You should use it if you think it would make your life easier. Numpy/Scipy are both supposed to make doing matrix stuff faster (they are written in C) while providing a Python like syntax and the ability to use python for the more mundane parts of the program. If that doesn't look better to you than C and C++, you shouldn't change.
I guess the tool that you are used to can be better than the tool you don't know (this doesn't quite work for a hammer and a screwdriver, but dammit, programming languages and libraries aren't anywhere near that simple).
It might be easy to port over to 3.0, but not because it is using 2.6. Basically, they are planning on ripping out a big chunk of the internals of 2.6 and replacing it with a LLVM based system. To the extent that those internals changed for 3.0 (there wasn't necessarily effort put into making them compatible across 2.6 and 3.0...), the code would need to be updated for 3.0. The python level portability between 2.6 and 3.0 isn't a huge factor for something like this.
They are targeting 2.6 because that is what made sense for Google (who is paying for the work). Or so they say:
Do you think there should be any sort of laws whatsoever that attempt to prevent the (sexual) exploitation of children? You probably do, so it becomes a matter of where and how to draw the lines, not whether the lines should be drawn.
If you expect a society composed of humans to draw the lines perfectly and then to follow them perfectly and without controversy, we should have a conversation about this nice bridge that I own.
Corporate income taxes are stupid. Require disbursement and tax individuals.
Regulatory taxes are fine, but the body levying the tax should not plan on spending it in the future (planning on the money encourages profitable regulation rather than effective regulation).
The first page of Google results shows 6 Lake counties, and I know of at least 1 other (and would speculate that there are close to 49 Lake Counties in the U.S. alone (probably not one in Hawaii...)).
Non-profit (and not-for-profit) is a tax status, not a business model. In some businesses, the tax status allows the business to charge less than a similar fully-taxed business would, ostensibly saving the public money. In other situations, the operations are run at a monetary loss but supported by donations and so forth.
That not-profits are often supported by a few large contributors is incidental to the tax status.
To me it suggests that using all of the animal was more of a practical concern than it was about 'honor'. Note how I made sure to use the word honor in my comment.
Here's the rub: Are your searches more effective because you 'know how teh Google', or because you bother to think about them? If you treat Google as a magic internet box, it will be really frustrating when it doesn't give you what you want; if you realize that it is just a sophisticated computer system, you will be able to think about what you are searching for and about how to improve the results. So having an organized thought process and some modicum of intelligence are probably at least as important as 'knowing how to Google'.
As far as Biology vs Life skills, schools should go ahead and try to present students with some basic life skills, but there is lots of value in also presenting a wide swath of human knowledge, as many people end up finding out about things that they are interested in pursuing, and so on (and because some basic level of general knowledge is a life skill.).
The hyperbole is the trite part, and you just made it worse. Also, I think you are lying about being able to halt untold misery.
Anyway, you are assuming that he came up with the weaknesses independent of the contest; if he researched the weakness because he figured he could win the contest, he is responding to an incentive and the contest is helping Apple. Apple (and other vendors) would do well to notice that people will track done flaws in their products when given proper incentives.
Given that we don't know what his motives for finding the flaws are it isn't really worth having an opinion battle, but as long as it is possible that he researched the flaw specifically to win the contest, I really can't fault him for using the flaw to win the contest.
They call in help when they are going to use a few ounces of black powder.
I imagine that part of it is that they have an insurance company that demands it (insurance companies have a disturbing habit of actually planning for the future, accuracy is how they make money).
Wikipedia says that almost 5 billion pounds of ANFO are used as explosives each year, in North America alone. Surely much of that is being produced specifically for use as an explosive.
The violence wasn't gratuitous. It needed to be shocking in order to make it difficult to sympathize with the characters, and 'normal tv violence' sets that bar pretty high (the audience feeling conflicted about the characters is much of the point of the story, so making sure it happens is pretty important...).
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Psyco only runs on x86, this project will (ostensibly) run anywhere LLVM runs.
Here's your cookie:
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You should use it if you think it would make your life easier. Numpy/Scipy are both supposed to make doing matrix stuff faster (they are written in C) while providing a Python like syntax and the ability to use python for the more mundane parts of the program. If that doesn't look better to you than C and C++, you shouldn't change.
I guess the tool that you are used to can be better than the tool you don't know (this doesn't quite work for a hammer and a screwdriver, but dammit, programming languages and libraries aren't anywhere near that simple).
