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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on HOWTO: Lose your customer by DSS</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2006/04/06/howto-lose-your-customer#comment-97143</link>
		<dc:creator>DSS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://floatingsun.net/blog/2006/04/06/631/#comment-97143</guid>
		<description>I am an NRI in US. Many years back, I made the mistake of registering for their service but then realized that their exchange rate is really bad as compared to ICICI's Money2India. I decided to abort the process. Unfortunately, they now had my email address and have since continued to bombard me with emails and phone calls. Despite repeated requests on phone as well as emails, no response!

Today, I was flabbergasted to receive a call on my cellphone! In US, I pay for incoming calls. Now I am worried that I am going to be swamped with these stupid calls. I just can't understand how this stupid company expects me to ever even use their service when they've so annoyed me with their spamming. Some stupid jerks seem to be running this organization</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am an NRI in US. Many years back, I made the mistake of registering for their service but then realized that their exchange rate is really bad as compared to ICICI&#8217;s Money2India. I decided to abort the process. Unfortunately, they now had my email address and have since continued to bombard me with emails and phone calls. Despite repeated requests on phone as well as emails, no response!</p>
<p>Today, I was flabbergasted to receive a call on my cellphone! In US, I pay for incoming calls. Now I am worried that I am going to be swamped with these stupid calls. I just can&#8217;t understand how this stupid company expects me to ever even use their service when they&#8217;ve so annoyed me with their spamming. Some stupid jerks seem to be running this organization</p>
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		<title>Comment on Google Reader auto sort by autoverleih</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2008/04/22/google-reader-auto-sort#comment-96598</link>
		<dc:creator>autoverleih</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks to the article, Now there is more reason to comment than ever before!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to the article, Now there is more reason to comment than ever before!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Google Reader auto sort by Transportervermietung Dresden</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2008/04/22/google-reader-auto-sort#comment-96541</link>
		<dc:creator>Transportervermietung Dresden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the informative post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the informative post.</p>
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		<title>Comment on PIM Online by Online forex trading system</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2006/04/15/pim-online#comment-96043</link>
		<dc:creator>Online forex trading system</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for this efficient information!
Continue to associate us in your information!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for this efficient information!<br />
Continue to associate us in your information!</p>
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		<title>Comment on A more extensible KDE by D</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2008/04/01/extensible-kde#comment-95479</link>
		<dc:creator>D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Agreed!!!  I need Rikaichan extension in Kmail/Kontact.  That would make my PIM life pretty much complete.  (That and removing the bugs that cause Kontact to krash.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Agreed!!!  I need Rikaichan extension in Kmail/Kontact.  That would make my PIM life pretty much complete.  (That and removing the bugs that cause Kontact to krash.)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Google Reader auto sort by backlinks</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2008/04/22/google-reader-auto-sort#comment-94468</link>
		<dc:creator>backlinks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First of all congratulation for such a great site. I learned a lot reading article here today. I will make sure i visit this site once a day so i can laern more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all congratulation for such a great site. I learned a lot reading article here today. I will make sure i visit this site once a day so i can laern more.</p>
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		<title>Comment on checkoutvim.png (PNG Image, 1440&#215;900 pixels) by Toby</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2006/02/23/checkoutvimpng-png-image-1440x900-pixels#comment-94158</link>
		<dc:creator>Toby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Broken link. Why don't you post it on Flickr instead?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Broken link. Why don&#8217;t you post it on Flickr instead?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Google Page Creator by Tomi Häsä</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2006/02/23/google-page-creator#comment-93575</link>
		<dc:creator>Tomi Häsä</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Google Page Creator will be shut down this year and old GPC sites will be transitioned to Google Sites:

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-05-n83.html
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-page-creator-to-be-closed.html

With Google Page Creator you could upload HTML files and use CSS files (or CSS in HTML) to make your pages look exactly the way you want, but with Google Sites you can only use templates that suck. Also, scripting is disabled in Google Sites.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google Page Creator will be shut down this year and old GPC sites will be transitioned to Google Sites:</p>
<p><a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-05-n83.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-05-n83.html</a><br />
<a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-page-creator-to-be-closed.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-page-creator-to-be-closed.html</a></p>
<p>With Google Page Creator you could upload HTML files and use CSS files (or CSS in HTML) to make your pages look exactly the way you want, but with Google Sites you can only use templates that suck. Also, scripting is disabled in Google Sites.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Airtel Call Home by Pankaj</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2006/12/18/airtel-call-home#comment-93200</link>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Will anyone share your experience with WQN.com. They also offers us to india call for $0.07/minute. I have heard some good feedback about WQN,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will anyone share your experience with WQN.com. They also offers us to india call for $0.07/minute. I have heard some good feedback about WQN,</p>
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		<title>Comment on Social Radio by Law News</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2005/08/28/social-radio#comment-92669</link>
		<dc:creator>Law News</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good post. Bookmarked.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good post. Bookmarked.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Naruto rocks! by NARUTORULEZ</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2007/02/16/naruto-rocks#comment-92317</link>
		<dc:creator>NARUTORULEZ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Naruto Rocks.... Shipuudenz Even Cooler... I Don't Know Why Some Idiots Hate It!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Naruto Rocks&#8230;. Shipuudenz Even Cooler&#8230; I Don&#8217;t Know Why Some Idiots Hate It!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Are we living in a computer simulation? by Leonid Ge</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2006/12/17/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation#comment-92290</link>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Ge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perhaps I miss something here.
Seems, somebody is discussing perpetuum mobile here.

You are talking about recursive simulations.
But in order to run a simulation you need memory and processor.
Say, the first universe is real and some mighty creatures develop in it, so they will build a computer to run simulation of another (sub-)universe.

