I've used it for schema validation, not much else. I looked it up just now and saw that it has a --shell option. I wasn't aware of that, guess I should look at it.
Another programming language for xml is xslt, but IMHO it's the worst programming language ever (I prefer FORTRAN). Of course YMMV.
To take this one step further, everyone is inept: you, your friends, the company you work for (even if it's Google), Volkswagen, every other company, NASA (remember Mars Climate Orbiter, Challenger and Columbia), the USG, the Soviet government (obviously!), the Russian government, and every other government. We all have our limitations, and to the extent we have a blind spot for those limits, we are inept.
I do a lot of XML processing on Linux--in fact, I'd say 80% of my work is with XML. While XML files are obviously text, handling them as plain text is an invitation to disaster. They're really much more like objects, and I mostly use Python when I want to process XML. (For some simple manipulation, I use xml_grep, but only for quick-and-dirty tasks.) Usually I read the XML stream into Python (using SAX or DOM, depending), and convert the parts I need into Python objects for further manipulation. The traditional Linux shell commands (which I use lots for the remaining 20% of my work) are just not suited for XML.
I've never used PowerShell, and the fact that it manipulates objects is interesting. Would some users like to comment on whether it's suited for processing XML?
Is from Boris Badenov, "world's champion no-good-nik, at your service", with the help of Natasha Fatale, former Miss Transylvania and now National Chairman of the Society to Restore The Real Meaning of Halloween.
I remember my first Internet purchase, in 1986. Well, it was sort of an internet purchase, and I can't remember whether it was called the Internet then, or the Arpanet. There was a usenet group called forsale.something, and it had subgroups for different parts of the country. One day I saw an ad from someone nearby selling a used portable dishwasher. I made contact, and I think I went to his house to complete the purchase (Amazon didn't ship across the country back then, and you really didn't want to send your credit card number by email).
We used the dishwasher for several years, took it to Colombia with us, and eventually sold it down there for at least as much as we had paid + shipping.
Of course I was far from the only one to do this sort of thing--that's why forsale.whatever existed.
Given your background, perhaps you can explain what they mean by this "magical figure of $100 per kilowatt hour." Electricity from your local power company is about 3 orders of magnitude cheaper than that. So does this mean $100 to produce a battery that will produce a kw of power for an hour, and can be recharged 1000 times?
I don't think the issue with reviving the Saturn V is the fuel, it's the cost of building those engines, and everything else that goes with it. (Including more reliable sources of electricity than Apollo 13 carried, although I guess that's solved.)
Why would you need to pull anti-matter particles out to create a flash of visible light? Surely electrons dropping down a few energy levels into ordinary positively charged ions is enough. Happens at the surface of the Sun all the time.
Which is entirely scary. How big would an antimatter bomb have to be in order to have the destructive power of an H-bomb? I guess it all depends on the size of the containment vessel and its power supply, because the amount of antimatter needed would be around 25 grams, I think. (I'm basing that on estimates elsewhere on the web, I haven't done the calculation myself; but roughly 50 grams of matter totally converted to energy per megaton equivalent.)
I hope we can't produce large quantities of anti-matter for a very long time. Because I just don't trust the Starfleet Academy (or anyone else) to keep it under control.
Beard? Says who? I think that has more to do with Michelangelo (and more recently, Monte Python).
BTW, have you never heard of the barber paradox? The barber who shaves every man who doesn't shave himself. Got is quite able to be that barber, whether He shaves himself or not.
I have all the apps I need/ want. Not sure what "native experiences" means. I've lived with Mayan natives in Mexico, does that count? They didn't have cell phones, though.
"What's next, light bulbs that need a proprietary protocol to talk to the light switch?": I have a box of incandescent light bulbs stored in my basement for that day.
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Guess I'd better hoard my Forever stamps.
I've used it for schema validation, not much else. I looked it up just now and saw that it has a --shell option. I wasn't aware of that, guess I should look at it.
Another programming language for xml is xslt, but IMHO it's the worst programming language ever (I prefer FORTRAN). Of course YMMV.
