Flawed logic on your end as well. Or misunderstanding.....
"You name human potential as evidence that we are greater than God. In reality the fact that human potential is so great is a testimant to the mind-boggling greatness of God."
Not correct. In reality the fact that human potential is so great is a testament (wow, you can't spell either) to the mind-boggling greatness of MAN. Only Man can do these things, since he is blessed with free-will. Unlike animals. Even god said he blessed man with free-will.
And I didn't name human potential as greater than god. Read again. I said it had the potential to be greater than god. These days we may not be there yet, but in a few thousand years, who knows?
I can name one thing, that once created, is very difficult to stop. Not impossible (a bullet to the head), but very unlikely you would resort to that.....
Your own offspring.
They have there own minds, they do what they want, and short of killing them it is rather difficult to stop them...
It's your psuedorandom generator that is the problem. In computers there is no such thing as truly random, as there is in Real Life.
I'm guessing your going along the lines of (an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters will eventually produce a best seller). Problem is your using something that isn't very vast, or even come close to infinite. Your CPU power is finite, your hard drive space and memory is finite, and your psuedorandom generator is probably based on time of day. You are starting with flawed components, therefore you fail
I'm not saying you HAVE to have infinite anything, but you need lots, lots more.
I'm of the opinion that we were created for a reason, and the answer is 42.
Hmmm, flawed logic yourself ScorpiXx. Think for a moment...
Is it not possible for something you create to eventually surpass you in every way? In ability, in strength, in firepower, in intelligence, in quickness, and so on? In fact isn't that the point?
If god created the universe is it not possible that this universe as a whole could surpass god in every way? In essence usurping god from his position of power and control?
If God created us, and by our very nature we are evolutionary creatures (we grow, we learn, we become more powerful as time goes on), wouldn't it seem that this would be the case by default?
The only way out of this I see, is if god put in a "safety valve" of sorts that puts a ceiling on how high we can go. So far I keep learning every day... No ceiling yet...
I think the point of god existing inside or outside, or even being the universe is moot.
Also, just because god (created) the universe doesn't automatically make him not constrained by it. You are constrained by the parameters you define when you create something, lest you build in a back door and never tell anybody, and never let it be known, of the special powers you possess by going through it.
There are so many things wrong with this statement...
a. DirecPC is Two-Way (DirecWay service), so long as your willing to pay the huge amounts of money the equipment costs, and the outrageous monthly cost, along with having to deal with there restictive Fair-Access-Policy. (if you download at a constant speed for a decent amount of time your bandwidth is automatically cut, then cut again, then cut again, till your stuck at 56k like speeds.)
b. Why would you need DSL to go out? Thats not even an option. You need a DIALUP connection for that side. Only in rare cases can you use a fast net connection for the upload side. (called UDP return channel).
It made ME think "Hey, this is cool! I'll go buy it right now!" Well, soon after work. From this review, and from what I've seen online outside/. people have had mixed results. (Mostly because a PEBKAC). I for one look forward to messing with it, and seeing how it works, and coming up with new uses for it. I don't expect a $99 card to be as perfect as a $399 device. This actually justifies my next CPU hardware purchase. (I plan to build a multimedia server, and have a DVD player, this card, and all the pirated movies I've got kicking about the hard drive)
slightly OT - but IFITL - Integrated Fiber in the loop already exists here in south florida (just a few neighborhoods in Davie and Hialeah.) When your connected it says "connected at 10mbps" It costs exactly the same as Bellsouth FastAccess DSL. Difference is that with DSL you need a modem. With IFITL you only need a PPPoE client and a nic. They install an RJ-45 in your house. Next to a phone outlet usually. Heres a way cool site from one guy who is way too tech.
