To: gondramB
Clarke would have had the computer say "Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I've taken the liberty of removing the Windows operating system."
And, as we all know, HAL was defective...
65 posted on
01/05/2006 1:56:00 PM PST by
Bush2000
(Linux -- You Get What You Pay For ... (tm)
To: Bush2000
And, as we all know, HAL was defective... HAL wasn't really defective, he just got bad input. But you can make the argument that he should have been more robust so that conflicting inputs didn't cause unknown errors.
To: Bush2000
And, as we all know, HAL was defective...Did you see the movie, or ever read the book? HAL was NOT defective...
Mark
234 posted on
01/07/2006 9:26:59 PM PST by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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