There are no “takebacks” when you communicate.
Whether it’s Interpersonal or Mass Communication, once a message is sent out, you can’t edit it.
Two people are having a conversation. One says, “I don’t love you anymore.” That person cannot retract that statement without negatively impacting future messages that they may want to send. The person who was told, “I don’t love you anymore.” cannot simply forget that the statement was ever uttered. It’s impossible. Human beings don’t work this way.
A person makes a movie for mass consumption. People watch it. He has communicated a story to a mass audience. In it, there is a scene where one person shoots another. The person that made the movie cannot alter this scene without negatively impacting those that have already watched the movie.
In short, Han Solo shoots first. Han Solo is a murderer. I don’t care what George Lucas does. Besides, Greedo shooting first is ridiculous. I don’t care how dark the cantina is, he probably wouldn’t have missed from 3 feet away.
I’ve got a bunch of little upgrades for the technical aspect of my life. All waiting in the wings.
First off, my gaming rig. DooM3 is right around the corner, come August 3rd. Half Life 2 is coming. . . uh, this year. As I am a fan of the first person shooter, I will have to upgrade my once glorious 1Ghz pentium and GeForce 2 Ultra for something a little less lethargic. The “old and busted” will have to serve some other, less taxing purpose, like 2D games.
The “new hotness” will be more “new” and less “hotness.” I’m building a machine to play this year’s games, and not the games that will be available 3 years from now. While I admit this may alienate me from those who possess cores that are not soft, I believe that only spending $400 for a machine will be good enough. Thanks to Ars Technica and their buyer’s guide, I won’t have to do too much shopping for my budget box. I also read AnandTech for the second opinion.
Shouldn’t be too harrowing, wallet wise. My monitor accepts two inputs, and I’ve got a few components just hanging around. I’m even reusing a video card.
Secondly, my wireless network.
The Aiport Express is out, and Ars Technica has given it their once over. The stores should be getting them in next week. This week was for all the people that preordered it, and the people that waited in line to get the ones that weren’t preordered.
I should have preordered.
This just in: The groom now husband, has lost his wallet.
They have managed to get everything cancelled, except for the one item that they called me for.
I have now called his mother, and informed her of the lost home depot gift card, in the hopes that they can get it reissued.
There were even more little tidbits I just found out from the mother. The first place they were going to stay cancelled on them. The second place was rendered uninhabitable by a fire. The third went bankrupt.
Inconceivable. And then, to add insult to injury, just as she was about to leave the carnival, her flight home got canceled.
Two words: Disaster. Prone.
Okay, with all of this I, Robot business up in the air, I want to clear up one thing:
“Cyborgs” are not “robots.”
One quick hop to dictionary.com and you get these two definitions.
A cyborg is defined as “A human who has certain physiological processes aided or controlled by mechanical or electronic devices.”
Thus, a person with a prosthesis, or a person who uses a wheelchair, is a cyborg. They are human beings that use mechanical devices in lieu of their missing or non functioning limbs.
A robot is defined as “A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.”
Thus, roomba is a robot, albeit not one that resembles a human. The animatronic “actors” in many of Disney’s theme park attractions are robots.
Interns. . . eh.
I’ve read a review of this movie that used the terms interchangeably, when clearly, clearly, they are robots. Not human bodies encased in steel.
Robots. From the Czech “robota,” which means slave labor. Mechanical devices with no humans in them.
Okay, I’m done.