As for Ruby, I don't really follow its development or use it, but I was reading just the other day that they're really focused on finishing 1.9, which does byte-compiling and some optimization. The current version (like JS before spidermonkey, V8, and squirrelfish) walks and executes the AST (as I understand it), which is slooow.
Non free? I believe you mean they have a proprietary source code, as opposed to open source like firefox.
Safari is Open Source. Head over to WebKit.org and you can get the source via Subversion or browse it via Trac. It's licensed under a mix of LGPL and BSD licenses.
My source didn't mention Barr because he's not a sitting Senator in the 110th congress, therefore he can't very well miss votes in the Senate.
The post I was attempting to reply to said Obama only votes half the time. (Somehow it got attached to the parent instead of the child post I was replying to.) One of the Republican talking points about Obama is how many votes he has missed. (The implication being that he's lazy and inexperienced, I guess.) People who point out Obama's voting frequency tend to ignore that McCain has missed more, and in fact is the Senator who has missed the most votes.
I'd say McCain is relevant to the topic. He's also a sitting Senator who is running for President who could vote on this bill, but either a) won't if he doesn't want to seem to have a position (as people are accusing Obama) or b) vote Aye because he favors immunity.
I got Jython working on my new machine, and it's considerably better. Like, almost on par with CPython - modulo the fact that it's still quite behind feature-wise. It might be the JVM (1.5 before vs 1.6 now) helping. Also, IronPython has gotten worse at generators between Alpha6 and Beta2 somehow.
Test machine is 2GHz Core 2 Duo iMac with 4GB SDRAM running MacOS 10.5.3.
plus, even though the jython library version is out-of-date, it still makes c-python look like a snail - and i never thought i'd say that java is faster than c!
Bwuh? Here's a mini benchmark I did a few months ago out of curiosity. Take with as large a grain of salt as needed:
Timing test of creating a sequence of 10,000 items by for-loop, list comprehension, mapping a function, and generator comprehension. Test machine is 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo iMac with 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM running MacOS 10.4.11.
Jython is *by far* the slowest. I tried to rerun it just now with the newest version of all of them on my new machine, but I'm having java issues with Jython.
Yeah. Damn my Mac with its 4 button Mighty Mouse with vertical and horizontal scroll ball. It's so stone age!
Oh. Wait. It's at least as good as the 3 button plus scroll wheel Logitech mouse I have on my Linux box. I can use the middle button for new tabs on both computers.
Stein actually told the people he interviewed for the movie that he was making a completely different film (philosophy, I think)
How do you know this? (I don't know any different, but that's a pretty strong statement to make.)
Mark Mathis (the producer) and Ben Stein told many of the interviewees that it was for a documentary called "Crossroads: The Intersection of Science and Religion" "about the disconnect/controversy that exists in America between Evolution, Creationism and the Intelligent Design movement." Mathis even pretended to be pro-science.
NY has this requirement as well. I don't know anyone who tallies up all the mail-order purchases they make to report on their state taxes.
NY also has the option to pay a fixed amount based on your income. That's what I do. It's a lot easier than figuring out every place I bought something online and how much I paid, and probably well under what sales tax would've been.
As for your sig... you ARE aware that neither of the bushes, daddy or sonny are from Texas? They're from Tennessee last I heard. East coast northern socialists. Sure, Republicans are Democrat Lite, or Diet Socialists, but what did you expect, the people get what the people want... and they've learned, since school, to NOT pay attention to what they're told to ignore?
The Bush family is from OH (I admit sadly as an Ohioan), and later moved to CT.
And, uh, I don't know where you're getting your political spectrum from, because US politics are some of the most right wing and authoritarian in the industrialized world. If anything mainstream Democrats are Republican Lite, not the other way around.
And the Bush's were very right wing Republican industrialists. They made their money in banking, steel, and railroads. Prescott Bush *hated* FDR. And the only welfare George Bush Sr and Jr are interested in is corporate welfare.
IronPython runs on the.NET DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime), which is on top of the CLR. The DLR does dynamic types and dynamic dispatch, unlike the CLR. Apparently the DLR code lives in the IronPython tree for the moment, but when IronPython 2.0 is ready they're going to integrate and release the DLR into.NET along with a couple other dynamic languages.
