Were these robots powered by Microsoot steam engines, which required expensive coal from a monolithic business concern? Or did they run on steam plants designed under the "Open Flame" initiative, in which users could burn just about anything they wanted to power the robots without paying Microsoot?
1. Robot legs, like chair legs, must be covered by knitted doilies at all times. 2. A robot should never harm a British subject of the Crown. Harming colonials is OK. This includes during a tiger-hunt. 3. If a robot sees a brother robot down on his luck, the robot should give the brother robot a fresh lump of coal so the brother robot can work up a head of steam and forge ahead.
Off-topic: Can we change Bill Gate's image here to match the boilerplate robot? I would find it less menacing and more approachable. It, too, would be heartless.
I can just see the Tin Gates marching toward us, tottering on stiff metal legs, arms waving in front. Rasping from the tiny grate at the mouth: "Embrace and extend! Embrace and extend! Embrace and extend!"
Sadly the protype never lived up to the hype, and for the next 8 consecutive battles, the French had to swallow their pride and surrender Mano-eh-mano.
One of the more interesting features of the French `Chaudiere de Plat` Robot was that it looked exactly the same on the back as it did the front. This way, when it retreated with the rest of the French army, the winning army would always see the angry faces of the robots facing them (it looked like much less of a complete route of the French army, and it mystified the foreign armies who were only used to seeing the backsides of fleeing French infantry)
The Tin Man first appeared in a book in 1900, well within the era of this article. The Tin Man almost certainly appeared in the first Oz movie which was made in 1910 (the 1939 movie is just one of a string of remakes).
The giant steam spider make another appearance in a recent episode of "The Simpsons". A Civil War re-enactment was being held near Springfield. Professor Frink decided that his robot spider would be an appropriate addition.
Don't forget the marvelous "robots" of Oz, making their appearances in the 1900s during the Victorian era:
Tik-Tok, seen here as illustrated by John R Neill, the original Oz illustrator (He also appeared in a 1985 film). He does resemble "Boilerplate", doesn't he?
The Tin Man (or Tin Woodman of Oz). Everyone knows what he looks like. First appearing in 1900, during the Victorian era for sure, he has to be one of the first cyborgs in anything (if not the very first).
I don't agree. If you do not like the content of a game, don't play it. Some people are even more offended by "Hello Kitty" games. I don't think that such games are a "mistake" unless there is a problem with marketing blunders or poor gameplay/graphics.
If you do not like games with such content, do not play them. I would count an act of game censorship as the #1 "worst game mistake".
How about the dud Matrix game that came out just before "The Matrix Reloaded". It was an early hint that the franchise was going very far south very fast.
According to how it is used by the spammers and most of the sites and services that claim to be "opt-in", the term "opt-in" means that you have specifically made the decision to "opt-in" by the "Act" of not opting out. If you choose to fill in the "opt-out" form, this means you are really confirming your "opt-in" action. Since everyone loves spam, no one would seriously "opt-out" of it, so an "opt-out" attempt should really be taken to mean "Yeah, I really really really opt-in!"
Judge: "What do you have to say about the virus you created, young man?"
Virii writer: "It wasn't a virus, your honor. It was really a non-permission-based propagation model for a distributed computing application that involved producing the results of decreased uptime and further propagation of the non-permission-based distributed application."
According to the official European Union web site, E.U. Online, Norway is neither on the typed-out list of nations, nor is it on the map. Perhaps this site is out of date.
We should be able to copy our own DVD's, especially in countries like Canada, where if you buy a blank DVD*R, you pay a tax on it based on the assumption that you WILL copy. In places like this, if you are allowed to copy, you are getting your money's worth for the tax.
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Were these robots powered by Microsoot steam engines, which required expensive coal from a monolithic business concern? Or did they run on steam plants designed under the "Open Flame" initiative, in which users could burn just about anything they wanted to power the robots without paying Microsoot?
1. Robot legs, like chair legs, must be covered by knitted doilies at all times.
2. A robot should never harm a British subject of the Crown. Harming colonials is OK. This includes during a tiger-hunt.
3. If a robot sees a brother robot down on his luck, the robot should give the brother robot a fresh lump of coal so the brother robot can work up a head of steam and forge ahead.
Off-topic: Can we change Bill Gate's image here to match the boilerplate robot? I would find it less menacing and more approachable. It, too, would be heartless.
