[maemo-users] Postal address in Contacts?

[From: Simon Budig]

Mark (wolfmane at gmail.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Simon Budig <simon at budig.de> wrote:
> > Mark (wolfmane at gmail.com) wrote:
> >> By definition, sync is the process of making sure that two or more
> >> locations contain the *same* up-to-date files:
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization
> >
> > *Files*? I thought we were talking about database records of contact
> > information? I guess you were confused when you picked this link?
> 
> You clearly have a lot of trouble with concepts. Databases *are*
> files. When you sync records, what you are actually doing is updating
> the database *files* so that they are identical.

May I refer to Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database

"A database is a structured collection of records or data."

It may be implemented as a single file on disk, it may be implemented as
multiple files on multiple disks, it may be implemented as a cluster of
computers, it may be implemented as a part of the system memory, it may
be implemented as a lot of text on dead tree paper.

If you think that "databases are files" then there really is absolutely
no point in continuing this discussion since you probably don't even
understand the concept of a concept.

Bye,
        Simon
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              simon at budig.de              http://simon.budig.de/