You do realize, that there are Python programmers on Windows ? I enjoy happily the ActivePython distribution, with which I can even automate my deskopt/applications.
Why do you need CPython when the reference CPython implementation has Windows binaries, and has had them for years?
CPython's limitation at that level is the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock). I don't think IronPython has a lock since it compiles directly to CLI instead of being a python VM coded in C# or whatever. So IronPython probably has a better threading SMP than CPython.
CPython runs just fine on SMP though, the "quirk" is that you're supposed to use several Python processes instead of Python threads.
If Larry Wall wants Perl to remain relevant despite the forward march of Python and Ruby, he needs to stop his exegesis prose wanking and churn out some working code.
James Gosling is the person I curse at when I visit a web page with an applet in it. My machine starts churning, and I see the little coffee cup invade my dock. 15 seconds later I've lost my appetite, and I no longer even want what was on that web page.
Tell firefox to stop loading the fucking applets, tada, problem solved.
Wrong, Python is a general purpose strongly, dynamically, implicitly typed programming language. It's multiparadigmatic with a fairly tight object orientation, implicitly compiles to bytecode and can trivially include third-party languages or be included in C/C++ software.
Python is far from being a mere "scripting language", whatever that may mean.
Their first CD-player was a very fine unit back in the 80'. I have one I got from my father, and it still runs perfectly fine. It even reads burned CD-R perfectly.
Serveral times I've heard it described as a "beefed up gamecube"
Beefed up gamecube with brand new CPU and GPU? Give me a break.
it's incapable of 720p or 1080i
Or 1080p. Indeed, the aim of the Wii is that every game runs at 60fps in 480p.
It might be enough for half decent graphics - hell considering what some late gen PS2 and Xbox games can do I'm sure the Wii will look fine
"Look fine"?
The GameCube was the most powerful console of it's generation (just compare RE4/Wii and RE4/PS2). And remember that the PS3 and the Xbox360 need to be hugely powerful to display watchable graphics, because they're running from 720p to 1080p. You need much less graphics power to display amazing games in 480p.
Every Wii conf has been with Wiis hooked up to HDTV, and I haven't heard much about the so called crappy graphics of the Wii (unless it was in Wii Sports, which isn't quite supposed to display amazing graphics).
Of course we'll know when we see them, but I'm confident that the Wii will be more than enough capable.
That Pokemon thing never did pan out very well for them it seems. No money there whatsoever. And their handhelds! Oh, boy. Those things were a collective disaster.
Uh? How are these things not game console related?
Just not as fine as the first fine which would be very fine and the second is like, "Yeah, we're doing fine," and the third is more like, "We'd be fine if you motherfuckers would just buy a few more copies of Metroid for the GBA for $30."
They probably wouldn't care any way.
Because Nintendo is sitting on a fucking huge pile of cash, because they never lost any money in their whole history (which includes the console-gaming part).
Because 15 years of Game Boy and 2 years of DS along with hugely popular first-party games made them more money than Microsoft could ever lose on an Xbox iteration
Because even though the sales were not quite high they still made a benefit out of the N64 and GC hardware sales alone
Because since third-party weren't interrested in the N64 and GC games, only Nintendo games were released, and only Nintendo games were bought, and pretty much everyone would buy the new Nintendo game, and Nintendo would get millions of sales for every single game.
Because it's never dug in the hoard of cash it made from the NES and SNES days either.
Don't worry about them, even if they come dead last worldwide with 10 million sales (which I highly doubt), they'll still be perfectly fine.
Oh, their stock would take a dive, no question about that.
Only PAL areas won't have any console. On the other hand, supply will be extremely short: Japan will only get 100.000 PS3 on launch day (fyi Nintendo sells between 120.000 and 190.000 DS Lites every week there, and only because they can't produce more than that, and Square's Final Fantasy III DS sold 330.000 on launch day), and North America will have 400.000 PS3 at launch...
Preorder yours now and sell it for a zillion bucks on ebay, I say.
No, it's because games are starting to fill DVDs and as a game developer I can tell you we'll need a lot more space pretty soon.
The only things I see filling my PC games DVDs are huge-ass textures and buttloads of crappy useless cinematics & cutscenes.
If Oblivion didn't hit anywhere near the DVD storage limit, i don't see how anyone but Square-Enix and their "15 minutes of cinematics for each 5 minutes of game" can get above...
I must say that even though I tried to find them as hard as I could, I still have to find tentacles and scantily clad schoolgirls in New Super Mario Bros, Animal Crossing or Brain Age.
And the numbers are also USA only, the charts would go much higher if they were, say, worldwide, or even Japanese only (for example no console game goes above 2.5m sales, in Japan the DS alone has 3 3-million sellers)
Sometimes JS is used to detect if you actually have flash (and have alternate content replaced by flash if you don't), or to check for your flash version (and display alternate content if your version isn't high enough) or to be able to lay HTML elements on top of flash, or... and because it's much easier to just call a script and a pair of JS functions than to fill 6 or 7 redundant lines of object and embed
Two widely used Flash integration scripts are Unobtrusive Flash Objects and SWFObject, check them out if you're interrested in web stuff.
yeah except that in the case "liberals" are the most right-wing, they'd be equivalent to US' GOP, except that Sweden's politics (and all of Europe's politics in fact) have a gravity center much farther "left" than the US'.
The potential for closed corporate forking is grounds for kicking and forking to GPL?
WTF? They didn't fork to GPL, they forked the last GPL'd version, because new versions are released under the CDDL which is specifically incompatible with the GPL. And Debian is based on releasing only GPL'd or GPL-compatibly-licensed softwares.
