However, it's difficult to paste Python code through channels that apply the equivalent of lstrip() to each line. Slashdot's comment section is one of them: if you have your account's post mode set to "HTML Formatted", even <ecode> won't keep it from stripping spaces. (When I figured this out, I set my account's post mode to "Plain Old Text", which allows HTML tags but translates newlines to <br> elements and suppresses stripping in <ecode> elements.) At least in curly-bracket languages, you can pass the code through GNU Indent or a similar tool to restore indentation.
So why are they releasing updates to version 3.4.x after releasing updates to 3.5.x?
For two reasons. First, to make life easier for maintainers of long-term-supported GNU/Linux distributions. Second, because minor versions of Python historically break binary compatibility with extensions, and most users of Python for Windows have no way to recompile extensions that include native code for a new minor version.
Shebang lines like that didn't work on Windows from 3.0 through 3.2. Windows determines which executable to run by examining the portion of the filename after the final period character. Only in version 3.3 did Python gain py.exe, a shebang line processor for Windows implementing PEP 397.
Would "It's OK to provide basic contact info for someone if you provide corresponding contact info for yourself" be a workable rule? That should allow white hat doxing, which is done without intent to harass.
And on the flip side, what does Donald Trump do exactly? I know he's rich and considered successful, but what work does he actually do? Or Kim Kardashian?
Kim Kardashian has started several successful businesses using microloans and know-how from her father, who had defended O.J. Simpson among other things.
You're fortunate. Some people live in areas where business class connections are available only to subscribers physically located in a business-zoned part of the city.
Individuals collecting water for personal use are not really the targets - it is simply that collecting without a permit is illegal, and their operation is too small to qualify for a permit.
The solution under this sort of water catchment regime is to make a small-scale permit as easy to get as, say, a driver's license.
Land is also "required" and "life enabling" but it is ownable and owned. Sleeping on public property violates sit/lie laws of many localities; therefore, land is required. And intruding on another's private property (the Goldilocks method) is trespassing; therefore, land is ownable.
Some of the crap that Outlook catches is related to its habit of encouraging top posting. This refers to a reply at the top of an e-mail, with the original quoted in its entirety at the bottom, rather than the older practice of replying below the relevant sentence.
You can disable the Win10 telemetry with the same menu options that you can disable Apple's similar telemetry
Only in the Enterprise version. Otherwise, Microsoft can see "basic" telemetry, which includes all applications and device drivers installed on your computer. Some of these applications and device drivers might incriminate you under anti-circumvention law.
Is all of "an awful lot" at no additional charge with Prime membership, or is it mostly rentals at $3.99 a piece? The article doesn't link to the original Barclays research with which I could verify the methodology of the count.
It can be faked, but doing so is actionable misrepresentation. For example, a work's publisher can make a policy of tolerating small-scale fan-made non-commercial derivatives so long as they are not marked as official, but any misleading upload incurs a copyright strike.
You make a good point about "transitional" mess. But I'm interested in what holes you found in Microsoft's patent pledge. Do these arguments from eight years ago still apply? Or has Microsoft fixed them?
MOOXML, which was unnecessary when a perfectly good open format ODF already existed
Was ODF suitable to round-trip every single feature of the existing.doc,.xls, and.ppt formats? Or would it have required Microsoft to drop features on which at least some paying customers depend? For example, do compatibility options in Word and formulas and macros in Excel survive a round trip to ODF?
Microsoft fan-boism/shilling
I have never been paid by Microsoft or anyone else to recommend Microsoft products. As a fan of free software, I want to make sure the anti-OOXML claims are as strong as they can be: sufficiently detailed and free of holes that might threaten the overall argument for free software.
How are the Office Open XML (.docx,.xlsx,.pptx) formats still "closed proprietary monstrosities"? Are there still holes in the documentation published by Ecma and ISO? Or is Microsoft claiming that third-party implementations infringe its copyrights, patents, or trademarks?
Commodore 64 cartridges could include a circuit that switches different pages of ROM into the 16 KiB of address space available to a cartridge. For example, if writing to cartridge space ($8000-$BFFF) instead writes to an octal D flip-flop (e.g. 74HC373/377) that controls A14 and higher address lines of the ROM, this would allow (in theory) up to 4 MiB of ROM. Similar techniques were common on Atari 2600 (which originally topped out at 4 KiB ROM) and especially on NES (likewise 32 KiB). But cartridges were underused because they were more expensive for game publishers to replicate than tapes and floppies.
But if you have a PC anyway, then the video card upgrade would make far more economic sense
True if you live alone. But if you live with others who don't own their own PC, you can't easily use a single PC for gaming and other use (homework, Facebook, etc.) at once. You need either a PC and a console or a PC and a second desktop PC connected to the TV.
On the other hand, PCs get mods.
Some of which allow cheating in online multiplayer, which is serious enough that some console fans prefer consoles specifically to block cheat mods.
even though portable systems are more similar to the mobile game niche than home games
I disagree. Most mobile games are either point-and-click or endless runners because that's all you can make with a touch screen. Things like a PlayStation Vita or Nintendo 3DS come with input devices much more similar to the gamepad of a traditional set-top console, which allow interaction methods other than point-and-click.
Slashdot Mirror
However, it's difficult to paste Python code through channels that apply the equivalent of lstrip() to each line. Slashdot's comment section is one of them: if you have your account's post mode set to "HTML Formatted", even <ecode> won't keep it from stripping spaces. (When I figured this out, I set my account's post mode to "Plain Old Text", which allows HTML tags but translates newlines to <br> elements and suppresses stripping in <ecode> elements.) At least in curly-bracket languages, you can pass the code through GNU Indent or a similar tool to restore indentation.
