If you mean the fact it allows mixed tabs and spaces, warning can be issues by the -t command line flag for a long time now in 2.x...
But there is no standard. If I get somebody's else's python code, I don't what I'm looking at, unless I do a hex dump or something.
White space also causes problems with emailing code, or cutting and pasting code.
These, very serious, problems, have been around for a long time. Since 3.x is throwing away backward compatibility anyway, this would have been a golden opportunity to fix these, long standing, design flaws. For example, they could have disallowed tabs, and required four spaces. I think Guido himself recommends four spaces.
BTW: I think you know that I am not the only person who feels this way about python. It's a good language, in many respects. But, like many python users, I am frustrated by these design issues.
Many things were changed, that nobody wanted changed. Major problems, such as the white space issue are not fixed.
3.x gave the core developers an opportunity, a mile wide, to fix python's worst design flaws. But they ignored those flaws, and did what they wanted to do, which serves no purpose.
The core developers are designing a language for themselves, and nobody else.
The comedian was supposed to be a crime fighter. As I remember, in one scene he was fighting crime along with all the other heroes. All the other "heroes" came to his funeral. I thought Dr. M was supposed to be the leader, and the ultimate hero - a physicist who was transformed when working for the good of humanity, or something.
As Ebert pointed out, in his review, the movie was loaded with logical errors, like some of the watchmen were using powers that they weren't supposed to have.
That's the MS business model now. Why innovate, when you can litigate?
From groklaw.net:
NOKIA: Here's Why We Jumped Off The "Burning Platform" Into The Frigid North Sea Nokia’s history of innovation in the hardware space, global hardware scale, strong history of intellectual property creation and navigation assets are second to none....
There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them.
[PJ: Hmm. I wonder if there's a connection between those two sentences. This isn't about patents, by any chance...?]
> In fact, attacking a train would probably result in fewer casualties as attacking a train station (or an airport). If you detonate a bomb on a plane, chances are everyone on the plane will die. The same cannot be said for a regular train, not even a high speed one.
WTF? Blow up the tracks under a train going 200+ mph, and everybody will be nice and safe? Is that how it works?
I bought a new phone last November. At first, when my old contract was winding down, I was looking forward to getting an iphone. But after all the bad press, I decided to go with an android.
Apple may have sold millions of iPhone 4s. But, maybe, Apple could have sold millions more?
My understanding is that anything you put in GPL code becomes GPL. And GPL differs from BSD in that, BSD can taken and used in a closed source application.
They have a virtual monopoly on the MP3 player market.
1) No they don't. 2) Lot's of computer companies have had "virtual monopolies" in the past: wordperfect, ashton tate, lotus, netscape, and novell; to name a few. Where are they now?
Smartphone makers are fighting to the death for the scraps the iPhone leaves behind
Hardly. Adroid sales are roughly equal to iPhone sales.
Just the Apple name is good enough to sell anything
Dead wrong. Apple has had lot's of failures in their history.
Even desktop computing is swinging Apple's way with more people moving to Macs.
Who are you kidding? Windows absolutely dominates desktop computing, and will do so for the foreseeable future.
As I understand it, for the 3D effect to really work, you have to be just the right distance from the screen, and you have to viewing the screen from just the right angle. 3D effect will work for viewers in the center of the theater, not so much for everybody else.
The slashdot story comes from this article in Forbes. As expected, the forbes article is just another cookie-cutter pro-H1B propaganda article. Same old "arguments." Basically, they are saying "because of the desperate shortages of US tech workers, we need to temporarily allow more H1Bs, just until US schools get up to speed."
This corporate propaganda has been fully disproved many times, but the flood of these cookie-cutter articles, continues. Tell a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth.
From Forbes:
Jan 20, 2011 Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation
* Improve K-12 science and math education. * Invest in long-term basic research. * Attract and retain the best and brightest students, scientists and engineers in the U.S. and around the world. * Create and sustain incentives for innovation and research investment.
01.22.11 It’s SCO Tactics All Over Again: Microsoft Florian Caught Lying
ANOTHER week, another attack on GNU/Linux, courtesy of course of Microsoft Florian, who is trying to be another Enderle/O’Gara (attacking Android like these people attack Linux). Those big lies and unbacked allegations carry on flying, such as the claims he made for TurboHercules (that’s how he started the anti-Linux lobbying a year ago) before it turned out that TurboHercules is partly owned by Microsoft. For the uninitiated, Microsoft Florian’s strategy involves flooding forums with repeated messages (he denied comments in his blog after people had exposed him right there in his own platform) and he is mass-mailing journalists with bits he wants inserted into articles, attributed to him of course. Journalists will need learn to ignore mobbyists (Florian personalises his messages slightly, so they can’t see it’s mass-mailed), especially ones who do not deny a connection to Microsoft and have a proven history of being paid to lobby. Microsoft Florian himself would not deny this. He is an experienced lobbyist and his shameless tactics (like abusing mail and schmoozing journalists) are well documented in Techright.
In other words, google provides you with a plethora of services for free, google has done you no harm what-so-ever. Yet you buy into the Microsoft alarmist smear campaign.
