Python's dynamic object orientation allows it to be used for a wide range of rapid development in many fields. I use it for scientific programming. While it does not have as many libraries as matlab or R, it is great because I can call R routines from python plus does things like threading and complex file manipulation, that the others do poorly.
Python is not bad numerically, you just have to be clear about what objects you are using when. If you don't want 5/2=2, then use 5./2.
I like Firefox mobile on my n900. It works pretty well, gives me features not available in the default browser. I have not had memory leak problems with it. However, it does get sluggish if you turn on flash and visit pages with a bunch of flash ads. I should put adblock on it...
I have used open street map, and I was impressed with how much data they did have. I'm guessing that in the not too distant future, it will become the standard for geographic information as people add to it, much like Wikipedia has become a standard encyclopedia from people's contributions.
but credit cards have far more protections than debit cards and are used in an identical manner (well, except for signature vs pin)
The "except" is a big difference. The debit card pin is fundamental. You can charge a credit card with any old scrawl that is never verified by anyone. A debit card pin number is verified electronically, never known to anyone except you and the card issuer. No one holds my debit card except me, making it more challenging to get the number on my card (hardly the pin). I never use my debit card over the internet.
This is why debit card fraud happens less frequently than credit card fraud. It is why retailers typically get charged about $0.25 + 2% for every credit card transaction, but only $0.15 for every debit card transaction. Note that retailers don't just eat these fees, costs get passed along to the consumer. When you use a credit card, you increase costs for everyone.
I'm getting tired of all these stupid "Flash on iphone" articles. For ****'s sake people, if you want flash on your cell phone, buy a phone that supports flash. Buy a phone where you can install anything you like. Why is this so hard?
Someone recently was using my credit card to make purchases online. When I went to the companies to tell them that I had not made the purchases, it turns out that the imposter used the wrong home address or telephone number in all cases. Bank of America was letting people make charges to my card even with the wrong address and phone number. Grrrr.
but if it's as open as I've heard, talking about "the" email client doesn't make a great deal of sense
You are correct. You can compile your own email client for it if you want to. You can slap an email client written in python on it and run it.
The N900 does not support... a USB to Network adapter.
But it does support USB networking, through which I can do anything, including ssh in or out. And it runs X, so I can display and use any application running on any other computer.
That's it? That's a system? Using the last modified date on a file? That may work for a make system, but for a supposed database of installed files, it falls short. How do I know those files were not modified for some other reason other than the install?
And thank goodness, I say. One of the little disappointments of my little N900 is that it uses debian packaging system, and I can't even tell what date which packages were installed.
1kB was never defined as 1024 bytes. People just started calling 1024 bytes as 1kB because it was close enough, and on one cared about being 2.4% off. Unfortunately as everytime we leap another 10^3 we're off by another 2.4%, and by the time we get to 10^12 we're off by 10%.
Dermatologists and radiologists are near the top of the pay scale... pediatrics are at the bottom of the pay scale, making on average about 165,000 a year. Which is nothing to sneeze at, but hardly millionaire status
The bottom is 4 times the median salary in this country! And it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that it only takes 6 years to earn 1 million dollars at that rate. Even if you spend twice as much money as the average joe, you can still be a millionaire in 12 years.
4 years of medical school, followed 5 years of surgery residency, and an additional...
Blah blah blah. I'm sick of hearing this, oh I spent so much time training I deserve all this money crap. I spent 6 years in grad school getting paid even less, and 3 years doing a fellowship too, but I'm not making as much as the most lowly paid MD. Why? Because a cartel does not control how many people get PhDs.
Then again, ask the parents of the kid who had a life threatening brain tumor removed if they feel differently.
Think of the children! What I'm going to do is ask the families what they think of being forced into poverty by having to pay for such an operation, when they could have paid much less if there had been more doctors trained to do such procedures.
There is much criticism of insurance companies. But the fact is that they are just providing a service to people. People don't have to buy that service, but they do. Why? Because doctors and health care is so freaking expensive! Insurance companies have worked to reduce this expense. A hospital charged my insurance company $1500. The insurance company paid them $600 and the hospital took it. Whoa! If had not had insurance I would have had to pay $1500! And people say insurance companies are the problem? I don't think so.
Then why have doctor costs risen so much in the last 30 years? (No, it's not all malpractice insurance. No, it's not all insurance companies). Why do I always sit for an hour in the doctor's waiting room? Why are 1/2 of doctors in the US millionaires?
I am a medical student, by the way.
I guessed that before I read your whole post.