Just for fun I tried Acid3 with a couple browsers (all MacOS 10.4.11): Firefox3 nightly from March 3rd: 66/100. (Second closest to the reference rendering.) Safari 3.0.4: 39/100. Opera 9.26: 46/100. (Looked the least like the reference rendering though.) Webkit nightly from March 4th: 87/100. (It also looked the closest to the reference rendering.)
Wireless works in XP. YMMV. We have an 802.11b/g/n access point that doesn't broadcast the SSID and set up to use WPA2 at work. Mac users select "Join Other Network", under the Airport menu at the top of the screen, put in the SSID, choose WPA2, put in the passphrase and are done. I think the shortest amount of time it's taken me to get a Windows user on is 10 minutes. And the fun part is that XP and Vista have very different wireless setup methods and I've also seen variation between the native version and programs the wireless card vendors install with the drivers that override the native way. Whee.
when it works. Seriously, apple suck at making their laptops wake from sleep a reasonable percentage of the time. Everyone I know with a mac complains about it. When it works sure, it is quite fast. But I shouldn't have to cross my fingers and toes and clench. Really? I've had my PowerBook for over 3 years. My wife has had hers for over 2. Every grad student in her primary department and almost every grad in her secondary department have Macs, mostly PowerBooks and MacBook Pros. I have had one instance in the whole time I've had my Powerbook where something screwy happened waking from sleep. From what I recall it was when I was running 10.3 and had plugged in a flash drive while it was asleep, and got a kernel panic when it woke up. Whatever the problem was it was resolved in the next point release. That's the only bad wakeup story I can think of from anyone I know. Not saying there are none, but I've not encountered any others. The reliability and speed of Macs sleeping and waking is one of the things that made me decide to get one in the first place.
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The only things I needed non FOSS tools for was the emulator, and SPSS for crunching the statistics, since I couldn't find an open source equivalent. (Believe me, I tried)
Have you never encountered R? It's been around at least 10 years. I first used it about 3 or 4 years ago in an intro to stats for engineers class, where the professor recommended it specifically because it was FOSS. My current boss does a ton of stats on a regular basis and loves R.
I'm quite sure that a Quad 2.66Ghz with 2GB of ram would be quite snappy in Vista too. Sadly, no. We have computer at work with Quad 2.66GHz processors, 4GB of RAM, a fairly current nVidia video card, and Vista Ultimate. And it's just at the cusp of usable. If I didn't know the specs I doubt I'd guess it was that powerful.
The Dual 1.8GHz iMac with 2GB of RAM (and a crappy Intel GMA video card) running OS 10.4 that I use is much snappier.
From what I can tell, the article is actually talking about Ohio University (If you look up University of Ohio on Wikipedia it redirects to Ohio University), which yes, has more of a reputation as a party school than anything, but is actually a pretty good school. Ohio State University also exists and has a similar name. I got a Bachelor's and a Master's degree there, and my department was one of the top ranked in the country in the field. (That being Linguistics, which depending on whose rankings you look at, OSU often beats MIT. Usually only Stanford or UMass is ahead.) OSU is ranked as the 19th best public university in the country, 57th best university in the country, and 66th worldwide.
I can't speak for Athens, but Columbus is a decent place to live, even in the campus area. Could be better. Could be much worse.
Also, I don't know if you noticed or not, but Blackwell got completely trounced in the last election. In fact, only one Republican won a statewide office last year in Ohio. They're fed up with the corruption.
...but there is a correct and incorrect way to speak.
your argument instills things like Ebonics, which is just a conscience effort to intentionally avoid learning proper English. No. There's not a thing right in your entire comment. Language is arbitrary. There are a number of dialects of English, which can be divided at several levels of granularity (e.g. at a coarse grained level, American vs Commonwealth English) where different things are considered grammatical or considered to be correct spellings. Everyone (with the exception of people with developmental problems or certain kinds of brain damage) speaks a grammatical language by adulthood. There are social factors that make certain dialects strongly preferable for formal use. But what is "correct" formally can even vary contextually. Almost every journal has its own style guide, newspapers have several style guides they can work from, different professions have their own expected styles, etc. There is no Platonic ideal English that you can pick out of the aether and call "correct English".
