"After religious teachers accomplish the refining process indicated they will surely recognize with joy that true religion has been ennobled and made more profound by scientific knowledge."
"But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Maybe if Microsoft spent more time on stuff (that people actually _use_ you know), instead of fluff, maybe Vista would actually be half decent.
- A way to customize the File Open dialog box, with the folders you constantly use, gasp!? - Expose. Enough said. - A built in spell checker / Dictionary / Thesaurus, with quick access to wikipedia - A search that isn't broken (Thx WinXP!) - The ability to re-locate, (or hide) the dam 'close' button - Title bars that stop sucking up valuable screen space, instead of being small movable tabs like in BeOS - Virtual Desktops - An OS that gets FASTER from version to version (again BeOS) - A proper KILL command -- I'm admin on the dam box, let me kill that process. - Unified widgets/gadgets: NO, I don't want seperate run-times for Yahoo, Google, Apple, Microsoft, insert flavor of the month company because they decided to do their own implementation. - A home folder without spaces that doesn't move with almost every version of windows. - A file system that doesn't suck. YES, I want to be able to start my filenames with spaces for sorting purposes (Thx Explorer. NOT.) have my filenames contain colons, end with a period or question mark. And treat the underscore as a virtual space, so we don't have to quote filenames in our command scripts. A way to "tag" files, so I can visually see BOTH a heirarchy, AND flat filesystem. - Config files that can be moved from system to system instead of hiding everything in the bloated registry - Free dev tools would be nice. - Stop rebooting my dam system everytime you update system software. Or at least give me notification/icon that a reboot is required BEFORE installing.
All I want is an OS that doesn't suck... is that _really_ too much for a programmer to ask?
> Reality is all about the physical state of being
Time is not real? So time is physical? Show me this "thing" called "time".
Are your dreams real? If they are not real, then how did you experience them?
Is consciousness physical? (Having interacted with non-human consciousness, that is a clear no.)
Reality is so much MORE then just the physical, which is the point you completely missed.
> see science as a rival church.
Science sets _itself_ up as a Rival Church; by ignoring the wisdom of the past Religions it has very much become its _own_ Religion.
Science through Quantum Mechanics have discovered most of these:
Awareness - There is no reality until one observes it. Balance - Everything has an opposite, which brings equilibrium. Eternity - Now is eternity, since "not Now" doesn't exist. Faith - The Subjective Experience leads to the Objective Truth, and that it will lead to a more correct understanding of Reality when it has no proof of this. Holiness - Honesty in searching for Truth which it Infinity - There are many infinite parallel universes / dimensions. Oneness - Everything is connected. i.e. Energy is mass, E=mc2
Uncorrupted Religion teaches the same thing at its core, when people aren't busy trying to convert everyone else to their incomplete religion.
> I must say "bullshit". Science *is* our definition of reality.
No, Science is our *current interpretation* of understanding reality (Thankfully not the only interpretation.) Science is so far divorced from REAL reality that it needs another 500 years before it will actually understand the true nature of reality. One of these days it will grow up and start looking into the meta-physical as the cause, not the physical symptom; until then it is like a child: if one can't physically sense something, it doesn't exist. It has so many holes in the fundamentals, and become so institutionalized with its dogma, that Heisenberg said "Science progresses one death at a time."
The rest of your point about the power of abstraction are good.
> How would you go about consciously practicing something that is (probably?) fundamentally subconscious?
Believe it or not, it IS possible to communicate with the sub-conscious (which really should be called the Super-Conscious IMHO.)
Most people have a "monkey bars mind" -- a mind that is always jumping from thought to thought with little regard to being conscious of it. By practicing awareness, and paying attention to when your thoughts change is the first step. Learning to quiet to the mind, listening, and eventually communicating to/with the inner voice is the goal.
Practice solving problems / puzzles. Problem solving can give you the opportunity to help think outside the proverbial box. Reading & writing (working) through mathematical / trigonometric proofs is another way. i.e. That's why certain steps are called "steps of intuition" or "logical leaps of faith."
The more you use your intuition the better it gets. Don't beat yourself up if it isn't always correct. We are still in the learning state. It will become more accurate over time.
> A sense is a modality by which the brain receives information about the external world.
