In the US, if a person gets sick, goes to the hospital and then can't pay the bill, the rest of the hospital users pay for it in inflated bills. Let's face it, just a goofy type of 'take from the wealthier to pay the poorer' socialism.
>>It's in the government's interest to scare the public, so they can spend more on the military.
Spending more on military is GOOD for the economy, it gives people jobs. Someone has to make all those cloths, bullets, tanks, etc. etc. I don't think we get much of that from China or Japan. So does your statement mean you don't want people to have jobs ?
No, I want those people to develop better energy sources, more fuel efficient clean cars, better medicines, improve healthcare, repair bridges and roads, produce energy efficient affordable housing, turn out much smarter students, and , oh yes, make this country safe without having to kill everyone else ...
What's the oops for? I think you hit the nail right on the hammer. It's in the government's interest to scare the public, so they can spend more on the military.
This has been said by a wise person a long time ago: "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others."
What the heck is going on?! Suddenly everyone is changing their avatars - I hardly recognize anyone any more.
Okay, not everyone but still scrolling down through long threads now takes longer because I can no longer discount people out of familiarity (just kidding).
Darn posters any way! Don't you just love Naru's new avatar?
It looks like you are visualizing new line characters, actually empty lines. There is got to be an option setting somewhere in IDLE where you can turn this off.
Since Lardmeister did such good job on Ron Paul, I came up with a nut shell for John McCain: John McCain started as a naval aviator. He was shot down, badly injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese in 1967. He was released from prison in 1973. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Arizona. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1986 to now as a senator from Arizona. He was rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee for poor judgment in the Keating affair. He was named chairman of Veterans for George H. W. Bush the elder. He lost the Republican nomination in 2000 to George W. Bush the younger. He attacked pork barrel spending within Congress. He proposing legislation to increase cigarette taxes. He is a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform. He supported the Bush tax cut extension. He introduced the McCain Detainee Amendment against torture of prisoners. He supports pro-life (anti-abortion), capital punishment, mandatory sentencing, private school vouchers, and welfare reform.
Here is your chance to ask a 'smart' question in an attempt to have one of those real smart DaniWeb Geek members answer it. If the question just makes you think or smile, that is good enough too! Please no computer questions. :)
Okay, to start out: Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
It's tax time again, 133 million US taxpayers have to file their 2007 tax forms with the IRS. Form 1040 comes with 92 pages of instructions and takes taxpayers an average 33 hours of preparation to complete. You after year our lousy legislator promise to simplify this, and every time around it gets even more complex.
Do not use recursion as a loop, but use a while loop in the function itself. You also need to set a flag that the gold has been taken. Further note that a triple quoted string relaxes the indentation rule:
def prompt_house():
global gold
gold_taken = False
while True:
prompt_hou = raw_input('>')
if prompt_hou == 'examine table' and not gold_taken:
print \
'''There are a lot of car magazines here.
You flip through them and find 5 gold.
'''
gold = gold+5
gold_taken = True
elif prompt_hou == 'go west':
# this gets you out of the loop
go_west()
# more elif choices here ...
def go_west():
# just a dummy funk
global gold
print gold
pass
# test
gold = 0
prompt_house()
Java has been taught by college CS departments for many years. The typical inertia shown by CS staff makes certain that Java will be taught for many more years to come. There are hordes of Java programmers out there. Also Java, being more complex, ensures job security since development is slower and more programmers are needed to do the job.
Python, being easier and quicker to teach, would of course reduce the number of instructors too. Oh my!
Vested interest is hard to overcome! In the mean time, many students are wasting time with stuffy syntax.
I use Winpdb (recommended by our science prof) and like the way it follows variable values in real time as you step thrugh the code. You are right, using File/Launch to open a Python source file is not very intuitive.
It installs as a winpdb.py (also compiled optimized winpdb.pyo) in C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages on my Windows Vista computer. Also needs wxPython installed to run.
The way I understand it, C was developed to write the Unix operating system. C++ was a major improvement of C. Java was an improvement of C++ and C# was a MS ripoff of Java.
I started to read the book "How to teach yourself Java in ten years" :) but I kept falling asleep.
I picked up Python that was used in my Biochemistry class in just about a day from the class handouts.
main.cpp:1: error: expected namespace-name before ';' token
main.cpp:1: error: `<type error>' is not a namespace main.cpp:3: error: `array' was not declared in this scope main.cpp:3: error: `System' has not been declared main.cpp:3: error: `String' was not declared in this scope
main.cpp:3: error: expected primary-expression before '>' token main.cpp:3: error: expected primary-expression before '^' token main.cpp:3: error: `args' was not declared in this scope main.cpp:4: error: expected `,' or `;' before '{' token
make.exe: *** [main.o] Error 1
Execution terminated
Do you really think that this C++ code:
using namespace System;
int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
Int64 a = 111111111;
Console::WriteLine( Int64(a * a) );
return 0;
}
