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Comment on Macbook Air costs 1699 euros in Europe, 1799 dollars in the States by alex

alex — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:33:04 +0000

This blog post was written in 2008, so quite a while ago. But not a lot seems to have changed. Prices *still* are higher in Europe for laptops which are made in China for both US and Europe.

Currently, pricing in Belgium (Feb 2012) for a top-end Mac book Air is 1579 EUR. For the same Mac book Air in the US you currently pay 1599 US dollar, which at the moment converts to about 1206 EUR.

So more than 300 EUR (almost 400 US dollars) difference !

TVA in Belgium is 21% which I think is slightly more than in currently in France (19,6%) although I believe this will soon change to slightly more : 21,2%.

Comment on Macbook Air costs 1699 euros in Europe, 1799 dollars in the States by Suzanne Fischer

Suzanne Fischer — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:18:12 +0000

It is very annoying, this huge difference in the price calculation of an Apple MacBook.Here in France you pay in addition TVA which is higher than in the remaining European countries.

Better to plan a flight to NewYork and buy there. My reflection at least after my shopping here in France. 3 MacBooks which I bought within 5 to 6 years at € 1.690 plus TVA more than € 1.700.
Every 2 years a new machine.

Comment on Proof of concept for a simple webserver running python code by alex

alex — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:26:38 +0000

I’ve updated the post with code which is more extensively commented to better learn from and have improved the “generatequestion” function so it also does multiplication, division and subtracting instead of just adding.

I might just translate it the html pages to Dutch and let my six-year old train on it !

Comment on Proof of concept for a simple webserver running python code by alex

alex — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:12:32 +0000

Hello Anne,

Hey I am glad you liked it – feel free to ask me questions on the code and whatnot, no problem, I’ll respond if I can.

As for your current questions :
1. upgrade of python : I don’t think it’s really necessary to upgrade to 2.7.x as I’ve run CherryPy on 2.5 before, but yes you can uninstall 2.5 and download and install the latest version of Python – you can even keep the two python installations separately. If you haven’t programmed much or installed additional python libraries, the simplest would be to uninstall 2.5 and reinstall 2.7.

As long as you keep your python programs in a separate directory you can still use those programs.

I would not recommend downloading the 3.x of Python – not that it’s bad or so, but it uses a different syntax, is more strict and my code would probably break on it.

If you are starting from the very beginning, to use easy_install to install CherryPy you will need to install easy_install as well : you can find installers for easy_install on PyPi. Once installed, just use ‘easy_install cherrypy’

2. Downloading the file is probably the easiest – as Python depends on indentations for it’s code, copy-pasting the above code might lead to problems converting from html. Just download the file and remove the .txt part of the file keeping the .py extension

Comment on Third Economic Revolution by Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:15:35 +0000

Alex, this gentleman is a genius and it’s a fascinating and achievable plan.

I’d love to be part of such revolution for the future of our children. Please share more of these. GBU

Comment on Proof of concept for a simple webserver running python code by Anne Dwyer

Anne Dwyer — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:09:01 +0000

Alex,

Thank you so much for posting this. I am such a newbie that it is going to take me some time to go through this and understand it. But I really appreciate that you would take the time to generate it in response to my question.

Ok, so here are some (really,really) newbie questions:

1. How do you upgrade Python from ver 2.5 to 2.7. I have been googling it, but it seems like it is one of those computer questions that is so obvious to computer veterans that it is not worth posting. Do you uninstall 2.5 and download 2.7? Can you then run the programs that you have already written?

2. Your post says that you need site.py. Does this mean I need to copy and paste the code or can I download the file?

Thanks,

Anne Dwyer

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