You're assuming external == physical. Intuition is about the meta-physical, which is why it is a sense. I was going to say "Hopefully next life you'll get the chance to be a woman and finally understand Woman's Intuition. It's a pretty cool thing." but there is no reason why you can't start practicing it now. Like intelligence, strength, memory, etc, the more you practice, the better you get.
1. I'm a programmer, not an author/writer. I'm lazy by definition. 2. When you can come up with the 'proper' way to transliterate names from one language to English, let me know.
But, hmm, thx for the tip. Wonder if I'm dyslexic since I moved the 'h'...
> was the difference between playing Quake in 640x480 with a slightly jerky frame rate, and sparkly pixelated textures and playing it dead smooth at 800x600 with nice,
The Wii Programming Guidelines (or Lot Check docs -- don't have the info at home but at work) dictate a maximum number of saving k/sec so as not to wear out the flash memory.
> I'm a programmer, I make my living writing applications for various companies, and I get paid pretty well to do it because I posses specialized knowledge.
Same -- knowledge is traded for money.
> Assuming copyright was abolished, this would effectively kill off the entire software industry.
Nonsense. Copyright is only a RECENT invention, and other industries where it costs ZERO to copy something, are still around.
People would still pay (gasp!) for software, because most are under the moral law of supporting the authors. (There are a few above it, and a few who think they are above it, but that has always been the case.)
The whole concept of "ownership" is based on a system of greed, because people can't treat others how they want to be treated.
> Going to a system without copyright would quickly destroy any motivation to provide works not directly beneficial to major corporations
Did you forget the fact that BEFORE copyright, people CREATED because they ENJOYED it? Famous works such as The Bible, we written not because of some corporation, but because people wanted to share a different outlook on how to live.
I see tons of open source programs created because a developer found it interesting. Heck, myself I work on one, precisely because I find it fun.
> As an added bonus, medical research would be pretty useless as well. No point researching a drug to cure cancer,
So now you are going to put a price on SAVING a human life?! Yay for capitalism! Screw the long-term thinking of doing things for the greater good, and focus on the short term solution of making a quick buck.
> You seem to forget that people are greedy, and without motivation they don't work.
You seem to forget that money is not the only motivation.
> There must be at least a reasonable hope of profit (either in the traditional sense, or as some sort of personal gratification) before someone is willing to undertake the effort.
Tell me, do you have any hobbies? And you do them for profit??
Someday, the human race will look back at copyright for what it was, a necessary step along the way from when people were focused on controlling their expressions and thinking they determined the "value". I have a dream where someday people will willingly share their creative expressions, and the value of that is not only thought in terms of financial gain, but also by the lasting value it creates in people's lives.
Laws are created BY people, and by the number of people sharing music, videos, etc, more people are ready to acknowledge copyright is an archaic hold-over from when physical things (let alone information) was a form of power; its time to stop being so greedy and short sighted, and look towards the long term where people enjoy sharing (positive) things with each others, and not just focused on what they can get from others.
That's because you don't own the house or the land. Look up the allodial title.
If you truly owned your house, what happens if you stop paying tax on it? If it can be taken away from your, then you never really owned it in the first place.
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- Albert Einstein
Maybe if Microsoft spent more time on stuff (that people actually _use_ you know), instead of fluff, maybe Vista would actually be half decent.
- A way to customize the File Open dialog box, with the folders you constantly use, gasp!?
- Expose. Enough said.
- A built in spell checker / Dictionary / Thesaurus, with quick access to wikipedia
- A search that isn't broken (Thx WinXP!)
- The ability to re-locate, (or hide) the dam 'close' button
- Title bars that stop sucking up valuable screen space, instead of being small movable tabs like in BeOS
- Virtual Desktops
- An OS that gets FASTER from version to version (again BeOS)
- A proper KILL command -- I'm admin on the dam box, let me kill that process.
- Unified widgets/gadgets: NO, I don't want seperate run-times for Yahoo, Google, Apple, Microsoft, insert flavor of the month company because they decided to do their own implementation.
- A home folder without spaces that doesn't move with almost every version of windows.
