You can also try the computer devil. He initially looks like a torturer, but after a while you'll understand that he's just teaching you how to understand the computer and intelligently automate repetitive tasks.
I have to agree, most XML APIs are incredible counterintuitive. The only one I like so far is Ruby's REXML (based in Electric XML for Java). If you like Ruby, and you're drowning in useless SAX/DOM code, give REXML a try.
Games with full-screen character graphics are called "roguelike", after the 1980's game "rogue". IMHO, they're much deeper than most modern so-called RPGs.
People forget these things because they get bored with them.
Now thats a point against American superheroes - mangas do end! No matter how good you are, you just cant continue a story forever. Wheres the end of Spiderman? Whats The Punisher grand finale? When will Superman get old?
Japanese are more smart - the comics eventually finish, sales go high, and if they see potential, theyll make more comics with the same style.
When I saw the title, I thought they finally revealed that Tetris has a massively advanced and evil AI designed to frustrate the player. It analyses your gameplay and knows exactly what pieces you want and don't want...
Even my tinfoil hat can't stop it from reading my mind.
"Scientists have an irritating habit of saying one thing and meaning another. (...) In his 1977 book The Dragons of Eden, the late astronomer Carl Sagan, one of the great popularizers of science in the 20th century, argues that consciousness, as most laypeople think about it, does not exist.As he explains: '[The brain's] workings--what we sometimes call mind--are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.' Yet Sagan states in his final book The Demon-Haunted World that 'science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality.' Huh? To be told that mind and consciousness are illusions and that this can be the foundation of a profoundly spiritual view makes most people think they're being bamboozled."
Maybe, if those people never heard about Buddhism.
I believe that it's people's inclinations. There are many who like to code, but very few are the ones who take pleasure in answering lusers' questions.
That said, I never had a problem with free software support. Everytime I couldn't figure something out from the documentation someone helped me in mailing lists.
I did read it (-: and I have a similar story. I've been running Debian exclusively for two years and switched my home machine to NetBSD. I still use Debian in the university (it's not my decision anyway) and I like both, but I prefer NetBSD.
I agree with most of your points. I'd add these two:
Minimalism. This is the main reason I like NetBSD. It is more minimalist than any Linux distro and even FreeBSD.
Good code. Not only the documentation is great, the source is very clean, organized and commented. This is nice for a CS student like me. Section 9 of the manual (kernel internals) is so fun.
But we disagree in the opinion about licensing. I really prefer copyleft. But I understand and respect the BSD point of view, and I agree that BSD licenses are better in certain cases - games, for example.
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I'm waiting to run E17 in a GNU/Hurd system...
If you didn't got the reference, check this UserFriendly strip.
I seriously don't care if my games contain penguins or not, as long as they are fun.
You can also try the computer devil. He initially looks like a torturer, but after a while you'll understand that he's just teaching you how to understand the computer and intelligently automate repetitive tasks.
I have to agree, most XML APIs are incredible counterintuitive. The only one I like so far is Ruby's REXML (based in Electric XML for Java). If you like Ruby, and you're drowning in useless SAX/DOM code, give REXML a try.
Games with full-screen character graphics are called "roguelike", after the 1980's game "rogue". IMHO, they're much deeper than most modern so-called RPGs.
Some of my favorites are angband, mangband, slashem and omega.
For general information, try this or that.
Before starting your experiments, please note that silence is patented.
The article is mostly good, but he's missing something:
Nor, as far as I can tell, is the problem so bad in most other countries.
It is. Americans like to loathe their own educational system, but the truth is that most of the world is the same.
I use ratpoison. The only gesture I do is to the mouse, not with the mouse.
I think NetBSD's Introduction to TCP/IP Networking has a pretty good intro about IPv6, even if you do not use NetBSD.
People forget these things because they get bored with them.
Now thats a point against American superheroes - mangas do end! No matter how good you are, you just cant continue a story forever. Wheres the end of Spiderman? Whats The Punisher grand finale? When will Superman get old?
Japanese are more smart - the comics eventually finish, sales go high, and if they see potential, theyll make more comics with the same style.
When I saw the title, I thought they finally revealed that Tetris has a massively advanced and evil AI designed to frustrate the player. It analyses your gameplay and knows exactly what pieces you want and don't want...
Even my tinfoil hat can't stop it from reading my mind.
Wow! My very first eletronic game. The beggining of a life-long addiction. !@#!#@!$!
I'll need to wait anyway. No money to buy expensive new consoles!
I'll start to charge a $1 tax from anyone who enter my room. This is to pay for possible losses, since they may steal something.
AMI has advantages over LinuxBIOS as well (...) JPEG graphics as boot logo...
That's it. I'm not interested in LinuxBIOS anymore until they support JPEG graphics.
"Lua" is Portuguese for "Moon". Lua is a Brazilian project.
Maybe QNX, WinCE, PalmOS etc. licensing costs are prohibitive?
From the "Science Blues":
"Scientists have an irritating habit of saying one thing and meaning another. (...) In his 1977 book The Dragons of Eden, the late astronomer Carl Sagan, one of the great popularizers of science in the 20th century, argues that consciousness, as most laypeople think about it, does not exist.As he explains: '[The brain's] workings--what we sometimes call mind--are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.' Yet Sagan states in his final book The Demon-Haunted World that 'science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality.' Huh? To be told that mind and consciousness are illusions and that this can be the foundation of a profoundly spiritual view makes most people think they're being bamboozled."
Maybe, if those people never heard about Buddhism.
I believe that it's people's inclinations. There are many who like to code, but very few are the ones who take pleasure in answering lusers' questions.
That said, I never had a problem with free software support. Everytime I couldn't figure something out from the documentation someone helped me in mailing lists.
If you feel happy with your hotel, then it is.
...the animals of the future will look like a blue puzzle piece?
I did read it (-: and I have a similar story. I've been running Debian exclusively for two years and switched my home machine to NetBSD. I still use Debian in the university (it's not my decision anyway) and I like both, but I prefer NetBSD.
I agree with most of your points. I'd add these two:
But we disagree in the opinion about licensing. I really prefer copyleft. But I understand and respect the BSD point of view, and I agree that BSD licenses are better in certain cases - games, for example.
There is a NetBSD Live! CD, but I haven't tried it nor heard about it for a while.
Amazon's newest patent is "A Method for Patenting Vague and General Human-Computer Interaction Patterns".