He begins by saying "Microsoft, in his infinite wisdom", then ends by "these features should be very welcome on the desktop, too"

So wait, does think Microsoft did the right thing or not?

The problem with a cloud solution is that you can't use it offline. What if I want to surf the web away from any WiFi access points or the cellular network?

The problem is that Watson uses a form of reasoning which is very different from our own form of reasoning. When it gets things wrong, it gets things wrong in a way that doesn't make sense to us. This doesn't prove that Watson isn't reasoning, it just proves that we have a bias in judging wrong answers based on how our own reasoning works.

Just you wait, I have a feeling that half way through the broadcast, Watson will bludgeon the two human opponents to death and declare himself victor. The IBM programmers will deny ever having programmed Watson to do this.

The GPS manufacturers and 4G companies are colluding to get us all to buy new GPS devices and GPS-enabled phones with better band-pass filters!

Was it invented by Tony Stark?

As a practical joke, they should relocate the capsule to some desert that resembles Mars, put a fake Mars rover nearby, open the hatch of the capsule, and watch the men stumble out going "WTF?"

A diode is the triode's retarded brother.

> 80 million gallons of Blue Lake water will soon be siphoned into the kind of tankers normally reserved for oil

Ah, so that's what's causing the oily aftertaste.

Cius> enable t
Password:
Cius# conf t
Cius(configure)# addressbook
Cius(configure-addressbook)# phone bob 222-4343
^Z
Cius>dial bob
...

Cius>no dial bob