To take this one step further, everyone is inept: you, your friends, the company you work for (even if it's Google), Volkswagen, every other company, NASA (remember Mars Climate Orbiter, Challenger and Columbia), the USG, the Soviet government (obviously!), the Russian government, and every other government. We all have our limitations, and to the extent we have a blind spot for those limits, we are inept.
Excep me.
I do a lot of XML processing on Linux--in fact, I'd say 80% of my work is with XML. While XML files are obviously text, handling them as plain text is an invitation to disaster. They're really much more like objects, and I mostly use Python when I want to process XML. (For some simple manipulation, I use xml_grep, but only for quick-and-dirty tasks.) Usually I read the XML stream into Python (using SAX or DOM, depending), and convert the parts I need into Python objects for further manipulation. The traditional Linux shell commands (which I use lots for the remaining 20% of my work) are just not suited for XML.
I've never used PowerShell, and the fact that it manipulates objects is interesting. Would some users like to comment on whether it's suited for processing XML?
Is from Boris Badenov, "world's champion no-good-nik, at your service", with the help of Natasha Fatale, former Miss Transylvania and now National Chairman of the Society to Restore The Real Meaning of Halloween.
Is that you, Spock?
and you know this how?
cheesybagel said "The focus has changed from high speed vehicles to high _fuel_ efficiency vehicles" (emphasis added).
I remember my first Internet purchase, in 1986. Well, it was sort of an internet purchase, and I can't remember whether it was called the Internet then, or the Arpanet. There was a usenet group called forsale.something, and it had subgroups for different parts of the country. One day I saw an ad from someone nearby selling a used portable dishwasher. I made contact, and I think I went to his house to complete the purchase (Amazon didn't ship across the country back then, and you really didn't want to send your credit card number by email).
We used the dishwasher for several years, took it to Colombia with us, and eventually sold it down there for at least as much as we had paid + shipping.
Of course I was far from the only one to do this sort of thing--that's why forsale.whatever existed.
Given your background, perhaps you can explain what they mean by this "magical figure of $100 per kilowatt hour." Electricity from your local power company is about 3 orders of magnitude cheaper than that. So does this mean $100 to produce a battery that will produce a kw of power for an hour, and can be recharged 1000 times?
to bring you an announcement: the Jesuits will be there first.
Ok, so it's science fiction; The Sparrow (and its sequel, Children of God). But it's good sci-fi.
Yes, but the real estate agent was selling land on a planet around Alpha. It's much more expensive over on Proxima.
Will the USPO still be around then?
I don't think the issue with reviving the Saturn V is the fuel, it's the cost of building those engines, and everything else that goes with it. (Including more reliable sources of electricity than Apollo 13 carried, although I guess that's solved.)
If you can accelerate, you can decelerate with the same technology. That assumes of course fuel. And I did say *if*.
anyone running from Neptune?
Nuts, I was going to say this, but you beat me to it. Anyway, well said!
I have it on good authority that they're coming to rescue the crew of the Minnow.
Why would you need to pull anti-matter particles out to create a flash of visible light? Surely electrons dropping down a few energy levels into ordinary positively charged ions is enough. Happens at the surface of the Sun all the time.
Which is entirely scary. How big would an antimatter bomb have to be in order to have the destructive power of an H-bomb? I guess it all depends on the size of the containment vessel and its power supply, because the amount of antimatter needed would be around 25 grams, I think. (I'm basing that on estimates elsewhere on the web, I haven't done the calculation myself; but roughly 50 grams of matter totally converted to energy per megaton equivalent.)
I hope we can't produce large quantities of anti-matter for a very long time. Because I just don't trust the Starfleet Academy (or anyone else) to keep it under control.
But that's only because those ____ Klingons have cornered the market on dilithium crystals.
Beard? Says who? I think that has more to do with Michelangelo (and more recently, Monte Python).
BTW, have you never heard of the barber paradox? The barber who shaves every man who doesn't shave himself. Got is quite able to be that barber, whether He shaves himself or not.
I have all the apps I need/ want. Not sure what "native experiences" means. I've lived with Mayan natives in Mexico, does that count? They didn't have cell phones, though.
"What's next, light bulbs that need a proprietary protocol to talk to the light switch?": I have a box of incandescent light bulbs stored in my basement for that day.