One of the things I enjoy most about python is the syntax and it's explicity. "self.property" tells you exactly what object you are modifying. ".property" tells you nothing. The explanation point thing seems unnecessary; If you need to tell somebody about what a method does, do it in the doc string. That's why they're there.
The removal of classes isn't an improvement in my opinion.
I think the business model is still sound, it is the product that is all wrong:
1. Get a medical degree
2. Market skills to a company for cash
3. Profit!!!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't support my family off of an offshore programmer's wage.
I think gays should have the right to get married. I am not a woman, so I'm not going to tell women what I think they can or cannot to do to their own body. I am not religous, but I believe that everyone has the right to worship or not to worship the way they choose. I am not a supporter of affirmative action. Personally, I would be insulted if I won a job or received a better score on a test simply because I'm a minority. How will government mandated racial preference ever create racial equality? Of course I love tax cuts, and I don't like entitlement programs no matter what color your parent's skin was. I believe that we need to help people who are in need, but the help is given away too freely thus it is taken advantage of. I am a software developer, and outsourcing scares the hell out of me, too.
I wasn't specifically refering to any particular success, but since you mention it, yes. You need to start thinking for yourself, instead of limiting your opinions to the crap you hear on NBC. We've had countless successes in Iraq. How long did it take to oust sadam? How many schools are back in operation?" How about power consumption, running water or construction operations? Do you know? Probably not. You don't care. You just want to hear all of the bad news and use it against the Bush administration. How many times have you seen the news networks speak with an iraqi who is happy we're there? Next to none I'd wager. Is that because there aren't any, or is it simply because they don't interview them? Oh, and what about our failing economy that closed at over 10000 points on the dow? Bush is just doing a horrible job. The economy was already on the downfall at the end of the Clinton administration. The recession was already on it's way.
I do agree that Bush administration needs to focus on limited government. They haven't been doing a good job in that respect. If you think Dean is going to do a better job, then think again. Dean may be charismatic, but no amount of charisma is going to convince a psycho with a bomb strapped to his chest to stay out of America.
That's rediculous. Firstly, President Bush is not far right. The new medicare entitlement is a clear indication of that. Secondly, Dean is by no means a moderate. Howard Dean is a far left radical. The libertarians are not going to replace the republican party by any means in the foreseable future, and probably not ever. Nor is the religious right wing about to fall. The younger population is more conservative on issues of religion than our parents were. As far as republicans not voting for President Bush because he is not a fiscal consertative, that's ludicrous. Give any republican the choice between a republican, non-fiscal conservative and a democratic, radical, liberal, pro-entitlement, pro-socialism western european wannabe, and they're gonna vote republican every time. The US has become the most powerful nation in the world because of our founder's commitment to limited government, personal freedoms and our constitution which protects those principles. And we did it all in under 250 years. Now these liberal, big government crack pots want to change what it is that made us great because they're so concerned about how our success makes other nations feel. Well boo-hoo for them. The only thing that is ever going to make other nations like us is if we reduce ourselves below their level. They're envious of our success.
it's obvious what SCO is trying to do. instead of offering proof of their claims, they are going to try to demonstrate that System V code could have gotten in the kernel. and by doing so, they think that they can avoid having to show any actually evidence.
> The lack of future planning in XP is not a law, it's like > that on purpose. I believe that hacking is the best most > ideal way to code.
This guy obviously hasn't adopted any of these projects where the previous programmer shared his philosophy. If so, then he would quickly change his tune.
All of the programmers out here should know that using magic numbers like this never works. What happens when Verisign changes the IP? What happens if they decide to round-robin sitefinder with a number of other servers with different IP addresses? You would have update your lists of blocked sitefinder IPs regularly.
The only real solutions are to use different name servers, or to put a stop to Veri$ign. And why should we have to spend our time moving to new a DNS?
winning a nobel prize showed at least a certain degree of competence
Not really... Jimmy Carter got the Nobel Prize. And when they gave it to him, they said that it "should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the current administration has taken." Now if that doesn't tell you that the Nobel Peace prize is an instrument that the Liberal's use to further their agenda, then you must be blind. The Pulitzer prize tends to be even more blatantly left-leaning, but that's a different topic.
Oh... and Yasser Arafat also received the Nobel Prize.
