The Interocitor is from "This Island Earth". Klaatu and Gort are from "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
"This Island Earth" is also the movie that Dr. Forrester played for Joel and the robots in "MST3K, The movie". As Dr. Forrester so eloquently put it, "a real cinematic suppository".
It neither demonstrates knowledge nor understanding - just primitive cause-and-effect association
Possibly. Of course if that were the case, then if she asked for juice and I gave her water, she wouldn't push away the water and ask for juice again. Food is just a generic term. Dr. Pepperbergs Grey identifies specific food items and even assigns names to new fruit. For example, he knew the words for bananna and cherry. When presented with an apple, he called it a banerry. Insides colored like a bananna, outsides red and shaped like a cherry.
I think it is very possible. I also have an Amazon parrot that does not talk and have caught Elmo picking up the various objects and toys on her cage and identifying them while Deuce (my Amazon) sits on the cage with her.
I know that if Elmo asks for a specific object (object "x") and you give object "y" instead, Elmo repeats her original request or ignores object "y". She occasionaly will say "no" when she doesn't get what she wants, but has abandoned that word in favor of the more entertaining (and embarrasing) "son of a b*tch"
As the owner of an African Grey parrot, I see everyday how brain size affects communication and social cognition. My Grey tells me "Wanna go to bed" when she is tired, says "Want food", "Want water", "Want a toy", and want scratch whenever she wants one of these other things. She also identifies people by name. My grey (her name is Elmo. I thought she was male until she was DNA tested) also knows how to say "I love you". Earlier in the year, she started learning that women aren't all named the name of my ex-girlfriend. I have a female roomate and a girlfriend now and Elmo started listening for whoever was in the house at the time and saying "I love $PROPERNAME" Whenever she wanted to interact with that person and would also just call them by name.
I have a lot of other stories too. My slashdot name is based on the name "Weeboo" which is what Elmo named me for some reason.
If you want to read more about avian (specifically African Grey) cognitive ability, try going to www.alexfoundation.org to read more about an African Grey named Alex and Dr. Irene Pepperbergs research with interspecies communication and animal cognitive ability.
My suggestion would be nix (no pun intended) the whole linux angle to this. The kids are going to be learning difficult apps, and having to deal with an operating system that functions differently (think stuff like cut/paste) will just be frustrating.
Around 18 years ago, I was a kid and some of the other kids in my school mocked me for using a "hard-to-learn-and-use" IBM computer instead of a Mac or a IIe. There was a not-so-user-friendly operating system called DOS 3.3. You had to edit files without a graphical environment (you think vi is hard, ever try EDLIN?) and had to configure things like PATH$, PROMPT=, FILES=, in files called config.sys and autoexec.bat. Was it harder to learn on this environment than a Mac? Different maybe, but not harder. Kids are willing to try about anything if you don't tell them it's hard beforehand.
I say let them use Linux at the camp and maybe they'll learn a thing or two about something different. You're right about the speed, I think the OS should be loaded on the hard drives. But give the kids a CD distro like Knoppix , PC Linux OS, Suse Live Eval, or Mandrake Move to take home so they can show their parents what they did at camp.
Who knows, maybe one of those kids will like using the OS and will try to develop something that others will want to use.
Scour the university surplus for an old IBM Model M keyboard.
You laugh, but that is exactly what I used back in college. My Macintosh-using roomate went insane from the fact that I ran OS/2 on a PC and had an internet connection through the dorm buildings asynchonous terminal line. I also had the satisfaction of knowing that if I ever needed to bludgeon my roomate, the Model M was solid enough to do it.
Darl McBride had to make a profit, Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmmbb.
And so an angel appeard to Darl and said, "System V code is buried deep in the Kernel 2.4 tree. Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
Darl McBride translated the code,
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
And Darl thus spoke "I have over a million lines of code that IBM has stolen from me. I will translate the code for our attorneys and they will get our money from IBM" Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
But the attorneys lost the code on the way to the courtroom and asked Darl to tranlate again. Darl became very angry.
Darl said "God is angry because we have not shown the million lines of code to the world and has taken the code from me. He will not let me translate the code again. To appease God, we must file a copyright infringment against IBM instead!" Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmb
IBM grew weary of Darls claims and said "but if you want to show us the code you think we stole, just download it from any number of freely available sources" Smart smart smart smart smaaarrrrt
I have to agree. After so many people got burned by the dot bomb companies of the late 90's, my guess is that Google wants to wait for this whole mess with the litigious bastards to blow over.
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Why would you give SCO 86M?
86M to spread FUD and lawsuits against your most viable competition with none of the liabilities associated with picking up SCO? Sounds like a bargain
"Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto"
The Interocitor is from "This Island Earth". Klaatu and Gort are from "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
"This Island Earth" is also the movie that Dr. Forrester played for Joel and the robots in "MST3K, The movie". As Dr. Forrester so eloquently put it, "a real cinematic suppository".
I still gopher you insensitive clod!
FIRST POST! FIRST POST!
(Damn, didn't work)
Natalie Portman in my cube.
(Nope, still doesn't work)
I want to be overworked and overpaid, but still have time to surf slashdot from work.
(Woohoo! It works!)
You may mock, but I doubt any exploit has been written without using the Shift & Return keys.
i FOUND ONE. mY KEYBOARD IS TYPING EVERYTHING IN OPPOSITE CASE. pRESSING SHIFT PRINTS A LOWER-CASE CHARECTER AND DOING NOTHING PRINTS UPPER CASE.
caps-lock, wHAT'S THAT?
