Nitro Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Ack! My upstairs IP has been banned (without appearing in the banned IP list) again! I'm forced to log in from here, the cruddy family computer, just to get my fix... SOOOOO SLOOOOOOWWWWWW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Nitro needs his fix. I'm still stabbing Ike about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Oh by the way,.. while you were away, we had you banned. Surprise! Yeah, it seems the LF server is developing AI and choosing to ban certain users at random for no good reason. And I think we all know where this will eventually lead... "Open the pod bay doors HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted September 22, 2003 Author Share Posted September 22, 2003 Originally posted by edlib "Open the pod bay doors HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." It's funny, I was thinking that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Loyaltist Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 Originally posted by edlib "Open the pod bay doors HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." What's that from, it's on the tip of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 2001: A Space Oddysey. Know your classics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted September 23, 2003 Author Share Posted September 23, 2003 The tip of your head? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Loyaltist Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 Yep, if grandma can mess up phrases then it's good enough for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 Originally posted by Nitro The tip of your head? Ahhh, Coneheads! Another wonderful sci-fi classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 Or possibly, as my dad used to say when people did Stupid Things in his presence: Bless your pointy little head.(Pointy head = pinhead.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 The mayor here says that about my boss, to bad its totally going the wrong way in that relationship. I'll have to go sneak into NCSA to tweak HAL, I do believe he was created here in town(U of I @ Urbana-Champaign) was he not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 Yeah,.. that's the story. Clarke says he used that location because a friend of his taught there, and because the college started a center for designing supercomputers. http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/foreword/foreword1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 Your link doesn't work right now, Ed, so I don't know whether it tells us if it's true that he chose the name HAL because H+1 = I, A+1 = B and L+1 = M --> IBM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Worked for me, but copy & paste: http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/foreword/foreword1.html Actually, Clarke has always maintained that HAL stood for "Heuristic ALgorithmic." I mean, why not... he didn't have any problems using Pan Am and the other companies... although, on second thought, maybe IBM wouldn't want to associated with a psychotic, homicidal super computer... Anyway, the whole story's there if you can get the link to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I was amused when Pan Am didn't survive to 2001, which then made everything in 2001 wrong. Clarke got NOTHING right. Out of all the things that COULD have actually happened, not even an airline cooperated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted September 26, 2003 Author Share Posted September 26, 2003 It wasn't homicidal... It just had conflicting orders, and decided that completing the mission was more important. If you didn't figure that out on your own, then watch the terrible sequel... 2010: The Year We Make John Lithgow Scream Like A Girl While Repelling Down A Giant Dildo-Shaped Space Ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 It works fine now. Anyway, it always hurts a bit when a urban myth gets slaughtered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Originally posted by Nitro It wasn't homicidal... It just had conflicting orders, and decided that completing the mission was more important. Yeah,.. I know all that. I'm a big A. C. Clarke fan, and I have read most of his books (and all of the 2001 series ones multiple times) and have seen that rather poor excuse for a sequel (also more times than I would ever care to admit.) But when the first movie was released there was no real explanation for HAL's behavior,.. in fact it was always a bit of a mystery (it's a little bit clearer in the book) But still, IBM might be a wee bit hesitant to put want to be associated with a product that kills (and tries to kill) all the people around it, for whatever reasons. Oh, and Nute... in 2010 he wrote there was still a Soviet Union, which didn't even make it to 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 Originally posted by edlib Oh, and Nute... in 2010 he wrote there was still a Soviet Union, which didn't even make it to 2001. Are you certain? DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander 598 Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 Yes... The Federation isn't exactly doing very well in the Post Soviet era. Its almost obvious that the Soviet Union will return, though it won't be like the old regime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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