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Jan 19, 2004, 6:29pm

[View Quote] The Grandfather paradox is flawed. You cannot travel back and forth
through time, nor will it ever be physically impossible. There is no
past, there is no future, there is only a "now." We experience a past
through our awareness, but it doesn't actually exist in space-time. But
I guess you could argue that that's also a paradox... but if time travel
existed, or will exist in the future,... you'd surely know about it --
or it'd have been written about if experienced.

Jan 20, 2004, 6:46pm

[View Quote] > Actually there is evidence to the contrary, although the past we
> travel into may not be our own, and there are many futures. The

If it is not our own, it would not be the past. The point at which you
begin to move through time would contridict the past theory as that
point in time would now be _YOUR_ present. You would then be unable to
return. You can only consider time travel an actual movement if you are
able to move freely back and forth (considering newton's laws of physics
of course.. but you seem to take assumptions for granted unless someone
states them)

> so-called Grandfather paradox only appears to be self-contradictory
> if the universe is assumed to have only linear time. Personally, I
> have always viewed time as having either ray-based multidimensional
> geometry or a geometry resembling that of quaternian or octonian
> space. We won't really know for sure until more tests have been
> done, or someone from the future explains it to us.

There is no construct to space-time. Think of a point in space, then
think of all the points as one. That's space-time. This basic
"non-construct" is what makes it impossible for time travel. This is
obviously my speculation but is so far proven true that there hasn't
been people flocking back in time to rape resources/trade on stocks/etc.

Now, as for interdimensional travel (moving between alternate
realities), that's a little bit more plausable and it seems that's what
you're trying to converse.

Jan 20, 2004, 6:55pm

[View Quote] > no no no, time travel is only possible from the moment the first time
> machine was/is/will be activated, Einstein spent the end of his life
> investigating this principal, we now have means and capabilities of time
> travel and distortion relative to temperature and speed, the satellites
> orbiting earth lose about .01 seconds on their clocks every year because
> their orbitals. Also we have a time machine concept worked upon it involves
> lasers each rotated to make a helix, (watch the discovery channel) its a
> brilliant concept, and you see how its possible.

Time travel is not possible. Space-time has no "axis" in which to
orient or control movement. Einstein obviously would've figured it out.
The loss of time is due to the loss of ohms in electrical circuts when
they begin to reach the speed of light. Electrons travel nearly the
speed of light, and when they power circutry, the circuts begin to loser
power (as the electrons are not able to keep up with the current
velocity of the object). It's not due to the speed at which you travel
through time (although it is through which you are moving in
space-time). But now it's starting to get cumbersome to explain so I'll
stop.

I did see that episode, and the man who invented it is an idiot.
Pointing a stream of electrons at another stream of electrons to form a
double helix does nothing but waste electricity. If it did work, at all
-- it doesn't even in concept form, the moment you turn it on.. it
should work and you would be able to communicate through time (and thus
allow for the production of computers which operate at peak effieceny).
But, this falls under another paradox where if you do something in the
future, you have to make sure you remember to do it or else it won't
happen and thus it becomes another grandfather paradox. The moment that
machine stops, the connection to _ANY_ future moment is severed. That
is, up until the point at which it was severed. I guess okhams razor
takes affect.

> but because of the distortion time travel is only possible from the moment
> the first time machine is activated, which means the second our first
> timemachine is activated we will know if it works because possibly hundreds
> of particles of matter, from any dimension, or the future, will now exist in
> the present, so therefore we will know success if a man pops out.

According to this theory we would've known already. Of course, if it
were at all possible. It's a hard concept I'll give you that much but
since that man hasn't popped out yet it doesn't exist ever.

If it would have to wait until our present reached that point, it
wouldn't be much of a time machine, would it? ;)

Jan 20, 2004, 10:43pm

[View Quote] LoL everyone yells when they discuss crap like this. Go talk to physicists.

Jan 24, 2004, 3:10am

[View Quote] Why should people be allowed to control their own colors? ;P I don't
want green on pink. All over my window at the gate. Everyone knows what
I'm talking about when people get the freedom to control their own
text/background colors.

Jan 24, 2004, 3:12am

[View Quote] > I like this idea.. *Adds it to my list of things to add to my Zeus bot*

Yes, because the SDK allows you to change such a color. Toot your own
horn even when it's not possible? Or is this one of those "I can use
3.5 and no one else can so I'll just tell you what I could do with it"
sort of thing? Explain, don't counter with me being pissy... because
that's nothing new.

Jan 24, 2004, 3:43pm

[View Quote] Nope, sorry. This falls under the category of "I'm going to gloat as
much as I can."

Jan 29, 2004, 5:06pm

[View Quote] > Its a 'sign' of how closed your mind is.


Nope, sorry. This falls under the category of "I'm going to gloat as
much as I can." "

You're still doing it?

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Jan 29, 2004, 5:56pm

[View Quote] > Why are you replying to that... in this thread?

Look more carefully.

