To: Daffynition
I’d love to bump this article, but...I can’t do that, Dave.
To: Daffynition
This some great trivia! Thanks!
4 posted on
11/16/2009 5:01:44 PM PST by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Daffynition
5 posted on
11/16/2009 5:04:13 PM PST by
smokingfrog
(Well, are you gonna draw those pistols or whistle Dixie? Spit!)
To: Daffynition
In 1962 Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote the novel – and co-wrote the screenplay for the movie – "2001: A Space Odyssey", visited Bell Labs before putting the finishing touches on the work. Clarke may have heard the song in 62, but he didn't finish the screenplay until years later.
6 posted on
11/16/2009 5:08:03 PM PST by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Daffynition
Got to see Arthur C. Clarke give a talk at the U, years ago. Gave an interesting presentation.
To: Daffynition
My assumption, when I saw the movie in 1968 or so, was that HAL was regressing to his early programming, and that the song was something that his early trainers had exposed him to when they were teaching him human language.
9 posted on
11/16/2009 5:13:15 PM PST by
Stirner
To: Daffynition
Okay, so why did Kelly, Lockbaum, and Mathews choose “Daisy Bell” for the 704?
11 posted on
11/16/2009 5:14:19 PM PST by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
(Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
To: Daffynition
I always thought it was because HAL was mid-way through the loss of his “brain cells” and it was therefore totally appropriate to arrive at the point in the song “...I’m half crazy...”
12 posted on
11/16/2009 5:19:48 PM PST by
arasina
(So there.)
To: nnn0jeh
14 posted on
11/16/2009 5:25:35 PM PST by
kalee
(01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
To: Daffynition
Let HAL be HAL! HAL had feelings for Daisy. And how was HAL to know that Daisy was just a fictional character in a song from way back in the day? Poor HAL. It was to illustrate the earlier simplicities and growing complexities of the 20th Century and beyond.
15 posted on
11/16/2009 5:26:06 PM PST by
equaviator
("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
To: Daffynition
19 posted on
11/16/2009 5:35:09 PM PST by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Daffynition
27 posted on
11/16/2009 5:46:27 PM PST by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Daffynition
He was unintentionally programmed with human erotic irrationality--as in "I'm half crazy, all for the love of you." That's why he fell in love with Dave. "What do you think you're doing, Dave?"--if that doesn't sound like someone being left behind as the one he loves is packing up and leaving . . .
By the way, Hal was the name of Clarke's nonfiction editor at Harper & Row.
To: Daffynition
Didn’t Apple use this same song for one of their early computer commercials? Maybe the Apple II or the Lisa?
34 posted on
11/16/2009 6:12:25 PM PST by
rabidralph
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To: Daffynition
To: Daffynition
why does the computer HAL-9000 sing the song 'Daisy Bell' as the astronaut Dave Bowman takes him apart? The answer is simple.
The HAL9000 was a very sophisticated computer...but a computer nevertheless. He sang that song because, at some point, he was programmed to do so.
38 posted on
11/16/2009 7:37:02 PM PST by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
To: Daffynition
So if my computer crashes, I should sing “A Bicycle Built for Two” in memoriam?
To: Daffynition
46 posted on
11/17/2009 3:39:35 AM PST by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Daffynition
YOU
47 posted on
11/17/2009 4:27:10 AM PST by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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