Stop me if someone else has already addressed this point-but why not re-animate him as a zombie?
"BRAAAAIIIINS - or CPUUUUUUUS, whatever, I can't tell them apart anyway."
Name one large company that you'd trust to hold the reigns to your personal computing devices. Just one.
Google. Call me naive, but I think they sincerely mean "don't be evil". Not because of altruism, but because that will win market share in the long run, especially in the current ecosystem of corporations screwing their customers.
So wouldn't it be just awesome if Google developed its own OS for personal computing devices, secured major industrial support and then open-sourced it so we could be 100% sure they're not up to anything devious? Utopian pipe-dream, I know
When you exclude lying assholes, there are exactly zero people in the world that think "America", in the absence of any other information, refers to anything other than The United States of America, yourself included.
Well done Sir, you just called all 329 million native speakers of Spanish lying assholes. If you don't believe me, take Pimsleur's first Spanish lesson online, for free.
As they will teach you in the lesson, and I quote:
The word "American" is not usually used in Spanish, because it is not clear whether you mean North American, Central American, or South American. A common word for a person from the United States is "norte americano". This literally means "North American".
Every person under the sun is weak to the effects of an effective brainwash.
<collective drone> I pledge allegiance to the flag
Every day of school for twelve years. I now live in Europe, and I intend to let my kids grow up here instead. No trolling intended, just wanted to make a point.
Exactly. And then, after endless draws in OXO, the computer finally suggested a nice game of chess.
[Afterthought] Luckily for the computer, chess rarely leads to drawed games. Poor bastard. I imagine it suggested Russian Roulette next.
on the very article you linked to, even OXO was predated by a missile game in 1947
Exactly. And then, after endless draws in OXO, the computer finally suggested a nice game of chess.
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. -- Ernest Haskins