Lots and lots of big big pictures. Hopefully we'll slashdot him... (teehee)
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OK, say you manage to travel through time, via a device located on earth. When you exit, time has passed, or (the opposite) and suddenly you end up in space, alone and unprotected. Why? simply because the earth is NOT in the same place you left it. The revolution of the earth around the sun has occured, and the rotation of the earth around its axis has occured, and the movement of our sun through the galaxy has occured, and the movement of our galaxy has occured, and so on. Therefore any time machine must also be a translocation machine like a transporter in star trek speak. Also it must compute all these variables to place you back at the correct place.
I must agree with you on that note. Technically inclined people are good, makes our troubleshooting steps we go with ou over the phone that much easier. We have a script and Rules of Engagement as far as parts ordering goes, and that must be followed to the T. I was just relating with the tech who must have answered the first guys call. Fortunately I don't take frontline calls anymore, I've moved to the IS department, and even more fortunately my company doesn't do Dell. As far as my company is concerned about troubleshooting, listening to the customer and agreeing with their troubleshooting without doing any of your own is grounds for a 0 audit. Firing time. Corporate bullshit nonsense of course, but as we all know, the Account Knows Best. Let ye not forget that the next time ye replace a hard drive without spinning thy disc first.
I surf your hard drive from my desk looking for games to delete (actually lock you out so you can see it, but can't run or delete it). I walk through the rows of cubes looking for people playing Tetris, SMB, and yes even Solitaire is outlawed. I watch the web logs for suspect sites, and then I set up surveillance. Hmmm, looks like user jdreger is writing an email to his friend about how silly Martha's being... We can't have that. Oh lookie here, and hes getting around the firewall with a proxy site. He's fired. Make an example of him so the others will comply.
At my work I am one of these creatures. I used to be one of the users, and did the same things they did. I feel bad about selling out sometimes, but my boss wants to ensure 100% efficiency on the part of the technicians. And a technician playing games or writing email or surfing the web isn't making money. And that technician not making us money may be why I get laid off next year. It's a horrible fascist regime we run at my work. No wonder we have such a high turnover rate.
Read my post again. We don't listen to what you say! We don't listen to what you did, error codes you got, it all goes in one ear and out the other. You did your own troubleshooting! Thats enough to make any phone monkey looking for a 10 minute call time recycle you as fast as possible. Now if the agent had done exactly what you did, but he told you to, it would be completely different (comes back to that "Supreme Ultimate God" thing.)
I've personally wiped clean 1700 Compaq Deskpros of win98. (only to install NT4 unfortunately) Its a contest to see how quickly after boot we get rid of the OEM stuff. Oh yeah, and for fun, we whip the quick restore CDs at each other in the warehouse, ala Tribes 2.
You guys have experienced what we phone support jockeys term: "a getemoffyourphone-er" See if we can find one silly detail (such as you installed a different OS, which could conceivably "look" like a bad hard drive (case in point: fatal OE's in ME when your system came with 98)), we attempt to get you off our phone ASAP with just such a line. "Sir, please run the restore CD, rebrick, etc. and call us back for troubleshooting."
See, to us on the phones, you are peons. We are supreme ultimate god as far as your computer getting fixed goes. We do not listen to what troubleshooting steps you've already taken. You will do our troubleshooting, or get all kinds of hassle. Screaming "The hard drives bad! It has all kinds of bad sectors! It won't even spin up" causes us to hit the mute button and say to our neighbor: "This guy is such an idiot".
What you should have done is attempt to install windows 98 on the machine, and when it obviously fails: "Invalid drive specification", "Cannot write to drive C" (because drive C is now your CDROM), then the tech support agent would have listened, and right away, gotten you an RMA.
I run three servers, and 9 clients in my house icluding laptops. I have insisted...nay, demanded that they all be named after females. Simple and effective, everyone here knows what does what. It always makes good maintenace or LAN party talk "Hey did Amanda go down on you yet or is she still trying to figure out what to do?" and "Shit, I can't get my ping inside Cindy. Shes locked up tight."
This way we always know what bitch fucked us over.
