Python has several excellent templating systems. The problem is that there are so many templating systems (and HTTP frameworks, and object-relational mappers) to choose from, someone trying to figure out where to start with Python web development is likely to become frustrated and choose Rails instead.
Genshi has proven very effective for me. Genshi does an excellent job of reporting template errors (your concern with Cheetah). Version 0.4 even supports embedding clean python syntax (via
Believe me.. you _don't_ have the ability to correct the statements -- not unless you're willing to sit at your keyboard and correct the statements again in 15 minutes, after the original poster has changed them back. Over and over.
You _really_ think that's how the resolution process works on Wikipedia? Especially on these matters where someone has a particular axe to grind?
I'm afraid that I've personally seen a few very similar problems on Wikipedia -- character assassination of relatively obscure old (or dead) men. Coincidentally (and I don't want to suggest that a pattern exists) these libels were of a similar strain: accusations or intimations that people affiliated with either the Democratic Party or with the "left" were Soviet collaborators.
When you say "ask for evidence" that's all good and well. Problem is, the only "evidence" that exists in historical matters are primary sources. Few people have the resources to dig back to primary sources, even when such sources exist or are accessible to normal people. At some point, reliable secondary sources are necessary. Wikipedia is a source that has _no_ credibility without verification from another source -- which means it ought to be skipped altogether.
In fact, a 450 mhz P2 is almost exactly the same speed as a 450 mhz P3. Only appreciable difference is the inclusion of SSE instructions for the P3. Pentium-M is also basically a low-power version of the P3, which is basically an improved P2, which is basically a cheapened version of the Pentium Pro.
For an idea of the power of these old-tech guns, check out this photo of the USS Iowa (New Jersey's sister ship) firing a full broadside. Note the water displacement.
USS Iowa
This is no new phenomenon. Sun & Cisco, in particular, owe much of their growth in the 90's to their, hm, generosity towards various universities. The business logic behind their "generosity" is simple. After college days, all those students are going to have jobs. And if those former students learned IOS or Solaris in their college days and are familiar with it, wouldn't that give Cisco & Sun an advantage in their minds over, say, Juniper or HP?
If you do a search on the net for _any_ manufacturer or _any_ line of products you are likely to find a number of unhappy customers. Every hard disk manufacturer has sent out a bad batch on occasion -- I've had various people recommend to me at different times "Never buy Maxtor" or "never buy Seagate" or "never buy Western Digital" and so on.. because that particular person had a bad experience with a drive.
Not true. Many Christians view much of scripture, especially the Old Testament (and Revelation) as metaphor. And Genesis, metaphorically interpreted, is much more interesting than any "literal" fundamentalist interpretation.
Excellent post. Would mod up if I had any points right now!
This fundamental misunderstanding of the word "theory" in a scientific context, and really science in general, is what annoys me most about those who call evolution "just a theory."
After all, Newton's "laws" of physics were later disproven. They were pretty good estimates but not actually correct. Every scientific explanation is "just a theory" until some better explanation comes along.
Heck, creationism was the best "theory" until Darwin came up with a better one.
Science is basically impossible without the realization that every explanation is incomplete. A committment to any idea is irrational, because a better idea is just around the corner.
Most creationists seem to think that "science" views the world in the same blind faith way that they they do, either accepting or discarding ideas wholesale. In fact those who accept "science" would be ready to drop evolution, relativity, quantum theory etc. should better explanations come along.
Actaully you can run the several instances of squid on the same machine. Takes a bit of tweaking, but there you go.
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For one thing, the "aliens" were semi-translucent and circuitry was visible inside them.
Got any concrete reasons why they're aliens? Nah, just that they've got big heads and wispy limbs. Really, the movie only makes sense if they're mechas.
Besides, that NYTimes article states that in Kubrick's original vision, when David is awoken millenia later, only evolved robots exist -- no humans. It didn't mention aliens.
This was written before Spielberg ever got his hands on the movie. It's interesting how much of Kubrick's vision actually made it into the movie, including a world populated only by machines.
Actually, does anybody know of software that would allow me to have TiVo-like functionality on my PC with, say, ATI all-in-wonder card? It seems that such a thing should not be terribly difficult... to motion-capture and write to disk the decoded image.
