Author Topic: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
Crash_Davis 
Registered: Mar '06
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Date Posted: 6/9 10:41am Subject: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
Government unveils world's fastest computer.

What's kind of scary is the fact that it's being used to "maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile."

Roadrunner? C'mon, that's the coolest name out government could come up with?

 

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somethingfamiliar 
Registered: Aug '03
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Date Posted: 6/9 10:42am Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
At least it's not Coyote.

 

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Ed_Abbey 
Registered: Jan '08
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Date Posted: 6/9 10:42am Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
Wait, didn't they do the exact same thing in Terminator?

 

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Everton 
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Registered: Jul '03
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Date Posted: 6/9 10:42am Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
Do you think it should've been called Crash_Davis, Crash_Davis?

 

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solojones 
Registered: Sep '00
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Date Posted: 6/9 10:43am Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
Skynet!

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Crash_Davis 
Registered: Mar '06
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Date Posted: 6/9 10:44am Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
Everton posted:
Do you think it should've been called Crash_Davis, Crash_Davis?


Nah, that's lame! tongue

 

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darth_gersh 
Registered: Feb '05
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Date Posted: 6/9 10:46am Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
I heard Mr. Davis got his name from crashing parties in the day.

 

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Lord_Vivec 
Registered: Apr '06
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Date Posted: 6/9 11:01am Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
No, he crashed a car in Davis.

 

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Crash_Davis 
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Date Posted: 6/9 11:03am Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?

doh!

 

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The Bigger Fish 
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Registered: Apr '00
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Date Posted: 6/9 2:09pm Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
To put the computer's speed in perspective, if every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day.

Wow.

 

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Date Posted: 6/9 2:10pm Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
I heard about it on the radio--apparently it's the size of a large house, at 6,000 sq. ft.

 

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Everton 
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Registered: Jul '03
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Date Posted: 6/9 2:10pm Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
Professor Frink was right!

 

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The Bigger Fish 
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Date Posted: 6/9 2:14pm Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
Isn't he always?

 

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Andalite-Bandit 
Registered: Apr '05
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Date Posted: 6/9 2:15pm Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
This, along with the gizmo that might open up a black hole that implodes the Earth, are probably the worst ideas ever.

 

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-RebelScum- 
Registered: Feb '04
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Date Posted: 6/9 2:17pm Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
Damn, that'd give me such an edge in WoW.

Scummy

 

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Date Posted: 6/9 2:22pm Subject: RE: Sure, but how soon before it becomes self-aware?
10 bucks says someone has already used it to play Halo.

 

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