For CGI there should already be depthiness coding.
I'm pretty sure they could easily offset the "camera" by 2-3cm to the left, render the movie, offset to the right, rerender and there you are! This is why the new Pixar movies in "actual 3D" are such a rip, they didn't actually do any more work, it just took twice as long to render because they used an additional viewpoint.
Ok, you have clearly failed to fully read my post.
I think you'll find that there have been many others [link]. Why exactly do you think that Jesus is special in this regard?
In addition to the fact that you didn't try to back up your claim that Jesus was the only one who claimed to be resurrected, you also missed the next important part:
Remember won't you that the deities listed in the article all had their backing in a book or mythology of some kind, this means that your bible is also not special.
If you discount the Christian bible, the first two paragraphs of your response are meaningless.
One of the strongest reasons why I believe that the resurrection actually took place,......is the change in his disciples who proclaimed this message in the hostile Roman empire.
Another one of the things in the account of the resurrection is the fact that it was first announced to women.
They found an empty grave and the Roman guard had disappeared.
Jesus was not in the grave anymore and he is alive today
None of these assertions have any evidence for them. They are all anecdotal evidence from a book that has been translated and manipulated over centuries.
All this is a matter of faith because none of us were there. This is true of all of history, because none of us can go back to check it out to see if it really happened that way.
This is true, but usually when we have more than one record, we take these records to be a little more credible (as long as they agree with each other). Even if we completely ignore the internal inconsistency of the bible, there are no third-party sources that could not have been influenced by the bible. For example, if god had stopped the Sun in the sky for three days, don't you think the Aztecs and American Indians would have recorded an unusually long night (and the Chinese an unusually long twilight, and possibly the Icelanders/Greenlanders a long morning)?
The bible is NOT EVIDENCE.
Life is lived more by faith than we realize.
This is a total non-sequitur. Of course we live putting our trust in others. But religious faith is not the same as trusting that your cereal is not infected with salmonella. The main reason for this is that companies that provide us with these goods exist today. I can actually go and visit their factories and find out what food handling procedures they have in place. No one can actually visit god, or the people who wrote the bible and thus no trust should be put in them. I know the science behind why planes fly and it is not faith that keeps them up there.
I believe I will live again with him.
Well, you believe whatever you want to believe. But when you come into a discussion saying that meteorites are myths and that we as a species have nothing to fear from them because humans won't go extinct "at least not before the second coming of Jesus Christ to this earth and then not either", you should expect to be modded down.
Do you really only believe what your senses tell you?
My senses, and the senses of my (and the rest of humanity's) equipment. I'd believe your senses too if you can describe an objective way for me to repeat your experiences.
There are four questions that every THINKING person should ask at one time or another in their life.
And where did you get these questions from? Why are these questions important? Personally, I think these questions are flawed, allow me to elaborate...
1) Where did I come from?
I came from my parents. They came from their parents, who came from their parents and so on. All the way back to the common ancestor between humans and all other animals, and even back further than that to the common ancestor of all life on earth. I don't know exactly how that particular organism came about, but I don't really see why it's important for me to know the specifics.*
2) Who am I really:
Who else could I be than the person that I am while alive? This question implies that I could be something other than what I am now. This is absurd.
3) What, if any is the purpose of my existence?
The purpose of my existence is to propagate the genes that made me. This is also the purpose of my ancestors and descendants.
Why should my life have a "greater" purpose than this? This question implies that everything (or at least humans) has a purpose, whereas our observations show that there isn't really any (deliberate) purpose in the (non-manmade) universe.
4) What will happen to me after I die?
The electrical signals that keep your brain active will stop. Your consciousness will cease to exist and nothing will happen. Why does something have to happen? What did you experience before you were born? Before you were conceived and before your brain began to function, you experienced nothing, so why should death be any different?
Of all the religious leaders and teachers that have come and gone in human history, only Jesus even makes a claim of resurrection.
