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You might also like the Scribblenauts series[0].

It's 2D and it doesn't include text-based positioning (or, indeed, any kind of freetext scene description -- you just 'summon' objects by typing their attributes+name), but its database of nouns and adjectives is notably vast, and it also includes a fairly sophisticated trait-based interaction system.

E.g. a 'hungry boy' will always seek food (that is, any object in the scene which has 'edible' trait). Combine that with the game's physics engine and recreating the classic 'carrot-on-a-stick' setup is few clicks' work.

To more directly compare the two:

Taking a random featured scene (https://www.wordseye.com/view-picture/23507), here is my quick attempt at recreating it in Scribblenauts Remix (Android): http://i.imgur.com/vkq3ha8h.jpg

Parts list: bike (x2), colossal white spotty sphere, cherry, immobile beagle, immobile strawberry, huge red sphere, huge red puddle.

The 'immobile' adjectives are used because the beagle would destroy everything by happily running around, and the almost-round strawberry would inevitably fall off the round top of the sphere.

[0] http://www.scribblenauts.com/

Depends on the value of "occasional", but did you try asking your friends?

I've seen that being done around here, since the hardware you're describing really is pretty close to a beefy desktop/home server which usually spend their lives idly spinning their fans.

Cool, so OBML remains on Presto until it is phased out completely?

Can you point to any papers/specs/sources concerning OBML or the likes?

I was always fascinated by it (and have been trying to do something similar for my own amusement, most recently with webkit), but while getting a serialised render tree to display is trivial, making something half as usable as Opera Mini has always been seems impossible.

I believe there is still a huge market for smaller devices (probably smaller than feature phones) on which this style of web access is much thought after.

I take a look at Visual Studio every couple of years. Looks like the Project Settings dialog is still the same from VC6(?) days, with confusing controls and tiny text fields.

I doubt they're profitable (yet), they have only started playing with business models recently.

But the same platform has been used to run spoj.pl, a rather popular programming contest site, for many years.

there is no such predefined thing as STDOUT.

you are probably thinking of STDOUT_FILENO. can you just put "1" there?

also, reordering the "mov"s (so they appear in actual call order: edx, ecx, ebx) will simplify the diagram somewhat.

I take it that they only sell Steam keys for the titles without the "DRM FREE" icon? This has confused me in the past.

As a Linux user, I'm a big fan of Humble because they actually pay for new game ports, so it is often the case that a Linux version debuts in a Humble Bundle.

But with Linux games getting mainstream and HB increasingly becoming a Steam reseller I would much rather see GOG.com introduce Linux as a platform (and also maybe hire some guys to look after Wine status of games).

"This item cannot be installed in your device's country."

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I wouldn't mind having something akin to Blackberry Hub on my Android, yet I'm not sure I need another messenger.

Sony is a big multinational corporation. As is the case with, say, Microsoft, it is not helpful to appreciate its actions as coming from a single entity.

Looking at the log: thanks for reminding me why I no longer do IRC. All the banhammer dramas, all the time.

(This has nothing to do with information leakage or Apple.)