The "God" Father... and why we dismiss it.
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There's a pretty good reason for this. The existence of a God cannot be tested. We don't know the bounds by which such a being could exist for us to be able to create a control subject (ie... a universe where a God doesn't exist).
If it can't be tested, there's little reason to simply accept and assume creationism is the answer to everything.
Until we have fully 3-dimensional, floating holographic projectors instead of 2-dimensional displays, I fail to see how this really is any better than current methods. Hell, it'd be more intuitive to do this from a 2-dimensional, top-down rendering.
If you're drooling over this because you saw Hackers or Jurassic Park, you can stop now. Because just like the movies, a 3D interface to any file system is only eye candy.
Once we have the technology to accomodate 3D holographic projection on the level of a Star Trek holodeck, then maybe... and I mean maybe... a 3D interface for a file system might be more useful than our current methods. But until then, there is no need for it.
It's about time this idea got some press. We have way too many idiots bogging down the internet with porn and piracy, preventing others from using the internet for its intended purposes. Instead of bettering humanity as a whole, the internet has become a breeding ground for perverts, thieves and scam artists off all forms.
Better still, it might be more important to require a license to own a computer to start with. In the early days, you needed to have some kind of understanding of how things work under the hood of your machine in order to get your money's worth out of it. Nowadays, any idiot with $200 can walk into walmart, walk out with a computer and become a massive drain on the rest of us who have some clue what we're doing.
Either way, maybe it'd cut back on the script kiddies, spammers and porn addicts we have that keep bringing the networks to their knees.
Of all the Macintosh rumor websites, Think Secret is, by far, one of the most reliable sites I've seen. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be investing $1,200 a year in them for their message board. Of course, if you think you can do better...;-)
What a freakin' joke of a topic. No one in their right mind intentionally designs flawed software with hopes that someone will take advantage of them. Microsoft may be sloppy, but they aren't stupid.
You gotta remember, virus writers are little more than terrorists. The only difference is the hostages aren't necessarily human... it's data and CPU cycles. No self-respecting terrorist goes after the minority when there is a much larger group of victims to attack.
Apparently the movie industry doesn't think to highly of its movie-going customers. They imply we're both dumb enough that we'll be entertained by just about anything they can cram down our throats and that we'll somehow *forget* how bad a movie was once we've left the theater.
Bad news kiddies, expect to have your ears caulked, your eyes gouged out, your tongue torn out and your hands chopped off on your next visit.
Between the radiation and the rather lengthy trip, will the first ones on Mars evolve into funny little men hell-bent on blowing up earth because it blocks their view of venus?
AD Police? Ah My Goddess? All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku? Armitage? Battle Angel? Big O? Blue Sonnet? Bubblegum Crisis/Crash/2040? Chobits? Compiler? Cyborg 009? El Hazard? Ghost in the Shell? Goku: Midnight Eye? Hand Maid May? Hyper Doll? Irresponsible Captain Tylor? Kikaider? My Dear Marie? Outlaw Star? Sonic Soldier Borgman? Steel Angel Karumi?
There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding exactly how much memory this thing has internally. I've heard everything from it having 32MB or RAM to 104MB. So what the hell is the *real* total? To make matters even more confusing, every diagram I've seen on this thing shows 4 banks of memory, each marked as 16 megabits (not megabytes).
Using anti-gravity does not necessarily mean you would have to instantly jump to zero (or negative) G.
One application for this would be to create an airplane-like vehicle that would initially reduce gravity, accelerate upward, slowly increase gravilty to slow its rate of ascent, then, would again reduce its gravity to a fraction of a G and glide to its destination descending very slowly the entire way.
Of course, a sudden jump to zero G would be an incredibly stupid thing to do, as this would complete "cut the teather" holding you to the earth's surface, causing you to be flung off the planet.
Use a password for a user/admin account in Mac OS X that is longer than 8 characters. Enable file sharing, then log into it from another system using either the first 8 characters only, or followed by random text. The host machine simply assumes the password is valid after only the first 8 characters match up.
Troll, huh? *chuckle*
Looking at half the posts in this thread, you'd think no one here ever heard of humor.
Seriously though, isn't having all of you script kiddies putting down anime fans a bit hypocritical? Regardless of your geeky interests, you're still just as anti-social and introverted as any anime fan could be.;-P
Not only is there interest in a Mac clone, these guys are in the process of getting systems together to ship.
According to a recent message by John Fraser (co-creator of the iBox) on the Think Secret message board, these systems will made available for pre-order in about 2 weeks.
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There's a pretty good reason for this. The existence of a God cannot be tested. We don't know the bounds by which such a being could exist for us to be able to create a control subject (ie... a universe where a God doesn't exist).
If it can't be tested, there's little reason to simply accept and assume creationism is the answer to everything.
Point proven.
Until we have fully 3-dimensional, floating holographic projectors instead of 2-dimensional displays, I fail to see how this really is any better than current methods. Hell, it'd be more intuitive to do this from a 2-dimensional, top-down rendering.
