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C: Procedural language

Python: (Batteries included) Scripting language

Scheme: Functional/LISP language

Looks like you should learn either an OO language (Smalltalk, OCaml, Scala) or a Logic language (Prolog).

Discworld's Going Postal and Making Money by Terry Pratchett are worth checking out. They are sort-of about startups; the main character has to re-organize the Post Office and the Banking system.

Kindle DX can handle them natively; On K2, they have to be converted first, a service which Amazon provides.

The results for "Fertility vs. per capita GDP for continents" is significantly less useful though.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Fertil...

The best sword-fighting game I've come across has been Defenders of the Crown. Very quick little fights, mess up three times and you die.

For an example of an original martial arts fighting game, Toribash is worth checking out and seems very interesting. My computer isn't powerful enough to play it though, so I can't give a review.

The carrier is really matter of where you are. Where I am, refusing to switch from AT&T makes no sense. AT&T are by far the worst carrier to have around here, with their service seldom having coverage at all; Sprint has good service here, though it's not the best (Verizon is). So, the fact that they are on Spring, rather than AT&T, is what makes Pre far more appealing to me.

As a debugger, I always browse source code without ever editing it.

You are saying that if the G1 were any thinner, you would like it less. Is this what you intended to say?

It would make more sense if the button was labeled, "I can't; I'm under 18!" I can't imagine many working people would be thrilled at the latest Pinnochio news.

Looks nice, but the best way to go into competition with Apple is to release their phone for a different service provider, like Sprint or Verizon. We know Pre is for Sprint, so why is this one likely to be for AT&T? This would be a bad idea. I do not care how good these phones are, I am not subjecting myself to AT&T service.

> Is it a battered old hat used for canvas fishing?

No, that would be his battered old canvas-fishing hat.

> Does he have two battered canvas fishing hats of which this one is the older of the two?

No, that would be his old battered canvas fishing hat.

If Linus had kept Linux closed source, people would have still been perfectly within their rights to write a manual about how to write programs for that operating system as long as they didn't sign a NDA. I doubt anyone who read HP signed an NDA...

But Sparknotes are not just a summary, they are also an analysis of the work. Consider the following table of contents for the Sparknotes of Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone:

   Context
   Plot Overview
   Character List
   Analysis of Major Characters
   Themes, Motifs & Symbols
   Important Quotations Explained
   Key Facts
   Study Questions & Essay Topics
   Quiz
   Suggestions for Further Reading

An author has no more right to claim ownership of this than they do any review/critique of their book.

The Sparknotes are not you're creation though, so why should you be able to control it?

Well, Miles Automotive is working on a sub $40,000 car.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/xs500_electric_car_m...

Amiga, Inc./Hyperion VOF has already released Amiga OS 4.0, and it's sequel Amiga OS 4.1. It runs on the Sam 440ep, as well as the classic Amiga, and AmigaOne computers (and Pegasus now as well if I recall correctly). The OS has been rewritten from the original version to support the PPC platform, but it appears to need a separate release for each individual platform (driver reasons maybe? I don't know.). As of now, it doesn't support any modern high-speed CPUs and the newest graphics card it seems to support is the Radeon 9200. It is not a secure machine; memory protection is merely an option which individual programs can decide to opt-in only if they want to.

To quote the article:

  And, oh, by the way, don’t rant about not having
  background processes (or any other feature, for that 
  matter); I really don’t think that the lack of support 
  for them will hinder the development of this platform.

You are doing what he told you not to do; you're not allowed to point out what's wrong with the iPhone OS. It's perfect in every way. Stop criticizing it.

It'd be nice if it saved old to-dos so you can retrieve your history and remember what you've done.

I tried JEdit like two years ago or so and found it to be an excellent editor, but that the startup time of approx. 10 seconds was unbearable. Have they fixed that yet?

Pretty sure the opportunity to get a "Fail Whale" tuxedo makes up for the premium accounts.

Oh, woops! Misread TextEdit for TextMate! That said, I find that Wordpad is a fantastic simplistic tool for creating school papers. For Linux I tend to use the slightly more complex (yet still very clean) LyX.

   My policy is, until I see a text editor as good as 
   TextEdit on another operating system, I won't even 
   consider a comparison between the two.

You forgot to mention your first axiom:

  1) Nothing is as good as TextMate.

Be realistic here: VI(M), Notepad++, and Emacs are all great text editors.

Photography is strange; it exists solely to please the eye. One can say that the act of looking at it, is similar to how one would USE other sorts of information, and although that's not quite right either it serves well-enough (in reality intentions matter when talking about this issue, otherwise the cops that verify someone has CP are criminals themselves.)

So, that said, it's not the HAVING the information that matters, it's the using of it. If I have your bank account information on my computer it's not illegal for me to have it (I think), but it would certainly give me jail time if I used it to take money out of your account.

Yes, though I find that the process takes a bit more than an hour, mostly because a native speaker isn't conveniently placed in front of you and because language books are simply not organized in this manner. It's a shame that they aren't. Instead of giving you a basic overview of the language most tend to slowly build up in a manner children learn the language which isn't all that useful (to me, at least) if you're in college or learning it for fun; you just don't have the amount of time it would take to memorize a language in that manner.

Are shoplifters banned from shopping?

I think you skipped a sentence:

  Apparently, the operators are "venting their anger" at 
  high-level executive meetings with Nokia, whom they 
  believe are trying to wrest away control of their 
  customers and offering easy access to an app that could 
  potentially hurt call revenues.

Nokia is trying to control the platform and therefore the customers' user experience TO THE CUSTOMERS' BENEFIT and yet, you act like that is a bad thing. Clearly, Nokia does not believe the service provider's intentions have the customers' interest at heart, so they are trying to OWN the customer, rather than the service provider so that they can provide them with what they (the customers') want (ie. Skype). Nokia is trying to do what few other companies are and you are calling their attitude to their customers as "stifling innovation"? Wow.

Would be nice if there were comments so you could use this as a learning tool.

But Amazon is neither selling nor giving away audio books. They are giving away a general text-to-speech solution which may conveniently be used on a book. Arguing that this is violating copyrights is the same thing as saying that text-to-speech is inherently illegal.

They aren't notified about it, but they can see if anyone has replied by going to their past comments list (linked from their profile) and looking for any changes.

But regular expressions are not neat tricks, they're basic features of Perl, and are immediately understandable once you've learned about them.