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[quinnr]

What do you think the dwarves think? Don't you think they believe that their world was generated by a god(s)?

[Hakazaba]

It was but they still don't worship the right one.

He doesn't even want to be worshiped.

We could just be in a game two you know.

[Lord Dakoth]

I think, therefore I am.

Ha, yay for recycling old quotes. I admit that I suck at this whole philosophy thing.

As for the Dorfs, I don't know what they believe about the starting of their world. Even if they believe that their respective gods created the world, they have it all wrong.

In any case, the program created the dwarves' world, which exists within the planes of the Finite Hard Disk. And Toady created the program. Which probably means that they should have a bastard religion that deifies both Toady's parents and Macintosh. Because no one would ever want to worship Windows.

[Hakazaba]

I think, therefore I am.

Ha, yay for recycling old quotes. I admit that I suck at this whole philosophy thing.

As for the Dorfs, I don't know what they believe about the starting of their world. Even if they believe that their respective gods created the world, they have it all wrong.

In any case, the program created the dwarves' world, which exists within the planes of the Finite Hard Disk. And Toady created the program. Which probably means that they should have a bastard religion that deifies both Toady's parents and Macintosh. Because no one would ever want to worship Windows.

Now do you see how this relates to us

Yes, you may think but you can't Prove that you think, or am, at all anything.

[dragnar]

I think, therefore I am.

Ha, yay for recycling old quotes. I admit that I suck at this whole philosophy thing.

As for the Dorfs, I don't know what they believe about the starting of their world. Even if they believe that their respective gods created the world, they have it all wrong.

In any case, the program created the dwarves' world, which exists within the planes of the Finite Hard Disk. And Toady created the program. Which probably means that they should have a bastard religion that deifies both Toady's parents and Windows/Linux. Because no one would ever want to worship Macintosh.
much better.

[Jackrabbit]

Well congrats, Mike, you've succeeded in scaring the shit out of me. I need to stop considering oblivion, it really terrifies me. It's why I'm a Catholic, I suppose (although I really do believe in God).

That said, it's an extremely interesting and well reasoned read.

[Vester]

I think, therefore I am.

Ha, yay for recycling old quotes. I admit that I suck at this whole philosophy thing.

As for the Dorfs, I don't know what they believe about the starting of their world. Even if they believe that their respective gods created the world, they have it all wrong.

In any case, the program created the dwarves' world, which exists within the planes of the Finite Hard Disk. And Toady created the program. Which probably means that they should have a bastard religion that deifies both Toady's parents and Macintosh. Because no one would ever want to worship Windows.

Now do you see how this relates to us

Yes, you may think but you can't Prove that you think, or am, at all anything.

The thinking is proof that you are to yourself. Cogito ergo sum is more of the platform on which the Descartes philosophy, and all non-absurdist/sophist/nihilist philosophies, rest.

[quinnr]

I think, therefore I am.

Ha, yay for recycling old quotes. I admit that I suck at this whole philosophy thing.

As for the Dorfs, I don't know what they believe about the starting of their world. Even if they believe that their respective gods created the world, they have it all wrong.

In any case, the program created the dwarves' world, which exists within the planes of the Finite Hard Disk. And Toady created the program. Which probably means that they should have a bastard religion that deifies both Toady's parents and Windows/Linux. Because no one would ever want to worship Macintosh.
much better.

Why would you worship Windows? I understand Linux, but Windows? I hate windows...hope I'm not part of a windows program.

[dragnar]

It's not so much a love of windows (though that is the operating system I use, and it makes me confirm EVERYTHING! repeatedly!) as a massive, irrational hatred of apple and anything made by apple. Strange, as I am usually a very logical person...

[quinnr]

I would like an Apple, I have a linux and a windows...(I get the confirmation stuff too, it's evil!), and I only have the windows because you practicly need it for compatibility reasons.

[Lord Dakoth]

I was considering getting a MacBook because I need something reliable for college, and from my experience with Vista, it's been anything but reliable. Plus, my laptop is a beast, is a power-hungry bastard, is way too heavy, and the fan rattles like a chainsaw.

If Windows 7 turns out to be better than the chronic headache of Vista, maybe I'll consider that.

[Rose]

windows ME:Windows XP == Windows Vista:Windows7

[Starver]

windows ME:Windows XP == Windows Vista:Windows7

I would have gone with Windows ME:Windows 9x == Windows Vista:Windows XP.  i.e. rushed the long-heralded "answer to everything" direct successor out with far too many tweaks, bells and whistles and not enough care and forethought, even while a different department was busy prepping something else (2K[1] for ME; maybe W7, or perhaps Server200whatever, for Vista)

But that's only because my own personal jury isn't out yet, on W7, and there's that dislocation between the 9x/ME arc and the NT/2K/XP/onwards one.  Arguably almost as much as W9x was dislocated from the Win3.x ending series.

Anyway... What was the point again?

[1] Albeit that 2K (still a nice stable platform) was coming up on the inside track of ME, prepping the course for taking over the batton in the form of XP, whereas W7 was still a bit of a pipedream and the Server-<foo> set aren't even another team of the same relay race, but in a different race and possibly in a different stadium, albeit possibly started by runners who are old school followers of the original NT athletes.  To horribly spin out the metaphor!

[Leafsnail]

Just as a quick note to the OP: I don't think the universe is an equivalent of DF running in God's brain.  I think the universe is a version of DF and God is an overstretched programmer desperately trying to tame it.

[dragnar]

Just as a quick note to the OP: I don't think the universe is an equivalent of DF running in God's brain.  I think the universe is a version of DF and God is an overstretched programmer desperately trying to tame it.

So you claim the universe is still in beta?