I agree with you that Kyoto will probably not do all that much; however, it is a start. The point of Kyoto is that it is intended to lead to a stricter treaty after Kyoto's goals have been met in 2010 (fat chance, but anything is better than nothing).
Of course, if the US wants to propose a much stricter treaty that will cut back their output to something more in line with what the rest of the world does per capita so that actually might be significant, the rest of the world would welcome that!
That said, I guess I mostly agree with the second FA, which explains that we're mostly fucked, probably within our lifetime.
Note: TFA compares the virtual machine of Python with Parrot; Parrot is a virtual machine designed for running bytecode of several languages, including Python and Perl (as far as I know - perhaps Parrot is more than that, now).
This isn't about differences of the language Python with another language, but about how the same language runs with completely different bytecode on the two systems.
No more outrageous than saying everything that has happened in all of the universes and galaxies seen and unseen up until now has happened by random chance.
Indeed. And in fact that claim is rather more outrageous (science claims the universe is much older, bigger, more complicated, more awesome etc than religion ever has, and the claim is that the processes that caused all of it are actually understandable by us).
The difference is that the outrageous claims of science are backed up by a stupefying amount of evidence, and the religious claims by zilch.
Doubtful as gravity's goals don't change like evolution's does.
Evolution is just the phenomenon that if the exact genes of individuals can drift a tiny bit over the generations, and if some sets of genes tend to produce more offspring than others, you end of with more of one type than another over a long time.
If you assume that all heterosexual contact infections were 'responsible',
That's a very odd assumption. I'd assume that contact with protection or with someone you have a long term relationship with (or someone who had a recent test, etc) counts as responsible. I don't see why heterosexual contact would me more responsible than homosexual contact.
The moment they know you're in I.T. everyone in your family, and all your mother's friends, want you to fix their PCs.
Repeat after me: "Oh, you probably have Windows, I don't know much about that. I only use Linux myself."
And it's pretty much true, of course I can install SpyBot and AdAware, but if there's something wrong with the box otherwise I have no idea how to fix it. So usually they'll go ask someone else.
The reason so many pages works so well in IE and not in others, is *not* that IE works better. It's just that people design and test against IE.
That's only one half of the story. The other half is that IE has really error tolerant code - it can render very badly formed HTML. So people who write bad HTML and then test with IE will never know, but their sites will fail in most other browsers.
Of course, this was all done 50 years ago in an Asimov book.
Actually, you remind me of _The Garments of Caean_ by Barrington J. Bayley, 1976 (link):
Back on Old Earth there was a saying that clothes make the man. But on the world called Caean this became literally true. On that colonized planet there was a material called Prossim. If your body was in contact with Prossim your personality changed. You became handsome, you had vast charisma, you had total self-confidence - you were always the power center of every enterprise.
I wouldn't be surprised if the US starts to put its thumb on the scales...
They already do support the Japan site, for that reason, but because they only supply a small part of the money and because Europe has by far the most experience with fusion research, the EU is apparently willing to ignore that thumb. Of course, such a threat is mostly a bargaining tactic, it'll be much cheaper if other countries outside the EU pay for part of ITER, but whatever. The US doesn't that much say in this.
Both Japan and the EU have offered to pay a large percentage of the costs if ITER is built on their sites; I don't think there's a profit to be made, it's mostly a prestige thing.
If I were a fusion scientist going to work on ITER, I'd much prefer to live in beautiful France than in the sparsely populated bit of North Japan where ITER would be built.
And best of all, that ridiculous code is REALLY AMAZINGLY POWERFUL in many cases.
I only looked at the first entry, anonymous.c. It's 47 utterly incomprehensible lines. What it does is convert text into one of Tolkien's Elvish fonts - and the result looks rather nice, for such a tiny C program (that doesn't use any libraries apart from stdlib, stdio and string).
I took the example from the hint file, pasted only the first half ("ash nazg durhbatuluhk, ash nazg gimbatul") and created a picture, then converted it to PNG with ImageMagick. The result is here. I think that's rather good.
And that's just the first one of this year. Many of the entries of earlier years were stunning.
Thank you! It's been years since I last saw that, and back then I didn't have any knowledge of templates at all. As far as I can see the indentation is indeed not much of a problem, and PSP are heavily inspired by JSP, with some extra OO features in templates. Cool.
If anyone after me ever reads this, this is the bit about blocks from the User Guide: Automatic Blocks
Any script tag with Python code that ends with a colon (:) is considered to begin a block. (a comment tag may follow the colon). After this tag, any following HTML is considered to be part of the block begun within the previous script tag. To end the block, insert a new script tag with the word "end" as the only statement.
There isn't all that much difference. But the Firefox extensions are good (and easy to fetch), especially Web Developer gives you loads of cool tools for inspecting web pages, and Mozilla Firesomething is an instant classic (it's a parody on Firefox' name's history - it gives your windows names like "Mozilla Superkoala" - this sort of thing cracks me up. But then I am a nerd).
