Ok so since 16777216 colors can be held in 24 bits does that means you could also hold 256 in 8 bits.
Yes.
gbagcn wrote:
The purpose of reducing 256 to 8 would be to make the units the same for all 3 numbers.
Of course I know doing something like 8 bits x 8 bits x 24 bits = 1536 bits would probably be wrong since you already told me the right numbers to use. I don't know why it would be wrong though because using the same units for all 3 numbers makes more sense.
I have no idea what you're talking about and most likely neither do you.
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As I said before, each hexidecimal digit is 4 bits. So a six-hex string is 24-bits (three bytes). 24-bit color is what's used to define colors on the internet and the like. Anyway.
0xFFFFFF is the maximum number in 24-bit color, and as you say, it's 16 777 215. Plus one (for 0x000000) and we have 16 777 216 possible colors in the 24-bit color space. As has been explained to you about 10 times now, 2^24 = 16 777 216. That is, 2^y = x, where y is the bit depth and x is the maximum number of colors that could be in the image.
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I enjoyed watching the video but it didn't seem very superhuman.. it seemed like a really well-played, fun time through the game, but also one that could have been done by two bored guys who knew the game really well without tools. But anyway, if it was just a casual playthrough with stunts and the like, why not fight all the bosses? why not stay in the sauna? why not get a smile at Merv Burger and eat a cup of tea somewhere else? why not use the GBA version, which has a greater variety of "normal" moves to show off?
The movie was fun to watch, but...
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You may think that if you like. I'm not trying to convince, only inform. But I don't think likening an event that would have been invented 10 generations removed, but which concerned everyone who was told, compared to the Prometheus myth, which was set with the first human? Doesn't that seem like a stretch? "This happened 400 years ago to the ancestors of everyone present" seems like a much easier tale to prove a hoax (again, assuming the latest possible date it could have been invented) compared to "This happened untold millenia ago to the first human being". Then, when the author of that article says "Fine, if you won't accept an obvious fabrication, I'll just point out some other Biblical event and disprove that instead" which is missing the point. I'm not a Biblical literalist, nor an advocate for inerracy. The events of Joshua 10:13 were adapted from a different work, the Book of the Upright, as stated clearly in the text. I imagine the priest who wrote Deuteronomy and Joshua as a primarily historical text used whatever sources he could to add legitimacy to his claims (when those claims conflicted with the other two works floating around, both of which depended upon the Sinai event as legitimacy).
There's genetic evidence of a partilineal descended priesthood dating back enough generations to have originated around that time, anyway, so it's not like the history is single-source.
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The Aztecs believed that Quetzalcoatl had been on earth at a point in the past, and would return. They mistook the Spanish for his messengers, and were slaughtered.
The ancient egyptians considered their pharaohs to be a god, frequently visited by other gods
The Celts believed gods had once lived on earth
The Mayan calendar begins when humans were seperated from the gods on Earth
Yeah, none of those are anything like what I was saying. I was talking about a single historical event in which an entire nation was addressed supernaturally, and the latest time afterwards at which the event could have been made up, if it were, was only 400 years after, still far too soon for a hoax of that magnitude to catch on (because there would be quite a lot of evidence against it were it false).
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I think I'd rather see a screenshot of weaving between bullets launched from multiple cannons in that level, something that looks like it came from a bullet hell shooter...
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Information makes us more intelligent and creates neuro-passageways in the brain that are then passed down from generation to generation via the genes.
Genes aren't memes. I suggest you stop posting about such things until you know what you're talking about.
Bob A wrote:
boco: what scientific evidence is there for your religion? if you reply that this is unimportant, then in what sense is it true?
The biggest proof I can offer is the National Revelation.
Most religions are founded on what could very easily be hoaxes - one or two or even eight or so guys who claim some supernatural event, and they tell people who tell people and then there's a religion. But none of the peole who believe can confirm what the original guys at the top said, they can only believe it.
But this is explicitly not true for the God of the Jews. According to Judaism - and Christianity and Islam - God spoke to an assembled mass of 600,000+ people all at once at Sinai. The entire nation heard him. Judaism isn't founded on "Well, Bob talked to God, so I guess we should do what he says", it's founded on "Hey grandma, you were there, what was it like?". Anyone attempting to create such an event as a hoax even postdated 400 years would run into a lot of people saying "I never heard about any of this,a nd if it happened as you say we should have lots of stories about it passed from generation to generation and we'd be able to get independent confirmation" - and that's not what happened. Instead, the independent confirmation and the stories were present when the text was recorded.
So, there's a historical proof. The Sinai event occured. Whether the being who spoke to the nation was who he said he was, you can argue, but whether he spoke? not so much.
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The objection still stands, as I explained in IRC.
