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No, basic would look like this:

10 PRINT "Hello, world"
20 END

DDT:

A) Thank god they switched. Python is better in so many ways, starting with ease of use. Great for quick and dirty prototyping, so good for school stuff. It feels more like a living language, with simple solutions to common problems. Putting Python on S60 is the greatest thing that Nokia/Symbian has done lately.

B) Congrats! I School looks like it will be a lot of fun, judging by the coursework and faculty. (Kimiko Ryokai is an alumni of here, never got to see a demo of her awesome-looking I/O Brush.)

Sorry for the lateness, I've had my head underwater lately. We should talk offline.

Just don't get your tabs and your spaces mixed up. MIMS or Ph.D.?

MIMS -- that'd give me _nine_ letters after my name. boo yah.

tabs? spaces?

johnny, there was an open house for her tactile interface class. think you would have liked it. sadly, the throw-a-ball-at-the-wall battleship game was a little undercooked, as was the recording etch-a-sketch. but she has a big fan base, it seems. i'll have to ask her about media lab times.

ddt

My apartment is always an open house for tactile interface lessons.

does that involve the gooey?

ddt

DDT the short version is the python is a white space aware language. By indenting the lines you set the nesting level. Tabs are treated as 8 spaces regardless of how many spaces the tab stop actually appears to indent (typically 4). So if you're mixing tabs and spaces while you're indenting, you may end up with code that looks correct visually but is actually improperly nested. This many manifest itself in a variety of entertaining ways when it comes time to execute the code.

Here is the long version of the answer.

9 letters. Sadly my pay grade has gone down every time I've added letters. Supply and demand I guess.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/05/2009 02:40PM by Alan Lehman.

don't tell me that (the pay grade thing)! maybe it has something to do w/ specialization? fortunately for me, this has zero to do with the last 15 years of work and education.

thanks for the heads-up on tabs and spaces. what do you use to work with python? is it all done in a compiler or like html, where you use a word processor, bbedit, etc.? suppose i'll learn this soon enough, but what i mean is any recommendations?

though that does sound like how i used to take notes in college.

ddt

I don't work with python yet. I actually expect to work with java next. When I use perl I use BBEdit Lite (which I think is only found in PPC binaries) almost exclusively unless I'm on a remote host then I use **gasp** pico or nano (some old timer is rolling in his grave--now let's see who restarts the vi, vim, emacs religious wars again). I imagine on an intel Mac I'd use the newer free Text Wrangler or the professional BBEdit. I expect that when I get around to python it will be exactly the same setup.

I tried to like SubEthaEdit (and it is nice and feature rich) but they were features that I didn't really need. The Bare Bones find and replace always brings me back to programs in the BBEdit lineage.

In general there are no compilers in perl or python. I think the term is run time interpreter. Whatever. Just remember to make the .py script file into an executable with "chmod +x yourpythonscript.py" before you try and run it.

thanks, my guru.

what happens if you don't run that chmod? epic fail? the world ends? no one really knows?

ddt

You get a "Permission denied." error because you're trying to execute something that's not executable. chmod is the "change mode" command. In the case of chmod +x yourpythonscript.py you're setting the executable flag (thats the x) to positive aka yes for yourpythonscript.py. In other words you're taking a normal text file and converting it to something that the unix subsystem now treats as an executable.

Of course yourpythonscript.py has to be made executable before you can execute the script within it. Otherwise the unix subsystem won't allow it to be run. It's a security thing.

ah, the +x is very unix-y.

still sounds a lot better than the file, link, compile, cartwheel, execute of c++.

ddt

What are these "religious wars" of which you speak? A few feeble mutterings from the unenlightened at most...

C-x C-c

So, what's the Mac(compatible) way to burn high def disks?
I've got some HD 1080 source that I've done a regular DVD with. But I'd like to save it in higher def.
Is blu-ray on the Mac still too nascent?

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What are these "religious wars" of which you speak? A few feeble mutterings from the unenlightened at most...

Ahh Ron, it's too early in the morning to be making fun of me like that. Wait till later after I've had a few to drink. Then my mutterings will be truly feeble.

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C-x C-c

Heh. First shot fired.

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So, what's the Mac(compatible) way to burn high def disks?
I've got some HD 1080 source that I've done a regular DVD with. But I'd like to save it in higher def.
Is blu-ray on the Mac still too nascent?

depends on what you are trying to do. A DVD will hold HD content. If you are trying to make a playable blu-ray, you need toast 10 with optional Blu-ray support and an external blu-ray burner. Lacie and other companies make them.

It's the playing back of a blu-ray disk that's tough on a mac.

Is it not possible to convert the source into an h.264 file with Handbrake?

It might very well be h.264 already. It was shot on a Canon avchd hg20. I'd just like to keep it in a video format/medium (like DVD) that is the highest resolution, but playable in a stb.

I'd rather not leave it on a hard drive in the long run.

The new handbrake does accept source files from lots of places...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/06/2009 05:53PM by rino.

The funny thing is, the hard drive may be the most viable medium in the long run. DVD-Rs is organic matter that decays, after a few years it's unreadable. I've had a few discs go bad on me already and I'm glad the source material is on miniDV tape. With flash media so cheap now, I'm thinking of moving stuff to flash sticks for really long term storage, although SanDisk has something interesting that's hard to get pricing for, so it will probably very expensive.