"IDS 10.0 Cities Tour 2006"
Not a technical problem thread at all: an IBM Worldwide Informix team member announced plans for an "IDS 10.0 Cities Tour 2006" (ten all-day technical sessions on IDS 10) and asked readers to suggest host cities, preferably ones not recently covered by user groups or earlier tours. A German reader asked whether "worldwide" would include Europe/Germany, and one poster suggested Paris. That question was never answered; instead the thread degenerated into an off-topic flame war about American vs. German insularity, Nazis and film dubbing. No city list, schedule or resolution is recorded.
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Readers - I am putting together plans for an "IDS 10.0 Cities Tour 2006" and would like to poll you for city suggestions - major cities that perhaps have not been "attended to" in the last few years by one of my other tours or a local user group. We are looking for 10 cities to have all-day technical sessions on of course, IDS 10! I am hoping to recruit some heavy-hitters in the IDS world from IBM and perhaps even local resources if appropriate. Right now the plans are very preliminary, but I wanted to get the early word out and solicit some feedback. Although it would be easier to hit cities that already had a local Informix user group presence, it is not required. I have talked with a few partners and IBM'ers already, but wanted to give the CDI a chance to jump in. Thanks! Mark Scranton IBM Worldwide Informix Team
mark.scranton@gmail.com schrieb: >I am putting together plans for an "IDS 10.0 Cities Tour 2006" and >would like to poll you for city suggestions - major cities that perhaps >have not been "attended to" in the last few years by one of my other >tours or a local user group. >We are looking for 10 cities to have all-day technical sessions on of >course, IDS 10! >Mark Scranton >IBM Worldwide Informix Team How world-wide is "Worldwide" in this context? Will there be such an event (ore maybe even more than one) in Europe or Germany? I surely hope so. I'm asking out of experience; "international" for many Americans seems to be somewhat limited in scope ;-) Regards, Richard
Richard Spitz wrote: > > How world-wide is "Worldwide" in this context? Will there be such an event > (ore maybe even more than one) in Europe or Germany? I surely hope so. > > I'm asking out of experience; "international" for many Americans seems to > be somewhat limited in scope ;-) > > Regards, Richard > Germans are somewhat limited in scope. How many other countries speak German? Why is it that Germans feel the need to redub English or other movies into German instead of leaving them in English or their original tongue? It seems YOUR country is a bit more backward than ours, when it comes to culture, and thinking international. Most of German culture thinks the rest of the world should think and speak German, when you're the only country that speaks it. Very arrogant, very inbred. There are still those among you that think Hitler was simply 'misunderstood' so maybe you should think outside your inbred German mind before you start mouthing off about Americans. You don't have a very strong work ethic either, prefering to be drunk all the time.
Double Echo wrote: > Richard Spitz wrote: > > > > How world-wide is "Worldwide" in this context? Will there be such an event > > (ore maybe even more than one) in Europe or Germany? I surely hope so. > > > > I'm asking out of experience; "international" for many Americans seems to > > be somewhat limited in scope ;-) > > > > Regards, Richard > > > > Germans are somewhat limited in scope. How many other countries speak German? > > Why is it that Germans feel the need to redub English or other movies into German > instead of leaving them in English or their original tongue? It seems YOUR country > is a bit more backward than ours, when it comes to culture, and thinking international. > > Most of German culture thinks the rest of the world should think and speak German, > when you're the only country that speaks it. Very arrogant, very inbred. There are > still those among you that think Hitler was simply 'misunderstood' so maybe you should > think outside your inbred German mind before you start mouthing off about Americans. > You don't have a very strong work ethic either, prefering to be drunk all the time. Gentlemen ! what about paris, not paris texas! regards
>From a US born citizen's view point, I can certainly agree with Richard. Hell we even exclude some of our own states. When I was growing up in Hawaii almost nothing would get a new kid's ass kicked more than the phrase "back in the states." As in "Back in the states we had really cool cars." The local response in pidegeon english was "Hey brah you don't know we're a state. What you like beef?" ("like beef" meant do you want to fight which was not so much a question at this point as a statement about what was going to happen next.) This happened all to often with new kids. The proper Hawaiian ass saving term was "mainland." As in "Back in the mainland we had really cool cars." Worldwide in this case probably means "mainland". ;-) >>How many other countries speak German? Cleveland? >>There are still those among you that think Hitler was simply 'misunderstood' The US probably has as many Nazi's as anywhere in the world and strangly even the UK has a few. >>so maybe you should think outside your inbred German mind before you start mouthing off about Americans. As my Peruvian guides reminded me as I made the classic tourist mistake of saying I am not from here I am an American. They pointed out that technically they were Americans also since it is the continent's name. I then said well I am from North America but not Canada or Mexico. Oh forget it. CC From somewhere in America, not Hawaii, Mexico, Canada, Cleveland or Peru. Sorry about wasting bandwidth.
Double Echo said: > > Richard Spitz wrote: >> >> How world-wide is "Worldwide" in this context? Will there be such an >> event >> (ore maybe even more than one) in Europe or Germany? I surely hope so. >> >> I'm asking out of experience; "international" for many Americans seems >> to >> be somewhat limited in scope ;-) > > Germans are somewhat limited in scope. How many other countries speak > German? Austria and (parts of) Switzerland, and large parts of South West Africa. > Why is it that Germans feel the need to redub English or other movies into > German > instead of leaving them in English or their original tongue? It seems > YOUR country > is a bit more backward than ours, when it comes to culture, and thinking > international. Jeeeezus, what a pathetic observation. EVERY country dubs blockbusters into the local tongue. That way more people can watch them and understand them. > Most of German culture thinks the rest of the world should think and speak > German, > when you're the only country that speaks it. Very arrogant, very inbred. > There are > still those among you that think Hitler was simply 'misunderstood' so > maybe you should > think outside your inbred German mind before you start mouthing off about > Americans. > You don't have a very strong work ethic either, prefering to be drunk all > the time. Wrong, wrong, wrong. 1. They aren't the only country that speaks German. 2. They aren't as arrogant as the Australians (or as in-bred as New Zealanders. :o) 3. There are probably more Neo Nazi's in the USA than in Germany. From Wikipedia: "As German law forbids the production of Nazi devotionalia, such items come into the country mostly (illegally) from the USA and northern European countries. Rock bands such as Landser have been outlawed in Germany, yet bootleg copies of their albums printed in the US and other countries are still sold. Current Neo-Nazi websites mostly depend on hosting in the USA and Canada and use other terms for Nazi ideas and symbols. They also invent new symbols reminiscent of the swastika and other symbols used by the Nazis, e.g. the sun disc, sun wheel, hooked cross, wolf's cross, wolf's hook, black sun, or dark star (see fascist symbolism)." I'm on the side of the US on this one, BTW: I don't like to see any kind of speech restricted, but that's another discussion. In general, I'm fairly convinced that the Americans are largely (but not entirely) a pretty insular nation. How about that World Series, then? -- Tchuess, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com