Do this in a python shell to read the Zen of Python:
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 22 2005, 04:09:37) [GCC 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. Now is better than never. Although never is often better than *right* now. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea. Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
Google should publish more info about the context. Which languages were used by the champion? Is there a correlation between the language and position in the contest? Without these info, we are missing a great./ flamefest!
How was the country distribution? Which regions of the world had more people among the 100 best?
I have a solution for New Orleans problems. Make half the state vote for one party, and half vote for the other. They will become a swing state, get a lot of attention ($$$) from the politicians and everything will be OK!
Not all of the developers here speak english, but our culture is much more similar to the USA than the asian countries. Brazil and Argentina also have very good universities.
I really like to use knotes application from kde. Advantages: 1) You don't have to save 2) you can access it from the taskbar (it minimizes as an applet) 3) a lot of things for quickier finding: you can rename, change background color, put always on top
But you can't put images. For urls you can, as in any application, just select them and middle click on a browser window.
We should note that Yahoo news has implemented this features months ago. Just make a search and the orange xml button will appear in the results page. You can even use rss auto-discovery (the rss feed in describe in the html meta tags). If you are a bloglines user, you can click in their bookmarklet, and automagically subscribe to the feed.
If I understand well adsense program policies, you can use both. You just can't display both at the same time. See:
We do not permit Google ads or search boxes accessing Google search services to be published on web pages that also contain what could be considered competing ads or services.
They talk about "web pages", not "web sites". So you can randomly show Google or yahoo ads. It would give you a greater pool of advertisers, probably with greater chance of displaying a interesting ad that will convince your user to click.
The fraud is against the advertisers who pay Google to put their publicity in sites with good content. If the sites go to empty sites, they are still paying Google for nothing and loosing money. I know people who stopped to put ads in content sites due to lower return by investiment.
My rss feeds already publishes my newest/freshest pages. Why did they didn't just extended it with some aditional attributes/tags instead of forcing me to implement another xml format?
I started to buy CDs in 1992, now some of my oldest and favorite albums are already starting to fail. I can't rip some tracks any more.
Today I own more than 2.000 CDs, more than half of them are out of print. I'm starting to digitalize my collection, so I can have access to it later. My plan is:
Rip everything with cdparanoia and a plextor cd player.
Encode them as mp3 vbr and using lame extreme preset.
Correctly tag the tracks (there's a lot of typos in freedb, specially due to accents)
Backup the tracks in CDs
Lend the CDs to friends, so they also will backup them for me.
By Fidel's reasoning, and apparently yours, half of southern Florida is composed of nothing but traitors and assasins.
I've ever heard this story, but I don't know if is true: when the USA started to ease the way for Cuban imigrants, Castro grab the opportunity to send as politcal exile almost all his imprisioned people. All of Cuba thieves, burglars, and murders were send to the Land of Freedom.
Just a little tip: if you really want to see an inprovement, change juk for amarok. Nowadays its not just my favorite music player, but my favorite open source application.
In Linux I'm really liking Amarok for searching and playing and Easy tag to mass tagging. Newer versions of Amarok are really cool, they even download the CD covers from Amazon, fetch lyrics, and submit what your are hearing to audioscrobbler. I also use Grip with cdparanoia to scan tracks from CDs.
My only problem is with accented chars in id3 tags. It looks like the id3 lib doesn't like the utf8 enconding, and they look corrupted in a lot of places. Does anyone know how to convert a bunch of id3 flags from utf8 to iso-8859-1?
TD-Gammon was the best thing in OS/2. It was a neural network backed engine to play backgammon that disputes with the best players in the world. A research project at IBM that became a killer application (at least a killer time killer application). Read an article about TD-Gammon. Here is the paper of the theory behind it.
I didn't used OS/2 anymore, but dual booted it for years just to play this great game. It changed the way I play backgammon.
Slowness and lack of applications were OS/2 weakness, but this is surely something I really miss. Open source it, IBM!!!
IMO the best way to discover new music is with AudioScrobbler. You install a plugin in your favorite audio player and it records your musical habits. Beyond WinAmp, iTunes, and Windows Media Player, here are open source plugins for xmms, amarok and other linux players.
The pro of this system is that their recomendations are based in what you really hear. It won't count that bad albums you have in your hd but just heard once.
