it is not possible to count python 3000 in amongst those languages with extraordinary power, because the developers - primarily guido - believe that the functional-language-based primitives (map, lambda, reduce, filter) are "unnecessary".
1) Those capabilities will still exist in the base language, just with different syntax.
2) If you want the old syntax, it will be available in a standard library.
Save your hysteria for something genuinely catastrophic, like the loss of the print statement.
Folding@Home is useful and brings actual results - you'll get a chance to throw your own pack of frozen pea against Africa's hunger, instead throwing it into wastebasket of "well, it seemed as a way to go then".
The gap between Folding@Home and anything that addresses "Africa's hunger" is at least as speculative as anything in climatology, and not that much less than SETI.
I believe that the reference to Superman 3 is actually a meta-reference to Office Space. (Or maybe the reference being referenced is the meta-reference -- I'm not a philosopher.) As Office Space itself noted, the method long precedes either movie.
With past color-calibration targets, Britt and his team -- which has included a University of Florida professor and UCF students -- have helped scientists learn more about Mars' surface, which Britt says is actually yellowish-brown and not red.
It's as close as you can get to reconstructing the real color from a series of monochrome images taken with different color filters.
Thanks! That's precisely what I'd meant by "an accurate reconstruction of what a human eye would see".
That Mars is pretty much reddish all over, with some white at the poles, can be easily verified from Earth with a telescope.
Even without a telescope you can look up and see that the thing is red. But a) even that was disputed here last time and b) that aside, it seems like the color seen from Earth isn't the same as that seen from the surface. IIRC, before the Viking mission the Mars sky was expected to be blue from the surface.
I asked this on the last story and got no responses so I'll try again...
This issue was discussed in a series of posts on the last Mars mission, that left me more confused than I was before: is the red color in these photos and the other Phoenix images the real color of the Mars surface (or at least an accurate reconstruction of what a human eye would see with ambient light there) or is it something NASA arbitrarily adds to impress viewers with notions about "the red planet"? Previous discussion focused more on whether the people complaining were or were not NASA-denialist kooks than on whether they were factually correct.
I understood his question differently than most of you did: I thought he was asking about a platform for the device he plans to build, not just a personal development platform.
If the latter is correct, I'd suggest whatever distro his friends or coworkers can best help get started with (Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, whatever) and not worry about Mono-specific wrinkles.
That's an interesting link but it doesn't sound like the minimalist setup he wants.
Doing it himself seems like the best bet. Certainly if he's planning to develop a commercial product based on this, it's worth figuring out a custom distro that does exactly what he wants.
This issue was discussed in a series of posts on the last Mars mission, that left me more confused than I was before: is the red color in the photo on the main page the real color of the Mars surface (or at least an accurate reconstruction of what a human eye would see with ambient light there) or is it something NASA arbitrarily adds to impress viewers with notions about "the red planet"?
I saw that Ontario is passing (or passed, maybe) new hate crime legislation that's limited to offenses against a "vulnerable minority". If the law is going to be applied selectively to defend only groups the prosecutors care about, it seems preferable to just state it up front like they're doing.
i find it highly unlikely that s&p would make mistakes, independently, that would cause it to give the same junk paper the same AAA rating that moody's gave.
I don't think anyone is claiming that. The question is why their supposedly "correct" ratings were as hare-brained as Moody's erroneous ones.
Although TFA is somewhat vague on the point, it seems the problem is not quite that trivial.
No, the problem is as trivial as he said; it's just that the original plan seems to have been much more grandiose. Come to think of it, if they *had* gotten the funding to send a DVD to every school in the country, wouldn't we be getting a story long the lines of "Congress Doesn't Know Internet Exists!!!", with pages of moronic comments about "tubes"?
I don't get the GGP's complaint about Ars Technica, though. It's not the article's fault that it's not mostly about the one sentence the editor fixated on.
The Ars Technica article does explain it; Congress funded development of the game but not its distribution. Apparently some sort of computer "inter-network" will be required for schools to obtain it, as if such a thing could ever be!
That's also what's holding back Duke Nukem Forever, I suppose.
Note that this doesn't mean that Greenpeace doesn't use misleading information, which while not useless is detrimental.
If I'm understanding correctly, you're berating him and accusing him of trolling because repeated, willful dishonesty isn't "useless" as it gets media attention for Greenpeace?
Until you're a hollowed out shell of a human who hates life and chainsmokes through rotten teeth in a stained suit at a barbecued chicken place, slamming back beer and shochu until you've worked up enough of a drunk to stumble back to your home and crash...
I don't know which is scarier: that you're right or that my mouth is watering thinking about yakitori and Sapporo at 1 am...
You need to understand that you cannot rule countries like Syria in the same way as US...If you don't have strong government there they will descend into anarchy and civil war.
I'm old enough to remember when people said that about Latin America and East Asia, that only a sufficiently dictatorial rightist or leftist (depending on the speaker's own prejudices) could run a stable government.
In fact, it turns out that Mexicans, Koreans, Brazilians and Singaporeans are quite as capable of living in democracies as Western Europeans are.
I have the same printer (as you say, it's touted for having good Linux support) and followed the instructions in a Gentoo forum thread to ignore the driver CD and just use CUPS. That worked perfectly, FWIW. (Of course, getting it supported by my Mac took maybe 5 seconds, but so it goes...)