We have something like 1500+ client computers, so naming THEM correctly is really our priority. We have like 30 servers in all. Heres how we keep them straight: Client computers get a three letter account prefix, then a three letter cube number. the highest we've gone with the cube numbers is about 375, so we're OK there. ex: Compaq Consumer, cube 235=CCN235 Comcast, cube 37=CCT037 E*Trade, cube 23=ETR023 Servers are named pretty much after what they do. SQL server is named SQLSVR01, PDC is PDCSVR01, Network attached storage is NASSVR01, Web server named WEB01 (inconsistencies abound..) etc.
I always thought a second was saying "one one-thousand" or "one Mississippi" (gotta say it quick) or "One potato". at least thats how it was back when I played 2-hand touch football. You could only blitz when you counted to five or ten using one of the above accepted methods of timing a second. But for real now, why do we need to get that much better than a bloody cesium clock? Does somebody REALLY care whether it was 9.433324545 seconds or 9.433324549 seconds? Maybe scientists? Physicists? Psychotic deranged people who wear aluminum foil body suits and 14 swatches? Enlighten me people...
We do just this at work, except they are no contact access cards. Same tech though. You need a reader at each door. The physical wiring, and either a mag lock at the top or a door locking mechanism. (works on the passage latch and strike plate, the strike plate opens (like a solenoid) when access is allowed and locks when disallowed). You also need a server, and specialized software (we use Win-Pak Pro from Northern Computers). It is NOT fun to troubleshoot (usually when it goes down people are trapped in rooms.....)
Then nobody will have anything to complain about! I know that if Windows were even half as stable and/or secure as they think it is, we wouldn't NEED to seek injunctions. A lot of the whole case agains GargamelSoft is due to there muscling out competitors with inferior products, leaving the consumer to not even know there is an alternative!
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Simple. Since the creator made free will possible, there exists the opportunity.
Flawed logic on your end as well. Or misunderstanding.....
"You name human potential as evidence that we are greater than God. In reality the fact that human potential is so great is a testimant to the mind-boggling greatness of God."
Not correct. In reality the fact that human potential is so great is a testament (wow, you can't spell either) to the mind-boggling greatness of MAN. Only Man can do these things, since he is blessed with free-will. Unlike animals. Even god said he blessed man with free-will.
And I didn't name human potential as greater than god. Read again. I said it had the potential to be greater than god. These days we may not be there yet, but in a few thousand years, who knows?
I can name one thing, that once created, is very difficult to stop. Not impossible (a bullet to the head), but very unlikely you would resort to that.....
Your own offspring.
They have there own minds, they do what they want, and short of killing them it is rather difficult to stop them...
bring it on...
one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything
You guys are already violating it. And many of you can't spell! Its occam!
It's your psuedorandom generator that is the problem. In computers there is no such thing as truly random, as there is in Real Life.
I'm guessing your going along the lines of (an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters will eventually produce a best seller). Problem is your using something that isn't very vast, or even come close to infinite. Your CPU power is finite, your hard drive space and memory is finite, and your psuedorandom generator is probably based on time of day. You are starting with flawed components, therefore you fail
I'm not saying you HAVE to have infinite anything, but you need lots, lots more.
I'm of the opinion that we were created for a reason, and the answer is 42.
Whats the question?
Hmmm, flawed logic yourself ScorpiXx. Think for a moment...
Is it not possible for something you create to eventually surpass you in every way? In ability, in strength, in firepower, in intelligence, in quickness, and so on? In fact isn't that the point?
If god created the universe is it not possible that this universe as a whole could surpass god in every way? In essence usurping god from his position of power and control?
If God created us, and by our very nature we are evolutionary creatures (we grow, we learn, we become more powerful as time goes on), wouldn't it seem that this would be the case by default?
The only way out of this I see, is if god put in a "safety valve" of sorts that puts a ceiling on how high we can go. So far I keep learning every day... No ceiling yet...
I think the point of god existing inside or outside, or even being the universe is moot.
Also, just because god (created) the universe doesn't automatically make him not constrained by it. You are constrained by the parameters you define when you create something, lest you build in a back door and never tell anybody, and never let it be known, of the special powers you possess by going through it.
