jjs

In Mahayana Buddhism, both wisdom and compassion are necessary for the Bodhisattva path: wisdom brings enlightenment, but compassion keeps you "in the world" (either literally or figuratively) to help guide others toward enlightenment (thereby liberating them from suffering).

Perhaps because of its deemphasis of the supernatural, Zen in particular emphasizes that enlightenment without compassion is possible, but useless, and not a worthy or admirable pursuit.

Compassion is seen as necessary to temper enlightenment, to keep oneself from becoming a nihilist or enlightened navel-gazer.

(Zen/Chán has historical basis for being concerned about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_in_Buddhism#Hui-neng)

The woman in the story sees that the monk's wisdom has liberated him from suffering, but his lack of compassion means that no one else will benefit from it.

She's angry because she thought she was investing in the monk to the betterment of mankind, but instead she finds that her donations have only benefited the monk.

Elided for clarity, like a MAD Magazine fold-in. :)

Not dying from X or Y increases your risk of dying from Z!

With 3 generations living together and everyone taking turns cooking for each other on an egalitarian basis, I'd expect to see more people eating home-cooked meals and less fast food and processed food products.

Your comment is emitting dangerous levels of irony.

Unless your name is Aphex Twin.

(http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/05/52426)

You could also have certain flickering colors represent certain pieces, but overall it would require good color vision from all players.

Alternatively, you could have an 8x8 character grid; monochrome if you represent things like:

    rnbqkbnr
    pppppppp
    . . . . 
     . . . .
    . . . . 
     . . . .
    PPPPPPPP
    RNBQKBNR

    ♜♞♝♛♚♝♞♜
    ♟♟♟♟♟♟♟♟
    ＿█＿█＿█＿█
    █＿█＿█＿█＿
    ＿█＿█＿█＿█
    █＿█＿█＿█＿
    ♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙
    ♖♘♗♕♔♗♘♖

Very Zen.

On the other hand:

Ten no atauru o torazareba, kaette sono toga o uku ;

Toki itatte okonawazareba, kaette sono wazawai o uku.

Not to take what Heaven gives is to incur Heaven's calamity; not to act when the moment comes is to incur Heaven's misfortune.

(Miura, Isshū and Ruth Fuller Sasaki, The Zen Koan. San Diego: Harvest/HBJ, 1965. 119. Print.)

when i was trying to get this to work a couple of nights ago, i would have gladly given you a hundred bucks for that code snippet, just to make the pain go away.

If you like, feel free to give a shout-out to @jjs in your game's credits. :)

You can add as many column divs as you like.

Note that the html { height:100% } is needed when in HTML5 mode.

  <!DOCTYPE HTML>
  <html>
    <head>
      <style type="text/css">
        html, body { height:100%; margin: 0 auto; }
        body { display: table; vertical-align: middle; }
        .column { display:table-cell; vertical-align: middle; }
        p { text-align: center; }
      </style>
    </head>
    <body>
      <div class="column">
        <p>holy cow!</p>
        <img alt="shock the monkey" src="http://i.imgur.com/Pt9Pd.jpg" />
        <p>it worked!</p>
      </div>
    </body>
  </html>

    div.centered {
       width: *x*;
       margin-left: auto;
       margin-right: auto;
    }

If someone posts something that you strongly suspect they wouldn't say in person, suspend their account until either (a) they verifiably attach their real name to it, demonstrating their willingness to say it without the cloak of pseudonymity; or (b) they retract the offending post.

http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1086785624507896...

So the value of your words depended on evaluating them in a sarcastic context. This lack of referential transparency made it difficult to reason about them at compile-time.

How could referential transparency possibly be distracting or complex?

Fexprs appear to be runtime-only first-class macros.

So adopt the maxim: People who steal my computing resources aren't entitled to correct results. :)

Perhaps that Flash-not-needing paint demo made them sweat!