Notice for example that you didn't say Linux or OSX.

If this goes through, I think that the software boxes would start to say "This software was tested on this system, with this caracteristics and there may be different behaviour (that we can't be hold responsible for) on different configurations."

And let me guess... your password is hunter2, right?

Of course I would mistype the url to my physics teacher books.

Here is the page with the pdf files and .tex files (all in Portuguese, so they may not be very useful for the average slashdotter).

I know this is probably off-topic, but I must ask, as a young student, why do say that?

Is it because they are usually expensive and required to a course (that's taught by the professor who wrote it)? Because they may be hard to follow? Or is there another reason?

Although I'm forced to say that I only had one teacher ask us to buy books/notes wrote by him. I do have one that give us the book (for both courses he taught) for free (it was my physics teacher, he really likes open-source I guess :)). Although the books are written in Portuguese, you can get them here. You can even download the .tex files.

For example Donald Knuth is/was a professor and even though the Art of Computer Programming may be hard to follow (for me anyways, but I'm a moron :) ) they are considered good books. Same thing with SICP, and other books that I'm forgetting right now.

I'm not from a English speaking country, so maybe it's different over here?

You should go see a doctor about that.

There a Duke Nukem Forever joke in there somewhere...

Thank God I'm atheist.

Ahhh do I have to?

You want to sugar-coat it by using punch cards?

I say give them a list of opcodes and a piece of paper to write in.

I take offence on that, my $ key i$ broken $o I have to u$e the $ key to type Micro$oft or $imply M$.