You can tether with AT&T now the trick is they charge you an extra $20 a month. So if you are a poor AT&T customer your still SOL.
That statement seems to contridict itself.
How do you get AT&T to send you the carrier file that allows tethering?
I'd love to upgraded to the latest OS release, but I'm back at 3.0 so I can use the enterprise profile hack to enable tethering. I'd pay extra for it if I could do it. Actually I probably wouldn't, but I'd love for you to tell me how this is supposed to work and who I tell that I want to give them $20/month more so I can tether.
I totally disagree. It's the basic right to raise your children with your own views and values.
No, it isn't, not in America anyway. I doubt it is in any country anywhere.
Society has put limits on this 'right', in order to protect children from extremists and idiots. You are allowed a certain level of freedom, but we as a society have said that we only allow it to a certain level and you must comply with some basic standards for education so your child can eventually have the opportunity to make their own decisions without being brainwashed by you to only believe YOUR viewpoints. You are also required to teach them certain specific things if you want to teach them yourself.
Its a compromise between letting you teach your children your beliefs and preventing you from making them nutjobs (which doesn't require a prefix of religious, there are plenty of other ways to be intolerant bastards). You can teach them and educate them your way, but you also have to expose them to certain other bits of knowledge that we as a society have decided that EVERYONE should know.
Funny, I remember hearing on more than one occasion that I was special while I was in school.
They even gave me my own short bus to ride on.
Seriously though, kids DO get told they are special at a very young age. It goes away fairly early on, but you've got to be entirely ignorant or blocking out your childhood to not remember it.
They teach you to be afraid of being yourself; teach you how to NOT interact with people honestly and straightforwardly; and -- if, like me, you had some bad teachers -- teach you how to DISrespect authority.
Thankfully, I made a conscious decision in the sixth or seventh grade to simply disregard people who didn't like me ("if you don't like me or treat me badly, you are not worth my time").
So... what you're saying is... by going to public school you learned how to deal with other assholes at a young age?
I'm sorry, thats not very good for supporting your argument.
I know a lot of homeschool kids, and most of them are some of the nicest and most social kids you'll ever meet, and they are perfectly capable of working with people who are "difficult."
In my experience, they are also the easiest to con.
I'd like to point out that while you considered yourself brainwashed in hindsight, that you are also now more aware of the fact, which is better than someone having no exposure, then growing up to be brainwashed as an adult by politicians and the like.
You obviously were put through something extreme. I too went to a private school, catholic as a matter of fact and I got nothing to the extremes that you did. Sure, there was an obvious religious focus, daily prayers and all that, but my experience was rather pleasant and I'm sure I was lucky in that the administrators were accepting of students exploring other viewpoints. There was plenty of 'well the other guys say this, which we do not believe in' but never 'you aren't allowed to think that way'.
There are always going to be extremists out there though, so their will likely always be stories like yours. Fortunately most of the world isn't that way, and I'd like to think that there are far more stories like mine.
With that being said, my children will not go to private school. I'd rather them be exposed to the public schools and get used to the diversity of the world they live in as soon as possible.
Its my responsibility to supplement and extend what they learn in school. Anyone who just pack their kids up and sends them off to school without ever doing any education of their own is just using the school as a free daycare. Parents have responsibilities for educating their own and not expecting someone else to do everything.
My parents required me to think on my own...
Me: Dad I broke my bike Dad: Okay, heres how you fix it, pay attention two weeks later Me: Dad I broke my bike AGAIN! Dad: So fix it, I showed you how!
Rather than...
Me: Dad I broke my bike Dad: Okay, lets take it to the shop and buy a new one before my favorite tv show comes on!
Freedom is not 100% anywhere in the world. Society defines acceptable limits to freedom. Even in america children are required to be educated, with a specific minimum set of requirements. It may be different than Germany, but its there all the same.
It isn't THEIR choice because WE as a society said 'there are limits to this level of freedom as WE believe the children themselves have some rights which the parents DON'T get complete control over, and education is one of them.
Do you think the parents have the right to abuse their children as well? Is that also THEIR choice? No, again WE have said parents DO NOT get to abuse their children.
Freedom has its limits, otherwise it would be anarchy and there would be no laws at all.
No, it really doesn't. Having never been exposed to the masses of assholes, rejects, much smarter people, and all sorts of other things, I find it VERY hard to believe they've experienced the same variation as someone in a public school.