Exactly how has google "invaded your privacy" or anybody's privacy?
I see all kinds of posts screaming, and crying, about having their privacy invaded by google. I am bewildered. What has actually happened to these people? Are they just parroting the Microsoft propanganda, or has google really hurt these people?
If you are complaining about google invading your privacy, then please tell us, anonymously if you like, exactly how google hurt you personally. Don't just echo the anti-google slogans, tell us exactly how google hurt you.
Is it really that hard to understand? Prison is a deterrent. If illegals knew they were facing prison sentences, they would be less likely to come here in the first place. Especially when they have no realistic chance of getting a job, or getting social services.
By your reasoning, nobody should be put in prison.
Who is going to pay and organize that massive administrative burden?
The same people pay and organize every other admin burden. My solution is very cost effective.
You can't resolve social issues with your brain dead pseudo solutions.
You can't make your case with nothing but ad hominem attacks.
The issue at hand is economical disparity: USians can pay cheap labour with their pocket change, and neither party really wants to abandon such fruitful economic interchange. It is only right wing posturing from people that actually don't appreciate the realities of economical interchange in the border that get infuriated about illegal immigration.
As long as this economic disparity is the prevailing situation, Mexicans and others will continue to risk their lives to try to improve themselves.
Right, so we deny illegals the opportunity to easily do that.
People are already dying in the crossing to the US, people already know that attempting to acquire the devalued US dream can be fatal, if you think your "solutions" will deter people with such determination I think your grasp of reality has been distorted by your cushioned existence.
Then please explain how illegals are going to live in the US when it's virtually impossible for them to work, or get social services?
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If you mean the fact it allows mixed tabs and spaces, warning can be issues by the -t command line flag for a long time now in 2.x...
But there is no standard. If I get somebody's else's python code, I don't what I'm looking at, unless I do a hex dump or something.
White space also causes problems with emailing code, or cutting and pasting code.
These, very serious, problems, have been around for a long time. Since 3.x is throwing away backward compatibility anyway, this would have been a golden opportunity to fix these, long standing, design flaws. For example, they could have disallowed tabs, and required four spaces. I think Guido himself recommends four spaces.
BTW: I think you know that I am not the only person who feels this way about python. It's a good language, in many respects. But, like many python users, I am frustrated by these design issues.
I posted my honest opinion. That is not trolling. Unlike you, I did not have a hysterical hissy-fit.
IMO: 3.x is a stupid "upgrade. "
Many things were changed, that nobody wanted changed. Major problems, such as the white space issue are not fixed.
3.x gave the core developers an opportunity, a mile wide, to fix python's worst design flaws. But they ignored those flaws, and did what they wanted to do, which serves no purpose.
The core developers are designing a language for themselves, and nobody else.
The comedian was supposed to be a crime fighter. As I remember, in one scene he was fighting crime along with all the other heroes. All the other "heroes" came to his funeral. I thought Dr. M was supposed to be the leader, and the ultimate hero - a physicist who was transformed when working for the good of humanity, or something.
As Ebert pointed out, in his review, the movie was loaded with logical errors, like some of the watchmen were using powers that they weren't supposed to have.
That's the MS business model now. Why innovate, when you can litigate?
From groklaw.net:
NOKIA: Here's Why We Jumped Off The "Burning Platform" Into The Frigid North Sea
Nokia’s history of innovation in the hardware space, global hardware scale, strong history of intellectual property creation and navigation assets are second to none....
There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them.
[PJ: Hmm. I wonder if there's a connection between those two sentences. This isn't about patents, by any chance...?]
> In fact, attacking a train would probably result in fewer casualties as attacking a train station (or an airport). If you detonate a bomb on a plane, chances are everyone on the plane will die. The same cannot be said for a regular train, not even a high speed one.
WTF? Blow up the tracks under a train going 200+ mph, and everybody will be nice and safe? Is that how it works?
> High Speed Rail would have the EXACT same security measures as airplanes,
>> Simply incorrect. Try visiting a country with high speed rail sometime.
Those countries are not the USA. Nobody flew 747s into the building of Tokyo either. Mid-east terrorists hate the USA.
I bought a new phone last November. At first, when my old contract was winding down, I was looking forward to getting an iphone. But after all the bad press, I decided to go with an android.
Apple may have sold millions of iPhone 4s. But, maybe, Apple could have sold millions more?
I guess everybody completely missed my point.
I was responding to the comment "When was the last time that anyone made money by betting against Steve Jobs?"
The NeXT may have been neato and all that, but as I remember, NeXT investors took a financial beating.
My understanding is that anything you put in GPL code becomes GPL. And GPL differs from BSD in that, BSD can taken and used in a closed source application.
02.06.11
The UNIX Battle Moves to Former SCO Executives (Who Own unXis Domains)
Summary: SCO gets more money for anti-Linux litigation, thanks to an alleged purchase from an entity tied to former SCO managers
http://techrights.org/2011/02/06/hans-bayer-unxis-payola/
In the post scox-scam era, licensing is such a BFD. I have to wonder if there will any complications over conflicts between BSD and GPL licensing.
Yeah, the NeXT was a huge success, wasn't it?
