Whatever your yearly stipend from the government will get you.

(Hey, if it works for Alaska, it could work elsewhere -- just fund it by taxing cheap robot labor instead of petroleum)

--Agreed, except when the glass is hit by a laser, or covered with ice/snow/birdsplat/debris...

--Don't get me wrong, I prefer glass windows in the cockpit and agree that there should be a failsafe in case the display gets hosed.

When were the first 1280x1024? My memory places it about 20 years ago, and I had one. And my most recent work computer has fewer pixels than that monitor did.

tell him he can have a 50 year exclusive getting DVDs and geegaws to martian settlers.

There wouldn't be so many injuries if such a large chunk of the people setting them off weren't drunk ;)

The Turing Test was a test of machine intelligence. That was what they thought about AI in the 1950s. So you are saying that scientists of the era didn't consider human-like intelligence to be the "ideal" of AI?

History and facts prove you wrong. I'm not the strawman, you are. Or was Turing not a scientist?

I'm applying the first definitions to the current work and find that the biggest change is in the scientist's definitions, not progress towards the initial definitions. Go read how many comments state Watson or Siri is an AI. That's where the current focus is. On making people think that the device is "smart", not on making it so.

It's a propaganda film. And yes, the event in it where happening in different places for decades.

I was in the Military when it came out and we were Ooh Ra over it. But after I got out and watched it again it's pretty appalling.

You give it far too much credit.

". My friends and I were into the cold war"
I have no idea what you are trying to say. It's like you know nothing of it.
Everyone is into the cold war. Not always by choice.

So it doesn't apply to you? it's just an excuse to bring up your ex? let them go already.

So what did you do? oh, nothing? Well, I'm sure that taught him.

You know that's crap, right?

I think seeing a parent in a bad situation and helping , if needed., is just being civilized. Like helping someone change their tire.

Really, usual helping means making a face at the child, talking at the child, or possible holding a door open.
By helping out, he isn't saying care for the child.

Sometime, shit happens even to responsible parents.

"Yes, because anyone who cannot afford to pay for a baby sitter should forego ever eating out or watching a movie."
correct. well, until the child is old enough to behave or stay home on there own.
Guess what? I wen t from seeing a couple of movie with my wife every week for about 8 years, to NOT going to a movie for 4 years. Why? I'm cautious to other movie goers.
Family where smaller 30 years ago, without the GP living at home, but people rarely brought a baby to a movie, and if it acted up, they left.

Movies, concerts, theater. These are place that require quite for everyone to enjoy.
Take you kids to most restaurant? fine. I have n problem, and if you child acts up, you do have my sympathy. And aid if needed.
Take you kid to a 100 dollar a plate romantic restaurant? yeah, I have a problem with that if they cry.

Just to be very clear. -- There Is No Backlash Against Babies.
There is a backlash against inconsiderate parents who think they have a right to disturb everyone else movie theater because they decided to have kids. Guess what? Going to a movie isn't a right.

"Single parents are also a lot more common, "
they aren't.

" and the single parent already has someone taking care of the kid during the day"
that's there problem, no one else's.

"They can't magically "leave" the kid behind for everything that they do, "
we know.

"just because other assholes in public find them to be an inconvenience."
if you bring a crying baby to a movie, you are the asshole. Not people who want to enjoy their movie in peace.

Store? park? play area? don't care. If you baby cries you really do have my sympathy. Just stop with this, just because i have a baby doesn't mean I have to change anything I do crap.

" If you don't like it, you can bugger off."
I fit's in a theater or cinema, I'm go to have the management see that YOU bugger off.

Line at a grocery store? I'll make funny faces a the child. That usually gets them to laugh. On an airplane? I don't have a problem, and I expect it. I suggest everyone else expect it to. Travel is miserable for everyone. Hell, sometime I'm jealous. If I cry they throw me off! Sometimes travel is necessary.

Yes, that does suck. After I hear one go off, I always hope to hear my neighbor shout 'OMG, My HAND!'

Because it performs keyword hits against it.

That's impossible. Nobody has ever tried that as a real experiment and it only lives as a contrived (false) thought experiment.

It requires that the person who learns the symbol for "fire" for example, when asking for fire, knows that "fire" results in fire, but doesn't make the association of that character to the fire.

A real person in that situation would end up "translating" by learning the languages in question, not by magically decoding them without understanding.