As for Ebonics, it was *not* an effort to "avoid learning proper English". It was about as far from that as possible. It was a program that recognized that in poor, urban, primarily black areas children were coming to school who spoke a dialect of English that is just as rule based and structured as Standard American English (SAE), but different enough from SAE that they were having trouble understanding and learning. It proposed teaching them in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in Kindergarten and slowly mainstreaming them into SAE. It was much like the successful system that is used in many school districts to help children who speak Spanish in the home get mainstreamed into English speaking classes over the course of elementary school.
Pidgin is GTK+(and GNOME by extension, though I run it on Windows) Actually, a nice thing the Gaim people did late last year is split out the IM backends into libgaim, so while Pidgin will continue to be GTK+ based, they've written an ncurses version called gaim-text, and the Adium people (who used to create their own libgaim) use it as their backend too.
Indeed, Microsoft intended that MSN would become the dominant network. After the book was written but before it hit bookstores, Gates recognized that the Internet was gaining the critical mass needed to drive it to dominance, and on December 7, 1995 -- just weeks after the release of the book -- he redirected Microsoft to become an Internet-focused company. Then he and coauthor Rinearson spent several months revising the book, making it 20,000 words longer and focused on the Internet.
the importance of not ending a sentence with a preposition. There's nothing wrong with ending a sentence in a preposition. It's called Dryden's Rule. John Dryden had a pet hate against ending sentences and somehow over the last several hundred years it has crept into a number of style guides as a hard and fast rule. But it flies completely in the face of English usage for over half a millennium. Apparently we do need better grammar education so people stop learning silly crap like that.
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I certainly hope he's not trying to blame that on Vista. That would mean it's Linux's fault winmodems don't work. He downloaded Microsoft's Vista Upgrade Advisor while he was still running XP. It told him he needed a new video card, to download the newest driver for his wifi card, and to update his antivirus software, but everything else was fine.
He upgrades to Vista and his webcam and soundcard don't work. In his situation, I'd be a bit miffed too.
You aren't actually missing anything with ST:TOS Remastered. No one has bought the HD version yet; they're all just buying the SD version with the new effects, cleaned up colors, etc. The HD episodes are huge and apparently local affiliates syndicating it don't have or can't afford to expend the disc space for them yet. Or just don't care enough about Star Trek. Some actual HD versions have been released on XBox Live from what I've heard, but they switch back and forth between widescreen for the new effects shots and pillarbox for the existing footage.
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They aren't providing a GUI for sshfs on macfuse anymore
I was disappointed about that too until I discovered MacFusion, which is like the sshfs GUI app, but does any FS that MacFUSE supports.
As someone mentioned above, try
from __future__ import braces
and see what happens. ;)
As for Ruby, I don't really follow its development or use it, but I was reading just the other day that they're really focused on finishing 1.9, which does byte-compiling and some optimization. The current version (like JS before spidermonkey, V8, and squirrelfish) walks and executes the AST (as I understand it), which is slooow.
Non free? I believe you mean they have a proprietary source code, as opposed to open source like firefox.
Safari is Open Source. Head over to WebKit.org and you can get the source via Subversion or browse it via Trac. It's licensed under a mix of LGPL and BSD licenses.
My source didn't mention Barr because he's not a sitting Senator in the 110th congress, therefore he can't very well miss votes in the Senate.
The post I was attempting to reply to said Obama only votes half the time. (Somehow it got attached to the parent instead of the child post I was replying to.) One of the Republican talking points about Obama is how many votes he has missed. (The implication being that he's lazy and inexperienced, I guess.) People who point out Obama's voting frequency tend to ignore that McCain has missed more, and in fact is the Senator who has missed the most votes.
I'd say McCain is relevant to the topic. He's also a sitting Senator who is running for President who could vote on this bill, but either a) won't if he doesn't want to seem to have a position (as people are accusing Obama) or b) vote Aye because he favors immunity.
