Also, for what it's worth, I don't agree with the arguments for a literal interpretation of Genesis (few outside the US do), but I do believe in Biblical inerrancy.
So the bible means what you think it means, unless someone finds a contradiction in which case you didn't really think it meant that? It's easy to be inerrant when you can change the interpretation of the text to fit whatever you want it to mean.
Why do you interpret an expression of lack of belief as "being a dick"? Why is saying "there is a god" not being a dick, but saying "there is no god" being a dick? Why is it OK for christians to shove their religion down my throat, but not OK for me to even make you aware that I exist?
e.g. Here's a case where atheists have merely informed the community that they exist. "We are here and we are good people too." That's all it took to rile up the christians.
No, atheists aren't dicks. It's the thin skinned theists who can't stand the tiniest bit of dissent who are the dicks.
All this terminal application is doing is making it so that if you prefer to work in a terminal to manipulate and view files, you have the same functionality as a GUI filebrowser.
I already do. If I'm at the command line and I want to view a file, all I have to do is type "preview file.pdf". Apple's Preview is just another application.
is the guy trying to sell you on his version of something he can't prove does not exist
And how often does that happen? I've never seen it. Atheists aren't selling anything. They may try to talk you out of buying something someone else is selling, but atheism makes no positive claims. The strongest statement I've seen atheists make is "there is no evidence for god", and there's plenty of evidence for the assertion that there is no evidence.
And that's saying something, because those holier-than-thou fake Xtians can be powerfully annoying.
And they are vastly more numerous, well funded, and dangerous. When was the last time atheists tried to meddle with the board of education or deny people civil rights? Doesn't happen.
To be fair, moat loudly identified atheists are the worst (i say this as an atheist).
What loud mouth atheists? Is it too much that we remind you from time to time that we exist? Everywhere I go, it's "god bless" this and "thank god" for that, and "pray for" so and so. Christians are far, far more loudmouth than any atheist could hope to be.
it's helps people who use terminals for irc, email and more and when they have a link to a video stream they get easy one click access. Users of irssi have been singing terminology's praises for this
You don't need viewers integrated into the terminal for that. Just an URL aware terminal(e.g. urxvt) and something like xdg-open.
Solutions already exist that follow the UNIX philosophy. Do one thing, and do it well. Don't stick a PDF viewer into the terminal. Make a kickass terminal, and a kickass PDF viewer, and glue them together.
sometimes you don't want to go into a file browser or fire up an external viewer just to look at a PDF.
Why not? Why would you want to load a PDF viewer and movie player every time you want to pop open a shell? Doesn't loading the PDF viewer as needed make more sense?
As far as I'm concerned, make the output of 'ls' drag&dropable and call it done. That's all the GUI integration the terminal needs.
Around 4% of the population lacks belief in god. Only around 1% of the population explicitly claim the atheist label. Around 4% of males, or 2% of the population admits to non-consensual sex.
There aren't "a lot more" atheists than rapists, and there's no reason to expect there to be. Sexual aggression has obvious evolutionary benefits. Questioning widely held beliefs has less obvious evolutionary benefits.
As long it's installed by default, everywhere, and usable without elevated permissions, and as easily invoked as 'ssh -X remoteapp', I'll be happy. But given how the Wayland developers have taken the issue, I'm not holding my breath.
There is also a very good explanation on the wayland site as to why X is so awful for performance
I don't see any benchmarks demonstrating how X is so awful for performance. The games I play perform similarly to their counterparts on Windows. Videos play smoothly. Window management is extremely responsive.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. The Wayland folks haven't even demonstrated that there is a performance problem. And they expect us to abandon well loved features, for what? A flow chart that suggests there might be performance gains?
Braben couldn't get publisher money for Elite? Of course he could - but the Kickstarter money has fewer strings attached
Braben is an artist. This gets him artistic freedom, which is exactly what game development has been lacking over the past decade. Same with Brian Fargo. You think he hasn't tried to get a turn based RPG made this century? I'm sure he has, but hasn't been able to for business reasons. Kickstarter made that possible.
Unfortunately, there is no prohibition on excessive jail terms. Excessive bail is out. Excessive fines are out. But excessive jail terms are only prohibited if they are cruel and unusual. But as you point out, excessive jail terms are no longer unusual.
