy to use as the the GUI of an OS, actually easier because of the small
feature set it needs to support.
and it shouldn't even be necessary for me to explain that,
because if you can't see a gulf that wide, you must be blind,
or have your eyes closed, or have your head stuck somewhere.
If I were to use your system of scripts you would have to explain to me
what scripts do what and I have to learn where they are stored, which parameters they
take.
There is no free ride! You always have to learn something. Even if it just the difference
between http and https!
> So, if don wants to use a database (system) as a file(filing)
> system what is wrong with that.
i answered that question up above.
Not actually, just your misconception of want the average user know and does.
for his own stuff, don can use any system he likes.
why would i care, in the slightest?
but if don wants to suggest a database approach
for a system that has thousands of users who are
digitizing thousands of books, all with one database,
then i'm going to suggest that he rethink that model.
Here I would partially agree with you!! ;-)
I would use a couple of database interacting to gather with each other.
which was a _different_ thread we had going here once.
(but your comment here, keith, if off-topic to both.)
> But, the people administering the site
> know it is there and glad they have it.
ok, and here is the crux.
you guys are all happy to invent a site with "administrators".
my aim is to create a workflow that average people grok,
and can manipulate, if necessary, _without_ administrators.
Tisk, tisk Tisk!
You are actually, going to allow the average user full access to you server!
I DO NOT BELIEVE you are THAT STUPID!
With administrator I mean the administrator of a site and/or the database.
I believe the administrators of the millions of sites out there, would not think
that they are not needed and their sites do not work.
because, as d.p. has shown so clearly to those who can see,
once you have a need for "administrators", the system gets
trapped by the power-hungry and becomes nonresponsive...
With administrator I mean the administrator of a site and/or the database.
I believe the administrators of the millions of sites out there, would not think
that they are not needed and their sites do not work.
I was not think of administrators in the sense that they control what texts
are use and not and how the text go through the workflow the way dp works.
> Basically, Don will have a front end to his database,
> that will give you all you need and it will be just as easy
> (probably easier) than using your script based system.
that's what the "administrator" types always _promise_.
It depends on their skill and fore site and willingness to make changes.
"i'll make things easy for you, give you all you need…"
The same is true of your scripts! Sorry, Your argument does not bite.
but once you turn over your soul to them, it's too late.
Heh, I burning in hell any way so they have to fight the devil to get mine!
> On the other side I would have to learn
> how to use your scripts and how to find them,
> how to reprogram them to work
> for a particular book or text!
my word, keith, you seem to know _a_lot_
about something you know nothing about.
Well, I no names, where to find them, nor how to use them!
So, they are just as OBSCURE to me as any database system to you and
I am not they average user!
STALEMATE!
> To quote Steve Jobs: "It just works!"
it's easy to quote steve jobs. any blooming idiot can do it!
it's a heckuva lot harder to make something that just works.
Agreed, but I do make programs for others and they are very happy
with them because they just work. Once and a while I have to add a new feature
that they had not thought of, but generally I am ahead of them
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so, um, no, keith, i'm not going to "slow down". sorry, dude.
Maybe one last thought that has occurred to that the average user need not know
anything about databases to use them.:
There are a lot of average uses out there using personal finance programs, well
guess those programs use a database. You got a Kindle, Ereader, iPad, guess they use a
database system. Use iTunes, right it too uses a database system.
My, My, My all those average users using databases and they no nothing about how
those databases are designed nor what their structure is like. According to you
they should know an awful lot about them.
Just for the record iTunes uses an associative database. Do you know what that is?
Does the average users know what that is?
Here is another database system that is accessed. When you go get or look for books
on the PG site!!! I do not even know what kind of database system the are using!
Amazing a non average user using a database and not even entering a single SQL or
what ever. Amazing, is it not.
however, i will kindly suggest that you speed up. to keep up.
No, I think my last comments should be enough that you should rethink
your position about the use databases and whatever speed is good for you.
regards
Keith.