And why I would never *ever* like to read a few thousand lines of your code.
Why? That statement is beautifully concise and directly expresses exactly what the result should be. I'd pad it with a bit more whitespace to make the lexer's (ie, the human brain's) job a little easier, and switch to more reasonable variable names, though:
[ int(part.strip()) for part in str.strip().split(',') ]
How is that hard to read? Hell, I don't even know Python and I can read that. Take the string, remove newlines and split it on commas. Then, for each element, convert it to an int. That's so expressive it's bordering on declarative programming. I'd much prefer to read that then to walk through the, what, 10 or more lines of equivalent Java.
In the sense that the He-Man movie took the philosophical concepts of the cartoon, then turned around and criticized them by highlighting how unbelievable ridiculous they are?
Excuse me? If you're ever read the original Starship Troopers, it's blatantly clear that the film was really a parody of the book. The book depicts, with a completely straight face, a world in which the military is central, and service is the gateway to real citizenship. And Heinlein really *believed* this stuff!
Meanwhile, the movie takes the entire concept, turns it on it's head, and the result is a film that blatantly attacks the military industrial complex. How that's not a parody, I have no idea.
That will last far *far* longer than an incandescent, and will save you enough money to more than pay back the difference by the time it finally burns out.
Its not somebody elses job to prove something for you
Huh? The entire *point* of the post was to "prove" something, otherwise why would they make it?
Sorry, but if you're planning to make a written argument, and you choose to make a number of statements and claim them as fact, then I see nothing unreasonable about expecting you to provide citations for those statements. It's just good manners, and makes for a more compelling argument.
If society as a whole finds something so distasteful that they want to purge it completely, why is it illogical that they would pass laws forbidding
And to jump straight to Godwin, there was a time when Germany felt that way about the Jews. And I think we know how good an idea that was.
The lesson here: just because the majority think something should be outlawed, doesn't mean it should. This would be why we have a judicial system: to prevent the tyranny of the majority that you're willing to so tacitly accept.
If you're big enough, your SLA with the vendor says that they will fix the problems legally, practically, and quickly (and you've probably got the source in escrow, just in case).
Assuming, of course, they even still exist (which was the case in the GGP's post, if I'm not mistaken).
Yes... now you have a big, black box that has to be as big as the area you want icons in. Wow... that's so much more awesome.:)
IMHO, any change like this should at least make it possible to mirror the old way of doing things, in case people like it. Me, I like folders on my desktop... I can put handy things there within easy reach... heck, the whole desktop applet thing is really just an extension of that, and it seems pretty popular to me.
So the question for me is, why not have their cool icon area thinger, but make it possible to have it a) transparent, and b) occupy the whole desktop. Then you can use it as you see fit... emulate the old way (transparent, maximized, and possibly omnipresent), or fiddle around with novel configurations. Seems like an easy change that would make everyone happy.
Indeed... arbitrary lookahead in a parser is a godsend, and makes much more interesting grammars possible. Plus, the top-down parsing strategy makes it a *lot* easier to generate sensible error messages, since the parsing context is readily available.
I do not have Digital Cable. The reason is I don't want to use a Digital cable box to get cable because I have a MythTV PVR and the cable box would ruin that.
Uhh... why? I have a MythTV PVR, too. It has two tuners, each wired to a pair of digital cable boxes, doing analog capture, and controlled with IR blasters. Right now, this gets me SD capture of all channels I'm subscribed to.
As for HD, there are already inexpensive analog HD capture devices on the market, and it will only be a short time before Myth supports them.
People are, in my experience, much more likely to listen to you if you are attentive, respectful and not dismissive while arguing your point of view.
You're convolving an open mind (one willing to accept new ideas and facts) with a civil one. My mind is not open to Intelligent Design because it's a dressed up version of creationism, and as such has no explanatory or predictive power and is not a valid scientific theory. Will I be respectful in a debate with someone on the topic? Certainly. But I will happily reject their ideas out of hand because they are, frankly, ridiculous.
The analog cutoff is looming and I don't want to lose my recording ability.
