We use Python quite a lot in my field of work (computational neuroscience). The main tool I sue right now is slowly, gingerly, gradually removing support for Python 2.4 over the nex year or so, and will require 2.5 or later from then on. Python 3 is not anywhere on the horizon and won't be for a long time.
I don't expect to even take a serious look at Python 3 before the end of this decade.
No. An average is not really informative for things like this. Rather, it likely fails to help some people at all, it extends the lifetime of others only modestly, and it saves the life of a few.
It would be very welcome, and (cop-out alert) had I had the time I would gladly have taken it as an excuse to learn about ebook formats.
An ebook version would be great, simply because it's searchable. But then, you want to take advantage of the format to create a really good, interactive index, perhaps links to a glossary and to external pages for all the included applications and so on. Suddenly it's no longer a quick format conversion but a whole new document.
So yes, I understand why you're reluctant to take it on.
I mostly like it too. Especially love the top menu bar; gives me extra vertical space in every app almost for free. I haven't met anybody in real life who thought Unity was a bad idea either.
Suspect this is a "greasy wheel" kind of thing, where those who are dissatisfied are loud and visible on places like slashdot, while most users have nothing much to complain about and keep silent. And most complaints really are about configurability, not basic functionality. A decent tool to do all the typical config changes people want would go a long way towards solving the issues for many of those people.
My only complaint really is Compiz, not Unity. Should use something more stable and less resource intensive.
My guess (which I wrote in another post) is that the existing options are not good fits for small buildings. A shock absorber or rubber gasket that is short enough to be fitted under a single-family home will not have anything like the horizontal travel needed to be of any use in a large earthquake. This may be compact and simple enough to be used in those cases.
Doesn't sound like a bad idea at first blush. Of course, the wax would need to retain its characteristics over a wide range of temperatures and humidities. Most of Japan is temperate, with large temperature differences from summer to winter (we get about zero - freezing - in winter to almost 40 in high summer here in Osaka for instance). And the weather can range from long dry spells to typhoons.
Small mounts can handle only small displacements. Large mounts are frequently used for large buildings but are too big for single-family homes and small commercial buildings.
Large structures sometimes use rubber and metal dampers that allows the structure to "float" in a similar manner. It makes for a much lighter construction as the actual building above the damping system doesn't need nearly as much reinforcement as a traditional earthquake-resistant design. The K supercomputer in Kobe is housed in such a structure, for instance.
They're binning the samples, for an actual resolution of 5mp. And they have to; a lens that size is unable to create an image of sufficient resolution for anything like 40mp being useful. You go above 8mp or so and you'll only get better pictures of the lens blur.
And it's not at all clear that binning several individual photosites is better than simply having larger sites in the first place either. Of course, being able to write "41mp!! *woot* *Munchkin FTW!* " in your promotional material is a likely sales improvement even if the technical improvement is nil.
Current versions of eBub doesn't do Japanese properly; you really want support for things like furigana for instance. The format really is not good enough as it is used today.
Maybe we should steal the model of [â¦] research fundingâ¦
You mean, the author writes it for free, pays a publisher several hundred dollars to give away the copyright, and the publisher then proceeds to charge $35 for a ten-page paper or thousands of dollars wor a shoddily printed magazine?
I'm not sure paying several tens of times more per textbook and not compensating the author is all that god an idea myself.
I looked at your blog - relax, brah. Your deep commentary about having omaraisu for dinner aren't going to get you censored, or targeted for re-education.
It's a fair point, and no, I don't expect my blog to get noticed by anybody, much less censored.
But I've come to realize almost all of my net prescense is based in one single country where I have no representation, no voice and no rights; and in one single company that - for all that they want to do no evil - sees me as a product, not a customer.
This concentration of power over my online presence to entities I have no control at all over is making me increasingly uncomfortable, and I want to diversify a bit. Not that I expect anything to happen, but, well, better safe than sorry.
So, any good online alternatives in general? There is supposed to be a good German cloud offering, I believe, though I don't remember the name; and Gitorius seems like a good code hosting service. Are there decent European alternatives to GMail, Google Calendar, Blogger, and so on?
