On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:42 AM, kirby urner<[email protected]> wrote:
<< SNIP >> > I wrote an article in FoxPro Advisor about using Foxpro for polyhedra > (wasn't saying it couldn't be done, used 4-tuple Chakovian > coordinates, trademarked as "quadrays" for the purposes of this > published Ziff-Davis version), but how was I to achieve world > domination in math classrooms (my old haunt) with something so > expensive as Microsoft's Visual FoxPro (no IronPython invented yet). > Education is cut throat. There's practically no money for teaching > (part of that "dumbing us down" I was talking about -- WB called it an > act of war on our people, before going back to casino work **). > Hmmm, maybe I'm bein' sloppy saying Ziff-Davis here, as Advisor Media is privately owned and a soap box for various California-style thinkers e.g. here's some cowboy ranting about "Indian casinos": http://www.advisor.com/boomer/blogs/richard-rider/indian-casino-profits-revealed Yeah, was confusing it with PC Magazine, sorry Ziff-Davis. FoxPro Advisor is defunct in any case, while Microsoft decided to stop touting upgrades post VPF9 (which I own, used for Regional Heart Data Services in the good old days, before they moved on, other clients). My article, on using Quadray Coordinates to generate the concentric hierarchy of polyhedra (verboten knowledge in Lower48 as the inventor only had 42 honorary degrees, didn't make up for flunking out of Harvard cuzza that "porn troupe" incident (see Wikipedia)). More details on my article from ten years ago: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=1091967&tstart=0 Just wanting to keep the record clear, in case someone's trying to piece it together someday. KIrby 4D _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