A computer, where this simulation will run is a part of the first (real) universe. It means that the number of degrees of freedom (or number of possible states) of this computer is significantly less, that number of degrees of freedom of the first universe.

So the second (simulated) universe will be much simpler than the first one.

And if the second universe will simulate the third, this one will be much simpler, than the second.

Obviously this process (of decreasing the complexity of recursive universes) develops very fast, i.e. at some stage one of the simulated universes will be unable to simulate anything.

This is exactly the same as running virtual machines on real computers. There is a program called VMware, which creates and runs virtual machines on Microsoft Windows and Linux. And it can be used recursively. But all these recursive virtual machines run on the same REAL CPU and in the same REAL memory. OK, the CPU speed is not important, as you can always say that you have infinite time. Even if our earth and life on it is a computer simulation on some tremendously slow computer - we cannot be aware of it.

But the REAL memory, which is used for all these recursive simulations will become less and less (exponentially from one recursive simulation to the next one), so for some of the recursive universes the amount of memory will be so small, that this universe will be primitive!

And by the way, I am sure that for VMware tool it is possible to write a computer program, which can detect if you are running on a simulated operating system or on a real one.

Perhaps, it is possible to invent a physical experiment that would reveal if our universe is simulated or not.

One problem of computers seems insuperable: bugs. Bugs can cause memory errors. Also computers use multi-tasking, and synchronization errors occur.

We are unaware of the power of mighty creators who could build a computer which simulates our universe. But every computer program developed by human programmers (if it is complex enough) contains bugs.

And a good hacker would reveal bugs of any program. Of course we can presume that the program simulating our universe is very simple, trivial. It could be. But if it is complex enough, it must have bugs.

So let's try to think of an experiment that would reveal bugs in this program. If we find at least one bug - we will prove, that we are simulated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps I miss something here.<br />
Seems, somebody is discussing perpetuum mobile here.</p>
<p>You are talking about recursive simulations.<br />
But in order to run a simulation you need memory and processor.<br />
Say, the first universe is real and some mighty creatures develop in it, so they will build a computer to run simulation of another (sub-)universe.</p>
<p>A computer, where this simulation will run is a part of the first (real) universe. It means that the number of degrees of freedom (or number of possible states) of this computer is significantly less, that number of degrees of freedom of the first universe.</p>
<p>So the second (simulated) universe will be much simpler than the first one.</p>
<p>And if the second universe will simulate the third, this one will be much simpler, than the second.</p>
<p>Obviously this process (of decreasing the complexity of recursive universes) develops very fast, i.e. at some stage one of the simulated universes will be unable to simulate anything.</p>
<p>This is exactly the same as running virtual machines on real computers. There is a program called VMware, which creates and runs virtual machines on Microsoft Windows and Linux. And it can be used recursively. But all these recursive virtual machines run on the same REAL CPU and in the same REAL memory. OK, the CPU speed is not important, as you can always say that you have infinite time. Even if our earth and life on it is a computer simulation on some tremendously slow computer - we cannot be aware of it.</p>
<p>But the REAL memory, which is used for all these recursive simulations will become less and less (exponentially from one recursive simulation to the next one), so for some of the recursive universes the amount of memory will be so small, that this universe will be primitive!</p>
<p>And by the way, I am sure that for VMware tool it is possible to write a computer program, which can detect if you are running on a simulated operating system or on a real one.</p>
<p>Perhaps, it is possible to invent a physical experiment that would reveal if our universe is simulated or not.</p>
<p>One problem of computers seems insuperable: bugs. Bugs can cause memory errors. Also computers use multi-tasking, and synchronization errors occur.</p>
<p>We are unaware of the power of mighty creators who could build a computer which simulates our universe. But every computer program developed by human programmers (if it is complex enough) contains bugs.</p>
<p>And a good hacker would reveal bugs of any program. Of course we can presume that the program simulating our universe is very simple, trivial. It could be. But if it is complex enough, it must have bugs.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s try to think of an experiment that would reveal bugs in this program. If we find at least one bug - we will prove, that we are simulated.</p>
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		<title>Comment on SurTaal intro video by YouTube Vidoes!</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2008/05/05/surtaal-intro-video#comment-90884</link>
		<dc:creator>YouTube Vidoes!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your post makes one think! Great article. Thanks for allowing me to comment!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your post makes one think! Great article. Thanks for allowing me to comment!</p>
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		<title>Comment on HP Pavilion a1640n USB support in Ubuntu by Archie</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2007/08/28/hp-pavilion-a1640n-usb-support-in-ubuntu#comment-88520</link>
		<dc:creator>Archie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i got my HP pavilion at www.consumerdepot.com and it works great for me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i got my HP pavilion at <a href="http://www.consumerdepot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.consumerdepot.com</a> and it works great for me.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Airtel Call Home by shashir</title>
		<link>http://floatingsun.net/2006/12/18/airtel-call-home#comment-85363</link>
		<dc:creator>shashir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was using RIC for quality, price and ease of use but have recently switched to Gorilla Mobile. They don't have prepaid but the talk time is only $0.045 per min and they charge me at month end no hidden cost plus quality is same as I got from Reliance with pinless calling. I could never get Airtel to accept my credit card so maybe i was lucky. Gorilla gave me $5 free talktime also to try it and I have no regrets. I think the rate is amazing</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was using RIC for quality, price and ease of use but have recently switched to Gorilla Mobile. They don&#8217;t have prepaid but the talk time is only $0.045 per min and they charge me at month end no hidden cost plus quality is same as I got from Reliance with pinless calling. I could never get Airtel to accept my credit card so maybe i was lucky. Gorilla gave me $5 free talktime also to try it and I have no regrets. I think the rate is amazing</p>
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