Seriously... I wrote a few simple programs on my TI-83, and I was one of maybe three people in my year who did. The difficulty didn't make it more compelling, it made it a huge waste of time. Digging through multi-level menus to find a min function instead of typing the min function on a real keyboard is a waste of time. I made a cube rotate slowly, then went home to play with cellular automata in Metal Basic, where I could write ten lines of code in the amount of time it took me to find the 'for' function on my TI. I think it was like a three-key combination to type quotation marks. It's agonizing just to remember it.
You know what they SHOULD do to get kids into programming? Bring HyperCard the fuck back. It's a simple interface, intuitive structure, easy English-like syntax... My nephews are being taught with Scratch, and they find its limitations unbearable. HyperCard is a playground for the mind. We should launch a new petition now that Jobs is gone.
This all seems to assume that a birth rate below replacement ends inevitably with extinction, which is stupid, nonsensical gibbledypoop. The fact that we aren't currently keeping up doesn't mean we wouldn't pick up the pace if the planet started to get a little sparse. There are seven billion people, and I see nothing wrong with having a few less, as long as we're doing everything we can to keep the current batch alive. Letting people die is unethical, but not cranking out new ones isn't even on the scale.
That's more like the plot of The Last Sarfight, where the game operates as a talent search, but the players do no useful work while playing. I would suggest, as an alternative, Toys (with Robin Williams), in which the villain plan to fill arcades with machines that are secretly relaying video from (and control signals to) attack drones overseas, putting the natural killing skills of gamers to use without risking their lives or their mental well being (through the tsss of danger, or the stress of killing).
Not to mention our noted inability to call anything torture. I'm pretty sure the government's official stance is that water boarding is "enhanced interrogation," not torture. We "won't do it," because something-something-hope-city-on-a-hill... But we -could- do it, and we could do it in secret, and if anyone told the American people, they'd have to flee to Russia to avoid the same.
Long-term trending increases in third-party votes, especially for parties with narrow and identifiable issues, can alert the major parties to changes in public thinking, even if the third-party candidates aren't elected. Voting for a major party tells one party to stay the course, and the second party to be more like the first party. That's the last thing we need.
If the federal government wanted to use drones for science and fire control, they shouldn't have broken trust with the American people vigorously and repeatedly, to the point that no one believes anything they say about their own motives or operations. I mentally append "and spying" to every described use they offer. "On intermodal" is a childish straw man.
I use a Google Voice number exclusively, and I'd be thrilled to have any kind of usable first-party iOS app. There are about 500 apps that will let me check my voicemail and initiate a callback-call from a cellphone or landline, but as far as I know, Talkatone is the only one that does actual in-app VoIP, and I'd club a seal for a crisp, clean Google version... or at least some more options.
Then why is the intern doing any work at all? The internship exists for their education. If their presence is all it takes for them to be educated, let them spin in a wheely chair and call it an internship. If you can't afford that, you can't afford a real intern.
Eight power jacks that can be independently controlled over your network. You can control access to the entire device or individual sockets with multiple users and passwords, and they have built-in scripting functionality that shut off sockets based on the time, power-cycle if a repeating ping test ever fails to get a response, and other options I haven't bothered to look into. A real party. I think they're about $100.
I'm not worried about it, or complaining about the difficulty of installing it, as I'm aware that I'm currently not the target audience (although the Apache comment was hyperbole). Just wondering if I had missed anything, or if the current situation really was "build xwayland or gtfo." It sounds like the answer is, "build xwayland or gtfo."
As the only other human I've seen mention Wayland on the Raspberry Pi, I'm forced to funnel my questions to you. I apologize. I tried to install it months ago using the huge pile of instructions at freedesktop.org. It didn't work. When they put the actual install package up, I ran that, and it sort-of worked. I have to run export somethingorother_path=/tmp/ && weston to run it every time. That's all fine.
I don't NEED it, but I'm excited to try it. And now here I am without a file manager, or really anything at all that runs under Weston. They all complain about needing an X display. Do I really have to install X11-under-Weston using their other huge page of instructions to do anything interesting? Because if I do, I'm guessing it won't work... Is there a repo, or are they any package around that I can install just to have some fun, and take it for a legitimate non-X11 spin?
I barely got Apache installed properly. I wish the Raspberry Pi Foundation would just release a Weston Testng Fun Times Image I could flash.
When a cable company says no one has signed up for its $200 top-tier, everyone laughs. When Apple says nobody is using its $50 HDMI cable, it's because HDMI from a tablet-computer is "ancient." I would love to plug my iPad into all my various screens, but I'm not going to pay $50 for the privilege.
