we do? I thought it was deliberately vague on that point...
after all, the Second Genesis was from Zion's archives, so if it recorded who struck first, it would follow that the "we" Morpheus refers to would also know.
Most people still have dial up, remember that. These people aren't going to get broadband just to hook the ps2 up to the net.
The PS2 network adapter includes a modem, you know. Actually, you probably didn't know that. Sony seems to keep it a secret for some reason, when they should be making it well known, since, as you pointed out, much of their market probably doesn't have broadband.
However, the casinos do reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, and they do to card counters.
Actually, this varies from city to city. According to
this article, casinos in Atlantic City aren't allowed to bar people for counting cards.
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From the document linked, emphasis mine:
"We do not need a school prayer amendment. Every child in the United States already has the right to pray in school on a voluntary basis -- it's called the First Amendment.... Children, who are required to attend school by law, should not be placed in the position of having to choose between pressures from their teachers and peers and their parents' instructions on religious practice. Where official school prayer has been permitted, the result has not been pretty: Documentation is abundant of non-conforming students being called "little athiests" by their teachers, being beaten up or subjected to taunts and classroom jokes. This amendment would breed religious intolerance."
[I transcribed this personally, there were a few places where the audio was garbled, and I couldn't make out what was being said, those are marked with "[unclear]", and a guess at what it sounded like.]
Architect: "Hello Neo."
Neo: "Who are you?"
Architect: "I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I have been waiting for you. You have many questions and though the process has altered your [unclear] irrevocably human, ergo some of my answers you will understand and some of them you will not. Concurrently, while your first question [unclear] the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelavent."
Neo: "Why am I here?"
Architect: "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly which, despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected and thus not beyond a measure of control, which has led [unclear] here."
Neo: "You haven't answered my question."
Architect: "Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others."
[Neos in the video screen begin asking "others?", "how many others?", "what others?", etc]
Architect: "The matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of [unclear] anomaly to the emergence of the next in which case this is the sixth version."
[Video screen Neos: "You're lying.", giving the camera the finger, laughing, "There are only two possible explainations: either no one told me..."]
Neo: "... or no one knows."
Architect: "Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly is systemic, creating fluctuations in even the [unclear, simplistic?] equations."
[Video screen Neos: "You can't control me!", "I'm going to smash you to bits", more giving the camera the finger, etc.]
Neo: "Choice. The problem is [unclear, choice?]"
[cuts to Trinity fighting. yawn.]
Architect: "The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect it was a work of art. Flawless. Sublime. A triumpth equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. [unclear] based on your history, to more accurately reflect the varying [unclear] of your nature. However I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me becuase it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human [unclear]. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother."
Neo: "The Oracle."
Architect: "Please. As I was saying she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99 percent of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a [mere/near] unconscious level. While [unclear] it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that [unclear] program, while a minority, if unchecked would constitute an escalading probabiltiy of disaster."
Neo: "This is about Zion."
Architect: "[unclear] are here because Zion is about to be destroyed, its every living inhabitant [unclear, terminated?] entire existance eradicated."
Neo: "Bullshit."
[Video screen Neos: "Bullshit"]
Architect: "Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient [unclear, 'at it'?]."
[cuts back to more of Trinity fighting. Nobody cares.]
Architect: "The function of The One is
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Actually it's proof of the ongoing schism between science and common cents.
For every a there Exists b such that P(a,b). Disproving such an assertion is impossible
Easily Disproved Assertion: For every real number r there exists a real number x such that r*x = 1. (In other words, all real numbers have a multiplicative inverse.)
Disproof: Let r = 0. 0 * x = 0 for all real numbers x.
Therefore, the assertion is false.
That assertion fits the form you laid out, and yet is clearly disprovable.
Actually, once people discovered the mathematical concept of limits the whole 'paradox' became trivially solvable. The ancient greeks just had trouble with it because they didn't like the concept of zero and infinity.
This gets talked about in quite some detail in "Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea".
all of the sudden you have wizard fights that look like bad episodes of Xena, Warrior Princess.
What the Gandalf/Saruman fight reminded me of was the fight between Bavmorda and Raziel in Willow. I could tell from the way my friends were laughing the first time we saw it that they all thought the same thing...
99% of those registered names have no sites behind them. People should be given a week or a month to put something meaningful behind it, or lose it to the next customer.
you know, there are other things you can do with a domain that don't involve having a web site...
