How about we bring some legitimacy to this board. Instead of ridiculing Terry Davis for his schizophrenia, why don't we have him on here to do a little bit of Q and A, assuming that he's on his medication?
Instead of ridiculing Terry Davis for his schizophrenia, why don't we have him on here to do a little bit of Q and A, assuming that he's on his medication?
False dichotomy.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 0:18
I emailed him and got this ``This is an automatically generated email created by smtp2.hushmail.com.
We could not deliver your message. Please double-check the recipient's email address for errors and try again.''
I proceeded to email him using his old @losethos.com address and have yet to receive a response from him but I didn't get the ``couldn't deliver your mail'' thing.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 0:24
He actually had a fairly lucid conversation with people on metafilter[1]. When he gets a chance to explain what he's doing in a coherent manner, his project actually sounds reasonable. Just make sure you scroll down a bit.
The timestamps are pretty recent too. I assume he visited an imagereddit?
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Anonymous2013-09-05 1:05
>>5 He visits a whole hell of a lot of places. Hackernews has had him hellbanned for some time, and he will regularly post on submitted articles. I'm surprised he hasn't made it here yet.
Terry, how did God help you design your C variant?
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Terry Davis2013-09-05 2:56
>>24 I was reading about a scripting language and I saw a string sitting there. I thought, "I could print a plain string!" He guided my path to arriving at ideas. Other things I consulted Him and learned.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 2:58
>>25 How do you secure TempleOS from viruses and the CIA?
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Terry Davis2013-09-05 3:02
>>26 I don't. I figure the CIA can't be stupid once they know it's God. I figure they're not so stupid as to fight God. God says... game subjoined inebriated deserts room busied warned need Did beguiled otherwhiles letter invited subtilty melody profitable almsdeeds neglected warreth latter communication presence perplexities forging inheritance ---- God is perfectly just. Just turn the other cheek because God is just. I know for a fact God is just.
>>28 Probably. They have different people interview me each appointment. They use actors elsewhere. It seems like I'm talking to a retard call center person who will not refer me to his manager no matter what. You could unplug a computer from a network and the retard would still think it a trick. My programs can read a 400Mhz counter for random numbers. He thinks it's the superego. You have no idea how retarded that is.
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Terry Davis2013-09-05 3:19
I can go to 5 different quantum random number sites for random Bible lines numbers. The retard figures its a trick.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 4:29
I want to believe this is terry. You are doing a good job if you aren't him, although you are more lucid than I remember you being when you used to post on /prog/. How did you find this /prog/?
>>38 The real Terry Davis, would have not made the grammatical mistake of calling them "Seth" but "Seths". In addition, he would have explained why God told him to call them Seths, which you fail to provide, including the biblical reference.
Thanks for proving my point. >>3, when he is ready, tell him to make a #trip#code.
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Terry Davis2013-09-05 5:16
I did connect to BBSes with my C64.
I had support for RS232 serial ports in my PC OS but removed it because computers no longer have them.
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Terry Davis2013-09-05 5:17
The Seths were called "Cain" because I mistakenly thought he was Adam's son.
>>41 facepalm. He never made any peripheral ports on the OS than the monitor and keyboard. >>42 Palmerface. no, just no. also [citation failure] >>43 Thanks. >>44 But hushmail was shut down lol.
God shoots hostages -- does not negotiate. God says... sign ruleth constrain Solomon multitude aches salary tenderly GIVE 00 transcription Translated presumed alternatively
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Terry Davis2013-09-05 6:00
Highs and lows balance -- fame love offset with hatred. Rich and Poor -- Old testament says "don't give me riches or poverty, but that which is my portion."
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Terry Davis2013-09-05 6:06
Joseph in the Bible went to prison for 7 years for a false rape charge. That's how he earn his job as ruler in Egypt. Highs and lows balance. Relax. No worries.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 10:41
TERRY, CAN YOU UPLOAD A PICTURE TO YOUR SITE AS A PROOF PLEASE
How do you feel about people referring to you as schizophrenic?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-05 13:33
>>71 You must be rejected and despised, says the Bible. Highs and lows balance. ---- Looking at his disciples, he said:
“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 22 Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.