This is not the same as Apple selling an external floppy drive after removing floppies from its systems. The HDMI adapter has always been separate. The floppies weren't limited to 768k disks because of USB limitations, either. A consumer with one of these cables has payed the same price for a substantially worse product than they got before. According the the article, it's even being sold with false information.
"The Lightning Digital AV Adapter supports mirroring of what is displayed on your device screen — including apps, presentations, websites, slideshows, and more — to your HDMI-equipped TV, display, projector, or other compatible display in up to 1080p HD."
They specifically mention 1080p video in the next paragraph, so maybe when you have an existing 1080p video on your device, they dump it straight the chip in the cable for playback over HDMI, and that one instance is where they satisfy their "up to" claim. I don't know. But it sucks. The only person it doesn't suck for is someone who doesn't use it, and therefore has no dog in the fight.
If you payed me 125,000, I would finish college, learn about optics, build you a headset, write you better software than this, build a ludicrous computer to run it on, then give you back the remaining 25,000 dollars.
I went HMD hang-gliding at the Seattle Science Center in the 90s. It was super-heavy, lagged like 300ms, looked like Avara, and was over in about fifteen seconds, so the person behind me could be underwhelmed. I don't think it was even stereo, but I could be wrong. That said, I would sacrifice and infant for an Oculus Rift.
2. visual differences have nothing to do with input lag. Your rendering and input loops should be able to run at different speeds without any visual or input artifacts.
It has everything to do with input lag. If I move my mouse just under half-a-frame (monitor frame) before the monitor refreshes, then the monitor gives me a frame it started rendering just OVER half-frame before the refresh, I get to wait another full frame before my mouse movement is reflected in-game. If the GPU produces frames significantly faster, the frames you see reflect a much more current game-state.
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Text selection/copy/paste is unpleasant, but then, the TI doesn't even have text selection.
A Raspberry Pi, a $70 monitor, a mouse, and a keyboard. Bam. Ten thousand times better than a TI, for the same price.
Seriously... I wrote a few simple programs on my TI-83, and I was one of maybe three people in my year who did. The difficulty didn't make it more compelling, it made it a huge waste of time. Digging through multi-level menus to find a min function instead of typing the min function on a real keyboard is a waste of time. I made a cube rotate slowly, then went home to play with cellular automata in Metal Basic, where I could write ten lines of code in the amount of time it took me to find the 'for' function on my TI. I think it was like a three-key combination to type quotation marks. It's agonizing just to remember it.
You know what they SHOULD do to get kids into programming? Bring HyperCard the fuck back. It's a simple interface, intuitive structure, easy English-like syntax... My nephews are being taught with Scratch, and they find its limitations unbearable. HyperCard is a playground for the mind. We should launch a new petition now that Jobs is gone.
Occupy Wall Street was the Brownian Ratchet of political movements.
Jobs was fully on-board with the walled garden. Even the Mac App Sore, the nail in the coffin, was announced a year before he retired.
This all seems to assume that a birth rate below replacement ends inevitably with extinction, which is stupid, nonsensical gibbledypoop. The fact that we aren't currently keeping up doesn't mean we wouldn't pick up the pace if the planet started to get a little sparse. There are seven billion people, and I see nothing wrong with having a few less, as long as we're doing everything we can to keep the current batch alive. Letting people die is unethical, but not cranking out new ones isn't even on the scale.
This is you: http://www.xkcd.com/605/
"Do you want to see my papers?"
"No need, sir."
"But, I could be anyone!"
"No, you couldn't, sir."
That's more like the plot of The Last Sarfight, where the game operates as a talent search, but the players do no useful work while playing. I would suggest, as an alternative, Toys (with Robin Williams), in which the villain plan to fill arcades with machines that are secretly relaying video from (and control signals to) attack drones overseas, putting the natural killing skills of gamers to use without risking their lives or their mental well being (through the tsss of danger, or the stress of killing).
Not to mention our noted inability to call anything torture. I'm pretty sure the government's official stance is that water boarding is "enhanced interrogation," not torture. We "won't do it," because something-something-hope-city-on-a-hill... But we -could- do it, and we could do it in secret, and if anyone told the American people, they'd have to flee to Russia to avoid the same.
Long-term trending increases in third-party votes, especially for parties with narrow and identifiable issues, can alert the major parties to changes in public thinking, even if the third-party candidates aren't elected. Voting for a major party tells one party to stay the course, and the second party to be more like the first party. That's the last thing we need.
I only call fallOffCliff() after my walkingOnSolidGround Boolean becomes true after lazy evaluation.
