Re: cpu type idea

"cr88192" wrote:
....
> in part, I was referencing some typical sci-fi cliches in movies and
games, > where very often some piece of machinery exists doing some
fantastical task,
> which are usually presented in a certain way:
> large spining objects, such as rotors, or those multiple-interconnected
> spinning rings (yes, I have seen them do everything from interstellar
> trans****tation to digitizing someone and sending them onto the internet
with
> these);
> some kind of loud noise, with metalic screeching being most common,
maybe
> followed by low-pitched rumbling;
> usually there is some kind of bright lightsource in the middle (most
often
> with a blue or green tint);

When I was about ten, I played with this huge light-bulb styled diodes,
which produced an astoni****ng blue light cloud if they were overpowered.
And I often find exactly this effect in early and latest sci-fi movies.

> in general, these have replaced the lightning, jacob's ladders, and
vacuum
> tubes that were more common in older movies. the more modern replacement
> (typically for far less powerful side devices) being tesla coils, those
> 'lightning in a piece of plastic' things, and tubes filled with glowing
> liquid.

> in a lot of newer stuff, what would seem to be flourescent bulbs in some
> kind of fancy housing, are also gaining in popularity (an example of
this
> would be the smaller 'arc-reactor' in the iron-man movie...).
> albeit I have seen this approach also used a lot in star-trek and
friends...
>
> then I ended up making a few minor new-age and web-culture references.
>
> for example:
>
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shoop+da+whoop&search_type=&aq=f

Oh, they actually made a cult out of it...

> but, yes, the unrelenting nature and incoherent nature of the posts, and
> their occurance on a number of different newsgroups (related to
seemingly
> arbitrary topics), make me uncertain as to whether the OP is an actual
> person, or just some kind of chatbot (actually, I have seen a lot more
> coherent and human-like responses made by chatbots in the past, making
me
> wonder if this would even be a very good one...).

Who knows, not too long ago I saw a suggestion to use A.L.A as a
test-group for social behaviour. Perhaps they now test our response to
'Artificial Nonsense' like 'Flying Bucket' posts and similar.

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wolfgang