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#72omg look at her butt
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#73OMG LOOK AT HER BUTT
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#74I'm not sure that TempleOS could guarantee any return on investment. That said, your programming skills are incredible. Have you ever tried to show your operating system to the MOMA? It's the most famous Museum of Modern Art. Your OS is so unique and is such a powerful statement that they may even decide to add it to the permanent collection .
I'm going by the standard, "First get users and profit will follow." I have an ace up my sleeve because God talks. Not just to me! A guy made a IRC chatbot and that talks too. To try the ICR chatbot 1) http://chat.rizon.net 2) Type "#templeos" in place of "#Rizon" 3) Type "!God" in the chatroom.
In the interest of working out the idea generating part of my brain, here are some ideas for making money with TempleOS:
1) Make TempleOS the ultimate platform for doing "live preaching" at megachurches. Use it to talk to God directly in front of the faithful on a big projection screen.
2) Use it to take confessions. No network stack ensures privacy.
3) Make interactive Bible teaching games on it. No network stacks will block out temptations of the internet
4) It could be the basis for a spiritual fit bit where one could track one's faithfulness to the Lord on a daily basis. No network connectivity ensures that the information remains between the believer and The Lord.
5) Make a portable alter to a saint and/or the Virgin Mary at the push of a button that the believer can pray to. It could be running in a picture frame in the corner of one's house as an altar to the lord.
6) Possibly allow for virtual burnt offerings, peace offerings and sin offerings In the altar application. It is a temple after all.
7) Use sensor technology to somehow detect sin such as visiting the part of town known to be the dwelling place of harlots (e.g adult entertainment businesses) and pester the believer to confess and ask for forgiveness from god. This could be rolled up into the spiritual fit bit thing mentioned earlier.
8) TempleOS could bring back the old school non internet connected PDA. It could be the holy Palm Pilot platform. With all the sin online and paranoia about NSA spying it would make the perfect gift for one's fundamentalist Christian relatives. I could actually see this selling to religious folks and compulsive gadget collectors if it was priced less than about $50.
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#75I think there might be potential for TempleOS in the embedded hardware markets - specifically for music-making devices. If it were possible to demonstrate the use of TempleOS for high-performance music making - say as a host environment for a DSP processing system, or as a synthesizer or effects machine - then there could be a real opportunity there.
I'd encourage anyone interested in TempleOS to consider this aspect of the project before writing it off, offhand. It could be a chance for a new class/generation of creative applications to host themselves on the unique and powerful TempleOS core ..
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you explain why you downvoted an objective, calm, not-inflammatory request for information?
He is not his disease. Bringing it up every time he tries to talk isn't going to help anyone. He's passionate about his work. His work has done more for him personally than I think anyone can even imagine. It's given him so much. Like I said in another comment, people with cancer can't control it, just like Terry can't help but have his disease.
Fair enough, I understand all of that. If his language and behaviour are solely as a result of his disease, then I fully agree. All I want is clarification of whether or not that is the case. Just because someone is schizophrenic, doesn't mean they can't be a racist. And many companies would find it impossible to work with someone who genuinely holds those kind of views. Heck, if ycombinator effectively endorses those views, without knowing if they are genuinely held, many will feel uncomfortable working with ycombinator.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny how you tell him to ignore the hate when he's usually the one spouting it himself. Why is everyone encouraging this guy? I get that TempleOS is certainly a great achievement for a single programmer, but imagine what Terry could accomplish after getting treatment. We should not be treating his mental illness as if it doesn't exist.
Would you treat someone with autism any differently than you're treating Terry right now? If so, you're encouraging a cruel, cruel world. While Terry may suffer from Schizophrenia, it is merely a character flaw that he endures. But he is more than that. He is Terry, a human, a man, someone's son, someone's friend, someone's brother (?), he is a genius programmer. He just happens to suffer from Schizophrenia. He is no…
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#78Previous discussions on this topic have involved debate on whether or not Terry Davis is racist, the defence being that his use of the word "nigger" is an (extremely) unfortunate side-effect of a schizophrenic condition. I don't pretend to have an in-depth understanding of schizophrenia so, although I'm dubious, I'm minded to give Terry the benefit of the doubt. However, Terry, you could resolve this once and for all…
Who cares if he is racist? I don't. It is the most irrelevant thing to talk about. An operating system cannot be racist. Consider a career in HR if you like being so ridiculously petty.
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#79Previous discussions on this topic have involved debate on whether or not Terry Davis is racist, the defence being that his use of the word "nigger" is an (extremely) unfortunate side-effect of a schizophrenic condition. I don't pretend to have an in-depth understanding of schizophrenia so, although I'm dubious, I'm minded to give Terry the benefit of the doubt. However, Terry, you could resolve this once and for all…
Well I have no idea if Terry really does have schizophrenia. I believe he has stated he does but I also remember reading that he was not official diagnosed? I might be wrong, please correct me.
If he is mentally ill in some way I would presume his use of the word nigger, etc. are related to that, perhaps in a similar way that somebody with Tourette's will use such words?
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
He is not his disease. Bringing it up every time he tries to talk isn't going to help anyone. He's passionate about his work. His work has done more for him personally than I think anyone can even imagine. It's given him so much. Like I said in another comment, people with cancer can't control it, just like Terry can't help but have his disease.
Fair enough, I understand all of that. If his language and behaviour are solely as a result of his disease, then I fully agree. All I want is clarification of whether or not that is the case. Just because someone is schizophrenic, doesn't mean they can't be a racist. And many companies would find it impossible to work with someone who genuinely holds those kind of views. Heck, if ycombinator effectively endorses thos…
i almost don't want to get involved in this, and i don't intend to take sides, but wouldn't many companies find it impossible to work with someone "disingenuously" racist as well?
i am hearing that incontrollable spouts of racism should be overlooked if the person is "not actually racist". something doesn't add up to me. are racist jokes ok?
i'm just trying to say this is complicated. taking either side of this argument seems short sighted.