- A file system that doesn't suck. YES, I want to be able to start my filenames with spaces for sorting purposes (Thx Explorer. NOT.) have my filenames contain colons, end with a period or question mark. And treat the underscore as a virtual space, so we don't have to quote filenames in our command scripts. A way to "tag" files, so I can visually see BOTH a heirarchy, AND flat filesystem.
- Config files that can be moved from system to system instead of hiding everything in the bloated registry
- Free dev tools would be nice.
- Stop rebooting my dam system everytime you update system software. Or at least give me notification/icon that a reboot is required BEFORE installing.
All I want is an OS that doesn't suck... is that _really_ too much for a programmer to ask?
> Reality is all about the physical state of being
Time is not real? So time is physical? Show me this "thing" called "time".
Are your dreams real? If they are not real, then how did you experience them?
Is consciousness physical? (Having interacted with non-human consciousness, that is a clear no.)
Reality is so much MORE then just the physical, which is the point you completely missed.
> see science as a rival church.
Science sets _itself_ up as a Rival Church; by ignoring the wisdom of the past Religions it has very much become its _own_ Religion.
Science through Quantum Mechanics have discovered most of these:
Awareness - There is no reality until one observes it.
Balance - Everything has an opposite, which brings equilibrium.
Eternity - Now is eternity, since "not Now" doesn't exist.
Faith - The Subjective Experience leads to the Objective Truth, and that it will lead to a more correct understanding of Reality when it has no proof of this.
Holiness - Honesty in searching for Truth which it
Infinity - There are many infinite parallel universes / dimensions.
Oneness - Everything is connected. i.e. Energy is mass, E=mc2
Uncorrupted Religion teaches the same thing at its core, when people aren't busy trying to convert everyone else to their incomplete religion.
I'm not the only one who sees the close minded nature of Science.
* http://amasci.com/weird/wclose.html
Others have written about the problems of Rationalism
* http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/skeptic.htm
--
You are a Spiritual being in a Physical body having a Human Experience.
> I must say "bullshit". Science *is* our definition of reality.
No, Science is our *current interpretation* of understanding reality (Thankfully not the only interpretation.) Science is so far divorced from REAL reality that it needs another 500 years before it will actually understand the true nature of reality. One of these days it will grow up and start looking into the meta-physical as the cause, not the physical symptom; until then it is like a child: if one can't physically sense something, it doesn't exist. It has so many holes in the fundamentals, and become so institutionalized with its dogma, that Heisenberg said "Science progresses one death at a time."
The rest of your point about the power of abstraction are good.
> Simply laziness? Obstinacy? I suspect something else behind this debacle.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
- paraphrasing Hanlon's razor
Are you thinking of WordPad (text editor), not Word Press (blog software) ?
> He should have just concentrated on useful new features like the ability to get a commmand window at any folder.
/e,"%_CWD"
Agreed.
In the meantime, snag 4NT.
Command Prompt -> Explorer
alias x=start explorer
Explorer -> Command Prompt
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/files/OpenCommandWindowHere.zip
Karma and God are not mutually exclusive. An understanding of both are needed if one wants to gain and apply true knowledge.
Fortunately the soul life span is infinite, and has as many finite human life spans as it needs to grow.
--
My karma ran over your dogma.
> How would you go about consciously practicing something that is (probably?) fundamentally subconscious?
Believe it or not, it IS possible to communicate with the sub-conscious (which really should be called the Super-Conscious IMHO.)
Most people have a "monkey bars mind" -- a mind that is always jumping from thought to thought with little regard to being conscious of it. By practicing awareness, and paying attention to when your thoughts change is the first step. Learning to quiet to the mind, listening, and eventually communicating to/with the inner voice is the goal.
Practice solving problems / puzzles. Problem solving can give you the opportunity to help think outside the proverbial box. Reading & writing (working) through mathematical / trigonometric proofs is another way. i.e. That's why certain steps are called "steps of intuition" or "logical leaps of faith."
The more you use your intuition the better it gets. Don't beat yourself up if it isn't always correct. We are still in the learning state. It will become more accurate over time.
Cheers
> Life is indeed not always fair
It only _appears_ that way because you don't have all the facts.
Karma is Divine Justice.
> A sense is a modality by which the brain receives information about the external world.
