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Comment Re:Nothing new, but encouraging (Score 1) 554

Ummm....how did the Hulk service others, exactly?

Hulk has gone through a number of various phases throughout his history. The Hulk you're probably thinking of is the mindless, violent brute. Hulk has fought numerous villains, and at some points has been able to retain much or all of the intelligence and control of Bruce Banner while Hulked out.

What Free IDE Do You Use? 1055

postermmxvicom writes "I program only occasionally and mostly for personal interest. I went to update my favorite free IDE, Dev C++, yesterday and noticed that it had not been updated since 2005! I went looking for other free IDEs and came across Code::Blocks and Visual Studio Express. I work from a Windows machine, use C++, and make mostly console apps; but have written a few Windows apps and D3D or OpenGL apps. I wanted to know what free IDEs you use and recommend. What do you like about them? What features do they lack? What about them irritate you (and what do you do to work around these annoyances)? For instance, when I used Visual C++ 6.0 in college, there was an error in getline that had to be fixed, and the code indenting in DevC++ needed to be tweaked to suit my liking."
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Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek 461

brumgrunt writes "JJ Abram's hugely successful — on many levels — reboot of Star Trek has, for Den Of Geek, brought to the fore a lesson about special effects that many movie makers have been missing. Surely it's time now that special effects were actually used properly?" (The new film is not without some goofs, though only a few of the ones listed by Movie Mistakes' nitpickers are sciency.)

Comment Re:And who needs it most? (Score 1) 364

Never going to happen. They're not going to deliberately give Windows users the opportunity to experiment with Linux. Users like you and I are more likely just to dual boot or run a VM if we want both. I think the net effect in the general public would be the opposite of what you are proposing.
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Philosophies and Programming Languages Screenshot-sm 239

evariste.galois writes "Wikipedia has a special section called, 'Language Philosophy,' in every article for a programming language. This section looks at the motivation and the basic principles of the language design. What if we investigate further than that? What deeper connections between philosophies and programming languages exist? By considering the most influential thinkers of all time (e.g. Plato, Descartes, Kant) we can figure out which programming language fits best with aspects of their philosophy (Did you know that Kant was the first Python programmer)? The list is not exhaustive, but this is a funny and educative start."

Comment Re:I can live with it (Score 1) 640

You are correct in stating that you are not a comic book nerd. If you were a comic book nerd you would not speak in such absolutes about the term "graphic novel." You would understand the contention surrounding the term within fans and even the authors that write them.

The Watchmen is a great example of this fallacy. The Watchmen was published originally as a 12 issue comic book series. It was then published as a trade paperback (TPB is a common industry term for publishing the individual issues of a story-arch in a single volume). You seem to be suggesting that comic book and "graphic novel" are mutually exclusive categories. The Watchmen seems to fit your description of a graphic novel when in trade form, but this is an issue of the binding alone.

From Wikipedia:

Writer Alan Moore believes, "It's a marketing term ... that I never had any sympathy with. The term 'comic' does just as well for me. ... The problem is that 'graphic novel' just came to mean 'expensive comic book' and so what you'd get is people like DC Comics or Marvel comics -- because 'graphic novels' were getting some attention, they'd stick six issues of whatever worthless piece of crap they happened to be publishing lately under a glossy cover and call it The She-Hulk Graphic Novel...."

Author Daniel Raeburn wrote "I snicker at the neologism first for its insecure pretension -- the literary equivalent of calling a garbage man a 'sanitation engineer' -- and second because a 'graphic novel' is in fact the very thing it is ashamed to admit: a comic book, rather than a comic pamphlet or comic magazine."

Writer Neil Gaiman, responding to a claim that he does not write comic books but graphic novels, said the commenter "meant it as a compliment, I suppose. But all of a sudden I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening." Comedian and comic book fan Robin Williams joked, "'Is that a comic book? No! It's a graphic novel! Is that porn? No! It's adult entertainment!'"

Comment Re:I can live with it (Score 1) 640

(Comic book nerds: calling low-brow comic books by a fancy name does not make them high-brow. It makes you look like an idiot who seems to know that reading comic books is juvenile but wants to pretend otherwise.)

Very few nerds call them graphic novels. Nerds have never been afraid of the term "comic book." It is the newer, more mainstream audience that has to hide behind the pretentious "graphic novel" smokescreen.

Also, you should actually read some of the classics like Watchmen before you presuppose that reading comics is only juvenile or low-brow entertainment.

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