Common sense says that if you're exposed to a tiny niche of the population than you will have difficulty understanding those who are drastically different that you've never been exposed to.
Do you really believe that children develop desirable social traits by learning how to interact with others from other children?
Depends on how you define desirable. To me that includes being able to cope with all the fucktards in the world, which homeschooling lowers their exposure to.
Second, you do realize that the first thing that happens when they get out of your 'supervision' is they do all the shit they would have done before to try it out. Theres a reason for stereo types like 'catholic school girls'.
I want my child to be able to cope with the reality of working with a bunch of fucktards in the work place, having already experienced such things in a public school they are more likely to be able to do so than your child who has been exposed to a MUCH smaller MUCH less diverse of people, which share views identical to your own.
Are they going to be exposed to undesirable things in public school, YES, thank god, most of the time its going to be minor things that you can deal with and correct BEFORE they become adults and get into SERIOUS trouble when they test out those undesirable things.
A 15 year old pot head is FAR more desirable to me than a 25 year old coke head whore who when finally out from under her parents grasp goes hog wild and ruins her life. I have a chance to correct the 15 year old, the 25 year old coke head is almost certainly a lost cause.
You go ahead and keep reading studies by people who don't have any children or first hand experience.
his thing isn't a phone and it's not an mp3 player, it is a tablet computer that is directly trying to compete with netbooks and even laptops.
No... its an iPad. Its not a tablet computer trying to compete with netbooks or laptops, which are not tablet computers.
If you'd said it was trying to compete with other tablet PCs you might have a point, but you didn't, which illustrates that you don't even know what you're talking about.
If it was meant to be used like a laptop it'd have a builtin keyboard, not a touch screen keyboard.
You are confused about the purpose of the device, the device isn't confused about its purpose.
You would have far less problems with speeding if all cars just work and had a speed limiter installed that just worked.
Some cars are configured this way already.
There would be less theft if every car was bio-keyed to the person and every person tracked...
You mean like the devices installed in some people convicted of a DUI?
Do I need to go on?
Yes, since you provided no example that was useful to your point, you should probably go on.
Why are the privacy nutcases always so ready to imagine the most terrible wrongs about potential abuse of power by the government, but think it is super okay to give all control to a corporation?
Because I HAVE to deal with the government. I don't have to deal with any particular corporation, I can use an alternative or not use them at all.
I really don't know if your kind can ever learn, there have been enough example shown that when companies get to comfortable with themselves, it is bad for their customers.
So because someone doesn't share your point of view they are incapable of learning? No one is arguing that companies can't do bad things, just right now, Apple isn't, so no one cares. Sure, they probably will eventually, but why give up something you can use now in exchange for the possibility (however likely) that it may be something you don't want to use in the future? Most people are OK with the appstore and the way Apples devices work right now, so they buy them. If they become unhappy in the future, they'll stop buying them.
Cable companies have a tendancies to think everyone must have TV so they can do whatever they want because they have a monopoly, except more and more people are ditching cable entirely in favor of other sources of media or just foregoing the content completely cause its really not that good. When enough of their customers stop paying, they'll change or go away, either way, we win, so your argument that Apple may go bad is just silly. Of course they'll try to go bad, they want to make as much money as possible. At that point we'll deal with it, until then we'll enjoy the ride.
The FSF has some points, but they are also well off the extremist deep end so often that no one except other nutjobs really give a shit what they say anymore. They've cried wolf so many times that they've lost clout. Doesn't matter if they are right or wrong, the only people that give a shit are a tiny percentage of the population without enough people to matter to anyone.
If you want to see why the FSF is right, install IE6 as your main and only browser.
I've got several machines that are clean installs of Windows with 1 or 2 specific apps on them, completely unpatched, running IE6, which occasionally I'll use to browse something on the Internet. Still no infections. Of course, I go to sites I know are safe, generally to get documentation or info about the apps running on those machines for various reasons. Am I supposed to be concerned about the fact that it doesn't render right (it does good enough that I can get the job done as needed) or that I may get infected (still hasn't happened)? Other than being several years old and well known for exploiting I dont get your point. I fail to see how IE6 differs from Firefox 1.0 in either respect. Yes, if you use old outdated software its more likely to not work with current data and more likely someone will know of the exploits in it. Very good, common sense 101 there.
For the general population, yes, because grandma isn't going to add a new repository, she's going to use what came with it and not give a shit... just like with the Apple AppStore.
Apple products aren't for you, stop bitching about it and accept they aren't for you even though others like them.