Oh hells bells...
No more of a bad idea than integrating a Web Browser, email client, and Media Player with the OS on a system that will be used as a file server.
But Windows server also includes Media Player. This is clearly a feature that data centers can't do without!
Here is a CD of "atmospheric noises" that I didn't see in their catalog.
Presumably the difference between love and lust is little more than a bunch of chemicals,
Yeah, Booze and Extasy.
It neither demonstrates knowledge nor understanding - just primitive cause-and-effect association
Possibly. Of course if that were the case, then if she asked for juice and I gave her water, she wouldn't push away the water and ask for juice again. Food is just a generic term. Dr. Pepperbergs Grey identifies specific food items and even assigns names to new fruit. For example, he knew the words for bananna and cherry. When presented with an apple, he called it a banerry. Insides colored like a bananna, outsides red and shaped like a cherry.
I think it is very possible. I also have an Amazon parrot that does not talk and have caught Elmo picking up the various objects and toys on her cage and identifying them while Deuce (my Amazon) sits on the cage with her.
I know that if Elmo asks for a specific object (object "x") and you give object "y" instead, Elmo repeats her original request or ignores object "y". She occasionaly will say "no" when she doesn't get what she wants, but has abandoned that word in favor of the more entertaining (and embarrasing) "son of a b*tch"
As the owner of an African Grey parrot, I see everyday how brain size affects communication and social cognition. My Grey tells me "Wanna go to bed" when she is tired, says "Want food", "Want water", "Want a toy", and want scratch whenever she wants one of these other things. She also identifies people by name. My grey (her name is Elmo. I thought she was male until she was DNA tested) also knows how to say "I love you". Earlier in the year, she started learning that women aren't all named the name of my ex-girlfriend. I have a female roomate and a girlfriend now and Elmo started listening for whoever was in the house at the time and saying "I love $PROPERNAME" Whenever she wanted to interact with that person and would also just call them by name.
I have a lot of other stories too. My slashdot name is based on the name "Weeboo" which is what Elmo named me for some reason.
If you want to read more about avian (specifically African Grey) cognitive ability, try going to www.alexfoundation.org to read more about an African Grey named Alex and Dr. Irene Pepperbergs research with interspecies communication and animal cognitive ability.
the military's plan to integrate them into the heels of boots
I wonder if they will resemble these.
My suggestion would be nix (no pun intended) the whole linux angle to this. The kids are going to be learning difficult apps, and having to deal with an operating system that functions differently (think stuff like cut/paste) will just be frustrating.
Around 18 years ago, I was a kid and some of the other kids in my school mocked me for using a "hard-to-learn-and-use" IBM computer instead of a Mac or a IIe. There was a not-so-user-friendly operating system called DOS 3.3. You had to edit files without a graphical environment (you think vi is hard, ever try EDLIN?) and had to configure things like PATH$, PROMPT=, FILES=, in files called config.sys and autoexec.bat. Was it harder to learn on this environment than a Mac? Different maybe, but not harder. Kids are willing to try about anything if you don't tell them it's hard beforehand.
I say let them use Linux at the camp and maybe they'll learn a thing or two about something different. You're right about the speed, I think the OS should be loaded on the hard drives. But give the kids a CD distro like Knoppix , PC Linux OS, Suse Live Eval, or Mandrake Move to take home so they can show their parents what they did at camp.
Who knows, maybe one of those kids will like using the OS and will try to develop something that others will want to use.
Scour the university surplus for an old IBM Model M keyboard.
You laugh, but that is exactly what I used back in college. My Macintosh-using roomate went insane from the fact that I ran OS/2 on a PC and had an internet connection through the dorm buildings asynchonous terminal line. I also had the satisfaction of knowing that if I ever needed to bludgeon my roomate, the Model M was solid enough to do it.
Any chance they could win by saying Lindows is a parody of Windows?
Not a chance, everybody knows Windows is the real joke.
looking for ways to cool the head of a stroke victim while keeping the rest of the body at normal temperature;
You mean with an ice pack?
If the flu of 1918 is known as Spanish flu, does that mean if it struck again today it would be know as Spanish fly?
actually a screenshot from the Ancient Unix version of Nethack - be sure to tune in!
You are suing IBM in a large courtroom,
You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
Dr. Zoidberg I presume?
Darl McBride had to make a profit,
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmmbb.
And so an angel appeard to Darl and said, "System V code is buried deep in the Kernel 2.4 tree.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
Darl McBride translated the code,
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
And Darl thus spoke "I have over a million lines of code that IBM has stolen from me. I will translate the code for our attorneys and they will get our money from IBM"
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
But the attorneys lost the code on the way to the courtroom and asked Darl to tranlate again. Darl became very angry.
Darl said "God is angry because we have not shown the million lines of code to the world and has taken the code from me. He will not let me translate the code again. To appease God, we must file a copyright infringment against IBM instead!"
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmb
IBM grew weary of Darls claims and said "but if you want to show us the code you think we stole, just download it from any number of freely available sources"
Smart smart smart smart smaaarrrrt
The fun continues, ad nauseum.
I live in a state other than Utah
Smart-smart-smart-smart-smart.
Aye matey! I come to plunder your booty sector!
I have to agree. After so many people got burned by the dot bomb companies of the late 90's, my guess is that Google wants to wait for this whole mess with the litigious bastards to blow over.
If I were in Googles shoes, I would wait for the litigious bastards to be reduced to smoldering crater by the likes of Red Hat, IBM et al.