If not this book, care to share an alternative recommendation or two?
Well, I can't disagree with the grandparent's very nice flame, but why not start with Guido's tutorial?
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
Between that and the library reference, I was up and running making useful scripts in an afternoon at work one day, but I had previous programming experience. But since this book isn't for people like that, who is it for? Only people I can think of are language lawyers, and there's a free source for that as well! http://docs.python.org/reference/index.html
You're misunderstanding the point because of the bad summary. They observed "spontaneous" evolution because the molecule has three qualities: it can self-replicate, it can pass down heritable information to offspring, and it can alter it's code (in some way that the article doeesn't describe). The descendents of the original synthesized molecules were much more tuned to their environment and out-compete "weaker" descendents of the original molecules.
So, really this just nicely shows the necessary conditions for very simple natural selection.
Amen, but how about also "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". That would be rather easy to make into a movie since it's a nice, simple, story. While Snow Crash would be quite hard to depict convincingly with the rapid changes in POV during key parts.
Wow, thanks for that link. It will be interesting to see what occurs because of Medvedev's bold assertitions toward the near future. The more he can separate himself from Putin the better for everyone.
Except, a ridiculous number of deaths and other shady activities have resulted from similar criticism under Putin (e.g., journalists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia#Under_Putin) And of course, Ukrainian politicians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko#Dioxin_poisoning) and defectors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko#Illness_and_poisoning). This policeman's prosecution and/or death are imminent. . .
While this is true, of course a lot of free software can run on OS X as well. Compiling this is nearly as easy as Linux, but it's still quite useful just to download a universal binary of the full application if it's available. Smaller apps aren't a big problem, but for bigger ones it can become an unnecessary hassle. For example, I just had to compile Inkscape from scratch on Snow Leopard and I spent an afternoon tracking down and compiling all the dependencies because the universal binary doesn't currently run on 10.6. I really would have benefited from the universal binary if I wasn't so bleeding edge.
[The NYT's] article on the bad photos on Wikipedia doesn't include a single link to the bad photos themselves [...]
NYT, like most newspapers, writes the articles for print, then reproduces them on the web site. Their process simply does not support links in the article body (although you may find a 'related sites' sidebar). This is pretty standard, and you'll see the same on almost all newspaper websites, plus a large proportion of news sites that are written specifically for the web (e.g. news.bbc.co.uk).
This may be true for normal nytimes.com articles, but their OpEd pieces certainly have links embedded in the text (i.e., Frank Rich). These articles also appear in newsprint.
Your impression would be wrong. From the command-line you can easily install new interpreters and compilers, and I'm sure you can change the specific shell (the default now is bash). A lot of unix source code runs on OS X with minimal changes (e.g., http://finkproject.org/). In fact, from the command-line OS X is just like Linux/UNIX from a general usability standpoint. The only major thing I believe that is locked up is the implementation of the graphical interface (i.e., all the eye-candy).
Apple may just make more money by letting people buy the phone and use it with any provider. ..
If this were true, why would Apple have tied themselves to AT&T in the first place?
Now all we need is something that lets you type with *both* hands and collects all those piles of kleenex!
But the Internet doesn't need a video of that robot!
Are you referring to Malcom in the Middle? That's what I immediately think of when thinking of Futurama's cancellation. It took the 8:30 timeslot after Simpsons from Futurama and god did it suck (and for years). But Fox kept it going on and on and on. . .
I completely agree that that was a huge effort, but a lot of people worked hard to get Eclipse working with GCJ, and it doesn't use Swing. I'm sure that would make it a lot easier because, last time I checked, Swing wasn't well-implemented in Classpath.
This should substantially help GCJ, because last time I checked it uses the standard libraries from Classpath to compile programs. Some things were unimplemented in Classpath, and so you could run into problems compiling non-trivial applications in GCJ.
Why buy them, when they can just leach off Red Hat? The only reason I can think of is if Red Hat development severely suffers due to this move by Oracle.
The option seems to toggle on/off pixel resolution trackpad scrolling for me in the browser window but doesn't affect the bookmark manager. Is the Beta smoother?
I believe you can change the smooth scrolling on OS X by going to Preferences|Advanced|General and toggling the "Use smooth scrolling" checkbox. This is in a copy of Firefox 2 that I downloaded last night.
I noticed that as well, and IMDB.com cites Jon Stewart's appearance as the reason Crossfire was canceled. He should probably appear on some other CNN shows if he's the catalyst for cancellation, but what are the odds of that ever happening again?
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If not this book, care to share an alternative recommendation or two?
Well, I can't disagree with the grandparent's very nice flame, but why not start with Guido's tutorial? http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ Between that and the library reference, I was up and running making useful scripts in an afternoon at work one day, but I had previous programming experience. But since this book isn't for people like that, who is it for? Only people I can think of are language lawyers, and there's a free source for that as well! http://docs.python.org/reference/index.html
You're misunderstanding the point because of the bad summary. They observed "spontaneous" evolution because the molecule has three qualities: it can self-replicate, it can pass down heritable information to offspring, and it can alter it's code (in some way that the article doeesn't describe). The descendents of the original synthesized molecules were much more tuned to their environment and out-compete "weaker" descendents of the original molecules.