I think you'll find that there have been many others. Why exactly do you think that Jesus is special in this regard? Remember won't you that the deities listed in the article all had their backing in a book or mythology of some kind, this means that your bible is also not special.
You worship anything that you value very highly
Does this mean that I also worship my house, my computer, my girlfriend? I don't pray to science. I don't make offerings to science and I don't think any part of science is beyond being questioned. Other things that are worshiped are not treated the same by their worshipers. Hence, I still disagree with your statement about worshiping science.
*: The exception here (ie, the reason we would need to know this) is when determining the existence or probability of existence of life on other planets
Of course all those billions are wrong, but you and your disbelief are correct.
It is an undeniable fact that mankind, at least most people, are inexplicably religious and believe lots of stuff outside of the realm of science.
Having more people beleive a particular thing has no influence on how true or untrue it is.
I beleive what I can observe, or what others observe and describe to me as long as it meets the scientific method. That is, is the experience repeatable? Can it be explained in a way that does not invalidate other verified observations (which themselves have been explained in a scientific way)? etc...
That makes you a worshiper of science.
Science is not a "thing". You can't worship science any more than you can worship art or engineering. In any case, what good would worshipping science be since science won't gain anything from my worship and I won't gain anything from my worship?
Carl Sagan is now dead but now knows better than that the cosmos he was measuring through science is all there is and ever will be.
The first five words were enough. Surely you realise that saying that Carl Sagan is more knowledgeable as a corpse (or was he cremated?) sounds ridiculous to those who don't beleive in an "afterlife"? It's like me trying to convince you that Jesus has now completely decomposed and doesn't exist at all (well, the atoms that made up his body do, but not in anything near the same form) outside the minds of those who "worship" him?
The object of that war will be that city itself
Sadly, that city and the surrounding area are already the subject of wars. And the people fighting those wars are following their beleifs so blindly that they can't see the futility.
Not necessarily...
Gravity can be repulsive at very high negative pressure (in more than one dimension) http://bustard.phys.nd.edu/Phys171/lectures/repulse.html
But for the purposes of a Gravity Tractor, you are correct, attractive only /Pedant
One of the biggest and most improbable is the existence of Israel against all odds, exactly as it has been foretold thousands of years ago will happen.
Firstly, it is very possible that the people who instated Israel as a state were influenced by the prophesy of it's existence.
Secondly, Asteroids have hit before and will hit again, it is only the size of the asteroid and time from now until the hit that are variable.
Third, The bible is anecdote and not a good historical record. Therefore any "prophesies" within cannot be independantly verified and "The bible is right because it says so in the bible" is very flawed logic.
Finally, the reason that Jerusalem is so contentious is because of superstitious people putting too much faith in a book. There is absolutely nothing special about Jerusalem other than the billions of people who think that it is "holy" and cry out when zoning changes are made.
Do not confuse scientific predictions with mythology, they are not the same thing.
That's right, if we observe n planets, and there are still at least (n - 1) * 1000 planets that are unobserved, then the 1 in 1000 model might still be correct!
That is, even if every single one of the 1000 planets that we observe display a "1 in 1000" characteristic, the next 999,000 we see might not show that characteristic and therefore hold up the "1 in 1000", or we might go 1,000,000 planets seeing it, and then the next 999,000,000 without...
DSL Modem is going through a firewall/router that's not set up to forward BT ports? I'm not familiar with your setup, but in my experience dialup was always straight to the computer (windows firewall etc, where Azureus could ask for permission) where DSL was usually on a LAN setup with a router (which usually contains a builtin firewall)...
If you look closely in the developer preview (from IO) An error message pops up (about 13:48) down the bottom reading something like: "Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
If you get busted stealing, then your account gets "suspended" while you're in jail (but you have to keep paying your subscription). Repeat offense = longer sentence. Perhaps lighter sentences for lower level thieves to allow people to "get into" thievery.