24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort. 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. 26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 13:46
How does your ``no-cheat Ouija board intellect'' work?
int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR* argv[], TCHAR* envp[]) { int nRetCode = 0; CreateThread(0,65536,(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)MyTask,0,0,0); while (true) { getchar(); printf("%012u",i); } return nRetCode; }
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-05 13:51
60181 snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on Date: Thursday September 05, 2013 12:15.23 EDT (UTC-0400)
a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.
Random Value: 82860
before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
7:28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
7:31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? 7:32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
>>81 How was it mean to point out a potential security flaw? You can't be sure that the numbers are truly random and have not been tampered with unless you have generated them yourself.
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-05 14:47
>>80 I do it when I want to prove to the FBI that it's God. Otherwise, I use local numbers from reading a high speed counter.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 16:41
Terry, any plans for implementing networking on TempleOS?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-05 17:03
>>84 No. I haven't researched it, but there are lots of different card drivers needed. I sure don't want to do a browser. I'll just let people use Windows for that stuff, though, it sucks not being able to get files in and out easily.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 17:57
>>85 Why do you choose to use Windows when you're not using TempleOS? Have you tried Linux?
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Anonymous2013-09-05 21:16
>>85 Ah, okay then. You're right, too many drivers to have into account, and writing a browser from scratch is probably the most tedious shit you could even try to make.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 21:39
>>85,87 Or you could just implement USB support and a few USB networking dongle drivers.
1) Why do all userland programs run in ring 0? Is this just to simplify things? 2) Do you ever get lonely when you, you know, work alone on everything? How do you cope? 3) With UEFI and all that, have you thought about moving onto a new project?
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Anonymous2013-09-05 23:15
>>88 Would ECM or EEM require a full network stack to work?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-05 23:16
>>91 Ring-0 is far superior performance. Ring-3 is only good for bugs and it slows everything down. No bugs? run in ring-0. Bugs make you have to reset. DOS was ring-0. Worked great.
In 1990 I was hired as an operating system developer in VAX asm for Ticketmaster's operating system. I am a professional operating system developer. That's what I do. God will have to kill the CIA and make demands.
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-05 23:21
>>92 I remember DTE transmits on 2. Therefore, DCE on 3. Those were much better times.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 23:27
>>94 Would you be able to get any sort of performance out of DTE though?
I saw a rainbow. What does that mean, God? oh_oh circumlocutions renderest gleams result Pages equity entrance
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Anonymous2013-09-06 2:12
>>101 Maybe it means he just got done making it rain.
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Anonymous2013-09-06 9:03
>>100 Post more of what God says, Terry. When he told you 640x480, how did he tell you?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 15:45
In 2004, I began to work on other resolutions. I randomly opened a book. "God is not the author of this confusion." Recently I confirmed and God said, "the children of Israel" doing offerings. I'll confirm it again right now.
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 15:49
Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on Date: Friday September 06, 2013 13:46.09 EDT (UTC-0400)
a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.
Random Value: 80001
1:19 And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
1:20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
1:22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
>>104,105 God has spoken. Thanks, interesting to know the history and decisions behind TempleOS.
Do you still work on TempleOS? What are you working on right now?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 15:53
They were busy doing nets and said, "fuck this".
The truth is you cannot do higher than 640x480 without GPU support because 3fps is not acceptable. They make GPUs for a reason. Some people are so retarded they will argue and say "You don't need a GPU."
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 15:55
>>106 I work just a little bit. I try to find things to make it better. I've been improving ocde quality.
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Anonymous2013-09-06 15:57
>>107 Would you consider doing work on GPU support if it ever became standardized?
