And as I writhe in my guilty agony, frantic to save the city whose peril every moment grows, and vainly striving to shake off this unnatural dream of a house of stone and brick south of a sinister swamp and a cemetary on a low hillock; the Pole Star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing, save that it once had a message to convey.
-- H.P. Lovecraft
As you said, document. If that fails, instead of writing a mass of if type(..) statements, you could always write your own decorators (like @classmethod and friends):
If you do this, you could control precisely what happens at runtime. This is one of the great new features in Python:) Of course, there's a downside - it only gets checked at runtime.
It's a shame there isn't a (-1, Convoluted Nietzcheism) score. I mean, really?
Assuming that's even true, it only really applies to North America and Western Europe. And even then only to the urbanised areas. As another post said - what other effects does this gene have? Are they desirable?
The EU regularly overturns rulings (and thus laws) in member states. A lot of law is now being decided solely at the EU level, although citizens are still apathetic, at best, towards it. Most 'enforcement' is through fines, currently, and it is not a federal system!
If this law is to ratified by the European Parliament (which is a very diverse chamber, with groups from the far-left to far-right, shifting alliances, and a good level of discourse), it will apply to all member states.
"It's much like the UN, which is a totally lame organization and always has been, but that's not the point."
That's just your opinion, and if you don't think it's the point, don't mention it.
The parent is insightful? Read the spec and find a use of binary data.
This will neither break existing (well-designed) readers, nor be 'evil'. In fact, it seems like a good idea. I'll only use it in the workplace, where it belongs, mind.
I've been wondering for a while about the posibilities for Debian-based systems in the workplace, and here are a few things I've come up with:
- Package repositories on a corporate server - Instead of 'contrib'/'multiverse' etc., group packages by the department/team that will need them. For example, 'base' (for all systems, all packages must be installed), 'developers', 'finance', 'power-users' etc. - The desktop team can vet packages for stability etc. before they are sent to all systems during the quarterly/monthly updates. - By-pass dpkg's configuration stage using pre-built configs. - Run 'aptitude dist-upgrade' as a cron-job scheduled once per day to catch any important security updates.
Obviously, this targets large businesses, but I've never heard of anyone considering something like this. If I've missed anything super-important, please correct me before I ever try to implement it:)
John walks into the room, yawning, and picks up a mug of coffee. Garfield: No, don't do it John! John takes a sip and promptly collapses, asleep. Garfield: I warned you! That was decaf...
You're right. I remember Lenin wrote something along the lines of "From each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs." Where's the part promoting laziness there? In another book by Lenin, although I'm sure he was paraphrasing this time - "No work, no food".
Mebbe some research, instead of what you were taught in school, would help here?
This is just a press release rehashed by the Guardian into a 'news' article. No investigation has been done at all, and I doubt the 'journalist' spoke to the scientists she 'quotes' at the end of the article.
The point is moot anyway. Under the current system, big donors that want to remain anonymous leverage their friends and business associates to make donations up to (as an example) $1000 each. Even if this bill goes through, I find it likely this practice will continue, as it would still serve the politicians/donors if they remained anonymous.
At least it's not 'Manga' [sic] doing the dubbing/subtitles, anyone else remember how they managed to translate 'Phoenix' (Japanese, quite clearly audible as it didn't change between languages) into 'never die bird' in the subs?
95% is an overstatement. Even within that group is divided between people willing to take to the streets, and the majority who "Really agree with you, but, we've got to get home, the football's on." Also, speak for your own media, over here in the UK we did a pretty good job of investigating the issue. Of course, someone got a little too close to the truth, then his source commited suicide, after an intensive government smear campaign, and effort to leak his name.
Maybe a better example of censorship to use would have been the veto, by the government, on the coverage of body-bags flying back to the US?
> and they are trying to pass between the lines that you still need > protection, no matter what browser you use, and anyway, changing the > browser will not make you safe.
Of course it won't.
> (but a good antivirus/antispam/antiinternet/antiusingyourcompu te > will)
Of course that's true, but these companies (for the most part) that are doing the sponsoring, aren't the same ones that are selling the products. Sure, the price of J&J products may would rise from the cost incurred - but what the hell would most gamers care about soap?
There are plenty of articles on Slashdot about how game prices are rising anyway, but that's unrelated to sponsorship.
