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Conscious and Unconscious

Conscious and Unconscious Perhaps the best way to illustrate the relationship between the conscious and unconscious minds is the story of Jason's spring. When he was a boy, Jason used to visit his grandfather's camp, deep in the woods. It was located down in a valley, with the nearest neighbor over a mile away. The camp had no telephone, electricity, or indoor plumbing. When Jason visited, one of his chores was to fetch water from the spring behind the camp. The spring was very shallow, and when he scooped up water, he was only able to fill his pail half full. The pail always scraped along the bottom of the spring and roiled up the debris that had settled there. Then he would have to wait until the water cleared. When Jason tried to fill his pail again, he lost the water he had already scooped up and was only able to fill it to the same level as before. Try as hard as he might, he was only able to fill half the pail. He finally returned to the camp, disappointed at his...

ADO.NET is an integral part of the .NET Compact Framework

ADO is a language-neutral object model that is the keystone of Microsoft's Universal Data Access strategy. ADO.NET  is an integral part of the .NET Compact Framework, providing access to relational data, XML documents, and application data.  ADO.NET  supports a variety of development needs. You can create database-client applications and middle-tier business objects used by applications, tools, languages or Internet browsers. ADO.NET  defines  DataSet  and  DataTable  objects which are optimized for moving disconnected sets of data across intranets and Internets, including through firewalls. It also includes the traditional  Connection  and  Command  objects, as well as an object called a  DataReader  that resembles a forward-only, read-only ADO  recordset . If you create a new application, your application requires some form of data access most of the time. ADO.NET  provides data access services in ...