There are so many things wrong with this statement...
a. DirecPC is Two-Way (DirecWay service), so long as your willing to pay the huge amounts of money the equipment costs, and the outrageous monthly cost, along with having to deal with there restictive Fair-Access-Policy. (if you download at a constant speed for a decent amount of time your bandwidth is automatically cut, then cut again, then cut again, till your stuck at 56k like speeds.)
b. Why would you need DSL to go out? Thats not even an option. You need a DIALUP connection for that side. Only in rare cases can you use a fast net connection for the upload side. (called UDP return channel).
This particular picture (from the above links.) is mildly disturbing.
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http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/gallary/images/
"I'm sorry, I can't do that Dave...."
It made ME think "Hey, this is cool! I'll go buy it right now!" Well, soon after work. From this review, and from what I've seen online outside /. people have had mixed results. (Mostly because a PEBKAC). I for one look forward to messing with it, and seeing how it works, and coming up with new uses for it. I don't expect a $99 card to be as perfect as a $399 device. This actually justifies my next CPU hardware purchase. (I plan to build a multimedia server, and have a DVD player, this card, and all the pirated movies I've got kicking about the hard drive)
slightly OT - but IFITL - Integrated Fiber in the loop already exists here in south florida (just a few neighborhoods in Davie and Hialeah.) When your connected it says "connected at 10mbps" It costs exactly the same as Bellsouth FastAccess DSL. Difference is that with DSL you need a modem. With IFITL you only need a PPPoE client and a nic. They install an RJ-45 in your house. Next to a phone outlet usually. Heres a way cool site from one guy who is way too tech.
http://www.rayvaughan.com/bellsout.htm
and the linkscared: http://www.rayvaughan.com
Lots and lots of big big pictures. Hopefully we'll slashdot him... (teehee)
OK, say you manage to travel through time, via a device located on earth. When you exit, time has passed, or (the opposite) and suddenly you end up in space, alone and unprotected. Why? simply because the earth is NOT in the same place you left it. The revolution of the earth around the sun has occured, and the rotation of the earth around its axis has occured, and the movement of our sun through the galaxy has occured, and the movement of our galaxy has occured, and so on. Therefore any time machine must also be a translocation machine like a transporter in star trek speak. Also it must compute all these variables to place you back at the correct place.
ID w/ a ping, embed your call sign in it. Then publish a web page with instructions on how to do it.
I've got a tech plus license... I get to use 1500W.... :)
I must agree with you on that note. Technically inclined people are good, makes our troubleshooting steps we go with ou over the phone that much easier. We have a script and Rules of Engagement as far as parts ordering goes, and that must be followed to the T. I was just relating with the tech who must have answered the first guys call. Fortunately I don't take frontline calls anymore, I've moved to the IS department, and even more fortunately my company doesn't do Dell. As far as my company is concerned about troubleshooting, listening to the customer and agreeing with their troubleshooting without doing any of your own is grounds for a 0 audit. Firing time. Corporate bullshit nonsense of course, but as we all know, the Account Knows Best. Let ye not forget that the next time ye replace a hard drive without spinning thy disc first.
I surf your hard drive from my desk looking for games to delete (actually lock you out so you can see it, but can't run or delete it). I walk through the rows of cubes looking for people playing Tetris, SMB, and yes even Solitaire is outlawed. I watch the web logs for suspect sites, and then I set up surveillance. Hmmm, looks like user jdreger is writing an email to his friend about how silly Martha's being... We can't have that. Oh lookie here, and hes getting around the firewall with a proxy site. He's fired. Make an example of him so the others will comply.
At my work I am one of these creatures. I used to be one of the users, and did the same things they did. I feel bad about selling out sometimes, but my boss wants to ensure 100% efficiency on the part of the technicians. And a technician playing games or writing email or surfing the web isn't making money. And that technician not making us money may be why I get laid off next year. It's a horrible fascist regime we run at my work. No wonder we have such a high turnover rate.
hmm, let me clarify: You should have attempted to install 98 AFTER the tech support agent told you to.
