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To: null and void
Yep. Oh there was a problem with the two number rather then four number year format in some computers but it was 80% hype even there.

"Oh the computer is going to think it is 1900 and planes weren't invented until after that so all the planes are going to crash!"

Really people? Computers don't think except in movies.

Yes I know about the chess playing computer but it is just calculating the move advantageous move from all the ones that have been programed into it. It is not actually thinking.

41 posted on 05/26/2012 10:30:45 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Migrating elephant herds react badly to flaming motor homes and dry ice doesn't repel killer bees)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yeah, we missed the second coming too...


43 posted on 05/26/2012 10:36:41 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1222 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Oh good grief. “Think” is used of computers only figuratively. (The same could be said of “believe.”) Digital computers are designed and built to do things that are a lot like human reasoning, but with no attempt to imitate the larger capabilities of such reasoning. And even if such imitation were possible that would only be an imitation, and one that is under control of the operator. It would not have a soul.


44 posted on 05/26/2012 10:41:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou ... ???)
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