Post #20,377
12/5/01 5:09:20 PM
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It's actually legitimate, in context.
The documentation is for a program that deals in collections of data it terms Universes, so saving a Universe is actually a legitimate thing to do. Pretty arrogant behaviour from the software designers, I say.
On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #20,393
12/5/01 5:59:56 PM
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Sounds reasonable to me
In some approaches to set theory your universe is everything you know about. So by calling something in a program its universe, you are just saying that it knows about nothing else.
Cheers, Ben
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Post #20,394
12/5/01 6:13:55 PM
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Good point, that!
Considering a Universe in this case is basically a set of data, it all makes sense. Kind of robs the words of its greatness though, doesn't it? But this is business - where only numbers matter. I guess the people writing the documentation did so with a straight face. Poor things.
On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #20,407
12/5/01 8:21:32 PM
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Then apparently
God doesn't use Windows to run our universe as it never gets a BSOD or crashes and needs to be rebooted. :)
I am free now, to choose my own destiny.
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Post #20,416
12/5/01 8:48:36 PM
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Stick around
We're right in the middle of a new P.O.S.T. - and we haven't gotten past the
Maturity Self-test. It's on the 99th retry.
(Will a WSOD do? I believe the initial flash is Very.. 'white' before the retina fries)
Ya gotta keep your metaphors consistent Oh Ryan, so's ya know WTF you're believin and all.. never mind Truth n'stuff - It doesn't 'mind' You!
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Post #20,433
12/5/01 10:54:24 PM
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You sure about that?
God doesn't use Windows to run our universe as it never gets a BSOD or crashes and needs to be rebooted. :) Do Windows programs know when they've been rebooted? Maybe we've been rebooted sixty-zillion times throughout our lives while the Creator debugs the universe.... and, when necessary, restores from backups, when He has them....
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
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Post #20,504
12/6/01 2:33:09 PM
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Maybe that explains the Black Holes?
The Black Holes are really damaged areas of space, sort of like memory leaks? ;)
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Post #20,562
12/6/01 7:59:07 PM
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I like it
Memory leaks, or damaged bits of memory.
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
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Post #20,662
12/7/01 1:33:27 PM
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Definately would explain
the expansionist theory of the universe. Also why we know so little about the universe despite what we think we know. Obviously we need to sign that UNDA (universal non-disclosure agreement)
~~~)-Steven----
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
General George S. Patton
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