Comments for Existensis http://www.existensis.com Spirituality and Existence Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:35:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Submitting yourself to the will of God by gareth http://www.existensis.com/2009/07/submitting-yourself-to-the-will-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-283 gareth Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:35:10 +0000 http://fuknus.chrisdamitio.com/?p=5531#comment-283 is that you Tim? Parrett = Chase ????? beilby 209 722 1466 is that you Tim? Parrett = Chase ????? beilby 209 722 1466

]]> Comment on Look for the world to end in November by Slarty Bardfast http://www.existensis.com/2009/10/look-for-the-world-to-end-in-november/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Slarty Bardfast Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:24:52 +0000 http://www.existensis.com/?p=5919#comment-277 Yikes! I heard if you rub a porkchop on your feet and put bacon (canadian peameal bacon, sorry) in your shoes it'll keep ya safe. Yikes! I heard if you rub a porkchop on your feet and put bacon (canadian peameal bacon, sorry) in your shoes it’ll keep ya safe.

]]> Comment on More on November Swine Flu by Slarty Bardfast http://www.existensis.com/2009/10/more-on-november-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Slarty Bardfast Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:35:06 +0000 http://www.existensis.com/?p=5924#comment-276 Oh yeah hehehe. There's also this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es52WQKLumI I love the soundtrack and the sound effects. Oh yeah hehehe. There’s also this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es52WQKLumI

I love the soundtrack and the sound effects.

]]> Comment on More on November Swine Flu by Slarty Bardfast http://www.existensis.com/2009/10/more-on-november-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Slarty Bardfast Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:32:11 +0000 http://www.existensis.com/?p=5924#comment-275 So suppose we all get through HN1-Fun! and the current path to the future we appear to be headed on continues. I think with all of the current technology out there we're about to experience a major shift. After a major moral debate with myself I finally succumbed to curiosity and checked out Google Street View. I suppose one might argue it's a big breach of privacy but a friend recently brought up a good point. You can walk down the street and see someones car or house too so what's the big deal? Well, I think it's what's occuring in the background. The fact that this sort of technology even exists is pretty fascinating yet very frightening at the same time. I took a completely neutral opinion with me when I decided to zoom into street level on google maps. This technology is still in it's infancy and it's actually quite impressive. You can basically "drive" down any given street in any given town that Google has decided to record. If you've ever played games like Myst or Return to Zork you can compare those to what we have now with Street View. After a few years a version of Myst was created that allowed you to roam around freely in a 3D first person shooter style (like quake etc). So imagine a few years from now. If this sort of thing continues and say merges with something like this: http://hackaday.com/2009/10/26/head-mounted-computer/ or even this: http://hackaday.com/2009/10/26/head-mounted-computer/ So say google street view becomes like the major real world gaming database. They open it up and allow people to create things in this Metaverse they've created. You've got people tied into the head mounted computers say racing virtual cars through the streets. They've already created algorithms to detect faces and license plates and blur them, so why not the same for real world objects vs virtual graphical objects? Take this scenario for example. You and a few friends wonder into the local internet gaming cafe. You create a gaming session much like many multiplayer games kids are playing today. It's like a chatroom. You then text a few of your other friends and announce that there's going to be a big AR (augmented reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality) race on google street view. You check your phone and can see their location so you program the coordinates into the racing session and tell them it's about to begin. The friends who are on location plug their portable headsets into their phones or whatever personal computer devices may exist at this point and grab a seat on the nearest park bench. They are then able to connect to your session and become spectators of the virtual race. Who knows. It could even end up like a giant public internet. An augmented reality layer placed over reality. A strange concept I suppose but entirely possible. Or here's one. I bought this little remote control helicopter. Suppose you could fit a little 3D camera into the cockpit of the helicopter and throw on the headset which would then connect via wifi or some derivative and allow you to see from the helicopter as if you were flying it. You could lift off and fly right past yourself! I think with the high speed connections coming out and current streaming video tech out there now something like this wouldn't be too far off. Yeah, I dunno, that's all I've got for now. This whole experience really got the rusty gears spinning for a little while. So suppose we all get through HN1-Fun! and the current path to the future we appear to be headed on continues. I think with all of the current technology out there we’re about to experience a major shift. After a major moral debate with myself I finally succumbed to curiosity and checked out Google Street View. I suppose one might argue it’s a big breach of privacy but a friend recently brought up a good point. You can walk down the street and see someones car or house too so what’s the big deal? Well, I think it’s what’s occuring in the background. The fact that this sort of technology even exists is pretty fascinating yet very frightening at the same time. I took a completely neutral opinion with me when I decided to zoom into street level on google maps. This technology is still in it’s infancy and it’s actually quite impressive. You can basically “drive” down any given street in any given town that Google has decided to record. If you’ve ever played games like Myst or Return to Zork you can compare those to what we have now with Street View. After a few years a version of Myst was created that allowed you to roam around freely in a 3D first person shooter style (like quake etc). So imagine a few years from now. If this sort of thing continues and say merges with something like this:

http://hackaday.com/2009/10/26/head-mounted-computer/ or even this: http://hackaday.com/2009/10/26/head-mounted-computer/

So say google street view becomes like the major real world gaming database. They open it up and allow people to create things in this Metaverse they’ve created. You’ve got people tied into the head mounted computers say racing virtual cars through the streets. They’ve already created algorithms to detect faces and license plates and blur them, so why not the same for real world objects vs virtual graphical objects?