Actually, both Glorfindels are the same. In "The Return of the Shadow", (p. 214-215) Christopher Tolken says:
Also very notable is 'Glorfindel tells of his ancestry in Gondolin.' Years later, long after the publication of The Lord of the Rings, my father gave a great deal of thought to the matter of Glorfindel and at that time he wrote: '[The use of Glorfindel] in The Lord of the Rings is one of the cases of the somewhat random use of the names found in the older legends, now referred to as The Silmarillion, which escaped reconsideration in the final published form of The Lord of the Rings.' He came to the conclusion that Glorfindel of Gondolin, who fell to his death in combat with a Balrog after the sack of the city, and Glorfindel of Rivendell were one and the same: he was released from Mandos and returned to Middle-earth in the Second Age.
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The "outstanding hacks" require one of the older Dreamcast units because units manufactured on or after September 2000 cannot read the CD-R media on which those hacks reside. Most of the $50 units you find were manufactured on or after September 2000.
My Dreamcast was manufactured November 2000 according to the sticker on the back, and it plays burned games just fine.
You're absolutely right! It's spammers too. They're in the top ten sources of spam on spam reported through SpamCop. This is even more impressive considering that they send anything from spamcop, whether it's an automated report or a manual email with an @spamcop.net address, to Dave Null, prompting many SpamCop users to send a manual report
I've reread this several times and this paragraph still doesn't make any sense to me. Could you elaborate for those of us who aren't particularly familiar with SpamCop?
I think he probably meant that it (hopefully) doesn't sound like a hurricane when you turn it on, not that it has a higher quality audio output.
Hell, I've got a G4 with only 2 fans (1 for the power supply, and one on the side of the case that isn't even vented), and even the amount of air noise it puts out is irritating.
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we do? I thought it was deliberately vague on that point...
after all, the Second Genesis was from Zion's archives, so if it recorded who struck first, it would follow that the "we" Morpheus refers to would also know.
Most people still have dial up, remember that. These people aren't going to get broadband just to hook the ps2 up to the net.
The PS2 network adapter includes a modem, you know. Actually, you probably didn't know that. Sony seems to keep it a secret for some reason, when they should be making it well known, since, as you pointed out, much of their market probably doesn't have broadband.
However, the casinos do reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, and they do to card counters.
Actually, this varies from city to city. According to this article, casinos in Atlantic City aren't allowed to bar people for counting cards.
From the document linked, emphasis mine:
... Children, who are required to attend school by law, should not be placed in the position of having to choose between pressures from their teachers and peers and their parents' instructions on religious practice. Where official school prayer has been permitted, the result has not been pretty: Documentation is abundant of non-conforming students being called "little athiests" by their teachers, being beaten up or subjected to taunts and classroom jokes. This amendment would breed religious intolerance."
"We do not need a school prayer amendment. Every child in the United States already has the right to pray in school on a voluntary basis -- it's called the First Amendment.
Their position seems pretty reasonable.
Yes.
Perhaps a transcript will help:
[I transcribed this personally, there were a few places where the audio was garbled, and I couldn't make out what was being said, those are marked with "[unclear]", and a guess at what it sounded like.]
Architect: "Hello Neo."
Neo: "Who are you?"
Architect: "I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I have been waiting for you. You have many questions and though the process has altered your [unclear] irrevocably human, ergo some of my answers you will understand and some of them you will not. Concurrently, while your first question [unclear] the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelavent."
Neo: "Why am I here?"
Architect: "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly which, despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected and thus not beyond a measure of control, which has led [unclear] here."
Neo: "You haven't answered my question."
Architect: "Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others."
[Neos in the video screen begin asking "others?", "how many others?", "what others?", etc]
Architect: "The matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of [unclear] anomaly to the emergence of the next in which case this is the sixth version."
[Video screen Neos: "You're lying.", giving the camera the finger, laughing, "There are only two possible explainations: either no one told me..."]
Neo: "... or no one knows."
Architect: "Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly is systemic, creating fluctuations in even the [unclear, simplistic?] equations."
[Video screen Neos: "You can't control me!", "I'm going to smash you to bits", more giving the camera the finger, etc.]
Neo: "Choice. The problem is [unclear, choice?]"
[cuts to Trinity fighting. yawn.]
Architect: "The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect it was a work of art. Flawless. Sublime. A triumpth equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. [unclear] based on your history, to more accurately reflect the varying [unclear] of your nature. However I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me becuase it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human [unclear]. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother."
Neo: "The Oracle."
