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Quote: Services include chanting and the burning of incense, as they would for the human departed. A-Fun employees attend the closed ceremonies, serving as surrogates for the “families” of the pets, and pliers are placed before the robodogs in place of traditional offerings like fruit. Robots even recite Buddhist sutras, or scriptures.
According to Head Priest Oi, honoring inanimate objects is consistent with Buddhist thought. Nippon.com quotes the priest: “Even though AIBO is a machine and doesn’t have feelings, it acts as a mirror for human emotions.” Speaking with videographer Kei Oumawatari, Oi cites a saying, “Everything has Buddha-nature.”
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Gate, gate, paragate,, parasamghati, bodhi, svaha !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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As Zenyata would say (aka our friendly robot monk), we are all one with the universe! 
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Yeah, load of bullshit.
these buddhist 'priests' get a 'packet' (envelope of money) for their 'help' and whatever entourage - professional mourners, the guy that dings the donger etc the same. A**hole scammers is all they are.
Soft target rich enough to buy a robot dog likely very generous.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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You have had some negative personal experiences ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Seen enough of these fake monks around in asia, totally unregulated: all you need is a robe some [fake] jade jewellry and walk around with your similarly dressed mates mumbling "antimatter" or similar. You'll see these guys take off their robe and go out drinking, smoking, eating anything.
I know happens in any religion, but most other major religions at least [attempt to] self regulate rougues - you want to pretend to be a priest the papal goon squad will try to shut you down - the buddhists being all peace loving simply don't bother and comparatively their's many more fakes. (Also the fact it's really a hell of a lot easier to be a fake buddhist monk, you can even do it on TV and the real ones still won't give a flying sh*t.)
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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BillWoodruff wrote: pliers are placed before the robodogs in place of traditional offerings like fruit
Wouldn't batteries, rather than pliers, be the equivalent of food for robots?
BillWoodruff wrote: honoring inanimate objects is consistent with Buddhist thought
In that case, do they also hold burial ceremonies for furniture, kitchen appliances, etc.?
The (Western) mind boggles!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Wouldn't batteries, rather than pliers, be the equivalent of food for robots?
I am told by a usually unreliable source that there are certain secret Aibo behaviors involving pliers that are revealed to Japanese customers under draconian non-disclosure agreements, which being signed and witnessed, then, a technician from a company Sony can plausibly deny any association with comes to the client's home and activates.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote:
Gate, gate, paragate,, parasamghati, bodhi, svaha !
The stupid sh*t people do?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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This Josh Chang guy is flooding CodeProject home page with "his articles"
example: Day 69 of 100 Days of VR: Writing Code To Interact With Menus in Unity
I don't think he is really malintentionned, but I see several problem with his "articles"
1). from looking at a few, they are not complete at all, one need to piece together the previous XX one before to make sense of his work
2). He is going to end with legendary status, more article than Marc Clifton, while his whole 100 post tell us less than 1 single article by such as said Marc Clifton (for example)
3). On the CP home page, it's all about him... "article" 59 - 70... I really don't care I want to see other contribution...
What to do about it? (just some random ideas)
1. cancel all his articles?
2. only display at most 1 article per author on CP home page?
3. other?
EDIT
This seems to come from his blog. Fair enough.
But we shouldn't have the home page displaying 20 links to the same blog, me think....
EDIT2
To clarify further.
I am not against new upcoming writer.
I am just quite annoyed that for a whole afternoon the whole "Featured C# projects" page was day 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 of VR coding.
Not too mention all those pages together are not even featuring a single fully functioning compiling project. You need to blend pages 1-50 I guess...
modified 28-May-18 12:40pm.
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Agree fully. Whatever his intentions the result is not benign and at the very least some counseling may be in order.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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So, post this message on the site Suggs&Bugs forum ? Or, the abuse forum ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Good idea.
Gotta report in Sugg & Bugs. Didn't think of that! 
In fact all those links come from his blog, which is fair enough, since CP has a blog scrubbing feature.
But what was really annoying was the CP Home Page, featured projects of the day section, with almost all links pointing to the same blog (different days), with nothing else featured.