Take this scenario for example. You and a few friends wonder into the local internet gaming cafe. You create a gaming session much like many multiplayer games kids are playing today. It’s like a chatroom. You then text a few of your other friends and announce that there’s going to be a big AR (augmented reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality) race on google street view. You check your phone and can see their location so you program the coordinates into the racing session and tell them it’s about to begin. The friends who are on location plug their portable headsets into their phones or whatever personal computer devices may exist at this point and grab a seat on the nearest park bench. They are then able to connect to your session and become spectators of the virtual race.

Who knows. It could even end up like a giant public internet. An augmented reality layer placed over reality. A strange concept I suppose but entirely possible. Or here’s one. I bought this little remote control helicopter. Suppose you could fit a little 3D camera into the cockpit of the helicopter and throw on the headset which would then connect via wifi or some derivative and allow you to see from the helicopter as if you were flying it. You could lift off and fly right past yourself! I think with the high speed connections coming out and current streaming video tech out there now something like this wouldn’t be too far off.

Yeah, I dunno, that’s all I’ve got for now. This whole experience really got the rusty gears spinning for a little while.

]]> Comment on Look for the world to end in November by Vago http://www.existensis.com/2009/10/look-for-the-world-to-end-in-november/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Vago Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:27:49 +0000 http://www.existensis.com/?p=5919#comment-274 Very interesting my friend.....I think I've already suffered through a case. We'll see. Very interesting my friend…..I think I’ve already suffered through a case. We’ll see.

]]> Comment on Look for the world to end in November by Slarty Bardfast http://www.existensis.com/2009/10/look-for-the-world-to-end-in-november/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Slarty Bardfast Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:04:29 +0000 http://www.existensis.com/?p=5919#comment-272 oops. I thought that embed would work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSCam5IG-yA oops. I thought that embed would work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSCam5IG-yA

]]> Comment on Look for the world to end in November by Slarty Bardfast http://www.existensis.com/2009/10/look-for-the-world-to-end-in-november/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Slarty Bardfast Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:04:07 +0000 http://www.existensis.com/?p=5919#comment-271 Also, there's this: Also, there’s this:

]]> Comment on Look for the world to end in November by Slarty Bardfast http://www.existensis.com/2009/10/look-for-the-world-to-end-in-november/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Slarty Bardfast Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:21:21 +0000 http://www.existensis.com/?p=5919#comment-270 Scourgetastic! But I hear the pork plague, the bacon fever, the porcine antiprophylaxis, the ham holocaust, etc etc isn't going to be all that bad. Isn't it just a flu that's more contagious? In any case and just in case I sort of want to go out and catch it ASAP while there's still some room in the hospital. That and once I'm over it I can help out if it gets that bad because I shouldn't be able to catch it again. Scourgetastic! But I hear the pork plague, the bacon fever, the porcine antiprophylaxis, the ham holocaust, etc etc isn’t going to be all that bad. Isn’t it just a flu that’s more contagious? In any case and just in case I sort of want to go out and catch it ASAP while there’s still some room in the hospital. That and once I’m over it I can help out if it gets that bad because I shouldn’t be able to catch it again.

]]> Comment on Ramadan Day 27: Lesson 27 by myself http://www.existensis.com/2009/09/ramadan-day-27-lesson-27/comment-page-1/#comment-269 myself Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:55:26 +0000 http://existensis.com/?p=5836#comment-269 "Those who claim that there is no God are ignoring all the evidence in the Universe. ...There is no God that is anything that we can begin to understand. God is incomprehensible. God is everything. " Looking at this... God = everything everything includes evidence God is his own evidence We should look at God to understand him/her though he is incomprehensible. Why? “Those who claim that there is no God are ignoring all the evidence in the Universe. …There is no God that is anything that we can begin to understand. God is incomprehensible. God is everything. ”

Looking at this…

God = everything
everything includes evidence
God is his own evidence

We should look at God to understand him/her though he is incomprehensible. Why?

]]> Comment on Artificial Personalities by Slarty Bardfast http://www.existensis.com/2009/08/artificial-personalities/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Slarty Bardfast Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:14:36 +0000 http://existensis.com/?p=5759#comment-268 Yeah, most of that stuff is pretty bogus. It's good to question everything etc and see things from different perspectives but you have to keep your feet on the ground and your mind in your skull. Here's a fine example of what can happen. This is the best conspiracy theatre I've seen in a very long time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8 . Awww man. Classic. Yeah, most of that stuff is pretty bogus. It’s good to question everything etc and see things from different perspectives but you have to keep your feet on the ground and your mind in your skull. Here’s a fine example of what can happen. This is the best conspiracy theatre I’ve seen in a very long time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8 . Awww man. Classic.

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