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piccolo
Member #3,163
January 2003
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I am here and there. Time machine is not functional yet however I have a few inventions that are.

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Arthur Kalliokoski
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February 2005
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piccolo said:

Time machine is not functional yet

So when it is, you'll be now and then?

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

Dennis
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July 2003
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piccolo said:

Time machine is not functional yet

It is safe to assume you have failed/will fail at developing the time machine then. Why? If you would eventually succeed at it, the smart thing to do would be to travel back in time and give the development process a boost or just presenting your self the final device(including a detailed service manual and the full dev log). But since you haven't done that, the machine will obviously never come into existence.

pkrcel
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February 2012

Paradoxically, this is also proof that there won't be ANY time machine available ever.

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Dennis
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July 2003
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Not necessarily. An even smarter (potentially selfish but also potentially protective of evil which may arise from time travel devices in the wrong hands) thing to do would be to keep the developed device for oneself and denying its existence.

Gideon Weems
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October 2003

I recognized 21 avatars right off the bat.

Perhaps more initiation rituals and rites of passage would keep people hanging around.

pkrcel
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February 2012

Dennis said:

Not necessarily. An even smarter (potentially selfish but also potentially protective of evil which may arise from time travel devices in the wrong hands) thing to do would be to keep the developed device for oneself and denying its existence.

This is a staple of timetravel sci-fi, but as of things work in the real world, no one man show can indeed develop time travel.
So the more people involved the higher the probability of a leakage, which kind of becomes practically certain at some point.

So right, "not necessarily", but quite pessimistically "sure" :P

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l j
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January 2009
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piccolo said:

I am here and there. Time machine is not functional yet however I have a few inventions that are.

Lurkers, lurkers are forever omnipresent.

Dennis
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July 2003
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pkrcel said:

no one man show can indeed develop time travel

Who knows. If one manages, one would probably keep it secret.

But... well. It's probably physically impossible but we can never be sure about it, since we can only understand what we can understand and we can only observe what we can observe. :P

torhu
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September 2002
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All my posts are prerecorded messages (I am dead).

Onewing
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August 2005
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My machine only allows me to jump into the future. All my posts on a.cc were written over the time span of a single week in my life.

Yes, after finishing my machine, this is what I've determined to be the best usage of my time.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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June 2000
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I'm time travelling right now.

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pkrcel
Member #14,001
February 2012

Time zones do NOT count! :P

It is unlikely that Google shares your distaste for capitalism. - Derezo
If one had the eternity of time, one would do things later. - Johan Halmén

Arthur Kalliokoski
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February 2005
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He's talking about traveling through time one second per second. :P

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

Gideon Weems
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October 2003

Thomas is in love. He doesn't get that good a rate.

Thomas Fjellstrom
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June 2000
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Hahaha. Its all relative man. I'm at a lower altitude than I was at home so now I'm going slower than I was. I'm getting older slightly slower.

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"The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree" -- https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/592870205409353730

pkrcel
Member #14,001
February 2012

I don't think iit works that way really :P

Anyway it's cool, I could do a t-shirt: "I am a time traveller, I hop one nanosecond at a time"

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If one had the eternity of time, one would do things later. - Johan Halmén

Thomas Fjellstrom
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June 2000
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pkrcel said:

I don't think iit works that way really :P

Indeed. Time slows down as speed increases not the other way around.

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Samuel Henderson
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August 2003
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Goodbytes was an old colleague of mine. The one who introduced me to the a.cc community waaaay back in the day. Sadly I don't think he programs at all these days. :-/

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GullRaDriel
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September 2003
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Ha, I remember master goodbytes. It was a good guy. I hope he'll hang around somedays.

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Arthur Kalliokoski
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February 2005
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I was diagnosed six years ago with elegantcodeitis, a not-too-rare condition which prevents me from actually finishing any games due to an obsession with an impractical problem-solving aesthetic.

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Steve++
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January 2002

If auto login didn't fail (even with the IP address security feature disabled), we'd probably be able to catch more old timers lurking in Online Users. Not that I'm complaining. It's amazing this site has lasted so long and thanks to Matthew for consistently keeping it running for so many years. Still, it would be nice to open the site up to limited community contributions, but that's just my humble opinion and it doesn't matter that much to me anyway.

Elias
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May 2000

Yes, auto login never worked for... but Firefox is good at remembering the password so it doesn't really matter.

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bamccaig
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July 2006
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Auto-login has always worked for me across all browsers and operating systems. Make sure you set the IP address limit to 0 if you want to disable it (back when I was on dial-up or DSL or something I needed to do this). These days I login with Google's OpenID so generally I'm logged in as long as my Google account is logged in.

Dario ff
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August 2008
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I'm still very much active online, just not here. :P

My last Allegro related activity was trying to get the Android port to work and failing miserably to follow the instructions. :-[

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