In both of the examples I mentioned here, there was no attempt to shade or hide the truth. And in both cases, we were truly dealing with open source software.
So, two companies, neither of which is Microsoft, released supposedly "open source" software that is, in fact, completely open source? I'm missing where the "hijack" and "confusion" come in.
Taking a stand in prinicple is just that, in principle with no effect on things in the real world.
If Google took a public stance of refusing to provide censored searches, that would most certainly have an "effect on things in the real world". At least as much effect as the vague lobbying that you want them to do instead.
You're engaging in Nerd Logic -- the fact that a sufficiently motivated abuser could get around any of those things isn't the same as "none of the above does anything to stop abusers".
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1) Those capabilities will still exist in the base language, just with different syntax.
2) If you want the old syntax, it will be available in a standard library.
Save your hysteria for something genuinely catastrophic, like the loss of the print statement.
The gap between Folding@Home and anything that addresses "Africa's hunger" is at least as speculative as anything in climatology, and not that much less than SETI.
I believe that the reference to Superman 3 is actually a meta-reference to Office Space. (Or maybe the reference being referenced is the meta-reference -- I'm not a philosopher.) As Office Space itself noted, the method long precedes either movie.
Thanks! That's precisely what I'd meant by "an accurate reconstruction of what a human eye would see".
That Mars is pretty much reddish all over, with some white at the poles, can be easily verified from Earth with a telescope.
Even without a telescope you can look up and see that the thing is red. But a) even that was disputed here last time and b) that aside, it seems like the color seen from Earth isn't the same as that seen from the surface. IIRC, before the Viking mission the Mars sky was expected to be blue from the surface.
This issue was discussed in a series of posts on the last Mars mission, that left me more confused than I was before: is the red color in these photos and the other Phoenix images the real color of the Mars surface (or at least an accurate reconstruction of what a human eye would see with ambient light there) or is it something NASA arbitrarily adds to impress viewers with notions about "the red planet"? Previous discussion focused more on whether the people complaining were or were not NASA-denialist kooks than on whether they were factually correct.
If the latter is correct, I'd suggest whatever distro his friends or coworkers can best help get started with (Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, whatever) and not worry about Mono-specific wrinkles.
Doing it himself seems like the best bet. Certainly if he's planning to develop a commercial product based on this, it's worth figuring out a custom distro that does exactly what he wants.
This issue was discussed in a series of posts on the last Mars mission, that left me more confused than I was before: is the red color in the photo on the main page the real color of the Mars surface (or at least an accurate reconstruction of what a human eye would see with ambient light there) or is it something NASA arbitrarily adds to impress viewers with notions about "the red planet"?
I saw that Ontario is passing (or passed, maybe) new hate crime legislation that's limited to offenses against a "vulnerable minority". If the law is going to be applied selectively to defend only groups the prosecutors care about, it seems preferable to just state it up front like they're doing.
I would imagine that that breaks down to 100% running scanners against email and maybe looking at flagged messages and 0% routine reading of email.
Given the tedium of slogging through just my own email, you couldn't pay me to spend all day doing that for other people.
I don't think anyone is claiming that. The question is why their supposedly "correct" ratings were as hare-brained as Moody's erroneous ones.
No, the problem is as trivial as he said; it's just that the original plan seems to have been much more grandiose. Come to think of it, if they *had* gotten the funding to send a DVD to every school in the country, wouldn't we be getting a story long the lines of "Congress Doesn't Know Internet Exists!!!", with pages of moronic comments about "tubes"?
I don't get the GGP's complaint about Ars Technica, though. It's not the article's fault that it's not mostly about the one sentence the editor fixated on.
That's also what's holding back Duke Nukem Forever, I suppose.
If I'm understanding correctly, you're berating him and accusing him of trolling because repeated, willful dishonesty isn't "useless" as it gets media attention for Greenpeace?
I don't know which is scarier: that you're right or that my mouth is watering thinking about yakitori and Sapporo at 1 am...
That said, your theory is still an improvement over the one in the original story...
Fortunately, his address will soon be switched to hp.com and no one will be the wiser!
Truly, sir, you are the new Socrates.
I'm old enough to remember when people said that about Latin America and East Asia, that only a sufficiently dictatorial rightist or leftist (depending on the speaker's own prejudices) could run a stable government.
In fact, it turns out that Mexicans, Koreans, Brazilians and Singaporeans are quite as capable of living in democracies as Western Europeans are.
I have the same printer (as you say, it's touted for having good Linux support) and followed the instructions in a Gentoo forum thread to ignore the driver CD and just use CUPS. That worked perfectly, FWIW. (Of course, getting it supported by my Mac took maybe 5 seconds, but so it goes...)
So, two companies, neither of which is Microsoft, released supposedly "open source" software that is, in fact, completely open source? I'm missing where the "hijack" and "confusion" come in.
If Google took a public stance of refusing to provide censored searches, that would most certainly have an "effect on things in the real world". At least as much effect as the vague lobbying that you want them to do instead.
You imagine erroneously. Using one application over another because "I prefer to C to C++" is a form of stupidity unique to Linux users.
You're engaging in Nerd Logic -- the fact that a sufficiently motivated abuser could get around any of those things isn't the same as "none of the above does anything to stop abusers".