Since Nintendo launched the Wii console, I have been craving to try it. Unfortunately, I had no friend that bought one and each time I went to a game store, their Wii would either be broken or some kid would be monopolizing it.
I wanted to try it because I heard good things about it. I [...]
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My first Wii experience
The delete paradigm
Everyone knows that the computer world is a fast changing one. Programmers have to stay up to date with the lastest technologies to keep going and inovating. One of those concepts that is slowly evolving is the concept of deleting.
In the early days of computing, deleting something meant to permanently remove something from existence. It [...]
The dangers of armed robots
Should we fear robots and those that are armed?
If you have been reading a bit of science-fiction centered around the robotic theme, you know that in most cases, there are problems. Robots or intelligent machines replace every man in their work, they become the masters of the human race and they start a bloody war [...]
You shall use the standards
A great news for every web developer in this world, Internet Explorer 8 will render content in a standards compliant way by default. In case you have not been following the recent activities, what was originally planned was to require developers to add a meta tag to specify the version in which you wanted the [...]
The future of applications might be made of air, light or fire
In case you have not been following the development in the field of rich internet application or RIA, there has been a lot of interesting things happening recently. A new battle of the titans is starting and pawns are already on the board.
Yesterday, the leader on the field, Adobe, released his latest offering targeting both [...]
Computers are getting better at character recognition for bad purposes
In a previous post, I wrote about my CAPTCHA plugin for blog publishing system. In that post, I was writing about how Microsoft and Yahoo had their CAPTCHA busted in the recents days. It seems like Google is not doing much better or that people are getting better at writing their own character recognition software.
According [...]