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You might also like the Scribblenauts series[0].

It's 2D and it doesn't include text-based positioning (or, indeed, any kind of freetext scene description -- you just 'summon' objects by typing their attributes+name), but its database of nouns and adjectives is notably vast, and it also includes a fairly sophisticated trait-based interaction system.

E.g. a 'hungry boy' will always seek food (that is, any object in the scene which has 'edible' trait). Combine that with the game's physics engine and recreating the classic 'carrot-on-a-stick' setup is few clicks' work.

To more directly compare the two:

Taking a random featured scene (https://www.wordseye.com/view-picture/23507), here is my quick attempt at recreating it in Scribblenauts Remix (Android): http://i.imgur.com/vkq3ha8h.jpg

Parts list: bike (x2), colossal white spotty sphere, cherry, immobile beagle, immobile strawberry, huge red sphere, huge red puddle.

The 'immobile' adjectives are used because the beagle would destroy everything by happily running around, and the almost-round strawberry would inevitably fall off the round top of the sphere.

[0] http://www.scribblenauts.com/

Not anymore: http://www.gog.com/game/tis100

Also, the X220T is not a "tablet" in the modern sense, it's a convertible laptop with a touchscreen.

Depends on the value of "occasional", but did you try asking your friends?

I've seen that being done around here, since the hardware you're describing really is pretty close to a beefy desktop/home server which usually spend their lives idly spinning their fans.

Very nice!

Why not make the third component live -- and include a webcam feed in the background instead of the static image?

Completely unrelated, and the IRC client predates the IM service by 8 years.

Cool, so OBML remains on Presto until it is phased out completely?

Can you point to any papers/specs/sources concerning OBML or the likes?

I was always fascinated by it (and have been trying to do something similar for my own amusement, most recently with webkit), but while getting a serialised render tree to display is trivial, making something half as usable as Opera Mini has always been seems impossible.

I believe there is still a huge market for smaller devices (probably smaller than feature phones) on which this style of web access is much thought after.

What do you think Chromium and Opera is written in?

I was confused for a moment, since where I come from, "self-hosting" means something different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting

So now instead of sending my friends a URL I have to give them vague instructions about where to find the content?

Welcome to Web 3.0!

A link to github when the project has a well-made functional website?

Did you want to show us the source code specifically?

While there is indeed some PHP accelerator code, most of what is open-sourced is piles of domain-specific C code they use _instead_ of PHP, which I find to be an interesting approach.

Commit introducing the bug:

https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/0fba2d908da6d...

It's not like there is nothing proprietary about this CPU prior to applying the microcode update it.

I take a look at Visual Studio every couple of years. Looks like the Project Settings dialog is still the same from VC6(?) days, with confusing controls and tiny text fields.

This list appears to be missing Plan 9, which is a direct continuation of Research Unix line (a successor to 10th Edition)

I doubt they're profitable (yet), they have only started playing with business models recently.

But the same platform has been used to run spoj.pl, a rather popular programming contest site, for many years.

While this one doesn't have the nice "fiddle" suffix, it has been around for a while and supports a lot of platforms:

http://ideone.com/

there is no such predefined thing as STDOUT.

you are probably thinking of STDOUT_FILENO. can you just put "1" there?

also, reordering the "mov"s (so they appear in actual call order: edx, ecx, ebx) will simplify the diagram somewhat.

How is that "Build your own computer"?

This is how to build one's own computer: http://nand2tetris.org/

No kit required.

GOG.com doesn't do Linux, while Humble Bundles largely became popular with that crowd first.

Funny that GOG.com does its first (I think) 100% charity run at this moment: http://www.gog.com/news/charity_promo_pick_3_games_donate_5_...

I take it that they only sell Steam keys for the titles without the "DRM FREE" icon? This has confused me in the past.

As a Linux user, I'm a big fan of Humble because they actually pay for new game ports, so it is often the case that a Linux version debuts in a Humble Bundle.

But with Linux games getting mainstream and HB increasingly becoming a Steam reseller I would much rather see GOG.com introduce Linux as a platform (and also maybe hire some guys to look after Wine status of games).

"This item cannot be installed in your device's country."

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I wouldn't mind having something akin to Blackberry Hub on my Android, yet I'm not sure I need another messenger.

You might like http://neil.fraser.name/software/diff_match_patch/svn/trunk/...