I felt the same way before I tried Python. The whitespace requirements really are not such a big deal. My only remaining issue with is it is terrible for posting code snippets to the web since not all sites allow you to use the PRE tag.

Awesome. I don't buy Apple products. Now no one else can do this without paying Apple. Who's going to do that? I'll never have to deal with this. Awesome. Thanks, Apple.

Nate, read the text you quoted again. How does one travel in the opposite direction and the same direction at the same time?

The real killer is Quicken. Yeah, gnucash has most of the same functionality. But it took so long for my mother to get use to Quicken that if I tried to switch her to gnucash I don't know if I could handle the "where do I do this?" questions.

Remove the content too. It's all meaningless stuff like this post.

You would not do the hour of labor for $150 unless you felt $150 was worth MORE than one hour of your time. I would not pay $150 for that hour of labor unless I thought that hour of labor was worth MORE than $150. Both of us come out of deal thinking we got the better half. Both of us are better off afterward. Pretending this is a zero-sum game only works if you forget that in every transaction both parties think they are getting the better part of the deal.

As for your contention that it is zero-sum for the resources: If you don't take my $150, you will get $0 for an hour not spent performing this labor. And $150 in my pocket has no value until I spend it. Resources only have value when they are traded. And generally, they are only traded when both parties feel they will gain something by trading.

Where I have a problem with this is when it is applied globally. If as I say, transaction "always" benefit both parties then growth should be expected and economics should be the study of delta growth (growth acceleration?). If both parties always benefit from trade then the yardstick for the economy should based on how much more benefit I get today than I got yesterday and not the amount I benefited.

Commercial Games. That's who.

Nah, far more likely to be related to IBM's Headquarters in Armonk. Does IBM still do any fabrication in Poughkeepsie?

There was a time when Patent Law and Copyright Law were in lockstep and now they are not. I think its time that we bring them back together, for better or worse.

Don't say things like that. Someone will get the bright idea to extend patents until 90 years after the death of the inventor.

Aww come on. This is the smuckin fartest invention ever!

Did you mean "This is the copulatingly most brilliant invention ever"?

No, that's what tough love is for. Sorry, you broke that DVD. It doesn't work any more. Maybe Mommy and Daddy will buy you a new one for your birthday. You have to watch something else or do you want Daddy to turn off the TV?

Granted, it doesn't get my 4 year old to treat the DVDs any better but having him change the DVDs rather than asking Daddy to (and getting the occasional lesson in consequences to boot) means letting him touch the DVDs. It's not like I want to see Wiggly Wiggly Christmas, AGAIN.

I could sell mine?

Yes, in the abstract. Now find the original copy of Title 17 and feed it into git/hg/svn/whatever. Then apply all the laws passed since the date of that copy as patches. Do you really think that could be automated?

But when you are talking about a list, you are talking about something that is inserted and deleted from randomly. That's the whole point of using a list O(1) inserts and deletes. If you back the list with an array, you lose that access feature.

Yeah, I don't get his motive. He doesn't want to get out in 20 months on good behavior? He prefers to serve the whole sentence.