You're obviously no gamer. The extra buttons on my old mouse were invaluable. Sensitivity up/down, a quick 'escape' button to get me out of whatever menu I'm in, and whatever host of binds I find useful for the current game. All the things that are too important to have to wait a second while I figure out where my left hand is (no jokes).
Sure, the average computer user will never have a use for these buttons, but gamers will, and with more and more complex games, I want all the buttons I can get.
But perhaps the same sale figures are deflated somewhat by the fact that a lot of people who wanted a PSP will have already had one imported - like me, from Hong Kong or America/Canada.
The global sales figures will be the only interesting ones here (unless you're an economist) - the same applies to games.
Unfortunately, the plane would burn up due to lack of shielding, and/or the pilots would die as a result of radiation poisoning, before they ever found an appropriate place to play Wings CDs...
I agree with a lot of the material covered in the linked article, but not with the conclusion.
Therefore, kings are less likely than presidents to misuse the wealth of their country; the hereditary sovereign will want to avoid exploiting his subjects so heavily...as to reduce his future earnings potential to such an extent that the present value of his estate actually falls.
True, but wouldn't the people themselves, if allowed to rule, have an even greater desire to improve conditions in the long term? The "most profound national instinct."
Not voting isn't always indicative of laziness. In the recent general/council elections in the UK I intentionally spoiled my ballot paper. Some (a majority? It really can't be idleness) people, recognising that they don't support either the system or any of its participants would not think to spoil their paper. They were counted as apathetic, and once more the politicians feigned caring.
We
recently
had a spot of bother
trying out new voting methods ourselves. Politicians and political parties were willing to conspire to commit fraud knowing they could be caught by some simple checking.
What do you think politicians who are almost certain they won't be caught will do?
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but in at most two years time I'll definitely have another dedicated Linux machine - one that used to run OS X.
Maybe I'm reading all this incorrectly, but I don't intend on running applications through a compatability layer, no matter how pretty a name it has. Sooo.. OS X on my Intel, Linux on my PPC. Anyone?
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And as I writhe in my guilty agony, frantic to save the city whose peril every moment grows, and vainly striving to shake off this unnatural dream of a house of stone and brick south of a sinister swamp and a cemetary on a low hillock; the Pole Star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing, save that it once had a message to convey. -- H.P. Lovecraft
As you said, document. If that fails, instead of writing a mass of if type(..) statements, you could always write your own decorators (like @classmethod and friends):
:) Of course, there's a downside - it only gets checked at runtime.
@parameters(list, int, int)
def my_function(data, transform, delta):
pass
If you do this, you could control precisely what happens at runtime. This is one of the great new features in Python
It's a shame there isn't a (-1, Convoluted Nietzcheism) score. I mean, really?
Assuming that's even true, it only really applies to North America and Western Europe. And even then only to the urbanised areas. As another post said - what other effects does this gene have? Are they desirable?
Don't worry yourself, I'm sure the PATRIOT act has them covered.
No, you're confusing them with Manga.
Not quite...
The EU regularly overturns rulings (and thus laws) in member states. A lot of law is now being decided solely at the EU level, although citizens are still apathetic, at best, towards it. Most 'enforcement' is through fines, currently, and it is not a federal system!
If this law is to ratified by the European Parliament (which is a very diverse chamber, with groups from the far-left to far-right, shifting alliances, and a good level of discourse), it will apply to all member states.
"It's much like the UN, which is a totally lame organization and always has been, but that's not the point."That's just your opinion, and if you don't think it's the point, don't mention it.
The parent is insightful? Read the spec and find a use of binary data.
This will neither break existing (well-designed) readers, nor be 'evil'. In fact, it seems like a good idea. I'll only use it in the workplace, where it belongs, mind.
I've been wondering for a while about the posibilities for Debian-based systems in the workplace, and here are a few things I've come up with:
:)
- Package repositories on a corporate server
- Instead of 'contrib'/'multiverse' etc., group packages by the department/team that will need them. For example, 'base' (for all systems, all packages must be installed), 'developers', 'finance', 'power-users' etc.
- The desktop team can vet packages for stability etc. before they are sent to all systems during the quarterly/monthly updates.
- By-pass dpkg's configuration stage using pre-built configs.
- Run 'aptitude dist-upgrade' as a cron-job scheduled once per day to catch any important security updates.