I have two words for you: "analog hole". Now that cheap analog HD recorders have hit the market, it'll only be a short time before MythTV supports them, at which point there will be little they can do, unless they start removing component output from their decoder boxes.
1. Install windows 2. Toss in the CD's for any hardware that windows didn't accept on the fly (or download them from the manufacturers website).
You forgot a few steps, there.
3) Download and install AV product. 4) Download and install anti-spyware product. 5) Download and install Thunderbird (or other favorite, free email client). 6) Download and install OpenOffice. 7) Download and install The GIMP....
And the list goes on and on.
Unless, of course, your definition of "fully functional" is "barely useable".
I live in suburbia and my commute to Miami and back costs me $40 a day. Oil prices have doubled since I came to the U.S in 2002.
Yeah, that's a shame. On the bright side, maybe this will encourage you to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
Alternatively, you could just complain about oil prices and demand the government repeal the gas tax, but in the long term, people will eventually just have to adjust to the higher prices... oil is, after all, a nonrenewable resource, and there's only so much to go around.
Wow... that's a pretty crappy reason to act in a moral fashion. Frankly, I pity you... apparently you don't do the right thing because you believe in it... you do the right thing because you're afraid to do otherwise.
Why on earth would you keep your passport in your backpack, and not in a more secure location on your person?? No offense, but that really is the height of stupidity.
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And why I would never *ever* like to read a few thousand lines of your code.
Why? That statement is beautifully concise and directly expresses exactly what the result should be. I'd pad it with a bit more whitespace to make the lexer's (ie, the human brain's) job a little easier, and switch to more reasonable variable names, though:
[ int(part.strip()) for part in str.strip().split(',') ]
How is that hard to read? Hell, I don't even know Python and I can read that. Take the string, remove newlines and split it on commas. Then, for each element, convert it to an int. That's so expressive it's bordering on declarative programming. I'd much prefer to read that then to walk through the, what, 10 or more lines of equivalent Java.
Mayhap you just need glasses or something?
In the sense that the He-Man movie took the philosophical concepts of the cartoon, then turned around and criticized them by highlighting how unbelievable ridiculous they are?
:)
Do you even know what a parody is?
Excuse me? If you're ever read the original Starship Troopers, it's blatantly clear that the film was really a parody of the book. The book depicts, with a completely straight face, a world in which the military is central, and service is the gateway to real citizenship. And Heinlein really *believed* this stuff!
Meanwhile, the movie takes the entire concept, turns it on it's head, and the result is a film that blatantly attacks the military industrial complex. How that's not a parody, I have no idea.
That will last far *far* longer than an incandescent, and will save you enough money to more than pay back the difference by the time it finally burns out.
The number of sick bastards who get it off by torturing and who would pay good money to see it, is an order of magnitude smaller.
Huh, I guess BDSM is just a figment of my imagination, then...
Its not somebody elses job to prove something for you
Huh? The entire *point* of the post was to "prove" something, otherwise why would they make it?
Sorry, but if you're planning to make a written argument, and you choose to make a number of statements and claim them as fact, then I see nothing unreasonable about expecting you to provide citations for those statements. It's just good manners, and makes for a more compelling argument.
If society as a whole finds something so distasteful that they want to purge it completely, why is it illogical that they would pass laws forbidding
And to jump straight to Godwin, there was a time when Germany felt that way about the Jews. And I think we know how good an idea that was.
The lesson here: just because the majority think something should be outlawed, doesn't mean it should. This would be why we have a judicial system: to prevent the tyranny of the majority that you're willing to so tacitly accept.
At the time most X users still thought CDE was a pretty neat idea.
That's ironic, since some people *still* think it's a neat idea...
If you're big enough, your SLA with the vendor says that they will fix the problems legally, practically, and quickly (and you've probably got the source in escrow, just in case).
Assuming, of course, they even still exist (which was the case in the GGP's post, if I'm not mistaken).
Yes... now you have a big, black box that has to be as big as the area you want icons in. Wow... that's so much more awesome. :)
IMHO, any change like this should at least make it possible to mirror the old way of doing things, in case people like it. Me, I like folders on my desktop... I can put handy things there within easy reach... heck, the whole desktop applet thing is really just an extension of that, and it seems pretty popular to me.