The Japanese fiscal year runs from April 1st to March 31. April 1st is when you begin the school year (from kindergarten to grad school), when you begin a new job, the accounting period both for private companies and the state, research funding period and so on and so on. What would be extraordinary is if you have a shuffle at the top at any other time than April 1st.
Anybody have a recommendation for an alternative blogging platform? Preferably one hosted in Europe by a non-US company, and one where it is reasonably easy to migrate from Blogger.
Aluminium was once phenomenally rare and expensive. Napoleon had a set of highly valued plates made of the stuff. Breakthroughs in manufacturing made it a cheap, common material. I suspect this will go the same way, with synthetic versions becoming a utilitarian material among others. The cape will become an amusing historical footnote.
Really large tightly coupled clusters are usually offered in a time-sharing arrangement. One Exa-scale system could normally support hundreds to thousands of concurrent users, each with a temporary slice of the machine. Truly large-scale jobs would be run only at specific times.
At that point you can offer the facility to a much wider range of users, and be much less selective about what kind of jobs are worthy of getting time on the machine. That easy availability is arguably more important than the peak performance, but is of course not headline-grabbing in the same way.
Ebooks are usually more expensive than the paperbacks, not cheaper. The only way you'd save money with a Kindle is if you're the kind of person who used to buy the hardcover instead of waiting for the cheaper mass-market editions.
The upper left corner is the place for the basic window controls - close, minimize and maximize. The topmost item in the panel is only a little below. If a mouse movement into the top left corner actually did anything in Unity users would be trigging it by accident all the time, with frustration and perfectly understandable anger as a result.
I haven't read the story (I mean, obviously) but could you do a diff between two source files and it uses GCC to determine if the corresponding ASTs are the same? And, in my dreams, do a diff on the same file with two different compilers to see where their interpretation differs?
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We use Python quite a lot in my field of work (computational neuroscience). The main tool I sue right now is slowly, gingerly, gradually removing support for Python 2.4 over the nex year or so, and will require 2.5 or later from then on. Python 3 is not anywhere on the horizon and won't be for a long time.
I don't expect to even take a serious look at Python 3 before the end of this decade.
No. An average is not really informative for things like this. Rather, it likely fails to help some people at all, it extends the lifetime of others only modestly, and it saves the life of a few.
Except you're too busy watching the ground for snakes to see the sky.
Comment titles are not clickable for me.
It would be very welcome, and (cop-out alert) had I had the time I would gladly have taken it as an excuse to learn about ebook formats.
An ebook version would be great, simply because it's searchable. But then, you want to take advantage of the format to create a really good, interactive index, perhaps links to a glossary and to external pages for all the included applications and so on. Suddenly it's no longer a quick format conversion but a whole new document.
So yes, I understand why you're reluctant to take it on.
I mostly like it too. Especially love the top menu bar; gives me extra vertical space in every app almost for free. I haven't met anybody in real life who thought Unity was a bad idea either.
Suspect this is a "greasy wheel" kind of thing, where those who are dissatisfied are loud and visible on places like slashdot, while most users have nothing much to complain about and keep silent. And most complaints really are about configurability, not basic functionality. A decent tool to do all the typical config changes people want would go a long way towards solving the issues for many of those people.
My only complaint really is Compiz, not Unity. Should use something more stable and less resource intensive.
My guess (which I wrote in another post) is that the existing options are not good fits for small buildings. A shock absorber or rubber gasket that is short enough to be fitted under a single-family home will not have anything like the horizontal travel needed to be of any use in a large earthquake. This may be compact and simple enough to be used in those cases.
Doesn't sound like a bad idea at first blush. Of course, the wax would need to retain its characteristics over a wide range of temperatures and humidities. Most of Japan is temperate, with large temperature differences from summer to winter (we get about zero - freezing - in winter to almost 40 in high summer here in Osaka for instance). And the weather can range from long dry spells to typhoons.
Small mounts can handle only small displacements. Large mounts are frequently used for large buildings but are too big for single-family homes and small commercial buildings.