Funny, I've been using this nifty API to interact with iTunes for a few years now. We have different definitions of closed
their media devices don't use open formats.
Really? MP3 and H264 aren't open standards? You and I have different definitions of open. I don't have any music and only one video that are in the original apple formats, I've converted them all to more standard formats to use on other devices as well, they still work just fine in iTunes and on my iPhone and iPod.
firewire?
Not invented by apple, not licensed by apple, superior to USB in almost every way, available on all sorts of different devices, is an open standard anyone can implement, just requires licensing. Again you and I have different definitions of open. I'm okay with paying a little extra to get something better, you can stick with shitty and free, my time is worth money and waiting on slow ass USB transfers is not my cup of tea.
The only thing I'll even partially agree with is that the AppStore is not wide open.
Slashdot is not the manufacture of the car or the iPad, so bitching here isn't doing anything other than trolling.
My father used to sit on the couch and whine, bitch and moan about politicians, but never once did he leave the house to tell anyone outside of it how he felt.
His bitching was useless and annoying to those around him, just like the posts to this effect here.
With a slight difference, if no one buys a product, it won't stick around and other ideas will be needed to stay in business.
Considering the way iPhone/iPod sales go... I'd say that the complaints here are from such a tiny group that no one gives a flying fuck.
The irony is that this isn't even new to the iPhone. It wasn't the first iPod with apps you know?
It's an eReader with a bright ass screen that will strain your eyes.
You do realize they have brightness controls... right? You can turn the backlight off if you'd like, though you'd have to be in some pretty bright outdoor light to read it afterwords.
Interestingly enough, the iPod touch and iphone are capable of auto adjusting to ambient light although it doesn't work that great by my standards.
It surfs the internet the way Apple says you should (no flash, IE: no Hulu, etc).
Okay, no flash would bother some people, personally this really is a feature to me, but to each his own. As for hulu, it works fine for me without installing flash on my Mac, far better than in a browser actually, though its still a flash app under the hood I'm sure, it certainly chews through the CPU like flash.
Its an iPod touch with a bigger/higher resolution screen. Some people will like that, I've often wanted that, but I wouldn't buy one. Other people will like it more, some like you and I will have little to no use for it.
Its a solution to a problem you don't have, but that doesn't mean it can't solve someone elses.
I can install and run any code I want on an iPad... IT STILL ISN'T A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTING DEVICE.
I'm still not going to run an Office suit on it (sorry Apple, I'd never use iWorks on a pad unless I bought a keyboard). I'm not going to be playing Unreal tourney, I'm not going to be using photoshop to do my graphics design.
Being locked down has nothing to do with its usefulness as a general computing device.
The fact that its small, has a touch screen with no tactile feedback, isn't really that fast, and isn't something I want to use for hours on end with no breaks has a lot more to do with it not being a general computing device than anything else.
You can cry 'locked down' all day long, but at least back up your complaints with logical reasons rather than reasons that wouldn't apply even if it ran Linux and was 100% open to anything you wanted to do.
Its not intended to be a GP computer, stop trying to come up with bullshit reasons that its not one and face facts, it was never intended to be and won't be regardless of what you do to it.
If you think its not a GP computer just because its locked down then you're an oblivious idiot.
I certainly cannot pop it out over the dinner table while out and not feel obtrusive
A little hint, pulling any device out at the dinner table is considered rude and obtrusive and all around bad manners. Doesn't matter if its a cell phone and you're responding to a text message, taking a call, or you slam your desktop on the table and start typing on slashdot.
You don't need to pull anything out at the dinner table. You aren't that important and neither is twitting to everyone that you're eating dinner.
The devices size isn't a problem, your manners on the other hand, are.
There is only our inability to understand/simulate it on the level required to remove the little bits of errors that we refer to as 'randomness' or entropy.
It seems to me that you are assuming that this outside universe obeys some basic laws of our own. Why make such an assumption?
Because thats they way science works. Its based on observations.
Of course, your imagination is part of the universe and may just be better connected to whatever may be outside our universe than I am, so you could of course be entirely correct.
But... if we don't go based on observations then its not science, its more like fantasy or religion, take your pick.
The final part of it is simple, the universe doesn't round, the pattern only reaches 1 because you introduce error intentionally to make things easier on yourself (or your calculations).
And he ultimately addresses the possibility that the entire Universe, including everyone in it, is in principle computable by a completely deterministic computer program.