This makes it very unattractive to become a thief, but mirrors real life better. Unfortunately, it may make the game a lot less fun.
Shopkeepers spend their MMO time (which they pay for) gathering items, maintaining their shop etc, why shouldn't punishments for thieves be real-world too?
Are you suggesting that our present species is less advanced than we will be in the future? How do you measure the (evolutionary) advancement of a species? Are we (humans) more advanced than bats, bees, hummingbirds, dolphins, extremophiles etc, etc? Devolving implies that we are getting worse, but with no way of telling worse vs better, the statement is meaningless.
In any case, if the species is "devolving" (presumably this means a measurably lower average intelligence across the population over a long period of time), you won't be alive long enough to notice so it really makes no difference anyway. You (as an individual in the population) also have a negligible impact on the average intelligence of the populace as a whole, particularly if (as you suggest with the word "devolving") the decline is genetic.
It's ok, we'll call the next one The Ninja Bay and should go under the radar (sonar?) for a fair while. I mean, *AA and the legal system base their judgment of an organisation's legality on its name right?
Galileo's problems came from insulting comments he made about the Pope
Actually, Galileo was commissioned by the pope at the time (Pope Urban VIII) to write a book detailing both sides of the argument for and against heliocentrism. Galileo was instructed to make it unbiased but made the character Simplicio (who was in support of Geocentrism) seem foolish in his arguments. The pope (who clearly must have supported geocentrism) was offended by this and thought that it was a personal attack made by Galileo. This is widely accepted by modern historians to not have been Galileo's intentions.
And then, in a truly revealing act by the church, the publication of Galileo's book supporting heliocentrism was banned, along with all of his past and potential future works.
After all of this happened in 1633, Galileo died in 1642. He was denied burial with the rest of his family (at the order of the same Pope who opposed him) and this was maintained until 1737, almost 100 years later when they moved his body to a new site near his ancestors.
In all it wasn't until 1758 before books supporting heliocentrism were removed from the index of banned books (although Galileo's book remained banned) and not until 1835 before Galileo's book was removed from the index (along with all others advocating heliocentrism).
This clearly shows that the church opposed scientific advancement for over 200 years, using censorship and supression to repress an idea that had been suggested since the 4th century BC (by Ancient Greeks, but possibly earlier too).
My point is that in your post you implied many things, the first (and most obvious) is that God exists and the the Christian bible is His divinely inspired word. In addition to this, you imply that no other holy books are. Certainly, Jewish scriptures mention the coming of a Messiah, but it is widely accepted (I would say almost completely accepted) that Jesus was not it.
So, when you say that in order for Prof. Hawking to be "saved" (ie, get into heaven) he must "trust in Jesus Christ", you are also saying that Judaism is wrong.
I mentioned the Quran and UFO stories in my post because they are both just as reliable (in terms of evidence) as the Christian bible. They are all examples of anecdote.
That's a very juvenile and glib treatment of the issue.
And that's a very shallow interpretation of my comments.
I think Prof. Hawking needs to set up a video camera so that there's no way religious vultures can claim a deathbed conversion (as is Richard Dawkins' plan). But I do sincerely hope that he pulls through and that he lives to do more.
God has made it abundantly clear [in the Christian bible] that he must trust in Jesus Christ
You missed the most important part. God has also made is abundantly clear in the Quran that Jesus was just another prophet, certainly not the same Jesus as described in the Christian bible. God makes no mention of Jesus in the Jewish scriptures.
You really shouldn't go around touting that one book is the actual truth when it's just as reliable as UFO stories.
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For CGI there should already be depthiness coding.
I'm pretty sure they could easily offset the "camera" by 2-3cm to the left, render the movie, offset to the right, rerender and there you are! This is why the new Pixar movies in "actual 3D" are such a rip, they didn't actually do any more work, it just took twice as long to render because they used an additional viewpoint.
Also, "depthiness" is an awesome word
My kingdom for mod points!
