Posts by sneekula

I am working on an expert system to replace our lying and cheating political leadership with a lying and cheating computer system. :)

Are you an astronomer? No? Then STFU.

Ouch, very bad language here! Are you an astronomer, or simply got up on the wrong side of the bed?

People that shoot at you during quail hunting.

The mass media (or most of it) have a strict far-right political agenda and will refuse to publish things that don't fit that agenda. A good example is Fox News in the US.

I wonder if bias is a form of cencorship. Fox News is the only channel our VP watches and they cater to him and his comrades.

This article needs somebody playing the violin in the background.

One frog known as the Poison-Arrow has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

Makes me wonder what the most toxic substance on earth is?

The city of Seattle employes a full-time goose chaser to chase geese out of city parks.

Makes sense! When I lived in Detroit we where overcome by flocks of rather nasty Canadian Geese.

Chocolate chip cookies and a fresh mug of dark roast Arabica coffee.

One less stuffed shirt on earth.

Misery is optional.
~~~ Abraham Lincoln

IMHO: Be miserly with misery!

Yes, the UK earthquake affected me! It sort of forced me to read this thread.

Milk with a hefty shot of Starbucks Coffee Liqueur.

"Feeling blue" comes from the Myan tradition to paint people blue before they were overed to their God in human sacrifice rituals.

'Cuz I never cared for him to begin with?

Turnout, actually.

Come on, that feisty little chipmunk has a few tricks up his sleeves. Besides, Arnold really loves him.

Even if it is, why the hell not? The MSM & the left have been doing the same for decades.

You are of course correct! If we had lots of smart and well informed voters, I wouldn't worry about it.

None of them are worth the powder ... Too bad the U.S. can't put some intelligent, world caring , people loving, unselfish candidates up for grabs. And if they could find more than just one, they might export the extras to England, France, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, Italy, Germany, Russia ( they could use a couple, I think).

Any reason you mentioned Germany and Russia twice? Are they particularly devoid of intelligent lovers?

October surprise? Bah, old hat. October surrender! :p

Sounds like a fake story to me, spread around to scare folks. The internet is very tolerant to this goofy stuff indeed.

Yum, meatloaf from hell! You eat it and you can follow it all the way through. When you are done digesting, it will still burn a hole into the bathroom tissue.

Just ate some chocolate mint cookies with my mint tea.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

I googled for this but could not find verification.
I did find that the counting of illegal aliens in California allowed them to pick up 3 additional Representatives. This P.O.-ed Montana because they only get one Rep. for a population almost 2 times larger than any other representative's district. The number of house seats is fixed at 435, each state gets at least one, and the rest are apportioned out in a ratio based on the last census -- but you all knew that, didn't you (btw - the plural of y'all is all y'all)

How do you count illegal aliens?

Did you know that a typical snail crawls at a speed of 2.5 meters per hour?

So, gravity is a monopole?
Time could be a monopole unless it's circular.

Do we have any tripoles?

A poll of voters in 2004's presidential campaign found individuals changed their mind leading up to the election more times than any other election ever. Furthermore, 15 percent of polled voters made their decision at their voting station.

This is why a dirty smear at the last minute works best!

One day to learn the basics of Python.
One week to get to know the modules you need.

Please use the proper code tags around your code. Don't quote the whole thing or your code tags won't work.

Proper code tags are
[code=python]
your code here

[/code]

Please format your code so it is somewhat readable. Also, since your ovals are equal, how would you know the difference?

This how you might do it:

import Tkinter as tk

def generate():
    oval1()
    frame.after(2000, oval2)

def oval1():
    canvas.create_oval(200, 300, 210, 310, fill='red')

def oval2():
    canvas.create_oval(200, 300, 210, 310, fill='blue')

frame = tk.Frame()
frame.pack()

canvas = tk.Canvas(frame, bg='white', width=500, height=500)
canvas.pack()
            
button = tk.Button(frame, fg="blue", text="GENERATE", command=generate)
button.pack()

frame.mainloop()

Bureaucratic time is slower than geologic time.
~~~ P. J. O'Rourke

So, let's put a bunch of bureaucrats on the space ship. That would make distant space travel possible since they age less.

Wrong conclusion. I don't watch regular TV channels for a couple years in a row. My plasma TV is just for Xbox and Wii. If I am going to waste time, at least I want to do it in my own terms. ;)

No wonder you are so smart! Watching regular TV turns you into a moron. I have an aunt who is a TV-holic. She watches mostly reality shows (TLC and HGTV)where some wacky person nails car parts to the roof, makes cardboard furniture, smudges paint on the wall with bare hands, screws tin cans into the ceiling and calls it home improvement. She very noticeably gets dumber by the month. I guess this is all part of America!