The problem with this is that you need to be outside the universe in order to do so, you can't calculate the universe from within itself any more than a VMWare can run a machine faster than the host processor.
You'd also need more mass in your computer than exists in the universe, observable or otherwise.
So sure, I'll go with the theory that its possible, just not by any thing in our universe.
Likewise, nothing in our universe could leave it to perform the calculation elsewhere, as doing so links the two realities together, so you now need to simulate both.
Everything is interconnected and the very act of attempting to simulate the universe changes the simulation. Every new version of the simulation would instantly require a new version to take into account the changes from the previous version.
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That statement seems to contridict itself.
How do you get AT&T to send you the carrier file that allows tethering?
I'd love to upgraded to the latest OS release, but I'm back at 3.0 so I can use the enterprise profile hack to enable tethering. I'd pay extra for it if I could do it. Actually I probably wouldn't, but I'd love for you to tell me how this is supposed to work and who I tell that I want to give them $20/month more so I can tether.
Citation needed.
No, it isn't, not in America anyway. I doubt it is in any country anywhere.
Society has put limits on this 'right', in order to protect children from extremists and idiots. You are allowed a certain level of freedom, but we as a society have said that we only allow it to a certain level and you must comply with some basic standards for education so your child can eventually have the opportunity to make their own decisions without being brainwashed by you to only believe YOUR viewpoints. You are also required to teach them certain specific things if you want to teach them yourself.
Its a compromise between letting you teach your children your beliefs and preventing you from making them nutjobs (which doesn't require a prefix of religious, there are plenty of other ways to be intolerant bastards). You can teach them and educate them your way, but you also have to expose them to certain other bits of knowledge that we as a society have decided that EVERYONE should know.
Funny, I remember hearing on more than one occasion that I was special while I was in school.
They even gave me my own short bus to ride on.
Seriously though, kids DO get told they are special at a very young age. It goes away fairly early on, but you've got to be entirely ignorant or blocking out your childhood to not remember it.
So ... what you're saying is ... by going to public school you learned how to deal with other assholes at a young age?
I'm sorry, thats not very good for supporting your argument.
In my experience, they are also the easiest to con.
We call that civil disobedience in the south.
I'd like to point out that while you considered yourself brainwashed in hindsight, that you are also now more aware of the fact, which is better than someone having no exposure, then growing up to be brainwashed as an adult by politicians and the like.
You obviously were put through something extreme. I too went to a private school, catholic as a matter of fact and I got nothing to the extremes that you did. Sure, there was an obvious religious focus, daily prayers and all that, but my experience was rather pleasant and I'm sure I was lucky in that the administrators were accepting of students exploring other viewpoints. There was plenty of 'well the other guys say this, which we do not believe in' but never 'you aren't allowed to think that way'.
There are always going to be extremists out there though, so their will likely always be stories like yours. Fortunately most of the world isn't that way, and I'd like to think that there are far more stories like mine.
With that being said, my children will not go to private school. I'd rather them be exposed to the public schools and get used to the diversity of the world they live in as soon as possible.
Its my responsibility to supplement and extend what they learn in school. Anyone who just pack their kids up and sends them off to school without ever doing any education of their own is just using the school as a free daycare. Parents have responsibilities for educating their own and not expecting someone else to do everything.
My parents required me to think on my own ...
Me: Dad I broke my bike
Dad: Okay, heres how you fix it, pay attention
two weeks later
Me: Dad I broke my bike AGAIN!
Dad: So fix it, I showed you how!
Rather than ...
Me: Dad I broke my bike
Dad: Okay, lets take it to the shop and buy a new one before my favorite tv show comes on!
To an extent, yes.
Freedom is not 100% anywhere in the world. Society defines acceptable limits to freedom. Even in america children are required to be educated, with a specific minimum set of requirements. It may be different than Germany, but its there all the same.
It isn't THEIR choice because WE as a society said 'there are limits to this level of freedom as WE believe the children themselves have some rights which the parents DON'T get complete control over, and education is one of them.
Do you think the parents have the right to abuse their children as well? Is that also THEIR choice? No, again WE have said parents DO NOT get to abuse their children.
Freedom has its limits, otherwise it would be anarchy and there would be no laws at all.
No, it really doesn't. Having never been exposed to the masses of assholes, rejects, much smarter people, and all sorts of other things, I find it VERY hard to believe they've experienced the same variation as someone in a public school.
Common sense says that if you're exposed to a tiny niche of the population than you will have difficulty understanding those who are drastically different that you've never been exposed to.