The problem is that it looks like they don't have a very smart algorithm for discovering music. I'm starting to build my musical profile and they just recommended me famous musicians. What is really fun is to browse your network of people with similar tastes.
I alson believe they are having some problems with their servers, since some features, like the group charts, aren't working.
I'm not affiliated with them, but it is a really cool system.
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Do this in a python shell to read the Zen of Python:
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 22 2005, 04:09:37)
[GCC 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
Here in my country the looser has to pay the attorney fees. This is really a crazy thing in American law.
Google should publish more info about the context. Which languages were used by the champion? Is there a correlation between the language and position in the contest? Without these info, we are missing a great ./ flamefest!
How was the country distribution? Which regions of the world had more people among the 100 best?
You could have been fusilladed.
And what about Kioto, that Clinton signed and Bush "unsigned"?
I have a solution for New Orleans problems. Make half the state vote for one party, and half vote for the other. They will become a swing state, get a lot of attention ($$$) from the politicians and everything will be OK!
Not all of the developers here speak english, but our culture is much more similar to the USA than the asian countries. Brazil and Argentina also have very good universities.
I really like to use knotes application from kde. Advantages:
1) You don't have to save
2) you can access it from the taskbar (it minimizes as an applet)
3) a lot of things for quickier finding: you can rename, change background color, put always on top
But you can't put images. For urls you can, as in any application, just select them and middle click on a browser window.
what about hard disks?
We should note that Yahoo news has implemented this features months ago. Just make a search and the orange xml button will appear in the results page. You can even use rss auto-discovery (the rss feed in describe in the html meta tags). If you are a bloglines user, you can click in their bookmarklet, and automagically subscribe to the feed.
because they pay per target click. If I'm paying, I don't want clicks from people that's not interested in my product.
We do not permit Google ads or search boxes accessing Google search services to be published on web pages that also contain what could be considered competing ads or services.
They talk about "web pages", not "web sites". So you can randomly show Google or yahoo ads. It would give you a greater pool of advertisers, probably with greater chance of displaying a interesting ad that will convince your user to click.
The fraud is against the advertisers who pay Google to put their publicity in sites with good content. If the sites go to empty sites, they are still paying Google for nothing and loosing money. I know people who stopped to put ads in content sites due to lower return by investiment.
Google Zeitgeist says that 3% of google access if from mac users. Maybe mac users are so smart that they don't need to search the web...
Silly me! Just found in their FAQ: you can use RSS/atom as your sitemap format!
My rss feeds already publishes my newest/freshest pages. Why did they didn't just extended it with some aditional attributes/tags instead of forcing me to implement another xml format?
I started to buy CDs in 1992, now some of my oldest and favorite albums are already starting to fail. I can't rip some tracks any more.
Today I own more than 2.000 CDs, more than half of them are out of print. I'm starting to digitalize my collection, so I can have access to it later. My plan is:
Due to the numpad, you also have the mouse nearer your left hand. You have to use more muscles moving your hand to get it at the right side.
I've ever heard this story, but I don't know if is true: when the USA started to ease the way for Cuban imigrants, Castro grab the opportunity to send as politcal exile almost all his imprisioned people. All of Cuba thieves, burglars, and murders were send to the Land of Freedom.
What are the options? I've never found a linux typing program that teaches accented letters.
Just a little tip: if you really want to see an inprovement, change juk for amarok. Nowadays its not just my favorite music player, but my favorite open source application.
My only problem is with accented chars in id3 tags. It looks like the id3 lib doesn't like the utf8 enconding, and they look corrupted in a lot of places. Does anyone know how to convert a bunch of id3 flags from utf8 to iso-8859-1?
I didn't used OS/2 anymore, but dual booted it for years just to play this great game. It changed the way I play backgammon.
Slowness and lack of applications were OS/2 weakness, but this is surely something I really miss. Open source it, IBM!!!
The pro of this system is that their recomendations are based in what you really hear. It won't count that bad albums you have in your hd but just heard once.
The problem is that it looks like they don't have a very smart algorithm for discovering music. I'm starting to build my musical profile and they just recommended me famous musicians. What is really fun is to browse your network of people with similar tastes.
I alson believe they are having some problems with their servers, since some features, like the group charts, aren't working.
I'm not affiliated with them, but it is a really cool system.
How does EAC compare with Linux tools like cdparanoia?