Unofficial +1 Insightful from me
I think you'll find that there have been many others [link]. Why exactly do you think that Jesus is special in this regard?
In addition to the fact that you didn't try to back up your claim that Jesus was the only one who claimed to be resurrected, you also missed the next important part:
Remember won't you that the deities listed in the article all had their backing in a book or mythology of some kind, this means that your bible is also not special.
If you discount the Christian bible, the first two paragraphs of your response are meaningless.
One of the strongest reasons why I believe that the resurrection actually took place,... ...is the change in his disciples who proclaimed this message in the hostile Roman empire.
Another one of the things in the account of the resurrection is the fact that it was first announced to women.
They found an empty grave and the Roman guard had disappeared.
Jesus was not in the grave anymore and he is alive today
None of these assertions have any evidence for them. They are all anecdotal evidence from a book that has been translated and manipulated over centuries.
All this is a matter of faith because none of us were there. This is true of all of history, because none of us can go back to check it out to see if it really happened that way.
This is true, but usually when we have more than one record, we take these records to be a little more credible (as long as they agree with each other). Even if we completely ignore the internal inconsistency of the bible, there are no third-party sources that could not have been influenced by the bible. For example, if god had stopped the Sun in the sky for three days, don't you think the Aztecs and American Indians would have recorded an unusually long night (and the Chinese an unusually long twilight, and possibly the Icelanders/Greenlanders a long morning)?
The bible is NOT EVIDENCE.
Life is lived more by faith than we realize.
This is a total non-sequitur. Of course we live putting our trust in others. But religious faith is not the same as trusting that your cereal is not infected with salmonella. The main reason for this is that companies that provide us with these goods exist today. I can actually go and visit their factories and find out what food handling procedures they have in place. No one can actually visit god, or the people who wrote the bible and thus no trust should be put in them. I know the science behind why planes fly and it is not faith that keeps them up there.
I believe I will live again with him.
Well, you believe whatever you want to believe. But when you come into a discussion saying that meteorites are myths and that we as a species have nothing to fear from them because humans won't go extinct "at least not before the second coming of Jesus Christ to this earth and then not either", you should expect to be modded down.
(you can't exactly cut and manually feed in the pages on a library book),
I'm pretty sure he was implying that the digital copies be printed, not that new digital copies be made by GGP.
Do you really only believe what your senses tell you?
My senses, and the senses of my (and the rest of humanity's) equipment. I'd believe your senses too if you can describe an objective way for me to repeat your experiences.
There are four questions that every THINKING person should ask at one time or another in their life.
And where did you get these questions from? Why are these questions important? Personally, I think these questions are flawed, allow me to elaborate...
1) Where did I come from?
I came from my parents. They came from their parents, who came from their parents and so on. All the way back to the common ancestor between humans and all other animals, and even back further than that to the common ancestor of all life on earth. I don't know exactly how that particular organism came about, but I don't really see why it's important for me to know the specifics.*
2) Who am I really:
Who else could I be than the person that I am while alive? This question implies that I could be something other than what I am now. This is absurd.
3) What, if any is the purpose of my existence?
The purpose of my existence is to propagate the genes that made me. This is also the purpose of my ancestors and descendants.
Why should my life have a "greater" purpose than this? This question implies that everything (or at least humans) has a purpose, whereas our observations show that there isn't really any (deliberate) purpose in the (non-manmade) universe.
4) What will happen to me after I die?
The electrical signals that keep your brain active will stop. Your consciousness will cease to exist and nothing will happen. Why does something have to happen? What did you experience before you were born? Before you were conceived and before your brain began to function, you experienced nothing, so why should death be any different?
Of all the religious leaders and teachers that have come and gone in human history, only Jesus even makes a claim of resurrection.
I think you'll find that there have been many others. Why exactly do you think that Jesus is special in this regard?