Depends on how you define desirable. To me that includes being able to cope with all the fucktards in the world, which homeschooling lowers their exposure to.
Second, you do realize that the first thing that happens when they get out of your 'supervision' is they do all the shit they would have done before to try it out. Theres a reason for stereo types like 'catholic school girls'.
I want my child to be able to cope with the reality of working with a bunch of fucktards in the work place, having already experienced such things in a public school they are more likely to be able to do so than your child who has been exposed to a MUCH smaller MUCH less diverse of people, which share views identical to your own.
Are they going to be exposed to undesirable things in public school, YES, thank god, most of the time its going to be minor things that you can deal with and correct BEFORE they become adults and get into SERIOUS trouble when they test out those undesirable things.
A 15 year old pot head is FAR more desirable to me than a 25 year old coke head whore who when finally out from under her parents grasp goes hog wild and ruins her life. I have a chance to correct the 15 year old, the 25 year old coke head is almost certainly a lost cause.
You go ahead and keep reading studies by people who don't have any children or first hand experience.
No ... its an iPad. Its not a tablet computer trying to compete with netbooks or laptops, which are not tablet computers.
If you'd said it was trying to compete with other tablet PCs you might have a point, but you didn't, which illustrates that you don't even know what you're talking about.
If it was meant to be used like a laptop it'd have a builtin keyboard, not a touch screen keyboard.
You are confused about the purpose of the device, the device isn't confused about its purpose.
Some cars are configured this way already.
You mean like the devices installed in some people convicted of a DUI?
Yes, since you provided no example that was useful to your point, you should probably go on.
Because I HAVE to deal with the government. I don't have to deal with any particular corporation, I can use an alternative or not use them at all.
So because someone doesn't share your point of view they are incapable of learning? No one is arguing that companies can't do bad things, just right now, Apple isn't, so no one cares. Sure, they probably will eventually, but why give up something you can use now in exchange for the possibility (however likely) that it may be something you don't want to use in the future? Most people are OK with the appstore and the way Apples devices work right now, so they buy them. If they become unhappy in the future, they'll stop buying them.
Cable companies have a tendancies to think everyone must have TV so they can do whatever they want because they have a monopoly, except more and more people are ditching cable entirely in favor of other sources of media or just foregoing the content completely cause its really not that good. When enough of their customers stop paying, they'll change or go away, either way, we win, so your argument that Apple may go bad is just silly. Of course they'll try to go bad, they want to make as much money as possible. At that point we'll deal with it, until then we'll enjoy the ride.
The FSF has some points, but they are also well off the extremist deep end so often that no one except other nutjobs really give a shit what they say anymore. They've cried wolf so many times that they've lost clout. Doesn't matter if they are right or wrong, the only people that give a shit are a tiny percentage of the population without enough people to matter to anyone.
I've got several machines that are clean installs of Windows with 1 or 2 specific apps on them, completely unpatched, running IE6, which occasionally I'll use to browse something on the Internet. Still no infections. Of course, I go to sites I know are safe, generally to get documentation or info about the apps running on those machines for various reasons. Am I supposed to be concerned about the fact that it doesn't render right (it does good enough that I can get the job done as needed) or that I may get infected (still hasn't happened)? Other than being several years old and well known for exploiting I dont get your point. I fail to see how IE6 differs from Firefox 1.0 in either respect. Yes, if you use old outdated software its more likely to not work with current data and more likely someone will know of the exploits in it. Very good, common sense 101 there.
For the general population, yes, because grandma isn't going to add a new repository, she's going to use what came with it and not give a shit ... just like with the Apple AppStore.
Apple products aren't for you, stop bitching about it and accept they aren't for you even though others like them.
Everything.
Funny, I've been using this nifty API to interact with iTunes for a few years now. We have different definitions of closed
Really? MP3 and H264 aren't open standards? You and I have different definitions of open. I don't have any music and only one video that are in the original apple formats, I've converted them all to more standard formats to use on other devices as well, they still work just fine in iTunes and on my iPhone and iPod.
Not invented by apple, not licensed by apple, superior to USB in almost every way, available on all sorts of different devices, is an open standard anyone can implement, just requires licensing. Again you and I have different definitions of open. I'm okay with paying a little extra to get something better, you can stick with shitty and free, my time is worth money and waiting on slow ass USB transfers is not my cup of tea.
The only thing I'll even partially agree with is that the AppStore is not wide open.
