Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-17 Thread castironpi
On Feb 16, 2:59 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > On Feb 16, 1:39 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Aahz wrote: > >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >>> Jeff Schwab  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Feb 14, 10:50

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Jeff Schwab
Carl Banks wrote: > On Feb 16, 1:39 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Aahz wrote: >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Carl Banks
On Feb 16, 1:39 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aahz wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Steven D'Ap

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Jeff Schwab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> IHNTA, IJWTSA >> Thanks, but... That defines IHNTA, but not IJWTSA or IJWTW. "I just >> want to say...?" "I just want to watch?"- Hide quoted text - > > I just want to what? Exactly! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread castironpi
> IHNTA, IJWTSA > > Thanks, but... That defines IHNTA, but not IJWTSA or IJWTW.  "I just > want to say...?"  "I just want to watch?"- Hide quoted text - I just want to what? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Jeff Schwab
Aahz wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Schwab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? >>> I'm not sure tha

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-15 Thread castironpi
On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Steven D'Aprano  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: > > >> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > >I'm not sure that the Python interpreter act

QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-14 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: >> >> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > >I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream, but if it's >anything like me, it's probably

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-13 Thread castironpi
On Feb 13, 8:28 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:45:33 -0800, castironpi wrote: > > Fortran is better than what?  Ideal semantics beat pain and pleasure any > > day, they are practical goals. > > Okay, are you a bot or something? Almost all

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:45:33 -0800, castironpi wrote: > Fortran is better than what? Ideal semantics beat pain and pleasure any > day, they are practical goals. Okay, are you a bot or something? Almost all your posts in this thread have been slightly off: non sequitors like this response, or ju

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-13 Thread castironpi
On Feb 13, 10:14 am, Florian Diesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Feb 12, 2008 1:05 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > > Warren Myers wrote: > >> A Cray? > > >> What are you trying to do? "dream"

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-13 Thread Florian Diesch
Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 12, 2008 1:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > Warren Myers wrote: >> A Cray? >> >> What are you trying to do? "dream" hardware is a very wide question. > > The only "dream hardware" I know o

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-13 Thread castironpi
On Feb 13, 2:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Feb 13, 2:01 pm, Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Le Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi a écrit : > > > > What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > > Dream... I dont know, but hardware for the Python interpret

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20080213 02:36], Jeff Schwab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >*Oven-roasted* garlic? OK, that's just weird. Apologies for diverging even further: First time I ate at an Australian Outback (if I remember the name correctly) I got to experience the Blooming Onion. Now that was quite a 'wth' experi

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-13 Thread castironpi
On Feb 13, 2:01 pm, Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi a écrit : > > > What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > Dream... I dont know, but hardware for the Python interpreter, yes. > > http://www.telit.co.it/product.asp?productId

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-13 Thread Laurent Pointal
Le Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi a écrit : > What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? Dream... I dont know, but hardware for the Python interpreter, yes. http://www.telit.co.it/product.asp?productId=96 -- Laurent POINTAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread castironpi
On Feb 12, 7:31 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: > > >> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > > I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream, but if it's > > anything like m

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Ben Finney
Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *Oven-roasted* garlic? OK, that's just weird. Why, where do you roast your garlic? -- \"Crime is contagious ... if the government becomes a | `\lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law." -- Justice Louis | _o__)

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Jeff Schwab
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: > >> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream, but if it's > anything like me, it's probably a giant computer the size of a bus, made > out o

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread castironpi
On Feb 12, 4:51 pm, "Martin P. Hellwig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > > Jeff Schwab wrote: > > >> The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. > > > Nah. Too few storage capacity, and too slow and error-prone at > > simple calculations. The few special but ver

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Jeff Schwab wrote: > >> The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. > > Nah. Too few storage capacity, and too slow and error-prone at > simple calculations. The few special but very advanced features are > all hard-wired to custom hardware, it's a real ni

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Warren Myers
/me no longer wishes to know about your dreams. WMM On Feb 12, 2008 4:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: > > > What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread castironpi
On Feb 12, 3:42 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Jeff Schwab wrote: > > The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. > > Nah. Too few storage capacity, and too slow and error-prone at > simple calculations. The few special but very advanced features are > all hard-wired to custom hardwa

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: > What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream, but if it's anything like me, it's probably a giant computer the size of a bus, made out of broccoli and oven-roasted garlic,

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Jeff Schwab wrote: > The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. Nah. Too few storage capacity, and too slow and error-prone at simple calculations. The few special but very advanced features are all hard-wired to custom hardware, it's a real nightmare interfacing with it. Regards,

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread castironpi
On Feb 12, 2:15 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 12, 1:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > A 10 GHz single core. > > (Dual core if doing lots of I/O.) > > Carl Banks Handle a dual 6GHz core. Code sometimes happens in order

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Carl Banks
On Feb 12, 1:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? A 10 GHz single core. (Dual core if doing lots of I/O.) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread castironpi
On Feb 12, 1:03 pm, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > > The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain.  I have a > > slightly used one myself, and it's a  pretty mediocre Python interpreter. > > the human brain may be a pretty

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Tim Chase
>>> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. I have a > slightly used one myself, and it's a pretty mediocre Python interpreter. the human brain may be a pretty mediocre Python interpreter, but darn if I don't miss >>> im

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread castironpi
On Feb 12, 12:31 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2008 1:05 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > Warren Myers wrote: > >  > A Cray? >  > >  > What are you trying to do? "dream" hardware is a very wide question. > > The on

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Jeff Schwab
> On Feb 12, 2008 1:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? Warren Myers wrote: > A Cray? > > What are you trying to do? "dream" hardware is a very wide question. The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. I have a slightly used

Re: dream hardware

2008-02-12 Thread Warren Myers
A Cray? What are you trying to do? "dream" hardware is a very wide question. WMM On Feb 12, 2008 1:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://warrenmyers.com "God may not play