Friends of mine love the mouse gestures extension, but I didn't like Black and White much...
But this seems too elementary. Have I misunderstood?
Your example shows how to output HTML from Python. Most templating things (PHP, JSP, Perl's Template Toolkit) use HTML files, with code mixed in between, for instance within <% %> marks (JSP) - start a block with <% for (int i=0; i<10; i++) { %>, print a table row using the variable <%=i%>, and end the loop with <% } %>.
Python mixed in with HTML in this way isn't really feasible because there's no way to indent it.
China has like four times the population of the US. Of course it's going to catch up. In a reasonable world, they should be allowed to emit four times the CO2 the US emits.
You didn't understand what this is about. It's not about timing.
You talk about "CPU frequencies". What is that? That's the frequency of the CPU clock signal. It runs everything inside the CPU - at every 'tick' of the clock, instructions move through the CPU, registers are updated, etc. This is about CPUs that don't use a clock signal at all, different things happening aren't synchronous. These CPUs don't have a frequency.
(Probably wrong also, I don't have the time to express myself more clearly - just wanted to point out that what chip to use to keep track of time is completely besides the point)
"Hey man, stop that, it's going to kill us in a minute"
"Yes, but people have died before, it can't be helped, so it doesn't matter."
Are you serious? If what usually happens over the course of a few millennia happens in 50 years now due to us, making the world a much worse place to live in for us, then that is a BAD THING.
This seems to be mostly due to the fact that the Argentine government has decided to listen to everything the IMF tells them to do, and then do the exact opposite.
I think the biggest succes story of the ex-Eastern bloc countries in Europe is Slovenia (an ex-Yugoslav republic), and they did more or less the same thing (or so I heard). They didn't immediately privatise large State owned companies but waited until the right moment, etc.
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Plus, it should be "It's", and also "rather than anything else".
And then on the other hand, occasionaly I make a similar but worse mistake ("groter als mij") in my native Dutch language...
I agree with you that Kyoto will probably not do all that much; however, it is a start. The point of Kyoto is that it is intended to lead to a stricter treaty after Kyoto's goals have been met in 2010 (fat chance, but anything is better than nothing).
Of course, if the US wants to propose a much stricter treaty that will cut back their output to something more in line with what the rest of the world does per capita so that actually might be significant, the rest of the world would welcome that!
That said, I guess I mostly agree with the second FA, which explains that we're mostly fucked, probably within our lifetime.
Note: TFA compares the virtual machine of Python with Parrot; Parrot is a virtual machine designed for running bytecode of several languages, including Python and Perl (as far as I know - perhaps Parrot is more than that, now).
This isn't about differences of the language Python with another language, but about how the same language runs with completely different bytecode on the two systems.
No more outrageous than saying everything that has happened in all of the universes and galaxies seen and unseen up until now has happened by random chance.
Indeed. And in fact that claim is rather more outrageous (science claims the universe is much older, bigger, more complicated, more awesome etc than religion ever has, and the claim is that the processes that caused all of it are actually understandable by us).
The difference is that the outrageous claims of science are backed up by a stupefying amount of evidence, and the religious claims by zilch.
Read better. That's the solution to this APOD.
Doubtful as gravity's goals don't change like evolution's does.
Evolution is just the phenomenon that if the exact genes of individuals can drift a tiny bit over the generations, and if some sets of genes tend to produce more offspring than others, you end of with more of one type than another over a long time.
It doesn't have "goals".
Name an actual climatologist who seriously believes Kyoto will actually stop global warming.
Name an actual climatologist who seriously believes doing nothing at all is better than Kyoto.
If you assume that all heterosexual contact infections were 'responsible',
That's a very odd assumption. I'd assume that contact with protection or with someone you have a long term relationship with (or someone who had a recent test, etc) counts as responsible. I don't see why heterosexual contact would me more responsible than homosexual contact.
The moment they know you're in I.T. everyone in your family, and all your mother's friends, want you to fix their PCs.
Repeat after me: "Oh, you probably have Windows, I don't know much about that. I only use Linux myself."
And it's pretty much true, of course I can install SpyBot and AdAware, but if there's something wrong with the box otherwise I have no idea how to fix it. So usually they'll go ask someone else.
Roleplayers typically require a higher level of maturity, they aren't playing a game, they are creating/living in a fantasy world.
If that is so, why do we keep score?
That one was a classic, thanks for reminding me...
"So that's how the machine works. Do you understand?"
"Uh... yes." *BZZZT*
"Ok, just say something, anything, just so we can test it."
"Uh, I killed a bunch of people once. Heheh." *PING*
(paraphrased)
Simply give all your files names starting with '.'.
The reason so many pages works so well in IE and not in others, is *not* that IE works better. It's just that people design and test against IE.
