But were they considered "factories"?

Even the base Lego NXT kit comes with color sensors for sorting things by color. Don't get me wrong, it's very cool. Just not a new thing or what the summary makes it out to be. Although that doesn't exactly seem unusual...

I was anticipating someone was going to post something like this. Oh slashdot, you and your anticlimactic antics of antique natures.

And naturally the un-undoable one;

Telebot, MAX VOLUME.

TELEBOT, OH GOD, OH GOD, LOWER THE VOLUME! WHY CAN'T YOU HEAR ME!?

(Caps actually used to illustrate shouting, go figure.)

It looks neat, but it's just a color sorting machine? It doesn't actually put anything together.

"A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. "

That's assuming there'd be a mountain left to hide in.

Learn more about interplanetary colonization and the technology needed. It would be nice to have less eggs in this basket we call earth.

Realistically speaking though? It's mostly my inner nerd wanting to see it happen rather than it being something practical...

Missing option: "After reading this poll and deciding to set up a proper off-site automated backup system."

Only the future will tell how well I stick to it.

Off-topic much?

He didn't have to go there because he knew it would be resolved by Torchwood.

TIME TRAVEL.

Every time they showed a screen in Hackers I giggled and enjoyed the movie without taking it too seriously.

Last year.

They consider knowing the answer to everything ever with no limits one variable while numbers of gameplays more?

If anything this is exactly what a computer is designed to do, not fish through millions of facts and try to use them to answer a question which it may or may not even understand.

Ridiculous comparison.

Game theory is based on rules and statistics which is what a computer loves to crunch, random facts? Not so much.

Why not just make a mirror which is essentially a screen with a camera and have it do it real time so you can truly pretend you're someone you're not.

Ridiculous concept? Well according to data we've acquired, around XX percent of our mirror clients are not satisfied with the way their faces look in a mirror"

People need to take a long hard look at their self-images (no pun intended) if they even consider buying this camera.

Unless you ARE the "ipv6 conversion specialist"...

A valid point, but does this mean that people who go to the theatre (you know, the one with real live humans) get radically different experiences?

I think a better way to look at it is as a separate medium which exists somewhere between theatre and cinema.

Buckazoids.

And that's because I frankly don't care what currency I use as long as I can buy food, water, internet, heating etc (although not always prioritised in that order).

Being able to finally afford that Orat-on-a-stick I've been wanting for my whole damn life is merely a bonus.