Read my post again. We don't listen to what you say! We don't listen to what you did, error codes you got, it all goes in one ear and out the other. You did your own troubleshooting! Thats enough to make any phone monkey looking for a 10 minute call time recycle you as fast as possible. Now if the agent had done exactly what you did, but he told you to, it would be completely different (comes back to that "Supreme Ultimate God" thing.)
I've personally wiped clean 1700 Compaq Deskpros of win98. (only to install NT4 unfortunately) Its a contest to see how quickly after boot we get rid of the OEM stuff. Oh yeah, and for fun, we whip the quick restore CDs at each other in the warehouse, ala Tribes 2.
You guys have experienced what we phone support jockeys term: "a getemoffyourphone-er" See if we can find one silly detail (such as you installed a different OS, which could conceivably "look" like a bad hard drive (case in point: fatal OE's in ME when your system came with 98)), we attempt to get you off our phone ASAP with just such a line. "Sir, please run the restore CD, rebrick, etc. and call us back for troubleshooting."
See, to us on the phones, you are peons. We are supreme ultimate god as far as your computer getting fixed goes. We do not listen to what troubleshooting steps you've already taken. You will do our troubleshooting, or get all kinds of hassle. Screaming "The hard drives bad! It has all kinds of bad sectors! It won't even spin up" causes us to hit the mute button and say to our neighbor: "This guy is such an idiot".
What you should have done is attempt to install windows 98 on the machine, and when it obviously fails: "Invalid drive specification", "Cannot write to drive C" (because drive C is now your CDROM), then the tech support agent would have listened, and right away, gotten you an RMA.
I run three servers, and 9 clients in my house icluding laptops. I have insisted...nay, demanded that they all be named after females. Simple and effective, everyone here knows what does what. It always makes good maintenace or LAN party talk "Hey did Amanda go down on you yet or is she still trying to figure out what to do?" and "Shit, I can't get my ping inside Cindy. Shes locked up tight."
This way we always know what bitch fucked us over.
We have something like 1500+ client computers, so naming THEM correctly is really our priority. We have like 30 servers in all. Heres how we keep them straight:
Client computers get a three letter account prefix, then a three letter cube number. the highest we've gone with the cube numbers is about 375, so we're OK there.
ex: Compaq Consumer, cube 235=CCN235
Comcast, cube 37=CCT037
E*Trade, cube 23=ETR023
Servers are named pretty much after what they do. SQL server is named SQLSVR01, PDC is PDCSVR01, Network attached storage is NASSVR01, Web server named WEB01 (inconsistencies abound..) etc.
I always thought a second was saying "one one-thousand" or "one Mississippi" (gotta say it quick) or "One potato". at least thats how it was back when I played 2-hand touch football. You could only blitz when you counted to five or ten using one of the above accepted methods of timing a second. But for real now, why do we need to get that much better than a bloody cesium clock? Does somebody REALLY care whether it was 9.433324545 seconds or 9.433324549 seconds? Maybe scientists? Physicists? Psychotic deranged people who wear aluminum foil body suits and 14 swatches? Enlighten me people...
We do just this at work, except they are no contact access cards. Same tech though. You need a reader at each door. The physical wiring, and either a mag lock at the top or a door locking mechanism. (works on the passage latch and strike plate, the strike plate opens (like a solenoid) when access is allowed and locks when disallowed). You also need a server, and specialized software (we use Win-Pak Pro from Northern Computers). It is NOT fun to troubleshoot (usually when it goes down people are trapped in rooms.....)
Then nobody will have anything to complain about! I know that if Windows were even half as stable and/or secure as they think it is, we wouldn't NEED to seek injunctions. A lot of the whole case agains GargamelSoft is due to there muscling out competitors with inferior products, leaving the consumer to not even know there is an alternative!
Aye, so noted, is this a US DC or a JAP?