Austin, “Now, what’s new for 8.30? TONS OF STUFF, my favorite being he HUGE (85%!) frame-rate improvements and HUGE (50%!) scenery load-time reductions!”

My installer is running right now…

Today I checked in the Advanced Help window into CVS.

My next priority is the aircraft and scenery installer. This and the main user help builtin.

That’s about it for now.

Darwine 0.9.4 was released recently. It is based in the wine 0.9.4 release.

You cannot yet run an x86 .exe on a PPC OSX machine, and so in my opinion Darwine is not yet ready for anything all that useful. But it’s getting close. Currently all that’s missing is support for loading dynamic libraries in a reliable way.

And you think it’s funny that I’m posting about something with the name “darwin” inside of it. Well I do not like the name of these projects, –darwine and darwin/opendarwin– but the name does not always define what the product is.

Landmark US decision on evolution vs creationism - 21 Dec 2005 - Technology & Science: “The school district was sued by a group of eleven parents who claimed teaching ‘intelligent design’ was unconstitutional and unscientific and had no place in high school biology classrooms. ”

It’s stuff like this that really makes me realize how weird our world has become. Why don’t they realize this evolution theory is not science either? ID is more science that this Darwinism stuff.

Now I don’t agree with Intelligent Design 100% either. But this is a situation where people’s opinions overruled facts.

Is Creationism Destructible? - Where to go from Dover. By William Saletan: “Scientifically, Jones settles the issue. Culturally, he fails. And until we learn the difference, the fight over creationism in schools and courts will go on.

The decisive assumption in Jones’ opinion is the definitions of science proposed by the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. First, scientific explanations must be natural, not supernatural. Second, they must be testable. These criteria instantly kill ID as science. Its explicit aspiration was to defeat ‘methodological naturalism.’ Once you accept naturalism, as Jones does, you guarantee his conclusion that supernatural theories are a ’science stopper.’”

This article is kind of interesting. But raises the question, is Evolution testable? Well I don’t think it’s any more testable than Intelligent Design. So it should instantly kill Evolution as science as well.

And one more point I’d like to bring out. I believe that truth never changes. And that the truth lasts forever. Now if you don’t agree you probably also believe there’s no such thing as absolutes.

Now Creationism has been around since the beginning, it has never changed, and is still around without any doubt it’s staying. Now Evolution was thought up by a man around 1958-1959. Only some 40 years ago. The first people to pick it up were communist. How can anyone trust such a theory of their own existence?

In the site update email I received today,

As we enter a new calendar year, our focus remains on further
improving the quality of our service. To that end, I am pleased to
announce that SourceForge.net will offer Subversion in early January
2006, initially as a beta program available to approximately 50
projects. Then, if the Subversion beta period proceeds as smoothly as
we expect, we will deploy Subversion site wide by March, 2006.

I’m looking forward to it even though I don’t have time to work on my SF.net projects anymore, at least not much.

This week I’ve started a roofing job. It seems all the work I’ve done and continue to do in open source projects doesn’t pay very well
Next to nothing other than small donations here and there. And on top of that people don’t like clicking on my advertisements

So now I’m working outside in the cold and snow on the roof.

I’ll try to keep this blog updated and work on the projects as I have time. But we’ll see how it goes.

Writing as someone who uses PHP for web development and also wants to write an extension, PHP 6 looks like it will be good as usual. While I have not tried the Unicode support yet it looks nice.
Namespace support will be nice to have. But while the language is getting better and better, PHP 5 doesn’t even have a good thorough documentation system for writing extensions!

The day PHP has some good extension writing documentation, is the day I won’t look to other language for things PHP can’t do.

I stumbled across this today, “How Did The Moon Get Into Orbit?“

I found it interesting. As was the following quote.:

There are some people who think that the moon was actually placed into orbit.
It neither came from the Earth or outer space. It began its journey in a circle
on the circle. But they are just unscientific aren’t they?

Yeah, just about as unscientific as those who say we came here out of nothing. It still amazes me how many people still have faith in the evolution religion even though it makes no sense at all.

It’s also a neat example of what Firefox 1.5 is capable of.