[02:19:59] <Dacicus> btw, parsimony doesn't prove that God doesn't exist
[02:20:24] <Boco_XLVII> Thats only because parsimony can't prove things, not because the logic isn't sound
[02:21:53] <Boco_XLVII> It falls on the theist to make a claim about (a particular) god which can be substantiated. Because of Occam's Razor the atheist need make no similar claim.
[02:22:26] <Boco_XLVII> This doesn't mean the atheist is correct due to parsimony or even at all, it just means the theist needs to do work rather than be the default assumption.
Parsimony isn't a proof of no god, it's just a convenient shortcut that "claims about God need a minimum backing evidence to be taken seriously". Because of parsimony, the default position should undoubtedly be atheist, and it is the theist's job to explain that theism to the atheist's satisfaction and not vice-versa.
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Dot dot dot. Could you please actualy read the responses people have been giving you?
Resolution of the image is stored in the header. You can't ignore header data and then put it in anyway.
Most of your message makes no sense.
Lets assume a 24-bit image of any size, and we'll ignore header data. As stated in the bit depth (= bits per pixel), each pixel is represented by 24 bits. Because 4 bits (16 values) can be represented by a hexadecimal digit (16 values) we can make the value of a single pixel more readable by using 6 hex digits instead. So we have each pixel as RRGGBB, with RR being two hex digits defining the red content, GG being two hex digits defining green content,a nd BB being two hex digits defining blue content.
A red pixel would be FF0000. A white pixel would be FFFFFF. A black pixel would be 000000. And so on.
The total (file) size of the (uncompressed) image (without header data) is the number of pixels multiplied by the bit depth. So with a 256x256x24 image, it takes up 256 (width) * 256 (height) * 24 (bit depth) / 8 (bits per byte) / 1024 (bytes per kilobyte) = 192kb. It is a 24-bit image (meaning each pixel has 24 bits) and is 192 kb (meaning total size).
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If, like you suggest, everything was predetermined, people were predetermined to make bad choices. God couldn't possibly think bad of something you did, if you were predetermined to do it. I'm not even sure if you could even call it a choice.
Romans 9:9 For this is what the promise declared: [Gen 18:10,14] “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.” 9:10 Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac – 9:11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) – 9:1226 it was said to her, [Gen 25:23] “The older will serve the younger,” 9:13 just as it is written: [Mal 1:2-3] “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
9:14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not! 9:15 For he says to Moses: [Ex 33:19] “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 9:16 So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy. 9:17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh: [Ex 9:16] “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.” 9:18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.
9:19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?” 9:20 But who indeed are you – a mere human being – to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, [Isa 29:16] “Why have you made me like this?” 9:21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? 9:22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
Point of this passage: 1. Sarah's conception of Isaac was revealed one year before it happened. 2. Before Jacob and Esau were born to Rebekah, it was revealed that the younger would be the heir and not the older. 3. When Moses demands God give him visble proof of his authority, God does so, but then immediately says that his favor would not neccessarily extend to those Moses is leading, because he will choose individually. 4. The only reason Pharaoh was allowed to gain power and to enslave the Jews was so that Moses could cause the Exodus - Pharaoh' entire empire was allowed to happen only for that one event, and Pharaoh's actions were dictated by God. 5. Drawing from all of these things you see that free will is not a valid assumption; God only gives free will to some (not all) people, with the others having been "prepared for destruction", desined for some purpose that does not involve their eventual ressurection.
In other words, God does't think bad about you doing something you were predestined to do because someone who is predestined has no more will than a hammer and is put to the same purpose, and once there are no more nails to drive into the wood the hammer will be discarded as useless. Those without free will don't matter and there's no reason to give a second thought to them once they have been destroyed after fulfilling their predestined purpose. "Everything" is not predestined, but predestination is a fact of the universe, at least as far as these traditions hold.
EDIT: Think of it like The Truman Show. There are real people with free will (Truman) running around, but the majority of "people" are paid actors who are not held morally responsible for their actions because their actions are more or less scripted.
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Please see Matthew 19:3-12. The two passages being linked (by Jesus) here are the Genesis quote you gave above and an earlier one (Gen 1:27), and the purpose of that linkage was "Marriage is not about a property contract nor about reproduction but rather was created for the purposes of companionship". This is the purpose of the second passage (Gen 2:24). What he is teaching here is not "Marriage is intended for one man one woman" (a claim not even followed in Biblical example!) but rather "Marriage should be valued for the companionship it brings and not its economic or reproductive benefits"; and he then finishes with "It is better for those who can abstain to not marry at all". In light of this teaching I don't see how you can view the Genesis passage as an anti-gay or even pro-marriage text.
The Leviticus and Romans quotes take much longer explanation, I'll get around to it eventually but it's not very important. But keep in mind for now that they all refer to the code of laws that only Jews need obey, and only apply to males.
