Show me your proof that we are the only intelligent life in the Galaxy... or the Universe? I won't leave you hanging... you CAN'T prove it, because it is IMPOSSIBLE to prove that we are the only intelligent life out here.
Only because it's impossible to prove a negative. You also can't prove that aliens do exist, precisely because, to date, no one has said publicly that they have such evidence.
I don't doubt that extraterrestial intelligent life might and probably does exist, but without tangible proof that I can see with my own eyes, well, I can't say for certain that it does exist.
Well, since we haven't seen any just yet, we don't have any proof that aliens do or do not exist. Unless you want to get into conspiracy theories that make great X-Files episodes, but not very good science.
"Strong typing" and "weak typing" mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
Those who feel Python programs are difficult to maintain because they are not statically typed like Java or C don't get Python.
Consider:
(the 'return' line is idented even if you can't tell:))
versus:
>>> func("apples"," and oranges ", 3) 'apples and oranges apples and oranges apples and oranges '
But, also this:
>>> func ("apples","oranges","grapes") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<stdin>", line 2, in func TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'str'
What's important to understand is that there IS type checking, but you have to understand that ad-hoc polymorphism creates power. With power may come confusion, but that is the fault of the programmer, not the language.
I'm not sure if that was meant as a joke, but I happen to agree with you for the following reason: a programming language is successful when it opens up the field to low to mid grade programmers.
Indeed, this can happen in any language. Python 3.0 will break a whole slew of applications written in Python because of changes in syntax (the change in the syntax of the print statement comes to mind, in particular). PHP also made a number of changes from 3 to 4 to 5 that broke existing applications. I seem to remember the same thing happening with Visual Basic and Borland/Turbo Pascal as well.
They were inventors of COBOL, FORTRAN and LISP - three languages still in use from the 1950s.
Yes, only by people who either have finger worn down to stubs, have difficulty forming complete sentences, or have worn out the ( and ) keys on their keyboards.
What do you pay per KWH? The rule of thumb is that each 10W on your PSU will cost about 90 KWH per year, running around the clock.
So a 250/10 == 25
25*90 == 2250 KWH per year.
If you pay say, 6 cents per kwh:.06*2250 == $135 per year or $11.25 per month to run that 250W PSU 24 hours per day.
I leave other wattages as an exercise to the reader.
Err... I've read TFA and all I can see is that some guy would like to use spare Fedora cpu cycles for some sort of project but he doesn't know what and he's not really sure how. My immediate response is come back when you've got something concrete
Hmph. Sounds just like a PHB when they propose a new development project. "Well, see, we want to use [ SAP | Lotus Notes | Teamcenter | other complex technology here ], but we're not really sure how we'd use it.
For fsck's sake, if you don't already know HOW you would use something, you probably DON'T NEED IT!
Windows is not inevitable. The fact that it is ubiquitous only points to a failure of imagination, not some kind of natural law. There are systemss that work better, we wrote them, but widespread adoption outside of the open source community hasn't occurred yet.
Why? Hint: it's the same reason that the kyklos is ubiquitous.
Why present a false dichotomy? Are you so intellectually bankrupt and slavishly devoted to your dogma of greed-driven, unrestricted capitalism that you can't think up any possible alternatives?
Well, it's like Plato said... the eventual downfall of all republics is corruption, right? If you ask me, the viable alternatives -- pure democracy and pure communism -- exist only in theory.
I'm pretty sure it the outsourcing went to some place overseas. I recall once billing for some software support to the tune of $120.00
No. My step-son used to work there as well (laid off within the last 6 months or so), so I can say with confidence that Stream still does support outsourcing for Dell, and they still pull shit like this.
And I thought I wasted my money buying a HD-DVD writer. Now I've gone and wasted my money on an ordinary Blu-Ray writer.
Alright, I lied. I didn't buy either of those. In fact, I'm not going to buy this "rhodamine-type" enhanced backwards-compatible Blu-Ray drive, because that will soon be surpassed by a Super-deluxe backwards compatible "rhadamine-type" enhanced backwards-compatible Blu-Ray drive. To think I thought the race was over.
I dunno about you, but I'm still waiting for the dust to settle in the floppy disk wars; hence, I'm still doing my backups on 'datasettes'. BTW--anyone know where I can get these on sale? They're getting mighty expensive these days.
It's incorrect usage in U.S. English, but I believe in U.K. English (spoken in much of Europe and India and other former British Empire lands), the other way is correct.
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Yeah, but 1.7*5 is still only 8.5.
Well, since we haven't seen any just yet, we don't have any proof that aliens do or do not exist. Unless you want to get into conspiracy theories that make great X-Files episodes, but not very good science.
My question is -- why was the camera design disallowed? The fuel tanks, I get. The camera design, I don't.
Indeed, this can happen in any language. Python 3.0 will break a whole slew of applications written in Python because of changes in syntax (the change in the syntax of the print statement comes to mind, in particular). PHP also made a number of changes from 3 to 4 to 5 that broke existing applications. I seem to remember the same thing happening with Visual Basic and Borland/Turbo Pascal as well.
Three words: Unlike most people.
What do you pay per KWH? The rule of thumb is that each 10W on your PSU will cost about 90 KWH per year, running around the clock. So a 250/10 == 25 25*90 == 2250 KWH per year. If you pay say, 6 cents per kwh: .06*2250 == $135 per year or $11.25 per month to run that 250W PSU 24 hours per day.
I leave other wattages as an exercise to the reader.
Not to mention climate change prediction at home via climateprediction.net.
Two words: Automatic Updates,
Probably as in previous download counts, they are only counting downloads from Mozilla. As for Microsoft service packs, should a patch really count?
PLY, although this is an implementation of Flex/Yacc in Python.
What's the conversion for that in 'Volkswagen Beetles'?
It's incorrect usage in U.S. English, but I believe in U.K. English (spoken in much of Europe and India and other former British Empire lands), the other way is correct.