It's gone now... But it was quite annoying when it was on.
modified 28-May-18 2:58am.
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They all appear to be under the classification of "Technical Blogs". Personally, I'm not going to wade through 100 blog posts to get to anything but if he is willing to mark them as such and others are giving him positive feedback or votes, what's the big deal? Maybe he will end up having more rep points than Clifton. Again, so what? Don't know about you, but when I last tried to sell my rep points on Craigslist, I got no takers.
We should be encouraging young talent to write, not moaning that they might overtake the old codgers (of which I am one) and if you think there are issues with his posts, then say something to him, directly; help him achieve greatness rather than bringing him down.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I am not moaning they overtake old writer.
In fact the only real problem is that for a whole afternoon the whole "Featured C# projects" page was day 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 of VR coding.
When we got a whole front page dedicated to show many featured projects, I'd like to see more than just 1 blog. Particularly when all those pages together are not even a single fully functioning compiling project. (I dunno if there is a download link somewhere... But I suppose one could strewn up the code from page 1 to 50 for a compiling project?)
Now we could agree to disagree on that. But I hope you can see the potential problem here.
On the less negative side, it only overtook the whole front page for 8 hours... So I guess I can move on now...
modified 28-May-18 12:43pm.
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Super Lloyd wrote: Now we could agree to disagree
We certainly can - enjoy whatever's left of your day - hard to work out but you're probably in tomorrow already. Hurts my brianicle.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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BTW there is no issue with the pages, the one I looked at, "the featured C# project" was about the parametera of a dialog.... Which was a little underwhelming.
Until I realised, it just is his blog. That single page was not a project but a blog post in an ongoing serie on his blog. Fair enough.
Why does it have to take all the featured C# projects slots on the featured C# project page though?
That's a CP issue, that I mention in Bugs and Suggestion forums afterwards.
EDIT
Turns out it was a bug, as expected. And should now be fixed.
modified 28-May-18 13:21pm.
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All's well that ends well.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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,,, but at least I got something done.
@glennPattonWork
I took a step back and put together the schematic for a very primitive computer to control the circuits on the breadboard. It's just the processor, 32k EEPROM, 32k RAM, a register to demultiplex the address lines and a MAX232 (which is driven directly by the processor) as a slow serial port.
I have begun to write the software to put into that ROM. Over the serial port it can communicate with a PC. This can be used both for terminal emulation and to upload test programs.
I have configured the emulator for the old Elf to represent both the prototype and the not yet existing new Elf and started on the software[^]
I have taken the old bit banged serial routines and tuned them from 300 baud to 1200 baud. More is not possible at the clock frequency of the old Elf. At full speed the processor I am going to use has reached 4800 baud in other computers and 9600 baud may very well be possible. At the 'normal' clock frequency my timing values were exactly as calculated, at higher speeds I could not find any working values. Perhaps it's the emulator. Anyway, I think I will use EEPROMs, just in case I must experiment a little with the values. Erasing and reprogramming EPROMs would be a test of my patience.
So, the next steps will be to build the primitive prototyping computer, prepare the ROM and then start prototyping on the breadboard.
And I have a name!
The old computer was called an Elf. Since you guys love puns so much, I'm going to call it Zwölf[^]. If you don't understand, just ask Griff. I think he will get it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 28-May-18 2:38am.
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OK, sounds good, my German is very poor but it means 12? if it was me I would go for a name like Legolas...but thats just me...
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Elf means eleven, so a new Elf is a Zwölf. Besides that, while watching the movie, we already called Legolas a 'Zwölf', just because he's far better than a normal elf.
I also plan to steal this wallpaper[^] for Zwölf's boot screen. Does that look like a Legolas to you?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Okay, I did say my German was spotty...
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I can only guess how hard it must be to learn it for someone who has English as a mother language. The grammar, the pronounciation... It's sometimes hard to believe the languages are actually related.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well it's a bit odd in places (the umlat & the beta) but it's not too bad, a friend is trying to learn Japanese, now that is fun!
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I might have been offline for a few more days, but since did when CodeProject start to have Projects as well? And what exactly is needed in them?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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