Dromiceius wrote:
The only interesting idea (interesting as in, no one has ever had the balls to reply to it) I've had is that there's really no way for a theist to know that their particular holy book was not, in truth, written by their particular anti-deity.
There is no "anti-deity" in the Abrahamic tradition as I understand it. God is in full control, is the author of evil (Isaiah 45:7 I am the one who forms light / and creates darkness; / the one who brings about peace / and creates calamity. / I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things. and Amos 3:6 If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? / If disaster overtakes a city, is the Lord not responsible?), and uses evil for his own purposes; Satan is a trustworthy lieutenant who will one day no longer be neccessary and will then be destroyed. The entire idea of two opposing deities seems to be Zoroastrian in origin.
Dacicus wrote:
Boco wrote:
The Mosaic code defines four sexes
Reference?
Numbers 5:3 You must expel both men and women; - the translation masks this but this actually reads "from male to female" implying a spectrum. This and other references (including actual real-world bilogy) caused keepers of the law to develop two additional legal categories, the androgyne (a hermaphrodite) and the tumtum (one who has no sexual characteristics or one whose sex is called into question). The law is generally interpreted for an androgyne as the more restrictive if there is a difference between male and female. (it should be noted that because female homosexuality is not restricted, an androgyne is permitted to marry a woman (but not a man), but that since reproduction is impossible, this is an option and not a requirement).
The legal discussion is very long and makes more references than I quoted but for the most part is irrelevant since it applies only to Jews. Look up the term "tumtum" and you'll find it, probably.
Dacicus wrote:
Boco wrote:
The ressurection will occur on this Earth
It's not this earth, it's a new one, as the passage you posted says.
The point is, it is not in any sort of Heaven and is not immediate.
Dacicus wrote:
Boco wrote:
No. Animals do not possess the correct kind of soul.
Since you're using that passage from Isaiah to indicate what will happen after the Resurrection, and it largely consists of changed animal behaviors, aren't you contradicting yourself?
Not at all. Nothing of an animal is preserved after death, so no particular animal will be ressurected. But animals will still be around.
Dacicus wrote:
Boco wrote:
Lesbianism has never been restricted and this is intentional.
What leads you to say this?
I'll discuss it later. But in the meantime, what text at all mentions lesbianism negatively? (I'll give you a hint: there's only one Biblical passage that could possibly ever be construed to, and it's a stretched reading of Romans 1 which you already referenced: other depictions are positive or neutral)
Baxter wrote:
Boco wrote:
No. Animals do not possess the correct kind of soul.
This directly leads me to the question: What is your stance on evolution?
I don't see any particular religious reason to discount the very blatantly obvious findings of science, including this one. In any case, evolution is a theory that explains the history, development, and differentiation but not origin of life. Anyone who denies it is stupid for two reasons: one, not having bothered to learn what the actual science is; and two, not having bothered to learn what the actual religion teaches.
Baxter wrote:
Boco wrote:
Lesbianism has never been restricted and this is intentional.
Oh, didn't know this. You sound like there is a good reason why this is also; I'd like to hear it. (To me, it somehow sounds like something men made up.)
It's more "there is (or was) (religious and cultural but not moral) reason to restrict male homosexuality" than "there is reason to be liberal about female homosexuality". I'll talk about it more sometime when it's not 5 AM.
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This is the stupidest and most useless thread in the entire site. Just lock it, please.
You seem to have no problem participating in an off-topic derailing of the Ask Bisqwit thread, which this thread was created to house, so I don't really see your objection. Could you clarify why you think this?
nfq wrote:
oh my god boco, are you a christian...
What's the problem?
Anyway, to answer the question which I don't think you even intended to ask, I don't think most conservative Christians would think so, solely because I don't believe Trinity and actually think it's more spiritually harmful than helpful doctrine. I identify as a back-to-basics Abrahamic monotheist called a Child of Noah.
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The men who wrote these books knew Jesus personally, and saw him die.
This is not precisely true, as most of the Gospel texts are second-hand accounts and the majority of the New Testament was written by Paul, who never once met Jesus and only converted to the religion after Jesus's death. But Peter was an influential leader in the early church and was Jesus's direct disciple so likely ONE of the many, many divergent early Christan communities knew what they were talking about. (there was no unified early Christianity by the way, but then again, that's the point of most of Paul's letters).
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Is there a difference between the soul of a male and a female?
No. I couldn't find the location in Bible that tells this, but I seem to remember something mentioning that in Heaven, there is no difference between a man and a woman.(1)
Are you able to meet the people again you knew when you were alive in afterlife?(2) How about if you were married, will you still be married in afterlife, or be together?(3) If heaven means complete happyness(4), then wouldn't that for some people also mean being able to meet their pets again? Would this mean that animals also go to heaven?(5) (If you answer yes to this last question, then do you eat meat(6), and can you justify that for yourself?)
