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Looking At Turing
Jim Jones has written in with the first of a series that explores the history of Mr. Alan Turing, and his connection with digital computing.
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Does it use decimal? If it does, then it is a terrible book, and a waste of space. Eventually we will ignore such books.
-- Hexadecimal.
...with the recent release of LOTR, Alan Turing has been found to be the originator of DNS and somewhat megalomaniac, as evidenced by this inscription:
:)
One Rule Turing them all
One Find Turing them,
One Bring Turing them all
And in the darkness BIND them
(Who knew Tolkien was secretly dyslexic?)
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> who doesn't know what a "Turing Test" is?
I'm sorry, I don't what you mean by "Turing Test". Perhaps we can talk about something else for a while.
:-)
-Rob Ewaschuk
Hardware is fine and dandy, but have you ever tried to find the right drivers for a Turing Machine? ArcServe and Veritas drivers only support a few hundred gigabytes of tape.
You'd think after 60 years someone could have at least invented a Turing Autoloader.
Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) in
Secret code error number 83: localhost, bfadmin.
Yes, that Turing sure was a complicated fellow...
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Is the book really about Alan Turing or about a computer so advanced as to be indistinguishable from Alan Turing?
It would be useful if they went into more details, eg what a turning machine is.
I believe they call that "a wheel"...
Nice typo :)
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