I got Jython working on my new machine, and it's considerably better. Like, almost on par with CPython - modulo the fact that it's still quite behind feature-wise. It might be the JVM (1.5 before vs 1.6 now) helping. Also, IronPython has gotten worse at generators between Alpha6 and Beta2 somehow.
Test machine is 2GHz Core 2 Duo iMac with 4GB SDRAM running MacOS 10.5.3.
awatts@platypus:~$ python2.5 timerseqs.py
2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:17)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)]
forStatement => 4.59940099716
listComprehension => 2.38550591469
mapFunction => 1.92037510872
generatorExpression => 3.14438390732
awatts@platypus:/Applications/IronPython-2.0B2$ mono ipy.exe ~/timerseqs.py .NET 2.0.50727.42)
2.5.0 (IronPython 2.0 Beta (2.0.0.2000) on
forStatement => 9.48001098633
listComprehension => 6.89910125732
mapFunction => 5.57528686523
generatorExpression => 19.7973022461
Note: Jython doesn't support generator comprehensions ./jython ~/timerseqs.py
(With Java 1.6.0)
awatts@platypus:~/jython2.2.1$
2.2.1
forStatement => 6.0929999351501465
listComprehension => 3.7769999504089355
mapFunction => 1.6570000648498535
Obama has missed 42.7% of votes, McCain has missed 61%.
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Bwuh? Here's a mini benchmark I did a few months ago out of curiosity. Take with as large a grain of salt as needed:
Timing test of creating a sequence of 10,000 items by for-loop, list comprehension, mapping a function, and generator comprehension. Test machine is 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo iMac with 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM running MacOS 10.4.11.
awatts@lab1:~$ python2.4 timerseqs.py
2.4.4 (#1, Oct 18 2006, 10:34:39)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)]
forStatement => 4.00885510445
listComprehension => 2.35688495636
mapFunction => 1.81449890137
generatorExpression => 2.70679593086
awatts@lab1:~$ python2.5 timerseqs.py
2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)]
forStatement => 3.87032794952
listComprehension => 2.28621602058
mapFunction => 1.88603901863
generatorExpression => 2.94665503502
awatts@lab1:/Applications/IronPython-2.0A6$ mono ipy.exe ~/timerseqs.py .NET 2.0.50727.42)
2.5.0 (IronPython 2.0A6 (2.0.11102.00) on
forStatement => 10.0953903198
listComprehension => 7.43706512451
mapFunction => 5.51852416992
generatorExpression => 8.20207214355
Note: Jython doesn't support generator comprehensions ./jython ~/timerseqs.py
awatts@lab1:~/jython2.2.1$
2.2.1
forStatement => 20.13700008392334
listComprehension => 15.575999975204468
mapFunction => 10.496999979019165
Jython is *by far* the slowest. I tried to rerun it just now with the newest version of all of them on my new machine, but I'm having java issues with Jython.
Yeah. Damn my Mac with its 4 button Mighty Mouse with vertical and horizontal scroll ball. It's so stone age!
Oh. Wait. It's at least as good as the 3 button plus scroll wheel Logitech mouse I have on my Linux box. I can use the middle button for new tabs on both computers.
How do you know this? (I don't know any different, but that's a pretty strong statement to make.)
Mark Mathis (the producer) and Ben Stein told many of the interviewees that it was for a documentary called "Crossroads: The Intersection of Science and Religion" "about the disconnect/controversy that exists in America between Evolution, Creationism and the Intelligent Design movement." Mathis even pretended to be pro-science.NY also has the option to pay a fixed amount based on your income. That's what I do. It's a lot easier than figuring out every place I bought something online and how much I paid, and probably well under what sales tax would've been.
The Bush family is from OH (I admit sadly as an Ohioan), and later moved to CT.
And, uh, I don't know where you're getting your political spectrum from, because US politics are some of the most right wing and authoritarian in the industrialized world. If anything mainstream Democrats are Republican Lite, not the other way around.