4. Everybody survived and most belongings are fine, unlike the house next door that collapsed over its occupants.
Large structures sometimes use rubber and metal dampers that allows the structure to "float" in a similar manner. It makes for a much lighter construction as the actual building above the damping system doesn't need nearly as much reinforcement as a traditional earthquake-resistant design. The K supercomputer in Kobe is housed in such a structure, for instance.
They're binning the samples, for an actual resolution of 5mp. And they have to; a lens that size is unable to create an image of sufficient resolution for anything like 40mp being useful. You go above 8mp or so and you'll only get better pictures of the lens blur.
And it's not at all clear that binning several individual photosites is better than simply having larger sites in the first place either. Of course, being able to write "41mp!! *woot* *Munchkin FTW!* " in your promotional material is a likely sales improvement even if the technical improvement is nil.
"Don't we want public access to things funded by public money?"
Yes. And the "Research Works Act" would have essentially forbidden open access of said research.
Current versions of eBub doesn't do Japanese properly; you really want support for things like furigana for instance. The format really is not good enough as it is used today.
You mean, the author writes it for free, pays a publisher several hundred dollars to give away the copyright, and the publisher then proceeds to charge $35 for a ten-page paper or thousands of dollars wor a shoddily printed magazine?
I'm not sure paying several tens of times more per textbook and not compensating the author is all that god an idea myself.
It's a fair point, and no, I don't expect my blog to get noticed by anybody, much less censored.
But I've come to realize almost all of my net prescense is based in one single country where I have no representation, no voice and no rights; and in one single company that - for all that they want to do no evil - sees me as a product, not a customer.
This concentration of power over my online presence to entities I have no control at all over is making me increasingly uncomfortable, and I want to diversify a bit. Not that I expect anything to happen, but, well, better safe than sorry.
So, any good online alternatives in general? There is supposed to be a good German cloud offering, I believe, though I don't remember the name; and Gitorius seems like a good code hosting service. Are there decent European alternatives to GMail, Google Calendar, Blogger, and so on?
The Japanese fiscal year runs from April 1st to March 31. April 1st is when you begin the school year (from kindergarten to grad school), when you begin a new job, the accounting period both for private companies and the state, research funding period and so on and so on. What would be extraordinary is if you have a shuffle at the top at any other time than April 1st.
Anybody have a recommendation for an alternative blogging platform? Preferably one hosted in Europe by a non-US company, and one where it is reasonably easy to migrate from Blogger.
Aluminium was once phenomenally rare and expensive. Napoleon had a set of highly valued plates made of the stuff. Breakthroughs in manufacturing made it a cheap, common material. I suspect this will go the same way, with synthetic versions becoming a utilitarian material among others. The cape will become an amusing historical footnote.
So, he does care just a little, little bit. What is the problem with that.
"write once, run everywhere"
Write once, run in Chrome.
You really want to return to the days when sites required a specific browser to let you in?
Really large tightly coupled clusters are usually offered in a time-sharing arrangement. One Exa-scale system could normally support hundreds to thousands of concurrent users, each with a temporary slice of the machine. Truly large-scale jobs would be run only at specific times.
At that point you can offer the facility to a much wider range of users, and be much less selective about what kind of jobs are worthy of getting time on the machine. That easy availability is arguably more important than the peak performance, but is of course not headline-grabbing in the same way.
Ebooks are usually more expensive than the paperbacks, not cheaper. The only way you'd save money with a Kindle is if you're the kind of person who used to buy the hardcover instead of waiting for the cheaper mass-market editions.
The upper left corner is the place for the basic window controls - close, minimize and maximize. The topmost item in the panel is only a little below. If a mouse movement into the top left corner actually did anything in Unity users would be trigging it by accident all the time, with frustration and perfectly understandable anger as a result.
I haven't read the story (I mean, obviously) but could you do a diff between two source files and it uses GCC to determine if the corresponding ASTs are the same? And, in my dreams, do a diff on the same file with two different compilers to see where their interpretation differs?