"North Americans" would include citizens of Canada, Mexico, and the US. "South Americans" would include citizens of Brazil, Argentina, etc. "Americans" by use and tradition refers to citizens of the United States, whether you find that agreeable or not, mostly because of the awkwardness of trying to use any other appelation.
I've worked with both... extensively. I'll say this much: I've never used Linux on a machine with more than 2 CPUs, but on a 2 CPU machine a 2.2 kernel runs very fast. I don't believe that Solaris X86 would be faster _period_ let alone 4x faster on a 2 CPU box. But I have used Solaris on 4+ CPU Sun machines and such machines scale very nicely. As of the 2.2 kernel, I'd say that on a box with 4 or more CPUs Solaris probably works better, and from what I've heard the gap grows wider as CPUs are added. Nevertheless, on a 2 CPU machine Linux is faster. I've not yet played with a 2.4 kernel on a 4 cpu machine.
Try NetBSD on your sparc 2... I believe there's an MMU issue with the sun4c architecture that results in netbsd running much faster than linux on machines of this class. It's true, too... I run NetBSD on my sparc 2 and it's almost usably fast on the ol' 40 mhz beast.
i wish folks would quit using the term 'grok' in everyday parlance. this use of grok as a synonym for 'understand' does not fully convey the nuances of the word in its original context and will only succeed in reducing the impact and meaning of the word in its one true context.
If you do not believe yourself to be the "original and first inventor of the subject matter of the application", it would be _ILLEGAL_ for you to sign an oath or declaration. This is known as perjury.
In the cases settled with Rambus by Toshiba and Hitachi, what exactly were the terms agreed to yet not disclosed? My theory is that Rambus gave them both sweetheart deals -- without disclosing the specific terms, i.e. how much do they pay in royalties -- in order to settle the cases in a manner which appears to be in Rambus' favor, thus positively influending RMBS stock price.
Rambus is a sham... a company that does nothing but sell rights to some questionable "intellectual property". They will be made irrelevant by the progress of technology and the free market system.
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Believe me .. you _don't_ have the ability to correct the statements -- not unless you're willing to sit at your keyboard and correct the statements again in 15 minutes, after the original poster has changed them back. Over and over.
You _really_ think that's how the resolution process works on Wikipedia? Especially on these matters where someone has a particular axe to grind?
I'm afraid that I've personally seen a few very similar problems on Wikipedia -- character assassination of relatively obscure old (or dead) men. Coincidentally (and I don't want to suggest that a pattern exists) these libels were of a similar strain: accusations or intimations that people affiliated with either the Democratic Party or with the "left" were Soviet collaborators.
When you say "ask for evidence" that's all good and well. Problem is, the only "evidence" that exists in historical matters are primary sources. Few people have the resources to dig back to primary sources, even when such sources exist or are accessible to normal people. At some point, reliable secondary sources are necessary. Wikipedia is a source that has _no_ credibility without verification from another source -- which means it ought to be skipped altogether.
Actually, I lived in China for a year. It was nice.
In fact, a 450 mhz P2 is almost exactly the same speed as a 450 mhz P3. Only appreciable difference is the inclusion of SSE instructions for the P3.
Pentium-M is also basically a low-power version of the P3, which is basically an improved P2, which is basically a cheapened version of the Pentium Pro.
For an idea of the power of these old-tech guns, check out this photo of the USS Iowa (New Jersey's sister ship) firing a full broadside. Note the water displacement. USS Iowa
Only it ain't the Red Army. It's the People's Liberation Army.
This is no new phenomenon. Sun & Cisco, in particular, owe much of their growth in the 90's to their, hm, generosity towards various universities. The business logic behind their "generosity" is simple. After college days, all those students are going to have jobs. And if those former students learned IOS or Solaris in their college days and are familiar with it, wouldn't that give Cisco & Sun an advantage in their minds over, say, Juniper or HP?
If you do a search on the net for _any_ manufacturer or _any_ line of products you are likely to find a number of unhappy customers. Every hard disk manufacturer has sent out a bad batch on occasion -- I've had various people recommend to me at different times "Never buy Maxtor" or "never buy Seagate" or "never buy Western Digital" and so on .. because that particular person had a bad experience with a drive.