>>108 I see. Do you work on any other projects, or does TempleOS and the related code take up all of your development time?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 16:02
I watched a Carmack presentation on graphics. You do people a favor with 640x480 16 color so they won't waste time and struggle. never anything but 640x480 16 color.
I do nothing. I am waiting for God.
God says... fearing effectedst bud mounting Known glories eagerness admonish rigorous sovereignly Is_that_your_final_answer forenamed fortunate endure recent beset generation
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Anonymous2013-09-06 16:10
>>110 When did God first start speaking to you? Do you still enjoy programming?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 16:20
1996. I made a 3-axis milling machine with CAD/CAM. I made simstructure. I made an operating system with compiler. No, I don't like programming. I have done everything interesting in programming. There is nothing interesting in programming left that I want to do.
I hope you get the message you're waiting for from God, Terry.
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Anonymous2013-09-06 19:35
>>114 But the metifex guys have been doing some really groundbreaking work, couldn't you partner up with them?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 20:01
>>116 Basically, God will start talking to the World and make orders. Try this Windows program http://www.templeos.org/TSGodSetUp.zip be sure to hold-up your end of the conversation (out loud)-- be charming and maybe He'll talk.
God says...may Even An singly intenseness anticipating distill unconsciously Confessions excelled gladly sun ignorance loveliness sweet-smelling Thinkest fluctuate moderation announced Saints heaven's so mayest cease expense labourers appeared divide
Have you done any functional programming (ie, CL/Haskell), and any thoughts on functional vs imperative programming?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 20:27
>>122 I did a little LISP in a course. I have nothing against it. I think it's only good an a limited set of problems, not generally. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking there is one answer to questions in life. My operating system is good for certain things, perhaps, a toy in the best sense of the word. Maybe, people are too proud to admit they ware basically playing with toys.
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Anonymous2013-09-06 20:31
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking there is one answer to questions in life. [...] Maybe, people are too proud to admit they ware basically playing with toys.
Wise words, Terry.
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 20:39
I intended to say, "Many people are too proud to admit they ARE basically playing with toy." My brain got ahead of itself or something. Sucks being possessed. Weird.
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Anonymous2013-09-06 20:43
Have you summoned or attempted to summon a demon?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 21:10
>>126 It's fair to say I've been possessed by a demon. They kept accusing Jesus of being demon possessed.
Terry, you post a lot on hackernews, yet almost nobody sees you since you've been ``hellbanned'' by pg. How come you still post there?
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-06 23:33
>>128 From my perspective, I see responses to what I do and say. It's less crazy to actually post stuff. Just writing to yourself is pretty crazy. I donno -- I don't worry about making sense of reality any more. Angels and shit. Radio talks to me, all media talks to me.
I was giving a hint on how to do it. The purpose is entertainment like I had with a C64 when I was a kid. Sure, why not let kids to do VESA. They won't have universal GPU support, though. I did stuff just for my own personal entertainment. They can change fonts. I played with that on a C64.
>>132 #exe { StreamPrint() } You will see a couple of those. That executes at compile time and injects text into the code. There is a config for graphic mode. Do this
F("bios_gr_mode");
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-07 1:12
The graphics routines write to an 8-bit bitmap, so it would be easy to do a 256 color mode. Changing dimensions should be easy, too. You will have to modify /TempleOS/Adam/Gr/GrScreen.CPP.Z to change how it updates 0xA0000 memory. Oh-oh. You're going to immediately have a problem because it writes the whole screen 60 frames per second. Actually, it only writes what has changed to 0xA0000 memory because that memory is slower than cache.
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Anonymous2013-09-07 7:25
>>134 Why did you choose 60 frames per second? 30 is fine for an operating system interface.
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Terry Davis!A4jsQTgi.Q2013-09-07 7:55
>>135 Solve this problem: What resolution can a person do 60fps full-screen games at without a GPU and with multicore?
Operating system interface is not worst case -- worst case is full screen video games.