Anything over 1mW (or somewhat higher as long as its firmly ensconced in an enclosure that prevents direct access) is not considered eye-safe (class 1).
Is that 1mW of electrical power going into the laser, or is that 1mW of EM radiation coming out of the laser?
In other words, such an encoder can never be used to produce CC-BY content. Would you accept a compiler that could not be used to produce GPL code? Then why would you use an encoder that cannot produce Free content?
You are misremembering. I benchmarked my 486 DX2/66 on DOOM just last year, and got about 28-25fps depending on configuration. And that falls in line with published benchmarks. At half the CPU speed, you're looking at 15FPS tops, which can't be described by anyone as "fluid".
And that's just talking about DOOM. Quake makes heavy use of the Pentium's FPU, so you'd get much worse performance on a 486, even if it were clocked the same as the pentium.
What you really want is to just run DOOM v1.9 with the command line option '-timedemo demo3'. That will give you a pair of numbers that is easily converted into average FPS. There's even a nice list of machines and their results in this benchmark.
You'll notice that performance is also dependent on the amount of cache available, and the type of video card. This is why it's hard to do simple CPU benchmarks and extrapolate that to game performance. A 100mhz 486 with an ISA video card performs worse than a 66mhz 486 with a VLB video card. How this relates to performance in emulation is anyones guess.
I'd rather play DOOM like it's 2008. Native, high res, 3D accelerated DOOM will be far nicer than emulated 320x240 at 25fps, which is what you'd expect from a 486. I'd like to see the output from doom -timedemo demo3 on this thing.
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Also, for what it's worth, I don't agree with the arguments for a literal interpretation of Genesis (few outside the US do), but I do believe in Biblical inerrancy.
So the bible means what you think it means, unless someone finds a contradiction in which case you didn't really think it meant that? It's easy to be inerrant when you can change the interpretation of the text to fit whatever you want it to mean.
Why do you interpret an expression of lack of belief as "being a dick"? Why is saying "there is a god" not being a dick, but saying "there is no god" being a dick? Why is it OK for christians to shove their religion down my throat, but not OK for me to even make you aware that I exist?
e.g. Here's a case where atheists have merely informed the community that they exist. "We are here and we are good people too." That's all it took to rile up the christians.
No, atheists aren't dicks. It's the thin skinned theists who can't stand the tiniest bit of dissent who are the dicks.
All this terminal application is doing is making it so that if you prefer to work in a terminal to manipulate and view files, you have the same functionality as a GUI filebrowser.
I already do. If I'm at the command line and I want to view a file, all I have to do is type "preview file.pdf". Apple's Preview is just another application.
It's not the religion.
Your bigotry is showing.
is the guy trying to sell you on his version of something he can't prove does not exist
And how often does that happen? I've never seen it. Atheists aren't selling anything. They may try to talk you out of buying something someone else is selling, but atheism makes no positive claims. The strongest statement I've seen atheists make is "there is no evidence for god", and there's plenty of evidence for the assertion that there is no evidence.
And that's saying something, because those holier-than-thou fake Xtians can be powerfully annoying.
And they are vastly more numerous, well funded, and dangerous. When was the last time atheists tried to meddle with the board of education or deny people civil rights? Doesn't happen.
I'm sure Braben and Fargo (especially Fargo) are experienced enough to understand the value of an editor and to work that into the budget.
To be fair, moat loudly identified atheists are the worst (i say this as an atheist).
What loud mouth atheists? Is it too much that we remind you from time to time that we exist? Everywhere I go, it's "god bless" this and "thank god" for that, and "pray for" so and so. Christians are far, far more loudmouth than any atheist could hope to be.
it's helps people who use terminals for irc, email and more and when they have a link to a video stream they get easy one click access. Users of irssi have been singing terminology's praises for this
You don't need viewers integrated into the terminal for that. Just an URL aware terminal(e.g. urxvt) and something like xdg-open.
Solutions already exist that follow the UNIX philosophy. Do one thing, and do it well. Don't stick a PDF viewer into the terminal. Make a kickass terminal, and a kickass PDF viewer, and glue them together.
sometimes you don't want to go into a file browser or fire up an external viewer just to look at a PDF.
