It seems to me that this is not a fair test. There is sentiment and there is budget. A product that costs a little more is one thing but double the price hits budget barriers. Most people do not have 80%+ discretionary budget.
It's the standard here in the USA. The other standard is the US Legal at 8.5 inches by 14 inches (216 mm by 356 mm). This is what is used in court settings (hence the name) but also things like paper mortgage statements will typically come printed on that. That is much similar to your A4 size.
I am familiar with A4, A5 and such. But I think that fewer and fewer people are. It's just not something used every day.
As a side note, most of the big important house bills and statements I still insist on receiving via US mail for protection reasons. There is a risk if I only had them emailed to me that my wife would not have access. If I were to suddenly die, I don't want my wife with our kids to miss a critical bill. By having them show up at the house in physical form provides a bit of defense in depth here.
By the way, for those unaware of the general set up, QEMU provides a complete software emulation of a CPU from that era as well as a Sound Blaster 16 card. The software just runs like it did back then - maybe a little faster without tuning the emulator to slow down.
Yeah, I personally will not subscribe to this. I am a grown man and I strongly dislike watching depictions of violence and want nothing personally to do with porn. My wife works in mental health and is well aware of suicide and counseling people.
I am not hiding my children from the world, but I am also not letting a toddler or a kindergartner cook on a stove or metaphorically speaking "putting a loaded weapon in their hands" too soon. There is plenty of real world stuff they do not need to be concerned with at this time.
There will be a time when they are mature enough to deal with the adult world, but now is not that time.
Across dozens of studies, the evidence is clear:
Exposure by itself produces a predisposition to engage.
Just seeing drugs/alcohol/sex in media increases the likelihood of trying them by 25-50%, further increasing with number of exposures.
It’s nice to have ideals that information should be free, even better to fight off abuse (what your parents did to you), but that does not make it the right direction to go in.
This coming from a child psychiatrist’s mouth.
You want your kids to stay away from drugs? Don’t even show it to them until their brains are formed. Don’t even acknowledge they exist. You’ll breed curiosity, and they’ll be statistically more likely to say yes when offered.
I saw 0 kids doing drugs in the bathrooms when I was in school, and I went during the 80s and 90s, the height of Just Say No / Winners Don't Use Drugs.
> Homeschooling: where someone unqualified to teach every subject toughs through it and there are absolutely no standards
And if my wife and I are teachers? With postdoctoral degrees?
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> School choice: How we get taxpayers to pay for your kid's private and/or religious education
Seems a little more fair than the current state where I pay both taxes for public school and tuition for a private school. You do know that there's lots of non-religious people who want to take an active role in their children's education?
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> I'm okay with 1 if you admit that you can't teach your kids every subject, and get help where you can, but 2 is unacceptable.
I'm a pacifist - can I get a refund of the part of my income tax that funds the Pentagon? Can people who don't have kids get a refund on their school property tax assessment?
If you want to send your kid to private or religious school then you can pay for it yourself.
Please do not read too much into this as me trying to control our kids beyond normal parenting and making sure they learn to grow up to be strong, confident, and caring for others. They do have age appropriate access to the Internet and an iPad with modern educational games on it as well.
There is disagreement among bible believing Christians about Genesis. I remember clearly reading it for myself as a child and realizing that the day counting did not start until the third verse. It starts out saying in God created the universe and everything in it in verse 1 without reference to a time frame. It's worth looking up Hugh Ross videos as he presents on this stuff in a way very different from the young earth creationists. There is a Northern Irish professor by the name of John Lennox who gives a very good lecture too. I presume that many here are well versed with many of the high quality secular professors, so I specifically wanted to point out two who are coming from a Christian point of view. Not everyone fully subscribes to Bishop's dating methods.
I too was very exposed to that idea but I was not restricted from reading science or anything I wanted.
I originally posted this over the weekend and it didn't catch on. I didn't realize HN auto reposts under some conditions! Let me know if you have any questions about the emulation set up.
Wine has been very useful for a few decades now. I got to admit though, I seldom find myself running serious software with it. I end up with Windows itself running in a virtual machine. I remember that it actually ran my VB6 applications like Whois Web (https://rietta.com/whoisweb) and RoboGen (https://rietta.com/robogen) very, very well twenty years ago!
Does anyone here know Elmer Larsen personally? A little digging online found that he later became a city council member and a mayor. I always love learning about some of the earlier independent developers and what they went on to become.
Published this last year after introducing my daughter to some old DOS educational games. She is going to be starting Kindergarten soon and my plan is to set her up with her own computer with older educational titles to encourage learning computer skills, typing, and more. Not just the tap and swipe UI of the modern iPad educational games.
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