First Law

The Computer is always right

Lemma one

Programmers are occasionally right

Second Law

The amount of time needed to debug a program is inversely proprotional to the time allotted for debugging

Corollary

Programs never work the first time unless there is virtually unlimited time to complete the program

Third Law

Any programmer can find 90% of his bugs simply by explaining his program to an uninterested observer

Corollary

The uninterested observer may be sleeping, dead, nonhuman, or, in extreme cases, nonexistant

Forth Law

The most difficult or nearly impossible programming problems appear obvious or extremely simple to anyone with little or no knowledge of programming

Corollary

Those problems most easily solved by a programmer appear to be overwhelmingly complicated and marvelous to the layman

Fifth Law

Computers are never more intelligent than their programmers

Corollary

Most computers are incredibly stupid

Sixth Law

The rarest bugs in any operating system or major programming effort will always show up in a demonstration of its use to prospective users or customers

Corollary

These bugs usually cannot be reproduced and therefore cannot be located

Lemma One

Customers will never purchase programs which appear to be riddled with bugs as verified by demonstration

Paradox

Most programs are unfit for sale

My brand new toy has arrived yesterday and since then I had some time to use it. I must say that I'm very impressed with this small piece of equipment.

My last game console was an old Sega MasterSystem (Yes that was a long long long time ago). Since then I've mostly played games on my PC. I'm not a huge gamer. I'm a tiny gamer. Before my baby was born I played few games a week of Age of Empires or Rise of Nations or few other games. It has been nearly nine months since my last game play! Wii brings a lot of new interesting things to the game experience. For one, it is the first time ever that I've played a computer game with my wife (well not true, we played Yahoo Pool sometimes). The fact that you have to move around to play Wii games is a huge plus. It is a lot of fun! More so than I have expected.

Other cool features include the internet channel which you can freely download from the Wii store. It is essentially an Opera browser for Wii. With it you can surf the web right from Wii. That may not be that exciting but if you go to sites like Stumble TV where you can stream videos from YouTube right on your big TV, it quickly becomes super cool!

There are many other cool things in Wii. You can play Nintendo GameCube games, you can download old games from old game systems, and lots more!

Very cool toy indeed.

I don't know why, but I think I want one.

Before I go out and spend money on this cool looking thing, I need to make sure I really want it. I have to get something for Father's day or Julia (my wife see her blog here) will kill me.

Reasons to buy it

1. It looks so pretty!
2. Everyone else says it is great!
3. You have to move to play the games!

Reasons not to buy it

1. It's not available anywhere!!! My goodness it is impossible to find this thing in a store
2. Since my daughter was born I haven't played a single computer game.
3. All it does it play games, why not get something that is also a DVD player etc...

I'm sure both lists will grow. For now I am still undecided.

Update

I have now officially bought Wii. I bought it online and it should arrive by the end of the week. YAY!