This is just in time! We can let them take over from humans in reality TV shows.
Survivor 25: twenty robots stranded on a desert island, equipped with only 5 bolts and a single AA battery, battle it out to see who can make it the longest without a change of oil.
What specs of the hardware would an open BIOS require the motherboard makers to standardize and/or publish?
Even if they do standardize, an open BIOS would leave just the barebones hardware as non-free code. Sure, it isn't the usual software code we like to tinker with, but it's code. Is there any kind of open motherboard project going on?
What would be the point of favoring certain artists? If it's on your iPod then you've already got the song, haven't you?
If anything, hearing the same artists over and over again would get me fed up and cause me to delete their songs, or at least not get any more in future.
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Survivor 25: twenty robots stranded on a desert island, equipped with only 5 bolts and a single AA battery, battle it out to see who can make it the longest without a change of oil.
And at 2am the child wakes up screaming, after someone hacked into the robot and played a recording of Chucky?
Even if they do standardize, an open BIOS would leave just the barebones hardware as non-free code. Sure, it isn't the usual software code we like to tinker with, but it's code. Is there any kind of open motherboard project going on?
If anything, hearing the same artists over and over again would get me fed up and cause me to delete their songs, or at least not get any more in future.