Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?!

d *down*load data to your phone or tablet. If the devices are of comparable size and power, you aren't upping or downing anything - you're just transferring data from one computer to another. I suppose we could say "crossloading"? -- Richard Heathfield Email: rjh at cpax d

Re: Fascinating interview by Richard Stallman on Russia TV

u must be an idiot, that's entirely up to you, but I would take it as a personal favour if you could be an idiot *somewhere else*. If you don't like GNU software, fine - don't use it. End of problem. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ &qu

Re: More stuff added to ch 2 of my programming intro

d you even > think about that?). > > Unfortunately one then also get responses from trolls, small kids, > idiots, etc.. In my experience, mensanator doesn't usually behave trollishly. Perhaps he's just rubbing you up the wrong way accidentally. It might be worth it for both yo

Re: Does turtle graphics have the wrong associations?

n. The gap between nought and one is much greater than the gap between one and a thousand. > It's like > the difference between driving a car and designing one. You don't > need an engineering degree to drive a car. :-) Right. Nowadays, you need a degree in electronics ins

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

, so every book /should/ have an errata list - at least until such time as an author can correct errors in already-sold books. That not every book does have such a list is therefore of some concern. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ "Usenet is

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

But why should you have to? > > As opposed to...? Something you can grep. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line vacant - apply within -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

In , Richard Heathfield wrote: > In <7ku6jhf3a23e...@mid.individual.net>, osmium wrote: >> >> In some cultures, implying that someone is illiterate suggests "not >> smart". > > I don't see that at all. Babies are illiterate. Nobody knows wheth

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

In <7ku6jhf3a23e...@mid.individual.net>, osmium wrote: > "Richard Heathfield" wrote: > >>> if the OP had just been smarter. >> >> Er, no, I didn't have that in mind at all. > > In some cultures, implying that someone is illiterate sugges

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

In <7ktsj6f3bciq...@mid.individual.net>, osmium wrote: > "Richard Heathfield" wrote: > >> A man who cannot express what he needs to express /without/ >> resorting to .pdf format is computer-illiterate. > > What format do you suggest? Firstly, I want to

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

larly enjoy relying on proprietary non-text formats, however, is not crippled, just cautious. A man who cannot express what he needs to express /without/ resorting to .pdf format is computer-illiterate. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ "Usenet is a

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

http://preview.tinyurl.com/progintro >> >> Cheers, > > Why is chapter 2 called "ASD"? Presumably its subtitle is "Introducing UPPER CASE". -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line vacant - apply within -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

7;s parallel comment along similar lines, and Jon Clements's reply - which appears to solve the problem, albeit in a semi-proprietary way. So I'm not asking for a solutio, just adding my vote for "let's try to keep the Web as open to everyone as we can". -- Richard Heat

Re: Game design : Making computer play

one by one. Tigers appear only to be able to move orthogonally (up/down/left/right) - although they can use the horn to whizz across the chest (e.g. CHEST-1 to HORN, HORN to CHEST-4, in two moves). The rest of the rules are beyond me, I'm afraid. It's not clear how tigers eat goats o

Re: Game design : Making computer play

[comp.programming added, and followups set to that group] v4vijayakumar said: > On Apr 14, 12:35 pm, Richard Heathfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> v4vijayakumar said: >> > In computer based, two player, board games, how to make computer play? >> >> Wri

Re: Game design : Making computer play

a no-brainer: 13,7 and 8,7 is far and away the best move. > I know this is kind of off-topic here. Please redirect me, if there > are more appropriate newsgroup. comp.programming is probably where you want to be, at least to start off with. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.o

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

pecialist in the field. When I talk about GMT, I mean GMT, not UTC. Therefore, I am a counter-example to your claim. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -www. +rjh@ Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php> "Usenet is a strange place" -

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

Peter J. Holzer said: > On 2007-07-03 08:57, Richard Heathfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Paul Rubin said: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>>> As for the primacy of UTC vs. TAI, this is the classical chicken >>>> and >>>> egg p

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

cognised only by some well-educated people, and there are precious few of those), so why not use it? I always leave my PC's clock set to GMT, partly out of this desire to support a single timestamp standard, and (it must be said) partly out of general cussedness. -- Richard Heathfield <