Only if everyone agreed on a single frame of reference can there be anything close to 'simultaneous'... this is highly unlikely between human and aliend species living on different planets orbiting different suns.
The point being made is that there IS no prefered frame of reference, no 'absolute' frame of reference, and thus the claim for simultaneity is (ahem) bogus. There's also no such thing as absolute motion, only motion realtive to some fixed frame... but that's another topic.
Which really doesn't prove the existance of God... it just proves that at the very least, the Bible is a work of historical fiction. It's a collections of the myths and parables from illiterate tribes who passed the stories by word of mouth over thosands of years. Details were stretched and exaggerated, or lost completely. The drama and 'moral' of the stories were punched up. Sure there was a huge flood at some time. But did some guy build a boat and gather all animals two-by-two? (damn, he missed the Unicorn!)
The christian gods and mythologies are really not much different than the greek and norse mythologies before them. The people who believed in those, believed them to be just as real as the christians of today believe in talking snakes and burning bushes and arks and towers of babble (and the spontaneous generation of all of today's languages, poof!). Really, these are all just fables and parables... ways for people to explain 'why' when they did not know, and had not tools to find out.
Isn't it more likely that they'll choose to have sizeof(int)==sizeof(long) and then use 'long long' for the 64-bit word?
Of course, in the Windows world (where I've spent a lot of time developing), the assumption that sizeof(void*) == sizeof(int) is pretty wide-spread. MS has been trying to steer developers away from that for the last year or two, but there will be a LOT of code that needs to get fixed up, including a lot of MS code.
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Only if everyone agreed on a single frame of reference can there be anything close to 'simultaneous' ... this is highly unlikely between human and aliend species living on different planets orbiting different suns.
The point being made is that there IS no prefered frame of reference, no 'absolute' frame of reference, and thus the claim for simultaneity is (ahem) bogus. There's also no such thing as absolute motion, only motion realtive to some fixed frame... but that's another topic.
- Spryguy
Which really doesn't prove the existance of God... it just proves that at the very least, the Bible is a work of historical fiction. It's a collections of the myths and parables from illiterate tribes who passed the stories by word of mouth over thosands of years. Details were stretched and exaggerated, or lost completely. The drama and 'moral' of the stories were punched up. Sure there was a huge flood at some time. But did some guy build a boat and gather all animals two-by-two? (damn, he missed the Unicorn!)
The christian gods and mythologies are really not much different than the greek and norse mythologies before them. The people who believed in those, believed them to be just as real as the christians of today believe in talking snakes and burning bushes and arks and towers of babble (and the spontaneous generation of all of today's languages, poof!). Really, these are all just fables and parables... ways for people to explain 'why' when they did not know, and had not tools to find out.
- Spryguy
Isn't it more likely that they'll choose to have sizeof(int)==sizeof(long) and then use 'long long' for the 64-bit word?
Of course, in the Windows world (where I've spent a lot of time developing), the assumption that sizeof(void*) == sizeof(int) is pretty wide-spread. MS has been trying to steer developers away from that for the last year or two, but there will be a LOT of code that needs to get fixed up, including a lot of MS code.
- Spryguy