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Re:Castle Engine – free, os, x-platform, 2D/3D game engine using moder... on Monday February 19, 2024 @11:13PM (#39437995)
Well, other simpler options are:

  if (input in ['Y', 'y']) then
    WriteLn('blah blah')
  else if (input in ['N', 'n']) then
    WriteLn('blah')
  else
    WriteLn('Input invalid');
And:

  if (LowerCase(input) = 'y') then
    WriteLn('blah blah')
  else if (LowerCase(input) = 'n') then
    WriteLn('blah')
  else
    WriteLn('Input invalid');
Re:SIIG MiniSys S286 Small Form Factor PC on Monday November 27, 2023 @07:52PM (#38440837)
I owned this PC and I loved it! It was a gift from my father. I played to Monkey Island and other adventures in it :)
Re:Free Pascal Compiler Version 3.0.0 on Thursday November 26, 2015 @08:27AM (#10632861)
Nice to read this. I also created a fpc wrapper for cfitsio, but never published it as I thought it would have a limited interest.
Re:Learning from my web app 23 visits at a time on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @12:09PM (#3076229)
Thanks for the mention! (I'm the founder of Blogalia :)

IMHO, greaterskies.com is interesting as a project, but:

- I don't think anyone will pay for simple visual star charts: there are free sites, free desktop programs and free tablet/mobile apps out there.

- If not for visual, but deep sky: there is 3Atlas from José R. Torres (9, 11 and 13 mag sky atlas): http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/tools.html Available for free in PDF.

- The marketing problem: find your tribe! There are some forums, like cloudynights.com (or http://www.asociacionhubble.org/portal/index.php/foro in Spanish), but this are mostly for dedicated observers.

My 2 cents.

Re:Why SourceForge Lost on Thursday July 07, 2011 @09:19PM (#2740950)
The first battle SourceForge lost was against Google Code hosting. Google offered a nicer interface and had some features SourceForge hasn't, the most important one, subversion.

SourceForge, like other sites managed by VA Linux/SF/Geeknet, has a terrible record of user friendliness. How many Slashcode-based sites are still running?

Re:New MacBook Pro series on Thursday February 24, 2011 @05:37PM (#2260150)
When I updated the system to Snow Leopard.
Re:What is the future of Qt? on Sunday February 13, 2011 @05:56PM (#2214302)
"While Qt held that promise, it was a long way from the maturity (10+ years) that .NET provides."

What? Qt 3.0 is even older than .NET.

Re:Who Writes Wikipedia? on Thursday December 23, 2010 @07:05PM (#2036247)
Felipe Ortega wrote a Ph.D. thesis devoted to this topic. "Wikipedia: A Quantiative Analysis", available at http://libresoft.es/Members/jfelipe/phd-thesis His conclusions were featured on a Washington Post article, "Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages", discussed here http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10403467-93.html and here http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/25/160236/Contributors-...
Re:Paul Allen Sues Apple, Others Over Patents on Friday August 27, 2010 @05:58PM (#1640428)
- 6,263,507: Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing information represented by audiovisual data http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

- 6,034,652: Attention manager for occupying the peripheral attention of a person in the vicinity of a display device http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...

- 6,788,314: Attention manager for occupying the peripheral attention of a person in the vicinity of a display device http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...

- 6,757,682: Alerting users to items of current interest http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...