If the federal government wanted to use drones for science and fire control, they shouldn't have broken trust with the American people vigorously and repeatedly, to the point that no one believes anything they say about their own motives or operations. I mentally append "and spying" to every described use they offer. "On intermodal" is a childish straw man.
I'm glad someone else plugged BTSync. It's rocking my world. I wish they'd hurry up on the API, but I'm thrilled to not need Dropbox.
I use a Google Voice number exclusively, and I'd be thrilled to have any kind of usable first-party iOS app. There are about 500 apps that will let me check my voicemail and initiate a callback-call from a cellphone or landline, but as far as I know, Talkatone is the only one that does actual in-app VoIP, and I'd club a seal for a crisp, clean Google version... or at least some more options.
"You learn a lot just from being on a movie set"
Then why is the intern doing any work at all? The internship exists for their education. If their presence is all it takes for them to be educated, let them spin in a wheely chair and call it an internship. If you can't afford that, you can't afford a real intern.
Plug the switch into a web controlled power switch:
http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html
Eight power jacks that can be independently controlled over your network. You can control access to the entire device or individual sockets with multiple users and passwords, and they have built-in scripting functionality that shut off sockets based on the time, power-cycle if a repeating ping test ever fails to get a response, and other options I haven't bothered to look into. A real party. I think they're about $100.
I'm not worried about it, or complaining about the difficulty of installing it, as I'm aware that I'm currently not the target audience (although the Apache comment was hyperbole). Just wondering if I had missed anything, or if the current situation really was "build xwayland or gtfo." It sounds like the answer is, "build xwayland or gtfo."
Also, I feel the need to watch Burn Notice every time I start Weston up.
As the only other human I've seen mention Wayland on the Raspberry Pi, I'm forced to funnel my questions to you. I apologize. I tried to install it months ago using the huge pile of instructions at freedesktop.org. It didn't work. When they put the actual install package up, I ran that, and it sort-of worked. I have to run export somethingorother_path=/tmp/ && weston to run it every time. That's all fine.
I don't NEED it, but I'm excited to try it. And now here I am without a file manager, or really anything at all that runs under Weston. They all complain about needing an X display. Do I really have to install X11-under-Weston using their other huge page of instructions to do anything interesting? Because if I do, I'm guessing it won't work... Is there a repo, or are they any package around that I can install just to have some fun, and take it for a legitimate non-X11 spin?
I barely got Apache installed properly. I wish the Raspberry Pi Foundation would just release a Weston Testng Fun Times Image I could flash.
Additionally, the Raspberry Pi is about as powerful as the original Xbox which could, guess what, play emulated games a decade ago.
Yeah, they always look like a landscape this close.
When a cable company says no one has signed up for its $200 top-tier, everyone laughs. When Apple says nobody is using its $50 HDMI cable, it's because HDMI from a tablet-computer is "ancient." I would love to plug my iPad into all my various screens, but I'm not going to pay $50 for the privilege.
This is not the same as Apple selling an external floppy drive after removing floppies from its systems. The HDMI adapter has always been separate. The floppies weren't limited to 768k disks because of USB limitations, either. A consumer with one of these cables has payed the same price for a substantially worse product than they got before. According the the article, it's even being sold with false information.
"The Lightning Digital AV Adapter supports mirroring of what is displayed on your device screen — including apps, presentations, websites, slideshows, and more — to your HDMI-equipped TV, display, projector, or other compatible display in up to 1080p HD."
They specifically mention 1080p video in the next paragraph, so maybe when you have an existing 1080p video on your device, they dump it straight the chip in the cable for playback over HDMI, and that one instance is where they satisfy their "up to" claim. I don't know. But it sucks. The only person it doesn't suck for is someone who doesn't use it, and therefore has no dog in the fight.
If you payed me 125,000, I would finish college, learn about optics, build you a headset, write you better software than this, build a ludicrous computer to run it on, then give you back the remaining 25,000 dollars.
I went HMD hang-gliding at the Seattle Science Center in the 90s. It was super-heavy, lagged like 300ms, looked like Avara, and was over in about fifteen seconds, so the person behind me could be underwhelmed. I don't think it was even stereo, but I could be wrong. That said, I would sacrifice and infant for an Oculus Rift.
2. visual differences have nothing to do with input lag. Your rendering and input loops should be able to run at different speeds without any visual or input artifacts.
It has everything to do with input lag. If I move my mouse just under half-a-frame (monitor frame) before the monitor refreshes, then the monitor gives me a frame it started rendering just OVER half-frame before the refresh, I get to wait another full frame before my mouse movement is reflected in-game. If the GPU produces frames significantly faster, the frames you see reflect a much more current game-state.