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And what part of your comment contradicts mine? The number of physicians in the US is controlled, and kept artificially low. That was the point of my post. You said nothing to contradict that.
Where did you get that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system says 2.5 per 1000. UK has more doctors per capita than US. France has 3.4 per 1000. Sweden 3.6. The reality is greater supply leads to lower prices of anything period.
Also liability would be much less of a problem if doctors in the US made less money. #1 rule of lawsuits: Only sue people who have money. Half of all doctors in the US are millionaires.
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Nothing will improve in health care in the US until we have more doctors. Prices are high because demand is high and supply is low. Unfortunately the AMA carefully controls how many new MDs are granted every year, and purposely keep the number low to keep their salaries high. Requiring people to buy health insurance will only make our problems worse. It will drive up prices higher. Until the MD cartel is broken, health care will be a big mess.
You need browser add-ons to correctly run your "critical" applications? You need different applications. One of the largest points of moving business applications to web interfaces is that the interface is standardized. That is, your web apps should run in IE, Firefox, Opera, etc. etc., because all these apps follow the same published standards. (BTW "Microsoft" is not a standard.) If an app does not follow these standards, you don't buy it, and that is what saves you headache down the road.
For goodness sake, who gives a crap about the stupid iphone? I remember when slashdot was a site that made fun of people who bought crap like iphones and then whined about it. Now it's a bunch of whiners. If you want a really great phone that you can hack on and a company who actually likes you for it, get an n900. I love mine (and I am in no way affiliated w/ Nokia).
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I was not bothered at all because I do not use Microsoft products and have not for 14 years.
Python's dynamic object orientation allows it to be used for a wide range of rapid development in many fields.
I use it for scientific programming. While it does not have as many libraries as matlab or R, it is great because I can call R routines from python plus does things like threading and complex file manipulation, that the others do poorly.
Python is not bad numerically, you just have to be clear about what objects you are using when. If you don't want 5/2=2, then use 5./2.
I like Firefox mobile on my n900. It works pretty well, gives me features not available in the default browser. I have not had memory leak problems with it. However, it does get sluggish if you turn on flash and visit pages with a bunch of flash ads. I should put adblock on it...
On which fedora is this based?
I have used open street map, and I was impressed with how much data they did have. I'm guessing that in the not too distant future, it will become the standard for geographic information as people add to it, much like Wikipedia has become a standard encyclopedia from people's contributions.
but credit cards have far more protections than debit cards and are used in an identical manner (well, except for signature vs pin)
The "except" is a big difference. The debit card pin is fundamental. You can charge a credit card with any old scrawl that is never verified by anyone. A debit card pin number is verified electronically, never known to anyone except you and the card issuer. No one holds my debit card except me, making it more challenging to get the number on my card (hardly the pin). I never use my debit card over the internet.
This is why debit card fraud happens less frequently than credit card fraud. It is why retailers typically get charged about $0.25 + 2% for every credit card transaction, but only $0.15 for every debit card transaction. Note that retailers don't just eat these fees, costs get passed along to the consumer. When you use a credit card, you increase costs for everyone.
I'm getting tired of all these stupid "Flash on iphone" articles. For ****'s sake people, if you want flash on your cell phone, buy a phone that supports flash. Buy a phone where you can install anything you like. Why is this so hard?
Someone recently was using my credit card to make purchases online. When I went to the companies to tell them that I had not made the purchases, it turns out that the imposter used the wrong home address or telephone number in all cases. Bank of America was letting people make charges to my card even with the wrong address and phone number. Grrrr.
but if it's as open as I've heard, talking about "the" email client doesn't make a great deal of sense
You are correct. You can compile your own email client for it if you want to. You can slap an email client written in python on it and run it.
The N900 does not support ... a USB to Network adapter.
But it does support USB networking, through which I can do anything, including ssh in or out. And it runs X, so I can display and use any application running on any other computer.
That's it? That's a system? Using the last modified date on a file? That may work for a make system, but for a supposed database of installed files, it falls short. How do I know those files were not modified for some other reason other than the install?
And thank goodness, I say. One of the little disappointments of my little N900 is that it uses debian packaging system, and I can't even tell what date which packages were installed.
1kB was never defined as 1024 bytes. People just started calling 1024 bytes as 1kB because it was close enough, and on one cared about being 2.4% off. Unfortunately as everytime we leap another 10^3 we're off by another 2.4%, and by the time we get to 10^12 we're off by 10%.
1975 was 35 years ago.