So the question for me is, why not have their cool icon area thinger, but make it possible to have it a) transparent, and b) occupy the whole desktop. Then you can use it as you see fit... emulate the old way (transparent, maximized, and possibly omnipresent), or fiddle around with novel configurations. Seems like an easy change that would make everyone happy.
Indeed... arbitrary lookahead in a parser is a godsend, and makes much more interesting grammars possible. Plus, the top-down parsing strategy makes it a *lot* easier to generate sensible error messages, since the parsing context is readily available.
I do not have Digital Cable. The reason is I don't want to use a Digital cable box to get cable because I have a MythTV PVR and the cable box would ruin that.
Uhh... why? I have a MythTV PVR, too. It has two tuners, each wired to a pair of digital cable boxes, doing analog capture, and controlled with IR blasters. Right now, this gets me SD capture of all channels I'm subscribed to.
As for HD, there are already inexpensive analog HD capture devices on the market, and it will only be a short time before Myth supports them.
People are, in my experience, much more likely to listen to you if you are attentive, respectful and not dismissive while arguing your point of view.
You're convolving an open mind (one willing to accept new ideas and facts) with a civil one. My mind is not open to Intelligent Design because it's a dressed up version of creationism, and as such has no explanatory or predictive power and is not a valid scientific theory. Will I be respectful in a debate with someone on the topic? Certainly. But I will happily reject their ideas out of hand because they are, frankly, ridiculous.
Changing standards is an inherently destructive process.
Unless you control the DSTB population, in which case you can just distribute a new software load that includes a switched digital client.
Yet another reason why cable companies love DSTBs so much... it's a controlled platform that they can alter as needed.
The analog cutoff is looming and I don't want to lose my recording ability.
I have two words for you: "analog hole". Now that cheap analog HD recorders have hit the market, it'll only be a short time before MythTV supports them, at which point there will be little they can do, unless they start removing component output from their decoder boxes.
IMHO, an open mind should be, well, open.
That's right... just not so open that your brain falls out. Hence why I happily close my mind to, for example, the ramblings of ID proponents.
If the particles that create the light and x-rays are moving according to such electrical lens effects
Uhh... you mean the particles that are millions of lightyears away *behind* the cluster?
Do you even understand what gravitational lensing *is*?
Wait... don't bother. I think I already know the answer...
Yes. Your alternates are commuting, being unemployed, or being shot.
Let me introduce you to a new term. It's pronounced "false dichotomy".
1. Install windows 2. Toss in the CD's for any hardware that windows didn't accept on the fly (or download them from the manufacturers website).
...
You forgot a few steps, there.
3) Download and install AV product.
4) Download and install anti-spyware product.
5) Download and install Thunderbird (or other favorite, free email client).
6) Download and install OpenOffice.
7) Download and install The GIMP.
And the list goes on and on.
Unless, of course, your definition of "fully functional" is "barely useable".
I live in suburbia and my commute to Miami and back costs me $40 a day. Oil prices have doubled since I came to the U.S in 2002.
Yeah, that's a shame. On the bright side, maybe this will encourage you to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
Alternatively, you could just complain about oil prices and demand the government repeal the gas tax, but in the long term, people will eventually just have to adjust to the higher prices... oil is, after all, a nonrenewable resource, and there's only so much to go around.
That's why you use TrueCrypt hidden volumes. Even if they ask the key for the public volume, they'd never know the hidden volume was even there.
This is a very interesting point, actually... under which nations laws are the legality of the copyrighted materials determined?
NO final judgment for their actions.
Wow... that's a pretty crappy reason to act in a moral fashion. Frankly, I pity you... apparently you don't do the right thing because you believe in it... you do the right thing because you're afraid to do otherwise.
Why on earth would you keep your passport in your backpack, and not in a more secure location on your person?? No offense, but that really is the height of stupidity.
Which is worse? Having your personal freedom trampled or being blown up on a bus?
I have two words for you: false dichotomy.