It might be easy to port over to 3.0, but not because it is using 2.6. Basically, they are planning on ripping out a big chunk of the internals of 2.6 and replacing it with a LLVM based system. To the extent that those internals changed for 3.0 (there wasn't necessarily effort put into making them compatible across 2.6 and 3.0...), the code would need to be updated for 3.0. The python level portability between 2.6 and 3.0 isn't a huge factor for something like this.
They are targeting 2.6 because that is what made sense for Google (who is paying for the work). Or so they say:
http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/FAQ
I bet it is kind of fun being that optimistic.
Do you think there should be any sort of laws whatsoever that attempt to prevent the (sexual) exploitation of children? You probably do, so it becomes a matter of where and how to draw the lines, not whether the lines should be drawn.
If you expect a society composed of humans to draw the lines perfectly and then to follow them perfectly and without controversy, we should have a conversation about this nice bridge that I own.
Corporate income taxes are stupid. Require disbursement and tax individuals.
Regulatory taxes are fine, but the body levying the tax should not plan on spending it in the future (planning on the money encourages profitable regulation rather than effective regulation).
The first page of Google results shows 6 Lake counties, and I know of at least 1 other (and would speculate that there are close to 49 Lake Counties in the U.S. alone (probably not one in Hawaii...)).
Just a mildly interesting aside.
Non-profit (and not-for-profit) is a tax status, not a business model. In some businesses, the tax status allows the business to charge less than a similar fully-taxed business would, ostensibly saving the public money. In other situations, the operations are run at a monetary loss but supported by donations and so forth.
That not-profits are often supported by a few large contributors is incidental to the tax status.
To me it suggests that using all of the animal was more of a practical concern than it was about 'honor'. Note how I made sure to use the word honor in my comment.
But that's just me, our opinions may vary.
That's a terrible story.
Here's the rub: Are your searches more effective because you 'know how teh Google', or because you bother to think about them? If you treat Google as a magic internet box, it will be really frustrating when it doesn't give you what you want; if you realize that it is just a sophisticated computer system, you will be able to think about what you are searching for and about how to improve the results. So having an organized thought process and some modicum of intelligence are probably at least as important as 'knowing how to Google'.
As far as Biology vs Life skills, schools should go ahead and try to present students with some basic life skills, but there is lots of value in also presenting a wide swath of human knowledge, as many people end up finding out about things that they are interested in pursuing, and so on (and because some basic level of general knowledge is a life skill.).
I tweet each plop.
Find a laptop. Take out the battery. Stare at it. Now imagine a battery that is ~500 times bigger.
The computers will affect the range, they won't affect the range enough to worry about.
When it is considerably more expensive than a car that will suffice for only 99% of trips for 99% of the driving public, it probably is.
Buffalo herds were occasionally honored right off of cliffs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump
http://contentdm.unl.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/trails&CISOPTR=834&CISOBOX=1&REC=3
As with any group of millions of people, I imagine attitudes varied.
The hyperbole is the trite part, and you just made it worse. Also, I think you are lying about being able to halt untold misery.
Anyway, you are assuming that he came up with the weaknesses independent of the contest; if he researched the weakness because he figured he could win the contest, he is responding to an incentive and the contest is helping Apple. Apple (and other vendors) would do well to notice that people will track done flaws in their products when given proper incentives.
Given that we don't know what his motives for finding the flaws are it isn't really worth having an opinion battle, but as long as it is possible that he researched the flaw specifically to win the contest, I really can't fault him for using the flaw to win the contest.
Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Millions of people are dying from undisclosed software vulnerabilities?
News to me...
I would be pretty surprised if they had not bought explosives grade (but who knows...).
They call in help when they are going to use a few ounces of black powder.
I imagine that part of it is that they have an insurance company that demands it (insurance companies have a disturbing habit of actually planning for the future, accuracy is how they make money).
Wikipedia says that almost 5 billion pounds of ANFO are used as explosives each year, in North America alone. Surely much of that is being produced specifically for use as an explosive.
The violence wasn't gratuitous. It needed to be shocking in order to make it difficult to sympathize with the characters, and 'normal tv violence' sets that bar pretty high (the audience feeling conflicted about the characters is much of the point of the story, so making sure it happens is pretty important...).
We get it, we get it, you really liked Dr. Manhattan.
I find your analogy false, and trite.