Hrm, I wonder.

Because I assumed he WASN'T asleep, I guess I wondered if it was just that he couldn't sleep that particular night, or that he COULDN'T sleep--like, nobody in the Grid sleeps and for the sake of familiarity he might just lie down and rest or meditate, and if it was some sort of proof that no one sleeps in the Grid.

But yes, he could definitely SLEEP through it....(says the chick who once slept through a smoke detector going off like six feet above her head. No fire, just a malfunction, so maybe my subconscious knew that and that's why I didn't wake up. 'Cause normally I'm sure I would--I'm terrified of fire and there's no way I wouldn't rocket out of bed if it were real.)where to buy abortion pill ordering abortion pills to be shipped to house buy abortion pill onlineabortion pills online abortion questions cytotec abortion

Aerial_Zero Wrote:That is a good question They may not need to sleep while in the Grid despite being able to bleed, etc. I can kind of equate this phenomenon to how easily sometimes your sleep cycle can get out of whack due to lack of light or too much light (like in Alaska, or keeping the bedroom too dark/too bright). In the Grid it is always the "same time of day" so it would be hard to keep track of "daytime/nighttime" after so many cycles probably. Also since they appear to get energy from a liquid food-like source, sleep might not be necessary to replenish energy or repair the "body" like in our world. Just my 2 cents

And we can assume programs don't experience cellular degradation. No need to rest or sleep, except for necessary reboots.

ShadowSpark Wrote: IluthraDanar Wrote: Aerial_Zero Wrote:That is a good question They may not need to sleep while in the Grid despite being able to bleed, etc. I can kind of equate this phenomenon to how easily sometimes your sleep cycle can get out of whack due to lack of light or too much light (like in Alaska, or keeping the bedroom too dark/too bright). In the Grid it is always the "same time of day" so it would be hard to keep track of "daytime/nighttime" after so many cycles probably. Also since they appear to get energy from a liquid food-like source, sleep might not be necessary to replenish energy or repair the "body" like in our world. Just my 2 cents And we can assume programs don't experience cellular degradation. No need to rest or sleep, except for necessary reboots. But we aren't talking about programs, ID. We're talking about digitized Users.

Oops, my bad. I think I need to get to bed. Long boring day at work. Guess I can't calculate data right now. Thanks for the heads up.

IluthraDanar Wrote: Aerial_Zero Wrote:That is a good question They may not need to sleep while in the Grid despite being able to bleed, etc. I can kind of equate this phenomenon to how easily sometimes your sleep cycle can get out of whack due to lack of light or too much light (like in Alaska, or keeping the bedroom too dark/too bright). In the Grid it is always the "same time of day" so it would be hard to keep track of "daytime/nighttime" after so many cycles probably. Also since they appear to get energy from a liquid food-like source, sleep might not be necessary to replenish energy or repair the "body" like in our world. Just my 2 cents And we can assume programs don't experience cellular degradation. No need to rest or sleep, except for necessary reboots.

Yes, I think it is safe to assume programs don't sleep. After all, if you consider they might, the logic breaks down--when is it "night" on the Grid? If you consider that an hour here is two "days" on the Grid...well, damn, then I'm running my poor programs at work for weeks straight (or it seems to them). And then they don't have to do anything for several weeks when I go home at night.. The light doesn't change, so there's no way to delineate day or night there either. And, too, it doesn't seem fair--my firewall or other system programs spend a lot more time working than Word or Outlook do (heh, program class wars?).

I've always wondered (because of course when writing fic you have to think about these things)--how DO they refer to time? Because if there's no difference between night and day, you probably measure in cycles/millicycles/whatever like we hear Flynn do in the movie, and you wouldn't refer to "tomorrow" or "last week," right, because that assumes you measure in days and therefore weeks? But surely they refer to the passage of time somehow.

What's weirder is that in the grid, distance might be measured in time. In the first movie, when Tron, Flynn, and Yori are on the Solar Sailer and need to get off the beam, Yori states there isn't a junction for 7 or 8 nanoseconds. O_o ?

Program_Rayna Wrote:What's weirder is that in the grid, distance might be measured in time. In the first movie, when Tron, Flynn, and Yori are on the Solar Sailer and need to get off the beam, Yori states there isn't a junction for 7 or 8 nanoseconds. O_o ?

Since seconds and nanoseconds are distance and cycles and microcycles are time..... What is speed?

IluthraDanar Wrote: Program_Rayna Wrote:What's weirder is that in the grid, distance might be measured in time. In the first movie, when Tron, Flynn, and Yori are on the Solar Sailer and need to get off the beam, Yori states there isn't a junction for 7 or 8 nanoseconds. O_o ? Like, Are we there yet? Yeah, in about 10 minutes, 3 miles, 4 exits. Guess it can be measured in various ways?

That's what I was thinking...if they need to time jumping off, then time would make more sense to measure in than distance?

ShadowSpark Wrote: Program_Rayna Wrote:What's weirder is that in the grid, distance might be measured in time. In the first movie, when Tron, Flynn, and Yori are on the Solar Sailer and need to get off the beam, Yori states there isn't a junction for 7 or 8 nanoseconds. O_o ? Since seconds and nanoseconds are distance and cycles and microcycles are time..... What is speed?

Please let's not get into physics...it's never been my strong point!


Okay, guys. So, based on the thread about "can users and programs fall in love" and to bring that discussion here a bit-- how many of us are writing fics with users and programs hooking up?? I smell the need for a chat coming up.

(And FWIW...I'd post parts of my fics if it was just you guys reading, but not everybody else...if I ever figure out a way to manage that, I'll let you know. A blog of some sort maybe? [I wish I could post semi-privately at fanfiction.net and just be able to invite you guys without making all my fic bits totally public. Anybody else got a Livejournal account? We could make a community or something for fic...] And yes, Azure, to reply to you from that thread... what happens to my user character in the end is definitely not pretty. Everybody in the story has ended up in a pretty sorry state at that point. I'd never post that in the other thread though because inevitably someone would get pissed off at what I did to all the canon characters. )where to buy abortion pill http://blog.bitimpulse.com/template/default.aspx?abortion-types buy abortion pill online

Well, I'm not sure what our options are. Like I said, if everybody has Livejournal or something, then we could just create a community there with us as members. I'm on Blogger too...do they have any sort of community capability? They appear to have a team blog which could work, though I don't know if they allow members-only posts, which may be important to some of us.

Where else is everyone a member that might work? Seems it'd be easier to use an existing platform than try to build something new...an actual new board seems like a lot of work. But if we want, I can make one, if that'd be easier than trying to coordinate on other social media sites... I've used ProBoards to make communities before. I didn't use it that extensively, but their functionality looked okay to me.

I suppose we could do a Yahoo Group too, but I always feel like Yahoo groups are so clunky because it's hard to view stuff in a linear way...

IluthraDanar Wrote:oooh chat night for fanfic writers would be cool, if I could make the time allotted. Share, support and a few laughs would be fun.

Yes, a chat night for writers would be very nice. And my fic has User/Program romance in it as well.

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