Jan 31, 2004, 1:09am

I wish 3.5 would have the ability to dock the contacts window thing so
it could resemble 3.4. I don't need another window that belongs on it's
parent window floating around cluttering my space (especially if I need
the window open)

--Bowen--

Jan 31, 2004, 8:44pm

[View Quote] I can understand your concern, but most computer users realize that
having a pentium 2 or 3 isn't leet anymore.

It doesn't cost that much to get a new computer, you spend more on gas a
month.

Feb 1, 2004, 10:23pm

[View Quote] > Hell why not just run it though AWProxy while your at it o_0

Why the cynacism? You don't technically need the registry. In fact, a
more exact model representation could be generated via the object itself.

It would require quite a bit of time to produce, but there's no need for
the types of comments you throw out about people's ideas. Your
responses sometimes achieve a level of stupidity and malice that doesn't
need to be there. Not to menchion the glee you take in flaunting your
poised hackerdom.

Feb 5, 2004, 6:26pm

[View Quote] That would be pretty cool, an interactive bot.

Feb 6, 2004, 11:20pm

[View Quote] http://www.steampowered.com

Feb 7, 2004, 1:02am

[View Quote] Not even microsoft has 400,000 newsgroup/forum users.

Feb 8, 2004, 5:10pm

[View Quote] [View Quote] :-\ that's if the 56K could dedicate it's entire bandwidth for upstream?
The most I've gotten ever was 10K upstream. Who's gotten more?

Feb 12, 2004, 5:53am

[View Quote] Speaking of which, that was my number one use of the Xelagot.

Feb 20, 2004, 1:09am

Just giving everyone a headsup on a virus being spread around again via
billing at activeworlds.com or similar. As always, don't run attachments
from people you don't know. As far as I could coerce, it was
W32.Netsky.B at mm in the file information.com.

Nice try though Matt.

--Bowen--

Feb 20, 2004, 6:20pm

[View Quote] Yes, Spoofed header carrying the "from" address billing at activeworlds.com.

Feb 20, 2004, 6:26pm

[View Quote]
He's still trying, Now he's trying to spoof a "delivery failed" so I'll
read the attachment through that. Still has the W32.Netsky.B at mm worm on it.

--Bowen--

Mar 10, 2004, 12:21am

[View Quote] Jet lag and such would be completely horrible under such a system. I'd
be going to bed at 7:00am-5:00pm and going to school from
6:00pm-2:00am... you'd be able to schedule events, yes, but trying to
actual live with that style (especially living with this style for so
long) would be horrendous. :P

Mar 10, 2004, 2:44am

[View Quote] That would officially be the same time in a day (you'd either be 12
hours early or right on time, actually), because of the day's
independence of AM or PM.

You have some sort of fixup on 24 hours as we all know, as it seems
you're unable to read or convert back and forth. Aren't you the same
Startrek weirdo that had this discussion earlier? You know, from Italy
who said he was leaving AW forever? Or something.

Mar 10, 2004, 5:20pm

[View Quote] > Just out of curiosity... can you use unlimited light sources on software
> mode? I know the graphics wouldn't look nearly as nice, but I imagine
> you could place as many light sources as your CPU could handle.

Technically yes, but I think it is limited by the graphics engine in
this case.

Mar 16, 2004, 4:25am

[View Quote] Age can't be used as a defense for everything. He _knew_ what he was
doing was wrong. Therefore he is guilt of a crime and should be punished.

These types of crimes need knowledge of what you're doing, so, it's not
really hard to point a finger and put a punishment. It won't be jail or
death, but it might be pretty severe (wage garnishment to pay back greif
and such, mental assessment in a juivinile detention center).

I have no sympathy for children who play with fire and get burnt. It
seems some courts agree, and some do not.

Apr 14, 2004, 5:22am

[View Quote] Lag is any unexpected delay. Jetlag for instance. Not just connection
packets.

Apr 15, 2004, 6:20pm

[View Quote]
# To fail to keep up a pace; straggle.
# To proceed or develop with comparative slowness: The electric current
lags behind the voltage.

Any delay that deviates from a normal/unnoticable speed is usually
considered lag. Render lag, packet lag, jet lag, morning lag.

Apr 21, 2004, 5:01am

[View Quote] > ok, create a new word for us to use in place that consists of the same
> or fairly close to the same ammount of letters and i would be very happy
> to use it instead.
>
> doesnt all these computer-game communities/groups have a simple word to
> use in place of frame rate drop?

Lag of the rendering variety. Aka Renderlag.

Lag is lag, any delay that deviates from normal. Whether it's because
you're groggy, or your internet is down, or you're running off 8 mb's of
RAM, it's all a form of delay... which is lag's useage. You can't just
say I can't use lag to describe a delay in my rendering because it's
used in TCP/IP and network terminology, adjectives are ambiguous like
that, I can use them to describe any noun I want.

Apr 21, 2004, 8:44pm

[View Quote] Lag is used in place of latency in network terms.

Apr 14, 2004, 6:53am

[View Quote] Oblate spheroid -- my teacher had a sexual desire for those or
something.. that's all he'd talk about.

Apr 17, 2004, 2:04am

[View Quote] I'd hope it'd get less as you get further away. There'll always be some
pull though.

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