Because he has all that free time with which to do so, having completed his programming assignments much faster than his C/C++ counterparts.
And since he now has to wait for his program to run, he has even more time to kill!
You're missing something here. Python compiles to PYC files ("Python Compiled"). File timestamps are used to see if
It doesn't do a huge degree of "compiling" as I understand it, in large part because of the extremely dynamic nature of Python.
Well, one thing that's happened to me an awful lot is that GCC seems to generate smaller *and* faster code when using -Os rather than -O3. That it'd be smaller was no surprise to me, but the speed-up was. (For reference, I'm using an IA32 2 GHz CPU with 1.5 GB of RAM.)
Fewer cache misses, maybe?
Also the article states that in the last casino, his $100,000 a hand bets were authorized by a high ranking employee meaning those large bets are not normally allowed.
Well, it's not so much that they're "not allowed", I think. Seems like they're happy to have people come and drop that kind of cash. They just like to pick and choose, try to find the marks who will lose more than they win.
Only if it ends with a guy trying to sell just such a "system". The only sure-fire get-rich-quick scheme is selling get-rich-quick schemes.
Well, there's always opening a brown envelope and briefcase store in Washington DC during lobbying season.
Hey, I used to know a great place like that. It was right next to the place that sold signs with catchy, grossly one-sided messages to protesters.
No, you're not alone. Tennant and Smith both seem more like self-parody (although there's some precedent for that in Doctor Who).
Personally I feel like the 2005 series started out with a heavy dose of self-parody (the initial Auton story, then the Earth's destruction story right after were both loaded with this - "New Earth" and the space station from "The Long Game" were pretty heavily loaded with this as well), and it's mostly just in the Matt Smith years that it's emerged from that. Some of that in the Tennant years was just holdovers from Eccleston (like "New Earth", Cassandra as the ultimate expression of plastic surgery gone too far, the Slitheen and Captain Jack, etc.) but there was a lot of "wow that's a goofy alien name"-type stuff and "veiled commentary on a contemporary thing" stuff (Adipose, for instance)
For sure there's a lot of the Eccleston and Tennant years that I enjoyed quite a lot, but to me season 5-6 with Smith is the best the new show's been. I think the show grew up a bit at that point, and developed into a better show with less reliance upon parody.
Predestination paradoxes.
God I hate them. And it's not that they make absolutely no sense, I can live with that, It's that I have to see myself every family reunion.
You sound like the guys from The Department of Temporal Investigations.
Series 5 and 6 of the new Who actually did something that Doctor Who has needed for a long time: it made time travel an important plot point in several of the stories. Time travel has obviously been an important part of Doctor Who, a story about a time traveler, since it began in '63, but usually time travel has been used as a plot device to get the Doctor into a dramatic situation. Steven Moffat has taken time travel and made the paradoxes an important part of the story itself.
Unfortunately, Moffat has failed to resolve any of these dramatic time travel story lines in a way that makes any sense. He uses time travel as a device to get out of a sticky plot complication without worrying about if it makes any logical sense. The finale of Season 5 illustrates this: The future doctor goes back in time and gives Rory the sonic so that Rory can free the Doctor so the Doctor can go forward in time so that he can go back in time to give Rory the sonic... The only way that I can digest that poorly thought out resolution to the problem of getting the Doctor out of "the perfect prison" is to shake my head and let it slide because I like Doctor Who. But seriously... couldn't the writing staff of the series come up with a better resolution than that?
Don't know what's to complain about. I like when time travel stories have weird paradoxes. The Doctor was able to free himself from the Pandorica because he'd been freed from the Pandorica.
He had a female time lord as a companion for a while.
Yeah, Susan was cool, at least when she got to be "Smart" Susan and not "Susan in Distress"...
Matt Smith went to UEA, Norwich. A friend of mine shared an accomodation block with him - seems that he had a bad habit of shouting "Who loves the c*ck"
How do you even pronounce an asterisk??
Why can't we have a long term positive male companion? Yes, it's nice to look at young women, but that isn't what Doctor Who is all about. Is it going to take a female doctor before we have can have a decent male companion that isn't a coward or dies every other episode?
I think Rory really developed nicely, actually. If you look at his first adventure away from home, he's kind of like, "Why the hell am I here in this crazy place?" But later on we have some nice "crowning moments of awesome" like Rory the Roman, his time with Flesh Jennifer and his involvement in the raid on Demon's Run. He probably was never entirely comfortable going on dangerous adventures, but he learned to deal.
Hey, I've been re-watching X-Men and it is not that bad.
The 1990s X-Men animated? I loved that show. When they showed the first episode, then left us waiting for like six months before showing us anything more, I watched the first episode over, and over again. Then when the series finally landed I gobbled it up. Well, I kind of got tired of it after a couple years, and lost touch.
I rewatched the whole series recently. It was kind of painful, actually. Any time Gambit or Storm started talking, I immediately wanted them to shut up.
Don't forget, this supernova was threatening the whole galaxy!
Moon (2009)
I hate to admit it, because this kind of weakens the argument that one can make a good sci-fi movie work in theaters...
But I never heard of that movie.
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