And so the supply of doctors is no longer being kept artificially low? No. You still have not addressed this point. Doctors organizations do tightly control the number doctors in the US. More:
http://reason.com/archives/2009/08/27/the-evil-mongering-of-the-amer
Please, find me a citation saying 1/2 of all us docs are millionaires
Here's one: http://mediwire.skyscape.com/main/Default.aspx?P=Content&ArticleID=165292
Your can look around for yourself.
Dermatologists and radiologists are near the top of the pay scale ... pediatrics are at the bottom of the pay scale, making on average about 165,000 a year. Which is nothing to sneeze at, but hardly millionaire status
The bottom is 4 times the median salary in this country! And it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that it only takes 6 years to earn 1 million dollars at that rate. Even if you spend twice as much money as the average joe, you can still be a millionaire in 12 years.
4 years of medical school, followed 5 years of surgery residency, and an additional...
Blah blah blah. I'm sick of hearing this, oh I spent so much time training I deserve all this money crap. I spent 6 years in grad school getting paid even less, and 3 years doing a fellowship too, but I'm not making as much as the most lowly paid MD. Why? Because a cartel does not control how many people get PhDs.
Then again, ask the parents of the kid who had a life threatening brain tumor removed if they feel differently.
Think of the children! What I'm going to do is ask the families what they think of being forced into poverty by having to pay for such an operation, when they could have paid much less if there had been more doctors trained to do such procedures.
There is much criticism of insurance companies. But the fact is that they are just providing a service to people. People don't have to buy that service, but they do. Why? Because doctors and health care is so freaking expensive!
Insurance companies have worked to reduce this expense. A hospital charged my insurance company $1500. The insurance company paid them $600 and the hospital took it. Whoa! If had not had insurance I would have had to pay $1500! And people say insurance companies are the problem? I don't think so.
Many would disagree with you, including the worlds' most famous economists.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association#Criticisms
There is no artificial supply shortage.
Then why have doctor costs risen so much in the last 30 years? (No, it's not all malpractice insurance. No, it's not all insurance companies).
Why do I always sit for an hour in the doctor's waiting room?
Why are 1/2 of doctors in the US millionaires?
I am a medical student, by the way.
I guessed that before I read your whole post.
And what part of your comment contradicts mine?
The number of physicians in the US is controlled, and kept artificially low. That was the point of my post. You said nothing to contradict that.
In the UK we have 1.5 doctors per 1,000 people,
Where did you get that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system says 2.5 per 1000. UK has more doctors per capita than US. France has 3.4 per 1000. Sweden 3.6. The reality is greater supply leads to lower prices of anything period.
Also liability would be much less of a problem if doctors in the US made less money. #1 rule of lawsuits: Only sue people who have money. Half of all doctors in the US are millionaires.
Nothing will improve in health care in the US until we have more doctors. Prices are high because demand is high and supply is low. Unfortunately the AMA carefully controls how many new MDs are granted every year, and purposely keep the number low to keep their salaries high.
Requiring people to buy health insurance will only make our problems worse. It will drive up prices higher. Until the MD cartel is broken, health care will be a big mess.
Own your own fiber.
No, one of the largest points of moving business applications to the web is that the data and application are centralized,
No, that is THE largest point. The one I mentioned was "ONE of the largest points." I understand web apps very well, thanks.
When Windows had a web browser in every install than putting you app on a web site made a whole lot of sense if it was already client server based.
You have a very MS view of the world. Server based apps made sense well before MS finally got around to making a working browser.
No more upgrading client software to change a display bug, just fix it on the server, INSTANTLY upgrades all the clients.
Exactly! ALL the clients, including Firefox, Opera, etc. etc, because you fix the app in a fashion that follows web interface standards.
Browser add-ons routinely break
You need browser add-ons to correctly run your "critical" applications? You need different applications. One of the largest points of moving business applications to web interfaces is that the interface is standardized. That is, your web apps should run in IE, Firefox, Opera, etc. etc., because all these apps follow the same published standards. (BTW "Microsoft" is not a standard.) If an app does not follow these standards, you don't buy it, and that is what saves you headache down the road.
Just don't use MS Windows.
You just call "go func()" and a new process is spawned.
like sh?
I wish I could mod you funny.
For goodness sake, who gives a crap about the stupid iphone? I remember when slashdot was a site that made fun of people who bought crap like iphones and then whined about it. Now it's a bunch of whiners.
If you want a really great phone that you can hack on and a company who actually likes you for it, get an n900. I love mine (and I am in no way affiliated w/ Nokia).