Remember won't you that the deities listed in the article all had their backing in a book or mythology of some kind, this means that your bible is also not special.
You worship anything that you value very highly
Does this mean that I also worship my house, my computer, my girlfriend? I don't pray to science. I don't make offerings to science and I don't think any part of science is beyond being questioned. Other things that are worshiped are not treated the same by their worshipers. Hence, I still disagree with your statement about worshiping science.
*: The exception here (ie, the reason we would need to know this) is when determining the existence or probability of existence of life on other planets
Of course all those billions are wrong, but you and your disbelief are correct.
It is an undeniable fact that mankind, at least most people, are inexplicably religious and believe lots of stuff outside of the realm of science.
Having more people beleive a particular thing has no influence on how true or untrue it is.
I beleive what I can observe, or what others observe and describe to me as long as it meets the scientific method. That is, is the experience repeatable? Can it be explained in a way that does not invalidate other verified observations (which themselves have been explained in a scientific way)? etc...
That makes you a worshiper of science.
Science is not a "thing". You can't worship science any more than you can worship art or engineering. In any case, what good would worshipping science be since science won't gain anything from my worship and I won't gain anything from my worship?
Carl Sagan is now dead but now knows better than that the cosmos he was measuring through science is all there is and ever will be.
The first five words were enough. Surely you realise that saying that Carl Sagan is more knowledgeable as a corpse (or was he cremated?) sounds ridiculous to those who don't beleive in an "afterlife"? It's like me trying to convince you that Jesus has now completely decomposed and doesn't exist at all (well, the atoms that made up his body do, but not in anything near the same form) outside the minds of those who "worship" him?
The object of that war will be that city itself
Sadly, that city and the surrounding area are already the subject of wars. And the people fighting those wars are following their beleifs so blindly that they can't see the futility.
gravity is the only purely attractive force
Not necessarily...
/Pedant
Gravity can be repulsive at very high negative pressure (in more than one dimension) http://bustard.phys.nd.edu/Phys171/lectures/repulse.html
But for the purposes of a Gravity Tractor, you are correct, attractive only
One of the biggest and most improbable is the existence of Israel against all odds, exactly as it has been foretold thousands of years ago will happen.
Firstly, it is very possible that the people who instated Israel as a state were influenced by the prophesy of it's existence.
Secondly, Asteroids have hit before and will hit again, it is only the size of the asteroid and time from now until the hit that are variable.
Third, The bible is anecdote and not a good historical record. Therefore any "prophesies" within cannot be independantly verified and "The bible is right because it says so in the bible" is very flawed logic.
Finally, the reason that Jerusalem is so contentious is because of superstitious people putting too much faith in a book. There is absolutely nothing special about Jerusalem other than the billions of people who think that it is "holy" and cry out when zoning changes are made.
Do not confuse scientific predictions with mythology, they are not the same thing.
If Win7 is "Vista SP3" doesn't that mean that Microsoft also charges for service packs?
Or all the planets 1 through 1000.
That's right, if we observe n planets, and there are still at least (n - 1) * 1000 planets that are unobserved, then the 1 in 1000 model might still be correct!
That is, even if every single one of the 1000 planets that we observe display a "1 in 1000" characteristic, the next 999,000 we see might not show that characteristic and therefore hold up the "1 in 1000", or we might go 1,000,000 planets seeing it, and then the next 999,000,000 without...
DSL Modem is going through a firewall/router that's not set up to forward BT ports? I'm not familiar with your setup, but in my experience dialup was always straight to the computer (windows firewall etc, where Azureus could ask for permission) where DSL was usually on a LAN setup with a router (which usually contains a builtin firewall)...
If you look closely in the developer preview (from IO) An error message pops up (about 13:48) down the bottom reading something like: "Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
I agree.
If you get busted stealing, then your account gets "suspended" while you're in jail (but you have to keep paying your subscription). Repeat offense = longer sentence. Perhaps lighter sentences for lower level thieves to allow people to "get into" thievery.