If you're drooling over this because you saw Hackers or Jurassic Park, you can stop now. Because just like the movies, a 3D interface to any file system is only eye candy.
Once we have the technology to accomodate 3D holographic projection on the level of a Star Trek holodeck, then maybe... and I mean maybe... a 3D interface for a file system might be more useful than our current methods. But until then, there is no need for it.
It's about time this idea got some press. We have way too many idiots bogging down the internet with porn and piracy, preventing others from using the internet for its intended purposes. Instead of bettering humanity as a whole, the internet has become a breeding ground for perverts, thieves and scam artists off all forms.
Better still, it might be more important to require a license to own a computer to start with. In the early days, you needed to have some kind of understanding of how things work under the hood of your machine in order to get your money's worth out of it. Nowadays, any idiot with $200 can walk into walmart, walk out with a computer and become a massive drain on the rest of us who have some clue what we're doing.
Either way, maybe it'd cut back on the script kiddies, spammers and porn addicts we have that keep bringing the networks to their knees.
Dali describes Walt Disney as one of America's greatest surrealists.
Must be referring to the unbelievable happy 'dancing mushrooms' sequence in "Fantasia".
I've been dying to get one as just as long as you've been dying to make them!
Of all the Macintosh rumor websites, Think Secret is, by far, one of the most reliable sites I've seen. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be investing $1,200 a year in them for their message board. Of course, if you think you can do better... ;-)
Oh yeah... and what is the policy on parallel computing? Are they cconsidered a network or just a single computer?
God, this is going to get confusing fast.
Are they going to audit anyone with a computer and an email address?
What a freakin' joke of a topic. No one in their right mind intentionally designs flawed software with hopes that someone will take advantage of them. Microsoft may be sloppy, but they aren't stupid.
You gotta remember, virus writers are little more than terrorists. The only difference is the hostages aren't necessarily human... it's data and CPU cycles. No self-respecting terrorist goes after the minority when there is a much larger group of victims to attack.
Apparently the movie industry doesn't think to highly of its movie-going customers. They imply we're both dumb enough that we'll be entertained by just about anything they can cram down our throats and that we'll somehow *forget* how bad a movie was once we've left the theater.
Bad news kiddies, expect to have your ears caulked, your eyes gouged out, your tongue torn out and your hands chopped off on your next visit.
Between the radiation and the rather lengthy trip, will the first ones on Mars evolve into funny little men hell-bent on blowing up earth because it blocks their view of venus?
Unless you want to become extra-tasty, crispy.
The *real* question is which one?
AD Police?
Ah My Goddess?
All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku?
Armitage?
Battle Angel?
Big O?
Blue Sonnet?
Bubblegum Crisis/Crash/2040?
Chobits?
Compiler?
Cyborg 009?
El Hazard?
Ghost in the Shell?
Goku: Midnight Eye?
Hand Maid May?
Hyper Doll?
Irresponsible Captain Tylor?
Kikaider?
My Dear Marie?
Outlaw Star?
Sonic Soldier Borgman?
Steel Angel Karumi?
Of course, this is only the one's I've seen.
... will it go into a domino-like cascade?
Perhaps they could design the bits so they're like weebles... they wobble, but they never fall down!
There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding exactly how much memory this thing has internally. I've heard everything from it having 32MB or RAM to 104MB. So what the hell is the *real* total? To make matters even more confusing, every diagram I've seen on this thing shows 4 banks of memory, each marked as 16 megabits (not megabytes).
Using anti-gravity does not necessarily mean you would have to instantly jump to zero (or negative) G.
One application for this would be to create an airplane-like vehicle that would initially reduce gravity, accelerate upward, slowly increase gravilty to slow its rate of ascent, then, would again reduce its gravity to a fraction of a G and glide to its destination descending very slowly the entire way.
Of course, a sudden jump to zero G would be an incredibly stupid thing to do, as this would complete "cut the teather" holding you to the earth's surface, causing you to be flung off the planet.
Use a password for a user/admin account in Mac OS X that is longer than 8 characters. Enable file sharing, then log into it from another system using either the first 8 characters only, or followed by random text. The host machine simply assumes the password is valid after only the first 8 characters match up.
Troll, huh? *chuckle* Looking at half the posts in this thread, you'd think no one here ever heard of humor. Seriously though, isn't having all of you script kiddies putting down anime fans a bit hypocritical? Regardless of your geeky interests, you're still just as anti-social and introverted as any anime fan could be. ;-P
This is Slashdot! None of you get laid anyway!
And kids with four fingers on each hand instead of three. ;-P
Now we just need this for laptops! ;-)
Ned better sue these guys... okely-dokely?
'nuff said. ;-P
Not only is there interest in a Mac clone, these guys are in the process of getting systems together to ship.
According to a recent message by John Fraser (co-creator of the iBox) on the Think Secret message board, these systems will made available for pre-order in about 2 weeks.