Admitedly, prizes given for Science and Economics may be an exception. But like I said, you find me three experts who have one opinion, and I'll find you six with the opposite one.
*multiple* Nobel Prize winning economists said that
Firstly, it is known that Nobel Prize winners are predominately liberals
Secondly, for every economist or analyst you find that presents your side of the argument, I can find at least that many that will disagree with your side of the argument.
I'm no economist (one look into my check register will tell you that), but I do know that after Carter, it was Reagan that came in and got the economy back to it's feet, using the same trickle-down voodoo and tax relief that you're talking about.
Yes, let them legalize Marijuana. The way I see it, we would just be letting evolution take it's course. Let all the lazy, incompetent, stoners smoke thier lives away in thier parent's basement and let us have the jobs. They would eventually have to give it up and join the real world or die. That is, of course, unless some liberal politician buys their vote with a welfare check.
This stuff gets absorbed by your body and makes you fat. Actual fat is more or less just passing through and makes it into the toilet with your centrum multivitamin.
Fat in foods is easier for your body to store as fat. It actually consumes a small number of calories for your body to convert carbohydrates into a substance to be stored.
There is no real evidence that diets high in carbs contribute to weight gain. People living in the far east have a substantially higher ratio of carb per calorie as a result of their diets and have a significantly lower occurance of obesity. This is not attributed to genes, as Asians living in the states eating western diets have a similarly high occurance of obesity.
The weight you lose in the short term from the Atkins diet is due to loss in water. For each gram of glucose the body stores, it must store three grams of water. When you have fewer carbohydrates, your body breaks down it's supply of glucose, a substance created from carbohydrates, to use as energy. This is not fat being burned. If you look at atkins diet plans, the number of calories you intake a day is still a reduced number of calories, and this is the fat is being lost. It comes right back down to the number of calories you consume. It's that magic initial weight loss that makes believers out of so many people.
This is good advice. I did the same. I wasn't fat or anything, but as I also spend at least 10 hours at the computer each day I was putting on a few extra pounds. Since then I've been practicing karate and stopped drinking normal soda. If you can tolerate it, drink diet soda; you'll learn to love it. I drink beer occasionally, perhaps once every two months or so. Try drinking a tall glass or two of water or diet soda before you eat. Also eat more slowly, you will eat less.
Another great way to increase your metabolism is to increase your muscle mass. As someone has already mentioned, it all boils down to the number of calories you burn vs. how many you consume. 3500 calories is the approximate number of calories stored in one pound of fat. They say that an adult at rest for 24 hours will burn somewhere around 1800 calories. Muscle tissue burns calories all the time, even during periods of rest. This will help you lose weight faster.
Don't give up everything that you love. Just consume in moderation. When the means to losing weight cause you more stress than having the extra pounds in the first place, then there is a good chance that you won't stick to the plan.
Yes, it is insensitive, but it is fact. Why should I give up, say, 15% of my annual income to feed some poor homeless, my bad, "Disadvantaged" people that I do not know or care for. They are not my responsibility.
Consider the original social system. The wild, before civilization. If you couldn't go out and get your own food, and create your own means alone or with your pack then you died. Simple as that. But now, that is not acceptable. If you can't provide for yourself, then I have to provide for you.
In any society, there are going to be homeless people and others who cannot or will not provide for themselves. They will expect everyone else to provide for them. And in the the USA, as long as they can vote someone will reach into my pocket give it to them.
In my limited knowledge, I think that the USA is as close as we are ever going to get to the way it should be. Just keep voting republican lol. Oh, and even though I am a republican the S11 bill still sucks.
Idiot
It's not freedom as in "do whatever the hell you want." It's freedom from a tyranical and oppressive government, such as the british government that ruled before the revolution. I wish that there were two different words for them so that they wouldn't be confused. Of course there are branches that have some members selected by officials other than it's constituants. The judicial branch is a prime example. Some judges are elected, but others are appointed. It seems that most talk about how great thier country is because it has free health care. Nothing is free. At least in this country, I can choose not to pay your doctor bills -- for the most part. The dems want to change this too.
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IMHO the SNES was the ultimate RPG machine. The graphics were top notch for their time. Final Fantasy 2 and 3, Breath of Fire, Chrono Trigger ...
He must be one of those guys who landed the rich wife ...