This makes it very unattractive to become a thief, but mirrors real life better. Unfortunately, it may make the game a lot less fun.
Shopkeepers spend their MMO time (which they pay for) gathering items, maintaining their shop etc, why shouldn't punishments for thieves be real-world too?
You might not like the original, but you might like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d82Lq2rVB_4
Do not look into laser with remaining eye!
we seem to be devolving
Are you suggesting that our present species is less advanced than we will be in the future? How do you measure the (evolutionary) advancement of a species? Are we (humans) more advanced than bats, bees, hummingbirds, dolphins, extremophiles etc, etc? Devolving implies that we are getting worse, but with no way of telling worse vs better, the statement is meaningless.
In any case, if the species is "devolving" (presumably this means a measurably lower average intelligence across the population over a long period of time), you won't be alive long enough to notice so it really makes no difference anyway. You (as an individual in the population) also have a negligible impact on the average intelligence of the populace as a whole, particularly if (as you suggest with the word "devolving") the decline is genetic.
It's ok, we'll call the next one The Ninja Bay and should go under the radar (sonar?) for a fair while. I mean, *AA and the legal system base their judgment of an organisation's legality on its name right?
Exhibit A: Rocket Launcher == n00bstick
ranma -.com -https
Unfortunatley, that relies on people using the correct TLD for their website...
see #27678705 above.
Galileo's problems came from insulting comments he made about the Pope
Actually, Galileo was commissioned by the pope at the time (Pope Urban VIII) to write a book detailing both sides of the argument for and against heliocentrism. Galileo was instructed to make it unbiased but made the character Simplicio (who was in support of Geocentrism) seem foolish in his arguments. The pope (who clearly must have supported geocentrism) was offended by this and thought that it was a personal attack made by Galileo. This is widely accepted by modern historians to not have been Galileo's intentions.
And then, in a truly revealing act by the church, the publication of Galileo's book supporting heliocentrism was banned, along with all of his past and potential future works.
After all of this happened in 1633, Galileo died in 1642. He was denied burial with the rest of his family (at the order of the same Pope who opposed him) and this was maintained until 1737, almost 100 years later when they moved his body to a new site near his ancestors.
In all it wasn't until 1758 before books supporting heliocentrism were removed from the index of banned books (although Galileo's book remained banned) and not until 1835 before Galileo's book was removed from the index (along with all others advocating heliocentrism).
This clearly shows that the church opposed scientific advancement for over 200 years, using censorship and supression to repress an idea that had been suggested since the 4th century BC (by Ancient Greeks, but possibly earlier too).
Certainly, Jewish scriptures mention the coming of a Messiah, but it is widely accepted (I would say almost completely accepted) that Jesus was not it.
So, when you say that in order for Prof. Hawking to be "saved" (ie, get into heaven) he must "trust in Jesus Christ", you are also saying that Judaism is wrong.
I mentioned the Quran and UFO stories in my post because they are both just as reliable (in terms of evidence) as the Christian bible. They are all examples of anecdote.
That's a very juvenile and glib treatment of the issue.
And that's a very shallow interpretation of my comments.
I think Prof. Hawking needs to set up a video camera so that there's no way religious vultures can claim a deathbed conversion (as is Richard Dawkins' plan). But I do sincerely hope that he pulls through and that he lives to do more.
God has made it abundantly clear [in the Christian bible] that he must trust in Jesus Christ
You missed the most important part.
God has also made is abundantly clear in the Quran that Jesus was just another prophet, certainly not the same Jesus as described in the Christian bible.
God makes no mention of Jesus in the Jewish scriptures.
You really shouldn't go around touting that one book is the actual truth when it's just as reliable as UFO stories.
Or at the very least, you shouldn't live there.
Advancing the state of the art in Optical Character Recognition was always intended to be a side-benefit of CAPTCHAs.
[Citation needed]