So why are they releasing updates to version 3.4.x after releasing updates to 3.5.x?
For two reasons. First, to make life easier for maintainers of long-term-supported GNU/Linux distributions. Second, because minor versions of Python historically break binary compatibility with extensions, and most users of Python for Windows have no way to recompile extensions that include native code for a new minor version.
#!/usr/bin/python3
Shebang lines like that didn't work on Windows from 3.0 through 3.2. Windows determines which executable to run by examining the portion of the filename after the final period character. Only in version 3.3 did Python gain py.exe, a shebang line processor for Windows implementing PEP 397.
Python has Sqlite support and javascript does not
You were saying? node-sqlite3
Would "It's OK to provide basic contact info for someone if you provide corresponding contact info for yourself" be a workable rule? That should allow white hat doxing, which is done without intent to harass.
So it'll be like Twitter from back before Twitter was a microblog host.
And on the flip side, what does Donald Trump do exactly? I know he's rich and considered successful, but what work does he actually do? Or Kim Kardashian?
Kim Kardashian has started several successful businesses using microloans and know-how from her father, who had defended O.J. Simpson among other things.
The business is being run out of a business that the city or county considers to be in a residential zone.
Or c) see if an employer in Great Britain or Ireland will sponsor your work visa.
You're fortunate. Some people live in areas where business class connections are available only to subscribers physically located in a business-zoned part of the city.
In general the [potential] wind velocities on the roof of very tall buildings make installing solar impractical.
Then why not mandate turbines?
Geologically, how does the Holocene differ from the last interglacial period of the Pleistocene?
Individuals collecting water for personal use are not really the targets - it is simply that collecting without a permit is illegal, and their operation is too small to qualify for a permit.
The solution under this sort of water catchment regime is to make a small-scale permit as easy to get as, say, a driver's license.
Land is also "required" and "life enabling" but it is ownable and owned. Sleeping on public property violates sit/lie laws of many localities; therefore, land is required. And intruding on another's private property (the Goldilocks method) is trespassing; therefore, land is ownable.
Some of the crap that Outlook catches is related to its habit of encouraging top posting. This refers to a reply at the top of an e-mail, with the original quoted in its entirety at the bottom, rather than the older practice of replying below the relevant sentence.
You can disable the Win10 telemetry with the same menu options that you can disable Apple's similar telemetry
Only in the Enterprise version. Otherwise, Microsoft can see "basic" telemetry, which includes all applications and device drivers installed on your computer. Some of these applications and device drivers might incriminate you under anti-circumvention law.
Back in the day, it was theoretically possible to download more RAM, if downloading a compressing virtual memory manager counts.
Is all of "an awful lot" at no additional charge with Prime membership, or is it mostly rentals at $3.99 a piece? The article doesn't link to the original Barclays research with which I could verify the methodology of the count.
It can be faked, but doing so is actionable misrepresentation. For example, a work's publisher can make a policy of tolerating small-scale fan-made non-commercial derivatives so long as they are not marked as official, but any misleading upload incurs a copyright strike.
Unlike music, it seems there is a limit to the number of unique storylines available to movie and TV producers.
Music too has been running out of ideas. Have you heard Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself", which sounds like "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gees?
You make a good point about "transitional" mess. But I'm interested in what holes you found in Microsoft's patent pledge. Do these arguments from eight years ago still apply? Or has Microsoft fixed them?
MOOXML, which was unnecessary when a perfectly good open format ODF already existed
Was ODF suitable to round-trip every single feature of the existing .doc, .xls, and .ppt formats? Or would it have required Microsoft to drop features on which at least some paying customers depend? For example, do compatibility options in Word and formulas and macros in Excel survive a round trip to ODF?
Microsoft fan-boism/shilling
I have never been paid by Microsoft or anyone else to recommend Microsoft products. As a fan of free software, I want to make sure the anti-OOXML claims are as strong as they can be: sufficiently detailed and free of holes that might threaten the overall argument for free software.
How are the Office Open XML (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) formats still "closed proprietary monstrosities"? Are there still holes in the documentation published by Ecma and ISO? Or is Microsoft claiming that third-party implementations infringe its copyrights, patents, or trademarks?
Commodore 64 cartridges could include a circuit that switches different pages of ROM into the 16 KiB of address space available to a cartridge. For example, if writing to cartridge space ($8000-$BFFF) instead writes to an octal D flip-flop (e.g. 74HC373/377) that controls A14 and higher address lines of the ROM, this would allow (in theory) up to 4 MiB of ROM. Similar techniques were common on Atari 2600 (which originally topped out at 4 KiB ROM) and especially on NES (likewise 32 KiB). But cartridges were underused because they were more expensive for game publishers to replicate than tapes and floppies.
But if you have a PC anyway, then the video card upgrade would make far more economic sense
True if you live alone. But if you live with others who don't own their own PC, you can't easily use a single PC for gaming and other use (homework, Facebook, etc.) at once. You need either a PC and a console or a PC and a second desktop PC connected to the TV.
On the other hand, PCs get mods.
Some of which allow cheating in online multiplayer, which is serious enough that some console fans prefer consoles specifically to block cheat mods.
Are the types of people who generally buy consoles really the same type that would be satisfied playing games on mobile instead?
Not necessarily. Good luck playing something like Mega Man on a touch screen.
even though portable systems are more similar to the mobile game niche than home games
I disagree. Most mobile games are either point-and-click or endless runners because that's all you can make with a touch screen. Things like a PlayStation Vita or Nintendo 3DS come with input devices much more similar to the gamepad of a traditional set-top console, which allow interaction methods other than point-and-click.