I agree
One of the things I enjoy most about python is the syntax and it's explicity. "self.property" tells you exactly what object you are modifying. ".property" tells you nothing. The explanation point thing seems unnecessary; If you need to tell somebody about what a method does, do it in the doc string. That's why they're there.
The removal of classes isn't an improvement in my opinion.
Kill him first
yes
That is outlandishly expensive, but the answer isn't to offshore the medical field. The answer is to fix the healthcare system here in the US.
I think the business model is still sound, it is the product that is all wrong: 1. Get a medical degree 2. Market skills to a company for cash 3. Profit!!! I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't support my family off of an offshore programmer's wage.
I think gays should have the right to get married. I am not a woman, so I'm not going to tell women what I think they can or cannot to do to their own body. I am not religous, but I believe that everyone has the right to worship or not to worship the way they choose. I am not a supporter of affirmative action. Personally, I would be insulted if I won a job or received a better score on a test simply because I'm a minority. How will government mandated racial preference ever create racial equality? Of course I love tax cuts, and I don't like entitlement programs no matter what color your parent's skin was. I believe that we need to help people who are in need, but the help is given away too freely thus it is taken advantage of. I am a software developer, and outsourcing scares the hell out of me, too.
I wasn't specifically refering to any particular success, but since you mention it, yes. You need to start thinking for yourself, instead of limiting your opinions to the crap you hear on NBC. We've had countless successes in Iraq. How long did it take to oust sadam? How many schools are back in operation?" How about power consumption, running water or construction operations? Do you know? Probably not. You don't care. You just want to hear all of the bad news and use it against the Bush administration. How many times have you seen the news networks speak with an iraqi who is happy we're there? Next to none I'd wager. Is that because there aren't any, or is it simply because they don't interview them? Oh, and what about our failing economy that closed at over 10000 points on the dow? Bush is just doing a horrible job. The economy was already on the downfall at the end of the Clinton administration. The recession was already on it's way. I do agree that Bush administration needs to focus on limited government. They haven't been doing a good job in that respect. If you think Dean is going to do a better job, then think again. Dean may be charismatic, but no amount of charisma is going to convince a psycho with a bomb strapped to his chest to stay out of America.
That's rediculous. Firstly, President Bush is not far right. The new medicare entitlement is a clear indication of that. Secondly, Dean is by no means a moderate. Howard Dean is a far left radical. The libertarians are not going to replace the republican party by any means in the foreseable future, and probably not ever. Nor is the religious right wing about to fall. The younger population is more conservative on issues of religion than our parents were. As far as republicans not voting for President Bush because he is not a fiscal consertative, that's ludicrous. Give any republican the choice between a republican, non-fiscal conservative and a democratic, radical, liberal, pro-entitlement, pro-socialism western european wannabe, and they're gonna vote republican every time. The US has become the most powerful nation in the world because of our founder's commitment to limited government, personal freedoms and our constitution which protects those principles. And we did it all in under 250 years. Now these liberal, big government crack pots want to change what it is that made us great because they're so concerned about how our success makes other nations feel. Well boo-hoo for them. The only thing that is ever going to make other nations like us is if we reduce ourselves below their level. They're envious of our success.
it's obvious what SCO is trying to do. instead of offering proof of their claims, they are going to try to demonstrate that System V code could have gotten in the kernel. and by doing so, they think that they can avoid having to show any actually evidence.
Blue and white G3 300, overclocked to 400 running debian linux ppc.
> The lack of future planning in XP is not a law, it's like
> that on purpose. I believe that hacking is the best most
> ideal way to code.
This guy obviously hasn't adopted any of these projects where the previous programmer shared his philosophy. If so, then he would quickly change his tune.
All of the programmers out here should know that using magic numbers like this never works. What happens when Verisign changes the IP? What happens if they decide to round-robin sitefinder with a number of other servers with different IP addresses? You would have update your lists of blocked sitefinder IPs regularly.
The only real solutions are to use different name servers, or to put a stop to Veri$ign. And why should we have to spend our time moving to new a DNS?
Perhaps this is blessing in disguise ??? When you get caught fooling around on your wife, you could just say you thought it was her.
Not really ... Jimmy Carter got the Nobel Prize. And when they gave it to him, they said that it "should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the current administration has taken." Now if that doesn't tell you that the Nobel Peace prize is an instrument that the Liberal's use to further their agenda, then you must be blind. The Pulitzer prize tends to be even more blatantly left-leaning, but that's a different topic.
