On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:52:03 am Richard D. Moores wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 16:25, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: >> > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:07:47 am Richard D. Moores wrote: >> >> A "feature" very important to me >> >> is that with Gmail, my mail is just always THERE, with no need to >> >> download it >> > >> > You see your email without downloading it? You don't understand how >> > the Internet works, do you? >> >> I do, and I also know that you know what I meant. > > No, I'm afraid that I don't. You log into Gmail and your browser > downloads the Gmail page; you click on an email, and your browser > downloads the contents of the email in order to display it. I'm afraid > I have no idea what you mean by not downloading your email. Perhaps you > should try reading a 50MB email over dial-up to drive home the fact > that you *are* downloading? > > The difference is that, with Gmail (or Hotmail, or Yahoo mail), you have > to download it each time you read the email instead of just once. > > Particularly as this is a programming mailing list, I think it is very > important to remember that fetching information over the Internet *is* > downloading, and not just gloss over it as some sort of magic. There > are Python libraries specifically for dealing with all this, and apart > from the ability to execute Javascript, Python can do pretty much > everything your browser does. > > There are two sorts of people in the world: those who think that (e.g.) > watching a streaming video in your browser over the Internet is > fundamentally different from "downloading", and those who know that the > only difference is that with streaming, the browser deletes the video > after you've watched it.
But this only matters if a)you're paying for it, not the boss b) that there are unlimited plans available for a single monthly price, or c) you have an 'egotistical'(meaning a professional ego/rep to maintain) perspective on minimizing your code. I would think that, as programmers, we should > be in the second group rather than the first. > > > -- > Steven D'Aprano > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