You're assuming external == physical. Intuition is about the meta-physical, which is why it is a sense. I was going to say "Hopefully next life you'll get the chance to be a woman and finally understand Woman's Intuition. It's a pretty cool thing." but there is no reason why you can't start practicing it now. Like intelligence, strength, memory, etc, the more you practice, the better you get.
> Out with state machines and in with OO abstractions.
Having implemented OpenGL on the Wii, there is no reason why you can't do both. (oo abstractions under the hood.)
Not every GPU is a stream processor. At some point you have to manage rendering states (blending,fog,etc.)
1. I'm a programmer, not an author/writer. I'm lazy by definition.
2. When you can come up with the 'proper' way to transliterate names from one language to English, let me know.
But, hmm, thx for the tip. Wonder if I'm dyslexic since I moved the 'h'...
One minor problem: Ghandi was a lawyer.
--
Q: Why don't sharks attack lawyers?
A: Professional Courtesy.
> was the difference between playing Quake in 640x480 with a slightly jerky frame rate, and sparkly pixelated textures and playing it dead smooth at 800x600 with nice,
Actually it was Quake 1 on a Pentium Pro 200,
VGA 320x240
3Dfx 512x384 (or 640x480)
> Some games save continuously because t
The Wii Programming Guidelines (or Lot Check docs -- don't have the info at home but at work) dictate a maximum number of saving k/sec so as not to wear out the flash memory.
How much is "enough"?
> Ahh, so looks are meaningless?
You're confusing looks with functionality.
> In the real world, people discriminate and judge based on a whole package.
People judge a book by its cover due to their own immaturity.
> I'm a programmer, I make my living writing applications for various companies, and I get paid pretty well to do it because I posses specialized knowledge.
Same -- knowledge is traded for money.
> Assuming copyright was abolished, this would effectively kill off the entire software industry.
Nonsense. Copyright is only a RECENT invention, and other industries where it costs ZERO to copy something, are still around.
People would still pay (gasp!) for software, because most are under the moral law of supporting the authors. (There are a few above it, and a few who think they are above it, but that has always been the case.)
The whole concept of "ownership" is based on a system of greed, because people can't treat others how they want to be treated.
> Going to a system without copyright would quickly destroy any motivation to provide works not directly beneficial to major corporations
Did you forget the fact that BEFORE copyright, people CREATED because they ENJOYED it? Famous works such as The Bible, we written not because of some corporation, but because people wanted to share a different outlook on how to live.
I see tons of open source programs created because a developer found it interesting. Heck, myself I work on one, precisely because I find it fun.
> As an added bonus, medical research would be pretty useless as well. No point researching a drug to cure cancer,
So now you are going to put a price on SAVING a human life?! Yay for capitalism! Screw the long-term thinking of doing things for the greater good, and focus on the short term solution of making a quick buck.
> You seem to forget that people are greedy, and without motivation they don't work.
You seem to forget that money is not the only motivation.
> There must be at least a reasonable hope of profit (either in the traditional sense, or as some sort of personal gratification) before someone is willing to undertake the effort.
Tell me, do you have any hobbies? And you do them for profit??
Someday, the human race will look back at copyright for what it was, a necessary step along the way from when people were focused on controlling their expressions and thinking they determined the "value". I have a dream where someday people will willingly share their creative expressions, and the value of that is not only thought in terms of financial gain, but also by the lasting value it creates in people's lives.
Laws are created BY people, and by the number of people sharing music, videos, etc, more people are ready to acknowledge copyright is an archaic hold-over from when physical things (let alone information) was a form of power; its time to stop being so greedy and short sighted, and look towards the long term where people enjoy sharing (positive) things with each others, and not just focused on what they can get from others.
Peace
Apple ][ Forever, Baby! :-)
You can run this small program to verify that reading the speaker will never be less then #$80, i.e. the hi-bit is always set.
:-)
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Have you checked out AppleWin?
Cheers
That's because you don't own the house or the land. Look up the allodial title.
If you truly owned your house, what happens if you stop paying tax on it? If it can be taken away from your, then you never really owned it in the first place.
There, 11% smaller... ;-)
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> Why does every class have to have a counter for another?
Because people who do PvP will whine about perceived imbalances.
I will admit though, the Rock Paper Scissor type of game is more interesting.
There any Windows or OS X versions?