Architect: "Please. As I was saying she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99 percent of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a [mere/near] unconscious level. While [unclear] it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that [unclear] program, while a minority, if unchecked would constitute an escalading probabiltiy of disaster."
Neo: "This is about Zion."
Architect: "[unclear] are here because Zion is about to be destroyed, its every living inhabitant [unclear, terminated?] entire existance eradicated."
Neo: "Bullshit."
[Video screen Neos: "Bullshit"]
Architect: "Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient [unclear, 'at it'?]."
[cuts back to more of Trinity fighting. Nobody cares.]
Architect: "The function of The One is
Actually it's proof of the ongoing schism between science and common cents.
AND all the files you buy from Apple are watermarked with YOUR name/e-mail address
I've never heard of this part of it. Do you have any sort of link to back this up? A quick Google search didn't turn up anything.
<sarcasm> Considering Amazon's financial history, I'm not so sure Bezos understands the bottom line... </sarcasm>
For every a there Exists b such that P(a,b). Disproving such an assertion is impossible
Easily Disproved Assertion: For every real number r there exists a real number x such that r*x = 1. (In other words, all real numbers have a multiplicative inverse.)
Disproof: Let r = 0.
0 * x = 0 for all real numbers x.
Therefore, the assertion is false.
That assertion fits the form you laid out, and yet is clearly disprovable.
Actually, once people discovered the mathematical concept of limits the whole 'paradox' became trivially solvable. The ancient greeks just had trouble with it because they didn't like the concept of zero and infinity.
This gets talked about in quite some detail in "Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea".
Gravity is not an instantaneous force, it propogates at the speed of light.
This isn't necessarily true: The Speed of Gravity - What the Experiments Say
Intel means the joining of your arse to the chair
Or the joining of your arse and your head.
Or about the fact that Peugeot owns every single x0y number? Yes, every 3-digit number with 0 in the middle is their property.
You may want to tell that to Ferrari or BMW or Porsche, for that matter.
all of the sudden you have wizard fights that look like bad episodes of Xena, Warrior Princess.
What the Gandalf/Saruman fight reminded me of was the fight between Bavmorda and Raziel in Willow. I could tell from the way my friends were laughing the first time we saw it that they all thought the same thing...
99% of those registered names have no sites behind them. People should be given a week or a month to put something meaningful behind it, or lose it to the next customer.
you know, there are other things you can do with a domain that don't involve having a web site...
this isn't the first test... while i'm sure there are others, this one comes to mind:
2 -17, which was right around valentine's day 3 years ago.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-0
"There is no knowledge that is not power." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's probably the quote you were trying to think of.
Actually, both Glorfindels are the same. In "The Return of the Shadow", (p. 214-215) Christopher Tolken says:
Also very notable is 'Glorfindel tells of his ancestry in Gondolin.' Years later, long after the publication of The Lord of the Rings, my father gave a great deal of thought to the matter of Glorfindel and at that time he wrote: '[The use of Glorfindel] in The Lord of the Rings is one of the cases of the somewhat random use of the names found in the older legends, now referred to as The Silmarillion, which escaped reconsideration in the final published form of The Lord of the Rings.' He came to the conclusion that Glorfindel of Gondolin, who fell to his death in combat with a Balrog after the sack of the city, and Glorfindel of Rivendell were one and the same: he was released from Mandos and returned to Middle-earth in the Second Age.
The "outstanding hacks" require one of the older Dreamcast units because units manufactured on or after September 2000 cannot read the CD-R media on which those hacks reside. Most of the $50 units you find were manufactured on or after September 2000.
My Dreamcast was manufactured November 2000 according to the sticker on the back, and it plays burned games just fine.
here is an article from the same site that shows photos of what the connector looks like.
You're absolutely right! It's spammers too. They're in the top ten sources of spam on spam reported through SpamCop. This is even more impressive considering that they send anything from spamcop, whether it's an automated report or a manual email with an @spamcop.net address, to Dave Null, prompting many SpamCop users to send a manual report
I've reread this several times and this paragraph still doesn't make any sense to me. Could you elaborate for those of us who aren't particularly familiar with SpamCop?
I think this is what you're thinking of.
I think he probably meant that it (hopefully) doesn't sound like a hurricane when you turn it on, not that it has a higher quality audio output.
Hell, I've got a G4 with only 2 fans (1 for the power supply, and one on the side of the case that isn't even vented), and even the amount of air noise it puts out is irritating.
an ungrammatical, misspelled web page is unprofessional
::grin::
so are you saying slashdot is unprofessional?