So, really this just nicely shows the necessary conditions for very simple natural selection.
Amen, but how about also "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". That would be rather easy to make into a movie since it's a nice, simple, story. While Snow Crash would be quite hard to depict convincingly with the rapid changes in POV during key parts.
Yes, but can you put a price on spite? It will always be the best reason (read: most satisfying reason) to do anything.
If you want to go far back in time, Trostky is a more well known example.
How so? I am given to understand he was prone to piercing headaches and died as a result thereof.
You sir, are a fool or a very good troll given Trotsky's death and his experience with "piercing headaches": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Assassination In either case, I salute you!
Wow, thanks for that link. It will be interesting to see what occurs because of Medvedev's bold assertitions toward the near future. The more he can separate himself from Putin the better for everyone.
I doubt much will come of this. Putin is a putz.
Except, a ridiculous number of deaths and other shady activities have resulted from similar criticism under Putin (e.g., journalists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia#Under_Putin) And of course, Ukrainian politicians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko#Dioxin_poisoning) and defectors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko#Illness_and_poisoning). This policeman's prosecution and/or death are imminent. . .
How are they supposed to get coconuts?
I could be wrong, but I don't think VT has coconuts.
While this is true, of course a lot of free software can run on OS X as well. Compiling this is nearly as easy as Linux, but it's still quite useful just to download a universal binary of the full application if it's available. Smaller apps aren't a big problem, but for bigger ones it can become an unnecessary hassle. For example, I just had to compile Inkscape from scratch on Snow Leopard and I spent an afternoon tracking down and compiling all the dependencies because the universal binary doesn't currently run on 10.6. I really would have benefited from the universal binary if I wasn't so bleeding edge.
>>>think its great to teach 5 year olds Sex ed.
Sure. Why not? When my 6-year-old nephew. . .
LOL! I respect the way you explained this, but I'm just curious: what did his parents say about you teaching him the birds and the bees?
[The NYT's] article on the bad photos on Wikipedia doesn't include a single link to the bad photos themselves [...]
NYT, like most newspapers, writes the articles for print, then reproduces them on the web site. Their process simply does not support links in the article body (although you may find a 'related sites' sidebar). This is pretty standard, and you'll see the same on almost all newspaper websites, plus a large proportion of news sites that are written specifically for the web (e.g. news.bbc.co.uk).
This may be true for normal nytimes.com articles, but their OpEd pieces certainly have links embedded in the text (i.e., Frank Rich). These articles also appear in newsprint.
Your impression would be wrong. From the command-line you can easily install new interpreters and compilers, and I'm sure you can change the specific shell (the default now is bash). A lot of unix source code runs on OS X with minimal changes (e.g., http://finkproject.org/). In fact, from the command-line OS X is just like Linux/UNIX from a general usability standpoint. The only major thing I believe that is locked up is the implementation of the graphical interface (i.e., all the eye-candy).
Apple may just make more money by letting people buy the phone and use it with any provider. . .
If this were true, why would Apple have tied themselves to AT&T in the first place?
Now all we need is something that lets you type with *both* hands and collects all those piles of kleenex!
But the Internet doesn't need a video of that robot!
Are you referring to Malcom in the Middle? That's what I immediately think of when thinking of Futurama's cancellation. It took the 8:30 timeslot after Simpsons from Futurama and god did it suck (and for years). But Fox kept it going on and on and on. . .
Let me be the first to say how lame Time was picking this, when Salon made a much more interesting pick.
Panic is a great motivator. . .
I completely agree that that was a huge effort, but a lot of people worked hard to get Eclipse working with GCJ, and it doesn't use Swing. I'm sure that would make it a lot easier because, last time I checked, Swing wasn't well-implemented in Classpath.
This should substantially help GCJ, because last time I checked it uses the standard libraries from Classpath to compile programs. Some things were unimplemented in Classpath, and so you could run into problems compiling non-trivial applications in GCJ.
Try here and especially here.
Why buy them, when they can just leach off Red Hat? The only reason I can think of is if Red Hat development severely suffers due to this move by Oracle.
The option seems to toggle on/off pixel resolution trackpad scrolling for me in the browser window but doesn't affect the bookmark manager. Is the Beta smoother?
I believe you can change the smooth scrolling on OS X by going to Preferences|Advanced|General and toggling the "Use smooth scrolling" checkbox. This is in a copy of Firefox 2 that I downloaded last night.
Wow, those are the best features EVER! I use both wikipedia.org and dictionary.com all the time. Mod parent up!
I noticed that as well, and IMDB.com cites Jon Stewart's appearance as the reason Crossfire was canceled. He should probably appear on some other CNN shows if he's the catalyst for cancellation, but what are the odds of that ever happening again?