Mark, you are demonstrating a habit of making sweeping pronouncements
and assertions; and then, when those statements are challenged, you
act as though you never said them.
Here's a characteristic example:
Mark H Harris writes:
> On 3/30/14 10:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Mark H Harris wr
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Mark H Harris wrote:
> Unicode in python3.x is (mostly) working correctly. Congratulations to all
> who worked on it, hat is off. The problem with unicode is that it is just a
> specification. The consortium cannot force or code anything. They control
> the script
On 3/30/14 10:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
In 1991, there was no wireless, no mobile computing, hardly any public
Internet outside of the universities. It was before the Eternal
September, and only a few years after the Great Renaming.
I was using arpanet since the late 1970s.
Python had
On Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:16:06 PM UTC-5, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 03/30/2014 05:16 PM, D. Xenakis wrote:
>
> > What i need is to develop an android looking program (entirelly in
> > python) for windows, but dunno if this is possible (most propably
> > is), and which tool between those would h
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Mark H Harris wrote:
>
> The main point of the link is the status on English as an official language.
> 28 out of 50 states have legislated English as the official language;
> meaning, that you either speak and write English, or you're going to have a
> really toug
On 3/31/14 12:05 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
What say you? We all type in our own language, and everyone else gets to
read it in their own language. Its kinda like the day of Pentecost (except
that its print instead of audio).
And Pentecost required direct intervention of the all-powerful God o
On 3/30/14 1:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The most recent US census found there are 38.5 million people in the US
who primarily speak Spanish, and 45 million who speak it as their first
or second language. In comparison, there are only an estimated 11 million
illegal immigrants (of which only 7
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Mark H Harris wrote:
> As long as I'm passing along my dreams to everyone, we also need a universal
> translator on the uptake. In other words, everyone inputs from a universal
> encoder, and every browser has the option of on-demand translation (or not).
> Its a l
On 3/30/14 5:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Approximately 5% of the US population either do not speak English at all,
or speak it poorly. That includes approximately half a million ASL
speakers (American Sign Language, which is not a manual representation of
English but an independent language in
On 3/30/14 5:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:48:27 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
Don't be silly, Steven, it doesn't become you.
Given the sorts of patronising, condescending things you insist are true
about non-Americans, such as their supposed inability to communicate
On 03/30/2014 05:16 PM, D. Xenakis wrote:
> What i need is to develop an android looking program (entirelly in
> python) for windows, but dunno if this is possible (most propably
> is), and which tool between those would help me most: tkinter -
> wxpython - pyqt - pygtk .
>
> Any examples and sugg
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:32:58 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, there is no good word for "USA-ian". "United States
>> Citizen" is too long and awkward and "United Statesian" is ridiculous.
>> The common usage of "American" for this is at best ambiguous, and
On 2014-03-30 23:57, Rhodri James wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:44:13 +0100, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:32:58 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote:
Unfortunately, there is no good word for "USA-ian". "United States
Citizen" is too long and awkward and "United Statesian" is ridiculou
Id like to ask.. do you know any modern looking GUI examples of windows
software written in python? Something like this maybe:
http://techreport.com/r.x/asus-x79deluxe/software-oc.jpg (or hopefully
something like this android look:
http://chromloop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Skype-4.0-Andro
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:44:13 +0100, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:32:58 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote:
Unfortunately, there is no good word for "USA-ian". "United States
Citizen" is too long and awkward and "United Statesian" is ridiculous.
The common usage of "American" for th
Roy Smith wrote:
Adding to the
confusion, many designs would use "active low" logic, which means a 1
was represented by a low voltage, and a 0 by a high voltage. So, you
quickly end up with gibberish like, "not active low clear nand not
active low enable clock".
There are ways of dealing wi
On 03/30/2014 12:05 PM, mtcpl...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi I have 3 csv files with a list of 5 items in each.
rainfall in mm, duration time,time of day,wind speed, date.