That's only one half of the story. The other half is that IE has really error tolerant code - it can render very badly formed HTML. So people who write bad HTML and then test with IE will never know, but their sites will fail in most other browsers.
Of course, this was all done 50 years ago in an Asimov book.
Actually, you remind me of _The Garments of Caean_ by Barrington J. Bayley, 1976 (link):
Back on Old Earth there was a saying that clothes make the man. But on the world called Caean this became literally true. On that colonized planet there was a material called Prossim. If your body was in contact with Prossim your personality changed. You became handsome, you had vast charisma, you had total self-confidence - you were always the power center of every enterprise.
I wouldn't be surprised if the US starts to put its thumb on the scales...
They already do support the Japan site, for that reason, but because they only supply a small part of the money and because Europe has by far the most experience with fusion research, the EU is apparently willing to ignore that thumb. Of course, such a threat is mostly a bargaining tactic, it'll be much cheaper if other countries outside the EU pay for part of ITER, but whatever. The US doesn't that much say in this.
Both Japan and the EU have offered to pay a large percentage of the costs if ITER is built on their sites; I don't think there's a profit to be made, it's mostly a prestige thing.
If I were a fusion scientist going to work on ITER, I'd much prefer to live in beautiful France than in the sparsely populated bit of North Japan where ITER would be built.
In fact, I've often seen comments that the US backs Japan instead of France because of France's non-support of the Iraq war.
(I don't need to dig up any real references for to back that up any further, since you didn't either ;-))
And best of all, that ridiculous code is REALLY AMAZINGLY POWERFUL in many cases.
I only looked at the first entry, anonymous.c. It's 47 utterly incomprehensible lines. What it does is convert text into one of Tolkien's Elvish fonts - and the result looks rather nice, for such a tiny C program (that doesn't use any libraries apart from stdlib, stdio and string).
I took the example from the hint file, pasted only the first half ("ash nazg durhbatuluhk, ash nazg gimbatul") and created a picture, then converted it to PNG with ImageMagick. The result is here. I think that's rather good.
And that's just the first one of this year. Many of the entries of earlier years were stunning.
Thank you! It's been years since I last saw that, and back then I didn't have any knowledge of templates at all. As far as I can see the indentation is indeed not much of a problem, and PSP are heavily inspired by JSP, with some extra OO features in templates. Cool.
If anyone after me ever reads this, this is the bit about blocks from the User Guide:
Automatic Blocks
Any script tag with Python code that ends with a colon (:) is considered to begin a block. (a comment tag may follow the colon). After this tag, any following HTML is considered to be part of the block begun within the previous script tag. To end the block, insert a new script tag with the word "end" as the only statement.
Why should I switch from Mozilla to Firefox?
There isn't all that much difference. But the Firefox extensions are good (and easy to fetch), especially Web Developer gives you loads of cool tools for inspecting web pages, and Mozilla Firesomething is an instant classic (it's a parody on Firefox' name's history - it gives your windows names like "Mozilla Superkoala" - this sort of thing cracks me up. But then I am a nerd).
Friends of mine love the mouse gestures extension, but I didn't like Black and White much...
But this seems too elementary. Have I misunderstood?
Your example shows how to output HTML from Python. Most templating things (PHP, JSP, Perl's Template Toolkit) use HTML files, with code mixed in between, for instance within <% %> marks (JSP) - start a block with <% for (int i=0; i<10; i++) { %>, print a table row using the variable <%=i%>, and end the loop with <% } %>.
Python mixed in with HTML in this way isn't really feasible because there's no way to indent it.
China has like four times the population of the US. Of course it's going to catch up. In a reasonable world, they should be allowed to emit four times the CO2 the US emits.
You didn't understand what this is about. It's not about timing.
You talk about "CPU frequencies". What is that? That's the frequency of the CPU clock signal. It runs everything inside the CPU - at every 'tick' of the clock, instructions move through the CPU, registers are updated, etc. This is about CPUs that don't use a clock signal at all, different things happening aren't synchronous. These CPUs don't have a frequency.
(Probably wrong also, I don't have the time to express myself more clearly - just wanted to point out that what chip to use to keep track of time is completely besides the point)
"Hey man, stop that, it's going to kill us in a minute"
"Yes, but people have died before, it can't be helped, so it doesn't matter."
Are you serious? If what usually happens over the course of a few millennia happens in 50 years now due to us, making the world a much worse place to live in for us, then that is a BAD THING.
Security effects ALL of us.
ITYM the other way around - it's LACK of secure (safe) sex that effects all of us.
This seems to be mostly due to the fact that the Argentine government has decided to listen to everything the IMF tells them to do, and then do the exact opposite.
I think the biggest succes story of the ex-Eastern bloc countries in Europe is Slovenia (an ex-Yugoslav republic), and they did more or less the same thing (or so I heard). They didn't immediately privatise large State owned companies but waited until the right moment, etc.