I can just see the Tin Gates marching toward us, tottering on stiff metal legs, arms waving in front. Rasping from the tiny grate at the mouth: "Embrace and extend! Embrace and extend! Embrace and extend!"
Sadly the protype never lived up to the hype, and for the next 8 consecutive battles, the French had to swallow their pride and surrender Mano-eh-mano.
One of the more interesting features of the French `Chaudiere de Plat` Robot was that it looked exactly the same on the back as it did the front. This way, when it retreated with the rest of the French army, the winning army would always see the angry faces of the robots facing them (it looked like much less of a complete route of the French army, and it mystified the foreign armies who were only used to seeing the backsides of fleeing French infantry)
The Tin Man first appeared in a book in 1900, well within the era of this article. The Tin Man almost certainly appeared in the first Oz movie which was made in 1910 (the 1939 movie is just one of a string of remakes).
The giant steam spider make another appearance in a recent episode of "The Simpsons". A Civil War re-enactment was being held near Springfield. Professor Frink decided that his robot spider would be an appropriate addition.
Tik-Tok, seen here as illustrated by John R Neill, the original Oz illustrator (He also appeared in a 1985 film). He does resemble "Boilerplate", doesn't he?
The Tin Man (or Tin Woodman of Oz). Everyone knows what he looks like. First appearing in 1900, during the Victorian era for sure, he has to be one of the first cyborgs in anything (if not the very first).
I don't agree. If you do not like the content of a game, don't play it. Some people are even more offended by "Hello Kitty" games. I don't think that such games are a "mistake" unless there is a problem with marketing blunders or poor gameplay/graphics.
If you do not like games with such content, do not play them. I would count an act of game censorship as the #1 "worst game mistake".
How about the dud Matrix game that came out just before "The Matrix Reloaded". It was an early hint that the franchise was going very far south very fast.
According to how it is used by the spammers and most of the sites and services that claim to be "opt-in", the term "opt-in" means that you have specifically made the decision to "opt-in" by the "Act" of not opting out. If you choose to fill in the "opt-out" form, this means you are really confirming your "opt-in" action. Since everyone loves spam, no one would seriously "opt-out" of it, so an "opt-out" attempt should really be taken to mean "Yeah, I really really really opt-in!"
Judge: "What do you have to say about the virus you created, young man?"
Virii writer: "It wasn't a virus, your honor. It was really a non-permission-based propagation model for a distributed computing application that involved producing the results of decreased uptime and further propagation of the non-permission-based distributed application."
According to the official European Union web site,
E.U. Online, Norway is neither on the typed-out list of nations, nor is it on the map. Perhaps this site is out of date.
" why would -any- european want to visit the US these days?
Why else but to stock up on cheap Region 1 DVDs to take home and copy!
We should be able to copy our own DVD's, especially in countries like Canada, where if you buy a blank DVD*R, you pay a tax on it based on the assumption that you WILL copy. In places like this, if you are allowed to copy, you are getting your money's worth for the tax.
If it were truly user-friendly, a sultry voice would come out of the speakers describing all the cheats/hacks available at certain points in the game.
There's the membrane-style Atari 400 keyboard, pretty silent unless you count the intentional clicking from the motherboard speaker.
MUTE's routing mechanism is inspired by ant behaviour.
I, for one, welcome our our silent file-sharing ant overlords.
"tested on Marines", I just start to think of superviruses, and stuff like that"
Just wait until Mary Kay discovers that it can do most of its lipstick and eye-shadow testing on platoons of Marines instead of rabbits.
To blast those 'pigs, use the Airzooka. You might have seen this before: it appears on Slashdot ad banners.
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To blast those 'pigs, use the AirZooka. This might be familiar, they are a Slashdot sponsoer and this item does appear in the banners.
How ironic that Rush Limbaugh popped all those pills, and it is believed that this might have made his hearing loss a lot worse.
Please see this Eric Rolph column
That's the first device I've seen that looks like both a Canon and a cannon.
How about a live-action full-scale Quake arena?
I think these things would really require AI and real-time processing of the 3d environment that we don't have right now.
Without this, they are quite dangerous. Once they get too low, it would be like having a buzz-saw flying by. Imagine the liability.
If this robot wears rubber trousers like the Lost in Space robot, incontinence is less of a worry.