And the Bush's were very right wing Republican industrialists. They made their money in banking, steel, and railroads. Prescott Bush *hated* FDR. And the only welfare George Bush Sr and Jr are interested in is corporate welfare.
IronPython runs on the .NET DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime), which is on top of the CLR. The DLR does dynamic types and dynamic dispatch, unlike the CLR. Apparently the DLR code lives in the IronPython tree for the moment, but when IronPython 2.0 is ready they're going to integrate and release the DLR into .NET along with a couple other dynamic languages.
Just for fun I tried Acid3 with a couple browsers (all MacOS 10.4.11):
Firefox3 nightly from March 3rd: 66/100. (Second closest to the reference rendering.)
Safari 3.0.4: 39/100.
Opera 9.26: 46/100. (Looked the least like the reference rendering though.)
Webkit nightly from March 4th: 87/100. (It also looked the closest to the reference rendering.)
The only things I needed non FOSS tools for was the emulator, and SPSS for crunching the statistics, since I couldn't find an open source equivalent. (Believe me, I tried)
Have you never encountered R? It's been around at least 10 years. I first used it about 3 or 4 years ago in an intro to stats for engineers class, where the professor recommended it specifically because it was FOSS. My current boss does a ton of stats on a regular basis and loves R.
The Dual 1.8GHz iMac with 2GB of RAM (and a crappy Intel GMA video card) running OS 10.4 that I use is much snappier.
In Latin, virus didn't even have a plural.
than the University of Ohio. It doesn't exist.
From what I can tell, the article is actually talking about Ohio University (If you look up University of Ohio on Wikipedia it redirects to Ohio University), which yes, has more of a reputation as a party school than anything, but is actually a pretty good school. Ohio State University also exists and has a similar name. I got a Bachelor's and a Master's degree there, and my department was one of the top ranked in the country in the field. (That being Linguistics, which depending on whose rankings you look at, OSU often beats MIT. Usually only Stanford or UMass is ahead.) OSU is ranked as the 19th best public university in the country, 57th best university in the country, and 66th worldwide.
I can't speak for Athens, but Columbus is a decent place to live, even in the campus area. Could be better. Could be much worse.
Also, I don't know if you noticed or not, but Blackwell got completely trounced in the last election. In fact, only one Republican won a statewide office last year in Ohio. They're fed up with the corruption.
...but there is a correct and incorrect way to speak.your argument instills things like Ebonics, which is just a conscience effort to intentionally avoid learning proper English. No. There's not a thing right in your entire comment. Language is arbitrary. There are a number of dialects of English, which can be divided at several levels of granularity (e.g. at a coarse grained level, American vs Commonwealth English) where different things are considered grammatical or considered to be correct spellings. Everyone (with the exception of people with developmental problems or certain kinds of brain damage) speaks a grammatical language by adulthood. There are social factors that make certain dialects strongly preferable for formal use. But what is "correct" formally can even vary contextually. Almost every journal has its own style guide, newspapers have several style guides they can work from, different professions have their own expected styles, etc. There is no Platonic ideal English that you can pick out of the aether and call "correct English".
As for Ebonics, it was *not* an effort to "avoid learning proper English". It was about as far from that as possible. It was a program that recognized that in poor, urban, primarily black areas children were coming to school who spoke a dialect of English that is just as rule based and structured as Standard American English (SAE), but different enough from SAE that they were having trouble understanding and learning. It proposed teaching them in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in Kindergarten and slowly mainstreaming them into SAE. It was much like the successful system that is used in many school districts to help children who speak Spanish in the home get mainstreamed into English speaking classes over the course of elementary school.
He upgrades to Vista and his webcam and soundcard don't work. In his situation, I'd be a bit miffed too.
You aren't actually missing anything with ST:TOS Remastered. No one has bought the HD version yet; they're all just buying the SD version with the new effects, cleaned up colors, etc. The HD episodes are huge and apparently local affiliates syndicating it don't have or can't afford to expend the disc space for them yet. Or just don't care enough about Star Trek. Some actual HD versions have been released on XBox Live from what I've heard, but they switch back and forth between widescreen for the new effects shots and pillarbox for the existing footage.