Microwave bursts from your house will protect you from the critters. All you need is an old kitchen microwave and a metal cone. At the same time, they will also protect your garden from the chucks and other natural vermin as well. I wonder what micro waves will do to zombies?

Until we can break away from the Turing model, we will never be able to achieve AI. Although you could argue that we humans are also Turing machines. Very complex in nature but still Turing machines nonetheless and very predictable.

Correction... You are referring to J++ and they were not taken to court over J++. They were taken to court over the "Microsoft Virtual Machine". Without the Microsoft Virtual Machine, J++ was rendered useless as a technology. Microsoft later introduced J# to try and sway Java developers and their source code over to the .NET platform. There was not enough end user support to continue the J# project so they let it go. I think this was a big mistake. You don't close your door to those who might want to convert and join your "file".

I am trying to acheive the same goal. However, when I try and access one of the properties from the entity model that I have configured I get the following error message: Server Error in '/' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Compilation Error Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately. Compiler Error Message: CS1061: 'Contracts.CONTRACT_PERIOD' does not contain a definition for 'start_date' and no extension method 'start_date' accepting a first argument of type 'Contracts.CONTRACT_PERIOD' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) Source Error: Line 39: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); Line 40: sb.Append("("); Line 41: sb.Append(this.start_date.ToShortDateString()); Line 42: sb.Append(" - "); Line 43: sb.Append(this.end_date.ToShortDateString()); Source File: c:\Documents and Settings\...\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\...\Contracts\App_Code\Metadata.cs Line: 41