Obviously, this targets large businesses, but I've never heard of anyone considering something like this. If I've missed anything super-important, please correct me before I ever try to implement it
From Garfield sometime...
John walks into the room, yawning, and picks up a mug of coffee.
Garfield: No, don't do it John!
John takes a sip and promptly collapses, asleep.
Garfield: I warned you! That was decaf...
You're right. I remember Lenin wrote something along the lines of "From each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs." Where's the part promoting laziness there? In another book by Lenin, although I'm sure he was paraphrasing this time - "No work, no food". Mebbe some research, instead of what you were taught in school, would help here?
This is just a press release rehashed by the Guardian into a 'news' article. No investigation has been done at all, and I doubt the 'journalist' spoke to the scientists she 'quotes' at the end of the article.
Nothing to see here, move along.
The point is moot anyway. Under the current system, big donors that want to remain anonymous leverage their friends and business associates to make donations up to (as an example) $1000 each. Even if this bill goes through, I find it likely this practice will continue, as it would still serve the politicians/donors if they remained anonymous.
All we need now is a good definition for the MAFIAA acronym to would accurately represent the MPAA/RIAA/etc.'s self-serving extortionist nature.
Music and Film Indictment Axis of America ?
At least it's not 'Manga' [sic] doing the dubbing/subtitles, anyone else remember how they managed to translate 'Phoenix' (Japanese, quite clearly audible as it didn't change between languages) into 'never die bird' in the subs?
Maybe they just use babelfish...?
95% is an overstatement. Even within that group is divided between people willing to take to the streets, and the majority who "Really agree with you, but, we've got to get home, the football's on." Also, speak for your own media, over here in the UK we did a pretty good job of investigating the issue. Of course, someone got a little too close to the truth, then his source commited suicide, after an intensive government smear campaign, and effort to leak his name.
Maybe a better example of censorship to use would have been the veto, by the government, on the coverage of body-bags flying back to the US?
> and they are trying to pass between the lines that you still need
u te
> protection, no matter what browser you use, and anyway, changing the
> browser will not make you safe.
Of course it won't.
> (but a good antivirus/antispam/antiinternet/antiusingyourcomp
> will)
Safer, at least.
Of course that's true, but these companies (for the most part) that are doing the sponsoring, aren't the same ones that are selling the products. Sure, the price of J&J products may would rise from the cost incurred - but what the hell would most gamers care about soap?
There are plenty of articles on Slashdot about how game prices are rising anyway, but that's unrelated to sponsorship.
If only it was a pre-emptive Duke-ular strike - world peace would ensue while we waited.
You're obviously no gamer. The extra buttons on my old mouse were invaluable. Sensitivity up/down, a quick 'escape' button to get me out of whatever menu I'm in, and whatever host of binds I find useful for the current game. All the things that are too important to have to wait a second while I figure out where my left hand is (no jokes).
Sure, the average computer user will never have a use for these buttons, but gamers will, and with more and more complex games, I want all the buttons I can get.
But perhaps the same sale figures are deflated somewhat by the fact that a lot of people who wanted a PSP will have already had one imported - like me, from Hong Kong or America/Canada. The global sales figures will be the only interesting ones here (unless you're an economist) - the same applies to games.
But I haven't got a couch, you insensitive clod!
Unfortunately, the plane would burn up due to lack of shielding, and/or the pilots would die as a result of radiation poisoning, before they ever found an appropriate place to play Wings CDs...
In that case, I wonder how many read Slashdot? Posters beware ;)
True, but wouldn't the people themselves, if allowed to rule, have an even greater desire to improve conditions in the long term? The "most profound national instinct."
Not voting isn't always indicative of laziness. In the recent general/council elections in the UK I intentionally spoiled my ballot paper. Some (a majority? It really can't be idleness) people, recognising that they don't support either the system or any of its participants would not think to spoil their paper. They were counted as apathetic, and once more the politicians feigned caring.
We recently had a spot of bother trying out new voting methods ourselves. Politicians and political parties were willing to conspire to commit fraud knowing they could be caught by some simple checking.
What do you think politicians who are almost certain they won't be caught will do?I don't know about the rest of you guys, but in at most two years time I'll definitely have another dedicated Linux machine - one that used to run OS X.
Maybe I'm reading all this incorrectly, but I don't intend on running applications through a compatability layer, no matter how pretty a name it has. Sooo.. OS X on my Intel, Linux on my PPC. Anyone?