Also, in most religions, being gay is considered a sin.(7) But if the souls of men and women are the same, then wouldn't it be the same for two men or two women(8) to fall in love, just like a man and a women? In afterlife you wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway, if the quote from Bisqwit is true.
1. This is correct; Galations 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female – for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
The Mosaic code defines four sexes which are used for legal purposes but these distinctions are created due to this world and not intrinsic ones. In the same way, nothing expressly differentiates a (for example) Jewish soul from that of a non-Jew - the Jews were chosen to be made example of by God for reasons unrelated to actual spiritual differentiation.
2. Yes; Genesis 25:8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. He joined his ancestors.
This and other references (though somewhat masked in this translation) exhibit the idea of a reunion after death. Some specific punishments exclude a person from this reunion: Exodus 31:14 So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people. (keep in mind that this law is intended for and only applies to Jews, but the idea is still there)
3. Marriage is a this-world institution that will NOT be carried forward; Mark 12:24 Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you deceived for this reason, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God? 12:25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
4. It's neither heaven nor happiness, rather a perfected renewed Earth. This is a perpetual misunderstanding that's really annoyingly common. The ressurection will occur on this Earth, and the dead don't "go to heaven" immediately or at all. Revelation 20:5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection. and Reveltion 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more. 21:2 And I saw the holy city – the new Jerusalem – descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them. 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”
5. No. Animals do not possess the correct kind of soul.
6. I don't personally eat meat but there's no religious reason. It should be noted that humans were intended to have a vegetarian diet Genesis 1:29 Then God said, “I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 1:30 And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it – I give every green plant for food.” It was so., with meat only allowed once the world had been fundamentally altered Genesis 9:2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority. 9:3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything., and come the ressurection there will be a return to vegetarianism Isaiah 11:6 A wolf will reside with a lamb,/and a leopard will lie down with a young goat;/an ox and a young lion will graze together,/as a small child leads them along./11:7 A cow and a bear will graze together,/their young will lie down together./A lion, like an ox, will eat straw., but there's no religious impetus to be vegetarian in the current age.
7. This is a topic all to itself that would take a long time to answer, so I'll save it for another time.
8. Lesbianism has never been restricted and this is intentional.
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"Do you believe in god?" isn't the point of this thread, which I made to get the discussion in the Ask Bisqwit thread moved out of it so it could be continued without burying legitimate posts in that thread. I'd like it if people at least made whatever assumptions they need to get past that and asked actual theological questions (not "do you believe in god?" but "what do you believe about god / the bible / etc?" and "how do you resolve [problem x]?" and "what do you think about [problem y]?" etc).
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So here's a replacement thread for the 14-page general religion thread which is too long for anyone to expect to read and actually isn't about this kind of thing and also to get the people talking about it in the Ask Bisqwit thread out so they don't bury, um, questions to Bisqwit in their off-topic posts.
Put theological questions concerning Christianity / Judaism / Islam here.
[Edit by AngerFist: I have deleted erokkys and Fabians post. I did not like and find them contributing to the topic. Respect the topic, if not, I will lock it.]
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If we're going to have multiple people discussing theology can we just make a topic about it and discuss it there so actual questions to Bisqwit don't get buried / those who don't care about theology don't have to read it? I'd like to respond ot a lot of these points but I don't want to derail the topic.
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And theoretically, I'm working on a non-glitch Rockman TAS.
What do you classify as a glitch in Rockman?
I'm guessing this means 1. no through-the-wall (including ceiling zipping) 2. no screenwrap ladder grabbing 3. no pausing to reset vulnerability... the rest of it doesn't cause route changes or obvious gameplay changes or is impossible without doing one of those I believe (like grabbing ladders early, that's almost unnoticable).
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Urban Champion is notable precisely because it's terrible. Besides, it's mentioned in Tetris DS. (then again there are games that are in WarioWare and Smash Brothers that should really be forgotten already and this probably qualifies too).
I like VirtuaNES best so I'm glad you prefer it too ^^
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Yie Ar Kung Fu wasn't released on the NES (only Famicom), Xevious was released in 1989 (1984 on Fami), etc., so our lists differ.
Here's my until-1987 list:
-1984
Devil World
-1985
Clu-Clu Land
Duck Hunt
Excitebike
Gauntlet
Gyromite
Hogan's Alley
Ice Climber
Kung Fu
Super Mario Bros
Wrecking Crew
-1986
1942
Balloon Fight
Commando
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Gradius
Karate Champ
Mario Bros
Urban Champion "the worst game Nintendo has ever made"
Anyway like I said above if I have time I'll gladly claim a game or three from any list and make a video. Do you care what emulator is used or what format the video's in?
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On my list of important games, I see 21 games 1986-and-before and 36 games in 1987.. that's using the NES release dates, and you might have a different opinion on important. What's your list like?
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