They have a virtual monopoly on the MP3 player market.
1) No they don't.
2) Lot's of computer companies have had "virtual monopolies" in the past: wordperfect, ashton tate, lotus, netscape, and novell; to name a few. Where are they now?
Smartphone makers are fighting to the death for the scraps the iPhone leaves behind
Hardly. Adroid sales are roughly equal to iPhone sales.
Just the Apple name is good enough to sell anything
Dead wrong. Apple has had lot's of failures in their history.
Even desktop computing is swinging Apple's way with more people moving to Macs.
Who are you kidding? Windows absolutely dominates desktop computing, and will do so for the foreseeable future.
Google offers everything you mention, and more.
As I understand it, for the 3D effect to really work, you have to be just the right distance from the screen, and you have to viewing the screen from just the right angle. 3D effect will work for viewers in the center of the theater, not so much for everybody else.
The slashdot story comes from this article in Forbes. As expected, the forbes article is just another cookie-cutter pro-H1B propaganda article. Same old "arguments." Basically, they are saying "because of the desperate shortages of US tech workers, we need to temporarily allow more H1Bs, just until US schools get up to speed."
This corporate propaganda has been fully disproved many times, but the flood of these cookie-cutter articles, continues. Tell a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth.
From Forbes:
Jan 20, 2011
Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation
* Improve K-12 science and math education.
* Invest in long-term basic research.
* Attract and retain the best and brightest students, scientists and engineers in the U.S. and around the world.
* Create and sustain incentives for innovation and research investment.
http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/01/20/danger-america-is-losing-its-edge-in-innovation/
Here is the real situation:
Duke University study reporting no shortage of US Engineers:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Study-There-Is-No-Shortage-of-US-Engineers/
PISA Scores Show Demography Is Destiny In Education Too—But Washington Doesn’t Want You To Know
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/101219_pisa.htm
01.22.11
It’s SCO Tactics All Over Again: Microsoft Florian Caught Lying
ANOTHER week, another attack on GNU/Linux, courtesy of course of Microsoft Florian, who is trying to be another Enderle/O’Gara (attacking Android like these people attack Linux). Those big lies and unbacked allegations carry on flying, such as the claims he made for TurboHercules (that’s how he started the anti-Linux lobbying a year ago) before it turned out that TurboHercules is partly owned by Microsoft. For the uninitiated, Microsoft Florian’s strategy involves flooding forums with repeated messages (he denied comments in his blog after people had exposed him right there in his own platform) and he is mass-mailing journalists with bits he wants inserted into articles, attributed to him of course. Journalists will need learn to ignore mobbyists (Florian personalises his messages slightly, so they can’t see it’s mass-mailed), especially ones who do not deny a connection to Microsoft and have a proven history of being paid to lobby. Microsoft Florian himself would not deny this. He is an experienced lobbyist and his shameless tactics (like abusing mail and schmoozing journalists) are well documented in Techright.
http://techrights.org/2011/01/22/boosting-vista-phony-7-with-lies/
In other words, google provides you with a plethora of services for free, google has done you no harm what-so-ever. Yet you buy into the Microsoft alarmist smear campaign.
Exactly how has google "invaded your privacy" or anybody's privacy?
Ever hear a young child make up a story? Notice the way they just kind or ramble and make stuff up as they go along?
To me it's cute when child does it. But, I don't understand why anybody is interested in JJ Abrams incoherent, ad-hoc, story telling.
I really want to know.
I see all kinds of posts screaming, and crying, about having their privacy invaded by google. I am bewildered. What has actually happened to these people? Are they just parroting the Microsoft propanganda, or has google really hurt these people?
If you are complaining about google invading your privacy, then please tell us, anonymously if you like, exactly how google hurt you personally. Don't just echo the anti-google slogans, tell us exactly how google hurt you.
Bill Gate's "philanthropy" may not be as altruistic as you seem to think.
http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critique
Actually, the more tasty, the less likely to be wiped out by humans. Cows, and pigs, are not considered endangered.
Is it really that hard to understand? Prison is a deterrent. If illegals knew they were facing prison sentences, they would be less likely to come here in the first place. Especially when they have no realistic chance of getting a job, or getting social services.
By your reasoning, nobody should be put in prison.
Who is going to pay and organize that massive administrative burden?
The same people pay and organize every other admin burden. My solution is very cost effective.
You can't resolve social issues with your brain dead pseudo solutions.
You can't make your case with nothing but ad hominem attacks.
The issue at hand is economical disparity: USians can pay cheap labour with their pocket change, and neither party really wants to abandon such fruitful economic interchange. It is only right wing posturing from people that actually don't appreciate the realities of economical interchange in the border that get infuriated about illegal immigration.
As long as this economic disparity is the prevailing situation, Mexicans and others will continue to risk their lives to try to improve themselves.
Right, so we deny illegals the opportunity to easily do that.
People are already dying in the crossing to the US, people already know that attempting to acquire the devalued US dream can be fatal, if you think your "solutions" will deter people with such determination I think your grasp of reality has been distorted by your cushioned existence.
Then please explain how illegals are going to live in the US when it's virtually impossible for them to work, or get social services?