Oh ... and Yasser Arafat also received the Nobel Prize.
Admitedly, prizes given for Science and Economics may be an exception. But like I said, you find me three experts who have one opinion, and I'll find you six with the opposite one.
Firstly, it is known that Nobel Prize winners are predominately liberals
Secondly, for every economist or analyst you find that presents your side of the argument, I can find at least that many that will disagree with your side of the argument.
I'm no economist (one look into my check register will tell you that), but I do know that after Carter, it was Reagan that came in and got the economy back to it's feet, using the same trickle-down voodoo and tax relief that you're talking about.
Yes, let them legalize Marijuana. The way I see it, we would just be letting evolution take it's course. Let all the lazy, incompetent, stoners smoke thier lives away in thier parent's basement and let us have the jobs. They would eventually have to give it up and join the real world or die. That is, of course, unless some liberal politician buys their vote with a welfare check.
Perhaps you've got a point ... but I didn't see any liberals speaking when Clinton was taking all the credit for the economic boom during his term.
Yep, i'll give it a try.
Fat in foods is easier for your body to store as fat. It actually consumes a small number of calories for your body to convert carbohydrates into a substance to be stored.There is no real evidence that diets high in carbs contribute to weight gain. People living in the far east have a substantially higher ratio of carb per calorie as a result of their diets and have a significantly lower occurance of obesity. This is not attributed to genes, as Asians living in the states eating western diets have a similarly high occurance of obesity.
The weight you lose in the short term from the Atkins diet is due to loss in water. For each gram of glucose the body stores, it must store three grams of water. When you have fewer carbohydrates, your body breaks down it's supply of glucose, a substance created from carbohydrates, to use as energy. This is not fat being burned. If you look at atkins diet plans, the number of calories you intake a day is still a reduced number of calories, and this is the fat is being lost. It comes right back down to the number of calories you consume. It's that magic initial weight loss that makes believers out of so many people.
This is good advice. I did the same. I wasn't fat or anything, but as I also spend at least 10 hours at the computer each day I was putting on a few extra pounds. Since then I've been practicing karate and stopped drinking normal soda. If you can tolerate it, drink diet soda; you'll learn to love it. I drink beer occasionally, perhaps once every two months or so. Try drinking a tall glass or two of water or diet soda before you eat. Also eat more slowly, you will eat less.
Another great way to increase your metabolism is to increase your muscle mass. As someone has already mentioned, it all boils down to the number of calories you burn vs. how many you consume. 3500 calories is the approximate number of calories stored in one pound of fat. They say that an adult at rest for 24 hours will burn somewhere around 1800 calories. Muscle tissue burns calories all the time, even during periods of rest. This will help you lose weight faster.
Don't give up everything that you love. Just consume in moderation. When the means to losing weight cause you more stress than having the extra pounds in the first place, then there is a good chance that you won't stick to the plan.
Yes, it is insensitive, but it is fact. Why should I give up, say, 15% of my annual income to feed some poor homeless, my bad, "Disadvantaged" people that I do not know or care for. They are not my responsibility.
Consider the original social system. The wild, before civilization. If you couldn't go out and get your own food, and create your own means alone or with your pack then you died. Simple as that. But now, that is not acceptable. If you can't provide for yourself, then I have to provide for you.
In any society, there are going to be homeless people and others who cannot or will not provide for themselves. They will expect everyone else to provide for them. And in the the USA, as long as they can vote someone will reach into my pocket give it to them.
In my limited knowledge, I think that the USA is as close as we are ever going to get to the way it should be. Just keep voting republican lol. Oh, and even though I am a republican the S11 bill still sucks.
Idiot It's not freedom as in "do whatever the hell you want." It's freedom from a tyranical and oppressive government, such as the british government that ruled before the revolution. I wish that there were two different words for them so that they wouldn't be confused. Of course there are branches that have some members selected by officials other than it's constituants. The judicial branch is a prime example. Some judges are elected, but others are appointed. It seems that most talk about how great thier country is because it has free health care. Nothing is free. At least in this country, I can choose not to pay your doctor bills -- for the most part. The dems want to change this too.
You should be ashamed of yourself.