Archive for January, 2009

Steve Jobs demos Apple Macintosh, 1984

January 24, 2009david No Comments »

Demo of the first Apple Macintosh by Steve Jobs, January 1984, in front of 3000 people. Andy Hertzfeld captured the moment quite well in his retelling: “Pandemonium reigns as the demo completes. Steve has the biggest smile I’ve ever seen on his face, obviously holding back tears as he is overwhelmed by the moment. The [...]

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An Experiment in Automatic Game Design

January 19, 2009david No Comments »

Abstract:
This paper presents a first attempt at evolving the rules for a game. In contrast to almost every other paper that applies computational intelligence techniques to games, we are not generating behaviours, strategies or environments for any particular game; we are starting without a game and generating
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The origin of “Lorem ipsum”

January 19, 2009david No Comments »

Lorem ipsum is written in Latin. In fact, it is an extract Finibus Bonorum et Malorum of Cicero written in the year 45 BC This is a text on the ethical theories, widely read during the Renaissance. The original text begins Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia pain sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit … (There is no one who loves pain itself, which finds and wants to have, simply because it is pain).

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Some things I hate about Google

January 19, 2009david No Comments »

Google is the coolest thing over Internet, but there are some points that I hate about Google.
Google Chrome is not supported on Linux. The best web- browser ever is not supported on Linux and is very disappointing because Chrome has a complete Javascript Debugger and a very usefull console, besides it is very fast. Now, [...]

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Simple Modal Div for Images, using prototype and scriptaculous

January 19, 2009david 1 Comment »

I know that everyone knows Lightbox JS and Lightbox JS 2 and frankly those 2 libraries works very nice. But let’s do something simplier using (also) prototype and scriptaculous.
Aligning vertically and horizontallya div.

This is very important and we can use it in many ways. First the css code:
 <style type="text/css">body, html {height: 100%; width:100%; margin: 0; [...]

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