How, exactly, would you post the lyrics to "The Call of Ktulu", anyway? Besides, "The Thing That Should Not Be" is pretty damn clearly based on the Cthulu mythos, anyway. And, it totally rocks.
A full grown Architeuthis weighs perhaps 700 pounds, while an adult sperm whale would weight in somewhere between 35-50 tons. I think, the occasional beak scar aside, the whales win. Every time.
1. OS x86 will *not* have a BIOS. 2. Running on Pentium means Palladium. I think that HAS to have been a major factor in choosing Intel, and I would imagine that it can be used, along with OpenFirmware, to lock beige boxes out.
Thanks, Slashdot -- I actually read that boatload of ignorant gibberish, and now I'm measurably dumber than I was before I clicked the link. Keep this up and I too will be making specious arguments about "RISC" and "CISC".
Python folks always seem to minimize the importance of [anonymous code blocks], but in practice it is very useful/powerful and it can lead to very natural looking DSLs in Ruby.
Oh, no question. It's the one thing that Ruby has that Python doesn't, and it's one that many developers (myself included) would love to have.
Python's classes support metaprogramming, although it lacks continuations and a non-useless lambda form.
As far as the OP's question, no, there's nothing at all in Python the language that'd prevent a similar project, although the implementation would be pretty different.
That's funny; not a single one of those things is a problem for me. I have never encountered a use for "Fullscreen Mode". I detest the disgusting rat's nest that is/etc (clean? simple? sphincter say what?). I don't find differences between the way that OS X operates and the way other platforms do to be an expression of arrogance as much as an expression of difference.
There ARE things that bug me about OS X (the Finder first among them), but on the whole, I think it is a far more amenable environment to function in than anything else I've used.
Turning everything into an object in a procedural language like Java would have a tremendous negative impact on performance, since currently there aren't practical optimizations to take care of that. Such a hypothetical language would be an immediate failure, even though it might look ellegant.
I said that the your overall point is correct, which it is. But talking about RISC and CISC in this context is less than meaningless. The "RISC" POWER architecture is slow and wide compared to, say, a MIPS or Alpha design, and the "CISC" x86 (in either Intel or AMD form) is just a compatibility wrapper around a *highly* regular "RISC" core.
The difference in speed between POWER derivatives and x86 is related far more to process engineering, memory bandwidth, and quality of compilers than to some out-dated and specious taxonomy coined back before OoOE was widespread and people were still impressed with SPARC.
While your larger point is correct -- that clockrate isn't much use in comparing across processor families -- your computer architecture lesson is laughably wrong.
I am the lucky holder of an EU (Irish) passport, and I am thinking very seriously about moving to Europe. What resources can anyone recommend to find work in the EU from the States? I check out Monster, but my feeling there is that it's much like US Monster (ie, worthlessly overrun with recruiting spam.)
Yeah, I think my Mac'd really be improved by not being able to print, run multi-user, or have a working TCP/IP stack. Be was never even close to technically polished enough to be a realistic replacement for Copland.
Moreover, the SIM-free (i.e. not tied to a particular provider) version of the Treo 600 is GBP525 ($966 at today's exchange rate) from PalmOne UK, while it's $349 from PalmOne US
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Too true. I even previewed that stupid post.
Verison is involved.
Everything Verisign does is a racket.
Therefore, it's a racket.
Q.E.D.
PINE blows. If you're going to use a client, use useful one.
Well, Plasmodium falciparum, to be pedantic.
Hell, it's smaller than a bull alligator.
How, exactly, would you post the lyrics to "The Call of Ktulu", anyway? Besides, "The Thing That Should Not Be" is pretty damn clearly based on the Cthulu mythos, anyway. And, it totally rocks.
A full grown Architeuthis weighs perhaps 700 pounds, while an adult sperm whale would weight in somewhere between 35-50 tons. I think, the occasional beak scar aside, the whales win. Every time.
Yeah, I saw that. I still stand by my statement that these machines will not have a BIOS, which is a development that I think we all can get behind.
1. OS x86 will *not* have a BIOS.
2. Running on Pentium means Palladium. I think that HAS to have been a major factor in choosing Intel, and I would imagine that it can be used, along with OpenFirmware, to lock beige boxes out.
Approximately 10 seconds after some bright spark ports the Quicktime framework to Linux. Which is to say, never.
Thanks, Slashdot -- I actually read that boatload of ignorant gibberish, and now I'm measurably dumber than I was before I clicked the link. Keep this up and I too will be making specious arguments about "RISC" and "CISC".
Python folks always seem to minimize the importance of [anonymous code blocks], but in practice it is very useful/powerful and it can lead to very natural looking DSLs in Ruby.
Oh, no question. It's the one thing that Ruby has that Python doesn't, and it's one that many developers (myself included) would love to have.
Python's classes support metaprogramming, although it lacks continuations and a non-useless lambda form.
As far as the OP's question, no, there's nothing at all in Python the language that'd prevent a similar project, although the implementation would be pretty different.
All I now need is the Postgres-R (replication) stuff to work out of the box (like it does for mysql).
Don't bother with Postgres-R -- use Slony. It works fantastically well.
That's funny; not a single one of those things is a problem for me. I have never encountered a use for "Fullscreen Mode". I detest the disgusting rat's nest that is /etc (clean? simple? sphincter say what?). I don't find differences between the way that OS X operates and the way other platforms do to be an expression of arrogance as much as an expression of difference.
There ARE things that bug me about OS X (the Finder first among them), but on the whole, I think it is a far more amenable environment to function in than anything else I've used.
You're a programmer and you don't know Emacs?
Ctrl-A/Ctrl-E
Turning everything into an object in a procedural language like Java would have a tremendous negative impact on performance, since currently there aren't practical optimizations to take care of that. Such a hypothetical language would be an immediate failure, even though it might look ellegant.
Funny, I seem to have heard of some real, practical languages where every variable is an object.
I said that the your overall point is correct, which it is. But talking about RISC and CISC in this context is less than meaningless. The "RISC" POWER architecture is slow and wide compared to, say, a MIPS or Alpha design, and the "CISC" x86 (in either Intel or AMD form) is just a compatibility wrapper around a *highly* regular "RISC" core.
The difference in speed between POWER derivatives and x86 is related far more to process engineering, memory bandwidth, and quality of compilers than to some out-dated and specious taxonomy coined back before OoOE was widespread and people were still impressed with SPARC.
While your larger point is correct -- that clockrate isn't much use in comparing across processor families -- your computer architecture lesson is laughably wrong.
"one advice"? In a post about grammar? Genius.
I think it's funny that it's a Windows monad, and not a windowless one.
I am the lucky holder of an EU (Irish) passport, and I am thinking very seriously about moving to Europe. What resources can anyone recommend to find work in the EU from the States? I check out Monster, but my feeling there is that it's much like US Monster (ie, worthlessly overrun with recruiting spam.)
Yeah, I think my Mac'd really be improved by not being able to print, run multi-user, or have a working TCP/IP stack. Be was never even close to technically polished enough to be a realistic replacement for Copland.
Moreover, the SIM-free (i.e. not tied to a particular provider) version of the Treo 600 is GBP525 ($966 at today's exchange rate) from PalmOne UK, while it's $349 from PalmOne US
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If only I were better capitalized
Which you can do in Perl, too, although the syntax is typically gross.