Sure, tell the manufacture.
Slashdot is not the manufacture of the car or the iPad, so bitching here isn't doing anything other than trolling.
My father used to sit on the couch and whine, bitch and moan about politicians, but never once did he leave the house to tell anyone outside of it how he felt.
His bitching was useless and annoying to those around him, just like the posts to this effect here.
With a slight difference, if no one buys a product, it won't stick around and other ideas will be needed to stay in business.
Considering the way iPhone/iPod sales go ... I'd say that the complaints here are from such a tiny group that no one gives a flying fuck.
The irony is that this isn't even new to the iPhone. It wasn't the first iPod with apps you know?
It is possible to consume knowledge for use at a later date you know. Have you never wasted a few hours wondering around Wikipedia?
You do realize they have brightness controls ... right? You can turn the backlight off if you'd like, though you'd have to be in some pretty bright outdoor light to read it afterwords.
Interestingly enough, the iPod touch and iphone are capable of auto adjusting to ambient light although it doesn't work that great by my standards.
Okay, no flash would bother some people, personally this really is a feature to me, but to each his own. As for hulu, it works fine for me without installing flash on my Mac, far better than in a browser actually, though its still a flash app under the hood I'm sure, it certainly chews through the CPU like flash.
Its an iPod touch with a bigger/higher resolution screen. Some people will like that, I've often wanted that, but I wouldn't buy one. Other people will like it more, some like you and I will have little to no use for it.
Its a solution to a problem you don't have, but that doesn't mean it can't solve someone elses.
I can install and run any code I want on an iPad ... IT STILL ISN'T A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTING DEVICE.
I'm still not going to run an Office suit on it (sorry Apple, I'd never use iWorks on a pad unless I bought a keyboard). I'm not going to be playing Unreal tourney, I'm not going to be using photoshop to do my graphics design.
Being locked down has nothing to do with its usefulness as a general computing device.
The fact that its small, has a touch screen with no tactile feedback, isn't really that fast, and isn't something I want to use for hours on end with no breaks has a lot more to do with it not being a general computing device than anything else.
You can cry 'locked down' all day long, but at least back up your complaints with logical reasons rather than reasons that wouldn't apply even if it ran Linux and was 100% open to anything you wanted to do.
Its not intended to be a GP computer, stop trying to come up with bullshit reasons that its not one and face facts, it was never intended to be and won't be regardless of what you do to it.
If you think its not a GP computer just because its locked down then you're an oblivious idiot.
A little hint, pulling any device out at the dinner table is considered rude and obtrusive and all around bad manners. Doesn't matter if its a cell phone and you're responding to a text message, taking a call, or you slam your desktop on the table and start typing on slashdot.
You don't need to pull anything out at the dinner table. You aren't that important and neither is twitting to everyone that you're eating dinner.
The devices size isn't a problem, your manners on the other hand, are.
So ... as was previously said ... don't buy it. Buy something else that fits your requirements.
Is this really that hard to comprehend?
This is a popular misconception. She doesn't have a vagina, which she makes up for with angst.
There is no free will, uncertainty or chaos.
There is only our inability to understand/simulate it on the level required to remove the little bits of errors that we refer to as 'randomness' or entropy.
illusion, not allusion.
You'll find it makes much more sense that way.
Because thats they way science works. Its based on observations.
Of course, your imagination is part of the universe and may just be better connected to whatever may be outside our universe than I am, so you could of course be entirely correct.
But ... if we don't go based on observations then its not science, its more like fantasy or religion, take your pick.
The final part of it is simple, the universe doesn't round, the pattern only reaches 1 because you introduce error intentionally to make things easier on yourself (or your calculations).
Yes, I agree, I should have specified.
We will not be able to simulate in real time or faster.
However, glossing over bits means you are also, wrong, however so slightly.
The problem with this is that you need to be outside the universe in order to do so, you can't calculate the universe from within itself any more than a VMWare can run a machine faster than the host processor.
You'd also need more mass in your computer than exists in the universe, observable or otherwise.
So sure, I'll go with the theory that its possible, just not by any thing in our universe.
Likewise, nothing in our universe could leave it to perform the calculation elsewhere, as doing so links the two realities together, so you now need to simulate both.
Everything is interconnected and the very act of attempting to simulate the universe changes the simulation. Every new version of the simulation would instantly require a new version to take into account the changes from the previous version.
The theory is ... cute at best, but unworkable.
Seriously? The fad hasn't passed yet?