Re: Important Research Project

2007-08-30 Thread CBFalconer
rather OT. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. http://cbfalconer.home.att.net -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

2007-07-03 Thread CBFalconer
://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/423 http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit043.html cbfalconer at maineline dot net -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

2007-07-01 Thread CBFalconer
, it is not even quanticized. -- http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/423 http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit043.html cbfalconer at maineline dot net -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-09 Thread CBFalconer
assurance of privacy. Failure to monitor the various news-groups for suitability. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. http://cbfalconer.home.att.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Earthquake and Tornado Forecasting Programs June 13, 2006

2006-06-13 Thread CBFalconer
Frank Silvermann wrote: [snip] I look forward to a day when meteorology has more to do with precise models than models, although I'm all for Russian-style delivery of such data. I forecast that a lot of people will be surprised by the weather today, as they are categorical idiots, as is

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-26 Thread CBFalconer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snip ... Same applies to most newsfeeds, depending on retention. If you want to look a long way back in a thread, use Google Groups. Except for those anti-social zealots who use an X-noarchive header. -- If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com,

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread CBFalconer
Mike Schilling wrote: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Mike Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: l v [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Xah Lee wrote: (circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995), I think e-mail should be text only. I have both my email

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread CBFalconer
Chris Head wrote: ... snip ... Why can't we use the Web for what it was meant for: viewing hypertext pages? Why must we turn it into a wrapper around every application imaginable? Because the Lord High PoohBah (Bill) has so decreed. He has replaced General bullMoose. -- Chuck F ([EMAIL

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread CBFalconer
Gordon Burditt wrote: HTML is designed to degrade gracefully (never mind that most web authors and many browser developers don't seem to comprehend this), so you don't really need a subset html to get the safety features you want. All you need to do is disable the appropriate features in

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-12 Thread CBFalconer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In comp.lang.perl.misc Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other class of jargon stupidity is from computing practitioners, of which the Unix/Perl community is exemplary. For example, the name Unix Perl themselves are good examples of buzzing jargons. Unix is

Re: What is Expresiveness in a Computer Language?

2005-07-11 Thread CBFalconer
Paul Bilnoski wrote: The barbar generals will just grunt while the French generals will inspire with some poetic invocation. For auction: One authentic French army-issued rifle. Only dropped once. What has that got to do with the king of the elephants? -- If you want to post a followup

Re: Python docs [was: function with a state]

2005-03-24 Thread CBFalconer
Martin Ambuhl wrote: Xah Lee wrote: The Python doc is relatively lousy, from content organization to the tech writing quality. I think i'll just post snippets of my comments as i find them. (and feel like exposing) The cross-posting idiot is back. Next he'll be posting his readings

Re: how to write a tutorial

2005-01-23 Thread CBFalconer
Xah Lee wrote: ... snip ... the first paragraph of 9.1 A Word About Terminology is epitome of masturbation. The entire 9.1 is not necessary. Large part of 9.2 Python Scopes and Name Spaces is again masturbatory. PLONK for excessive OT crossposting and trolling. -- If you want to post

Re: how to write a tutorial

2005-01-21 Thread CBFalconer
Xah Lee wrote: i've started to read python tutorial recently. http://python.org/doc/2.3.4/tut/tut.html Here are some quick critique: This has absolutely nothing to do with c.l.c, nor most of the cross-posted groups. F'ups set. Why did you do such a foul cross-posting in the first place.