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
~~~ George Washington

Dam -- I meant to vote for 100+ but hit the wrong button :)

If it wasn't you, then who voted for it?

Besides, if members that die of old age are never taken off the list, the average age over time will tend toward 100+

Here is one example how to approach this:

"""
assume your test data file (test_data.txt) looks like this
2008_06_01 07:55 24.8 83.1
2008_06_02 07:55 31.2 85.7
2008_06_03 07:55 33.4 86.1
2008_06_04 07:55 -30.8 81.6
2008_06_05 07:55 25.7 82.3
"""

new_list = []
for line in file("test_data.txt"):
    data_list = line.split()
    # item at index 2 is your critical data
    temp = float(data_list[2])
    # select values above and below your decisive point 
    if temp >= 30.0 or temp <= -30.0:
        # create a new list of selected data
        new_list.append(line)

# save it to file test_data2.txt 
fout = open("test_data2.txt", "w")
fout.writelines(new_list)
fout.close()

"""
my output of test_data2.txt from editor --->
2008_06_02 07:55 31.2 85.7
2008_06_03 07:55 33.4 86.1
2008_06_04 07:55 -30.8 81.6
"""

Sorry about my language, but I hope she sues the crap out of that law and order jergg!

A fresh cup of orange pekoe teak and a lemon cookie.

Well, at least the war on the environment is going well.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
~~~ Charlie Chaplin

28 percent of the value of gift cards and gift certificates is never redeemed.

Sneekula is the small part in the center of a CD player. It also can be used as a herbal substitute in Keemun Congou tea.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.
~~~ Douglas Adams

A small stone at a time can build a mountain.

If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, why don't we all get wasted and have the time of our lives?

We discussed that at length in thread:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread92901.html

Is that spam below the picture?

If you want to familarize yourself with a function, it helps to print some of the results:

# enumerating over a string or list returns the index and the element

s = 'help'

for ix, c in enumerate(s):
    print ix, c

"""
my result -->
0 h
1 e
2 l
3 p
"""

Mint tea with lemon and honey. Still have a cold.

My passion is cars. I always have the hood up fixing something. Of course, all I can afford is some old clunker.

Exactly what portion of the exhaust of a normal car is damaging to the ozone? I was under the impression the supposed problem was at a somewhat lower level of atmosphere.

And exactly how would the battery-car be any better? The exhaust would simply be factory-created rather than engine-created; you still have to provide power for those batteries.

I'm assuming this will not be done by connecting them with copper wire then flying a kite off the last one during a thunderstorm.

Wow, a thunderstorm powered car! You need to patent that one quickly!

no need for a conviction, block them until one can be attained (so for the duration of the investigation). It's what's done to everyone else, so why not to crackers?
They're criminals, conviction or no.

"Guilty unless proven innocent", what a concept. You should run for the Supreme Court. To make room, we simply accuse one of the present judges of a crime and remove him. They did that in Pakistan.

The most common Python module for PDF format files is ReportLab, for example code and download see::
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Python-for-PDF-Generation/

You will have to read through the ReportLab documentation to see if you can save with a password.

Just another nosy poll. What is your favorite drink in your life?

Indeed. In fact the reverse is the problem, the scoop is ineffective below a decent fraction of lightspeed. Depending on the design you need something over 0.1c at least I believe.
Remember that current propulsion systems can't reach more than about 0.01c...

0.01 c would be 10,792,528 km/h, I don't think any man-made vehicle has even come near to that speed!

Just to show what has been achieved:

British RAF pilot Andy Green holds the land speed record for a motor powered vehicle at 1,228 km/h (763 mph).

The Lockheed SR-71A holds the present speed record of 3,326.60 km/h (2,193.16 mph
or Mach 3.3) for jet-powered aircraft.

Spacecraft/Probe Helios2 reached a travel speed of 241,350 km/h, which is still the present speed record for man-made vehicles. It took the gravitational pull of the Sun to achieve this.

Apologies, but Clicky

Wow, a "Peanut Butter and Jelly" cartoon!

The wale's heart beats about 10 times a minute.

My GF Helga will try out some of her German cooking for dinner this evening, roulade, steamed cauliflower and cottage fries.

White beans in a Safrito sauce.