I am trying to compare the files. cutting out items in list list. ie:-
first file (rainfall2012.csv)rainfall, duration,time of d
> Hi I have 3 csv files with a list of 5 items in each.
> rainfall in mm, duration time,time of day,wind speed, date.
> I am trying to compare the files. cutting out items in list list. ie:-
> first file (rainfall2012.csv)rainfall, duration,time of day,wind speed,date.
> first file (rainfall2013.cs
>
> I am trying to compare the files. cutting out items in list list. ie:-
> first file (rainfall2012.csv)rainfall, duration,time of day,wind
> speed,date.
> first file (rainfall2013.csv)rainfall, duration,time of day,wind
> speed,date.
> I would like to pick out maybe rainfalls and duration's and
Hi I have 3 csv files with a list of 5 items in each.
rainfall in mm, duration time,time of day,wind speed, date.
I am trying to compare the files. cutting out items in list list. ie:-
first file (rainfall2012.csv)rainfall, duration,time of day,wind speed,date.
first file (rainfall2013.csv)rainfal
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:22:55 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
> On 3/29/14 12:53 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> People have had localised code pages, and localised keyboards to enter
>> characters in those code pages, for up to 30 years, if not longer.
>
> Nobody is arguing otherwise, Steven.
It
On Mar 30, 2014 9:26 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" <
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:21:29 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
> > from a computer historical standpoint too. I mean, think
> > about it, computers have only existed since late 1940s and only in their
> > modern
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:21:29 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
> On 3/29/14 1:03 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> http://forum.ecomstation.ru/
>>
>> Prominent discussion forum, although that strives to be at least
>> partially bilingual in deference to those of us who are so backward as
>> to speak only
On 2014-03-30 13:21, Roy Smith wrote:
In article <5337b4e4$0$29994$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I think Johannes got it right: boolean logic is easier to reason about
when there is a minimum of "not"s.
I used to do a lot of digital logic design. In certain l
In article <5337b4e4$0$29994$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I think Johannes got it right: boolean logic is easier to reason about
> when there is a minimum of "not"s.
I used to do a lot of digital logic design. In certain logic families,
it's easier to build a
In article ,
Larry Hudson wrote:
> I believe the point is your generalized use of "American". After all,
> Mexicans are Americans too, as well as Canadians, Peruvians and ...
>
> Unfortunately, there is no good word for "USA-ian".
I believe Mexicans refer to us as "norteamericanos" in polite
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Network effects explain why, out of the six or seven thousand languages
> in the world, just thirteen account for more than half the world's
> population:
>
> 1) Mandarin
> 2) Spanish
> 3) English
> 4) Hindi
> 5) Arabic
> 6) Portuguese
> 7)
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:32:58 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote:
> Unfortunately, there is no good word for "USA-ian". "United States
> Citizen" is too long and awkward and "United Statesian" is ridiculous.
> The common usage of "American" for this is at best ambiguous, and
> definitely inaccurate (as we
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:48:27 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
> On 3/30/14 1:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. We have people here
>>> from all over the earth, and enough illegal immigrants speaking
>>> Spanish to account for a population about the size o
Gregory Ewing :
> a != b != c
>
> does *not* imply that a != c. At least it doesn't in Python; I've
> never seen any mathematicians write that, so I don't know what they
> would make of it.
Any resemblance between mathematics notation and Python is purely
coincidental. I must admit I had missed
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
>> The problem isn't that I can't see what the comparisons are. It makes
>> very good sense to bound a variable within constants; but you already
>> know exactly where 2 is on the number line, so asking "Is 2 between
>>
On 03/29/2014 10:52 PM, Mark H Harris wrote:
On 3/29/14 10:45 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 29/03/2014 08:21, Mark H Harris wrote:
Yes. Well, as the joke goes, if you're trilingual you speak three
languages, if you're bilingual you speak two languages, if you're
monolingual you're an America
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