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Why do you need CPython when the reference CPython implementation has Windows binaries, and has had them for years?
CPython's limitation at that level is the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock). I don't think IronPython has a lock since it compiles directly to CLI instead of being a python VM coded in C# or whatever. So IronPython probably has a better threading SMP than CPython.
CPython runs just fine on SMP though, the "quirk" is that you're supposed to use several Python processes instead of Python threads.
Larry doesn't need to code anymore
Tell firefox to stop loading the fucking applets, tada, problem solved.
And noone can say that Python doesn't run easily on Windows box with py2exe, a virus was recently written in Python and bundled via py2exe!
How's that for running on win32?
Wrong, Python is a general purpose strongly, dynamically, implicitly typed programming language. It's multiparadigmatic with a fairly tight object orientation, implicitly compiles to bytecode and can trivially include third-party languages or be included in C/C++ software.
Python is far from being a mere "scripting language", whatever that may mean.
Yeah right.
60 hours of recorded comments? Getting old real quick? WTF?
Likewise in Europe, SCEE had just started the PR machine and ads a few days ago, stores were starting to take preorders and all.
Some people feel the pain already.
You missspelt "$69.99"
And these are the cheap ones, seems like some games might reach $90...
Their first CD-player was a very fine unit back in the 80'. I have one I got from my father, and it still runs perfectly fine. It even reads burned CD-R perfectly.
Beefed up gamecube with brand new CPU and GPU? Give me a break.
Or 1080p. Indeed, the aim of the Wii is that every game runs at 60fps in 480p.
"Look fine"?
The GameCube was the most powerful console of it's generation (just compare RE4/Wii and RE4/PS2). And remember that the PS3 and the Xbox360 need to be hugely powerful to display watchable graphics, because they're running from 720p to 1080p. You need much less graphics power to display amazing games in 480p.
Every Wii conf has been with Wiis hooked up to HDTV, and I haven't heard much about the so called crappy graphics of the Wii (unless it was in Wii Sports, which isn't quite supposed to display amazing graphics).
Of course we'll know when we see them, but I'm confident that the Wii will be more than enough capable.
Uh? How are these things not game console related?
They probably wouldn't care any way.
Because Nintendo is sitting on a fucking huge pile of cash, because they never lost any money in their whole history (which includes the console-gaming part).
Because 15 years of Game Boy and 2 years of DS along with hugely popular first-party games made them more money than Microsoft could ever lose on an Xbox iteration
Because even though the sales were not quite high they still made a benefit out of the N64 and GC hardware sales alone
Because since third-party weren't interrested in the N64 and GC games, only Nintendo games were released, and only Nintendo games were bought, and pretty much everyone would buy the new Nintendo game, and Nintendo would get millions of sales for every single game.
Because it's never dug in the hoard of cash it made from the NES and SNES days either.
Don't worry about them, even if they come dead last worldwide with 10 million sales (which I highly doubt), they'll still be perfectly fine.
Oh, their stock would take a dive, no question about that.
But they'd still be perfectly fine.
Oh yeah, and I forgot that one: we still don't know the ratio of Core vs Premium at launch day in JP or US.
Since this is Sony after all, they'll probably go with 50% Core...
Only PAL areas won't have any console. On the other hand, supply will be extremely short: Japan will only get 100.000 PS3 on launch day (fyi Nintendo sells between 120.000 and 190.000 DS Lites every week there, and only because they can't produce more than that, and Square's Final Fantasy III DS sold 330.000 on launch day), and North America will have 400.000 PS3 at launch...
Preorder yours now and sell it for a zillion bucks on ebay, I say.
The only things I see filling my PC games DVDs are huge-ass textures and buttloads of crappy useless cinematics & cutscenes.
If Oblivion didn't hit anywhere near the DVD storage limit, i don't see how anyone but Square-Enix and their "15 minutes of cinematics for each 5 minutes of game" can get above...
Because it'll actually be less than $250 and it'll have something called "fun games" running on it?
Yeah, first thing that came to my mind, didn't do much
I must say that even though I tried to find them as hard as I could, I still have to find tentacles and scantily clad schoolgirls in New Super Mario Bros, Animal Crossing or Brain Age.
Could I know the way to get to them?
And the numbers are also USA only, the charts would go much higher if they were, say, worldwide, or even Japanese only (for example no console game goes above 2.5m sales, in Japan the DS alone has 3 3-million sellers)
Print link because, seriously, 10 words/page just so they can display more ads is annoying
Sometimes JS is used to detect if you actually have flash (and have alternate content replaced by flash if you don't), or to check for your flash version (and display alternate content if your version isn't high enough) or to be able to lay HTML elements on top of flash, or... and because it's much easier to just call a script and a pair of JS functions than to fill 6 or 7 redundant lines of object and embed
Two widely used Flash integration scripts are Unobtrusive Flash Objects and SWFObject, check them out if you're interrested in web stuff.
Wait, wouldn't that brand all of the GOP-supporter GWBush backers "immature whinny little fuckheads"?
yeah except that in the case "liberals" are the most right-wing, they'd be equivalent to US' GOP, except that Sweden's politics (and all of Europe's politics in fact) have a gravity center much farther "left" than the US'.
Oh wait, maybe that was your point?
WTF? They didn't fork to GPL, they forked the last GPL'd version, because new versions are released under the CDDL which is specifically incompatible with the GPL. And Debian is based on releasing only GPL'd or GPL-compatibly-licensed softwares.
It's actually pretty cool, no one could ever have guessed how he'd die.