Re: Temporal database - no end date

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:22:37 GMT
Message-ID: <xdssh.3197$1x.54397@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

DBMS_Plumber wrote:

> Bob Badour wrote:
>

>>You have contradicted yourself. First, you state that it is impossible
>>to accurately model time as discrete points, and then you admit to using
>>discrete points.

>
>
> Jeebus H. Kerist walking in the shroud.
>
> Is this the same Bob Badour who poops in his hand and flings the result
> with loud hoots at anyone who introduces notions of physical
> implementaiton into discussions of the relational data model? Who
> labels those of us prepared to explain and make the engineering and
> programming language compromises concerning sets and multi-sets,
> missing information etc as "morons", "imbeciles", "fools" or whatever?
>
> Read What Data / Darwen and Lorentzos WROTE. They state explictly that
> they want to REASON about time using 'time quanta'. I then provided a
> perfectly straightforward example of why that won't work IN THEORY, and
> explain why a THEORETICAL temporal model needs to work on a continuum.

Frankly, you did no such thing. You proved that applying the floor operation to the result of an arithmetic mean yields the wrong answer. Plonk. Received on Sat Jan 20 2007 - 11:22:37 CST