Not true. Many Christians view much of scripture, especially the Old Testament (and Revelation) as metaphor. And Genesis, metaphorically interpreted, is much more interesting than any "literal" fundamentalist interpretation.
Excellent post. Would mod up if I had any points right now!
This fundamental misunderstanding of the word "theory" in a scientific context, and really science in general, is what annoys me most about those who call evolution "just a theory."
After all, Newton's "laws" of physics were later disproven. They were pretty good estimates but not actually correct. Every scientific explanation is "just a theory" until some better explanation comes along.
Heck, creationism was the best "theory" until Darwin came up with a better one.
Science is basically impossible without the realization that every explanation is incomplete. A committment to any idea is irrational, because a better idea is just around the corner.
Most creationists seem to think that "science" views the world in the same blind faith way that they they do, either accepting or discarding ideas wholesale. In fact those who accept "science" would be ready to drop evolution, relativity, quantum theory etc. should better explanations come along.
Actaully you can run the several instances of squid on the same machine. Takes a bit of tweaking, but there you go.
For one thing, the "aliens" were semi-translucent and circuitry was visible inside them.
Got any concrete reasons why they're aliens? Nah, just that they've got big heads and wispy limbs. Really, the movie only makes sense if they're mechas.
Besides, that NYTimes article states that in Kubrick's original vision, when David is awoken millenia later, only evolved robots exist -- no humans. It didn't mention aliens.
I'm glad that at least some of the /.ers were clueful enough to realize that those are mechas, not aliens. If there is any doubt, read this:
m -R eview-AI.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-WKD-Fil
This was written before Spielberg ever got his hands on the movie. It's interesting how much of Kubrick's vision actually made it into the movie, including a world populated only by machines.
Actually, does anybody know of software that would allow me to have TiVo-like functionality on my PC with, say, ATI all-in-wonder card? It seems that such a thing should not be terribly difficult... to motion-capture and write to disk the decoded image.
"North Americans" would include citizens of Canada, Mexico, and the US. "South Americans" would include citizens of Brazil, Argentina, etc. "Americans" by use and tradition refers to citizens of the United States, whether you find that agreeable or not, mostly because of the awkwardness of trying to use any other appelation.
I've worked with both... extensively. I'll say this much: I've never used Linux on a machine with more than 2 CPUs, but on a 2 CPU machine a 2.2 kernel runs very fast. I don't believe that Solaris X86 would be faster _period_ let alone 4x faster on a 2 CPU box. But I have used Solaris on 4+ CPU Sun machines and such machines scale very nicely. As of the 2.2 kernel, I'd say that on a box with 4 or more CPUs Solaris probably works better, and from what I've heard the gap grows wider as CPUs are added. Nevertheless, on a 2 CPU machine Linux is faster. I've not yet played with a 2.4 kernel on a 4 cpu machine.
I'm curious. I live in California and I don't remember any recent earthquake killing thousands and thousands of people; could you enlighten me?
Yes, the card is free/negligible.
Just gotta call and ask for a new one.
So, how much LNUX stock does Sony own these days?
Replace the silly N64 controller icon with an Atari 2600 joystick.
Try NetBSD on your sparc 2... I believe there's an MMU issue with the sun4c architecture that results in netbsd running much faster than linux on machines of this class. It's true, too... I run NetBSD on my sparc 2 and it's almost usably fast on the ol' 40 mhz beast.
i wish folks would quit using the term 'grok' in everyday parlance. this use of grok as a synonym for 'understand' does not fully convey the nuances of the word in its original context and will only succeed in reducing the impact and meaning of the word in its one true context.
If you do not believe yourself to be the "original and first inventor of the subject matter of the application", it would be _ILLEGAL_ for you to sign an oath or declaration. This is known as perjury.
In the cases settled with Rambus by Toshiba and Hitachi, what exactly were the terms agreed to yet not disclosed? My theory is that Rambus gave them both sweetheart deals -- without disclosing the specific terms, i.e. how much do they pay in royalties -- in order to settle the cases in a manner which appears to be in Rambus' favor, thus positively influending RMBS stock price.
Rambus is a sham... a company that does nothing but sell rights to some questionable "intellectual property". They will be made irrelevant by the progress of technology and the free market system.