Why not? Why would you want to load a PDF viewer and movie player every time you want to pop open a shell? Doesn't loading the PDF viewer as needed make more sense?
As far as I'm concerned, make the output of 'ls' drag&dropable and call it done. That's all the GUI integration the terminal needs.
Around 4% of the population lacks belief in god. Only around 1% of the population explicitly claim the atheist label. Around 4% of males, or 2% of the population admits to non-consensual sex.
There aren't "a lot more" atheists than rapists, and there's no reason to expect there to be. Sexual aggression has obvious evolutionary benefits. Questioning widely held beliefs has less obvious evolutionary benefits.
As long it's installed by default, everywhere, and usable without elevated permissions, and as easily invoked as 'ssh -X remoteapp', I'll be happy. But given how the Wayland developers have taken the issue, I'm not holding my breath.
Wayland will enable an X server to run on top of it
And what of native Wayland apps? Will remoting an arbitrary Wayland app be as easy as 'ssh -X waylandapp'? Will that work for all Wayland apps?
Wayland does not preclude a network transparent transport.
Wayland does not guarantee a network transparent transport. X11 does guarantee a network transparent transport. See the difference?
There is also a very good explanation on the wayland site as to why X is so awful for performance
I don't see any benchmarks demonstrating how X is so awful for performance. The games I play perform similarly to their counterparts on Windows. Videos play smoothly. Window management is extremely responsive.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. The Wayland folks haven't even demonstrated that there is a performance problem. And they expect us to abandon well loved features, for what? A flow chart that suggests there might be performance gains?
And those of us who actually use X hope that Wayland never comes close to replacing X, because it's not going to be as featureful.
And yet atheists are still the least liked segment of society. We're held in even less esteem than muslims.
Braben couldn't get publisher money for Elite? Of course he could - but the Kickstarter money has fewer strings attached
Braben is an artist. This gets him artistic freedom, which is exactly what game development has been lacking over the past decade. Same with Brian Fargo. You think he hasn't tried to get a turn based RPG made this century? I'm sure he has, but hasn't been able to for business reasons. Kickstarter made that possible.
Unfortunately, there is no prohibition on excessive jail terms. Excessive bail is out. Excessive fines are out. But excessive jail terms are only prohibited if they are cruel and unusual. But as you point out, excessive jail terms are no longer unusual.
Head over to the United Nuclear website and look for the 10 pound rare earth magnets labelled "Extremely Dangerous Magnet"!
For extra fun, have your neighbor buy one on the same day you do. And be sure to tip your mail man generously next christmas.
It's more neodynamic, I think.
Anything over 1mW (or somewhat higher as long as its firmly ensconced in an enclosure that prevents direct access) is not considered eye-safe (class 1).
Is that 1mW of electrical power going into the laser, or is that 1mW of EM radiation coming out of the laser?
In other words, such an encoder can never be used to produce CC-BY content. Would you accept a compiler that could not be used to produce GPL code? Then why would you use an encoder that cannot produce Free content?
You can run FreeDOS in DOSBOX if you want.
You are misremembering. I benchmarked my 486 DX2/66 on DOOM just last year, and got about 28-25fps depending on configuration. And that falls in line with published benchmarks. At half the CPU speed, you're looking at 15FPS tops, which can't be described by anyone as "fluid".
And that's just talking about DOOM. Quake makes heavy use of the Pentium's FPU, so you'd get much worse performance on a 486, even if it were clocked the same as the pentium.
What you really want is to just run DOOM v1.9 with the command line option '-timedemo demo3'. That will give you a pair of numbers that is easily converted into average FPS. There's even a nice list of machines and their results in this benchmark.
You'll notice that performance is also dependent on the amount of cache available, and the type of video card. This is why it's hard to do simple CPU benchmarks and extrapolate that to game performance. A 100mhz 486 with an ISA video card performs worse than a 66mhz 486 with a VLB video card. How this relates to performance in emulation is anyones guess.
I'd rather play DOOM like it's 2008. Native, high res, 3D accelerated DOOM will be far nicer than emulated 320x240 at 25fps, which is what you'd expect from a 486. I'd like to see the output from doom -timedemo demo3 on this thing.