In this case your model is the universe and though you may find comfort in a negotiable universe, you have no say in the matter. You can observe the model changing right now without your input. Test as you may, for science or for play, the model tests you, and you die too.
"To believe that something is true is to not question it."
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
How about now?
Do you remember the movie AI? The blue fairy was a blue fairy was a blue fairy, for 10,000 years it never changed. We humans on the other hand have something called intuition, and intimacy...
Scientific theories are NOT about faith - in fact, part of the scientific method is to *disprove* theories, wheras faith is exactly the opposite - simply believing it's true and not challenging it. Scientists are always looking at probing the theory of evolution, trying to find its weaknesses and trying to disprove evolution theory as it stands because *this is what science is about*. Intelligent design is not a scientific theory because it does not set out anything that's falsifiable. Things that must be taken on faith are by definition not falsifiable.
If faith was entirely blind, it wouldn't be faith--there would be no retention. If I tell you that 2+2=4, this requires faith going back to clay tablets in the desert, faith in astronomy, it goes back to the womb in which your brain was formed, it goes back to the formation of your vision, etc. Do you have faith in the language that I am using? When you open any science book for the first time, as a child, why would you accept any of it? Maybe you accept the love of your parents, your parents deciding to send you to school, so you trust your teachers, and the information being presented...? As you get older you might begin to investigate for yourself the concept of "zero", the motives of science, the consequences of science and how it is presented, etc. Or maybe you find other things more interesting, more useful, more emotive than science... To truely learn anything first you must accept the possibility that something could be true--to do that you need to put yourself into a position where you can see the new tree of implications, pitfalls, benefits...from the perspective of a true believer. To believe that 1+1=2 you were probably already open to this notion of "math" by way of your parents--most likely someone in your family or a close friend taught you that 1+1=2... and you probably loved and trusted that person that told you that 1+1=2, and so you had faith... Holding any knowledge to be true is an act of faith, and that faith, like armor, is tested--and it should be because it determines--directly or indirectly--all of your actions, affecting other people. The decisions you make reflect what you believe--consequently these decisions affect what you hold most dear, so you desire beliefs in accordance with??? As you advance and refine your sensibility, advancing your perceptive faculties, your knowledge is less and less accessible to others because of the many intermediate steps taken. It is the same with art--to most, abstract art is incomprehensible. Artists have superseded language with color and form... But sometimes we need to retrace the steps (which is sometimes more boring than adventuring further) that led us to the "result" that we hold to be true, for maximum benefit, if indeed we do believe that the information that we hold to be true is worth the time and effort required for dispersion.
This has always been the case with click programs. If Google wants to preserve its reputation they should disclose as much as they can with better reporting--otherwise you'll see more and more paranoid webmasters. If they ever shaved clicks, sooner or later we would find out--sell your GOOG on that day.
PageRank can incorporate interpreted Adsense data... Google will obviously discourage advertising on scraper sites--legit advertisers will be looking for reputable placement, the side-effect: internet purged of the SEO junk. But who knows--if you're dumb enough to run an SEO scam, maybe you'll be dumb enough to buy your own traffic to boost organic results;)
One thing I noticed lately, more sites have edit boxes so that when you click "submit" the edit box fades out and your text magically merges with the page... great for forums especially...saves time--there's no page refresh, and it's cool.
Busy forums will benefit greatly from AJAX--I'm thinking that you'll be able to watch the threads move down and the post counts change in realtime--you'll have something like a chatroom but much more powerful.
If you want to take it to the next level, come up with an AJAX blog monitoring system that takes data from blogs and aggregates it into a threaded forum format, take all the comments and trackbacks and put them all under one thread--and allow the user to collapse by reply/offsite-comment/trackback/offsite-trackback, now your forum is flying--then you would need some filters to keep it under control. If you decide to this, send me a copy please;)
I think that you are talking about the multiplayer "Global Wars" which was a door game for BBS's back in the day. Probably they adopted the name from the movie "War Games" which was one of the first movies to have a kid dialing up with a modem to play games... in one scene the computer says something like, "Would you like to play Global Thermonuclear War?"
Tradewars was like Yankee Trader, you basically used up all your turns to explore space, trade stuff, make money, buy spaceships, etc.
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In this case your model is the universe and though you may find comfort in a negotiable universe, you have no say in the matter. You can observe the model changing right now without your input. Test as you may, for science or for play, the model tests you, and you die too.
"To believe that something is true is to not question it." Do you love me? Do you love me? How about now? Do you remember the movie AI? The blue fairy was a blue fairy was a blue fairy, for 10,000 years it never changed. We humans on the other hand have something called intuition, and intimacy...
"ID requires belief because it is untestable." Prove it.
Morse code might come in handy, ... --- ...
Use a protractor on your own damn face.
This has always been the case with click programs. If Google wants to preserve its reputation they should disclose as much as they can with better reporting--otherwise you'll see more and more paranoid webmasters. If they ever shaved clicks, sooner or later we would find out--sell your GOOG on that day.
PageRank can incorporate interpreted Adsense data... Google will obviously discourage advertising on scraper sites--legit advertisers will be looking for reputable placement, the side-effect: internet purged of the SEO junk. But who knows--if you're dumb enough to run an SEO scam, maybe you'll be dumb enough to buy your own traffic to boost organic results ;)
One thing I noticed lately, more sites have edit boxes so that when you click "submit" the edit box fades out and your text magically merges with the page... great for forums especially...saves time--there's no page refresh, and it's cool. Busy forums will benefit greatly from AJAX--I'm thinking that you'll be able to watch the threads move down and the post counts change in realtime--you'll have something like a chatroom but much more powerful. If you want to take it to the next level, come up with an AJAX blog monitoring system that takes data from blogs and aggregates it into a threaded forum format, take all the comments and trackbacks and put them all under one thread--and allow the user to collapse by reply/offsite-comment/trackback/offsite-trackback, now your forum is flying--then you would need some filters to keep it under control. If you decide to this, send me a copy please ;)
I think that you are talking about the multiplayer "Global Wars" which was a door game for BBS's back in the day. Probably they adopted the name from the movie "War Games" which was one of the first movies to have a kid dialing up with a modem to play games... in one scene the computer says something like, "Would you like to play Global Thermonuclear War?" Tradewars was like Yankee Trader, you basically used up all your turns to explore space, trade stuff, make money, buy spaceships, etc.