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Post by mrw on Mar 7, 2007 6:56:09 GMT
A new career in paper fastening, eh? That Administrator's a real wisebot.  He deserves a name, though - he's pretty amusing. And Annie does have a communications port. Her mouth. Seems to communicate just fine, thank you! |
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Post by neal on Mar 7, 2007 8:31:37 GMT
Seems to me that the Administrator would get suspicious. Not knowing what a CPU is? Psha! What sort of robot is she? Of course, if you think about it, humans are rather similar to robots, just extrodinarily complicated carbon-based ones, with all this gloopy red coolant and a fierce need to have our CPU's defragged.
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Post by Uglyhead on Mar 7, 2007 8:47:52 GMT
Robot's a criminal, eh? Perhaps there is jailbreak in the cards! Lockpicks at the ready!
Yes. The young lady with antennas on her head is taking her posessed lockpick-filled wolf doll to aid her in robotic jailbreak. It all makes perfect sense, now.
Of course, if she fails and gets caught, well, I don't think her body would make very good paperclips. Eugh. Maybe it would be best to just let Robot serve the time...
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Post by fjodor on Mar 7, 2007 8:49:40 GMT
Kudos to everyone who guessed right that robot wasn't all gone. And indeed; a robot who doesn't know what a cpu is...tssss...
It strikes me that the walls and floors in the robot department is in much better condition than the school part. It shows where the real budget is spent.
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Post by Yin on Mar 7, 2007 9:53:27 GMT
Well obviously the robots are hacking into the school budget and siphoning the money for their own use!
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Post by todd on Mar 7, 2007 11:38:16 GMT
The scary thing is, I have the uneasy suspicion that there would be a market for making robots that look like Annie with star-tipped antennas.
But at least there's still something of Robot for our intrepid heroine to rescue - as long as she doesn't make any more slip-ups that get the other robots all the more suspicious of her.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 7, 2007 17:00:55 GMT
Well, I guess they didn't completely scrap him, then. x.x
I expect Kat would have been aghast that Annie didn't know what a CPU is.
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Post by mrw on Mar 7, 2007 17:31:10 GMT
I expect Kat would have been aghast that Annie didn't know what a CPU is. aghast that Annie didn't know that. Putting Robot together in the first place must have been like Legos or something. She really did grow up in total isolation, I guess! Also, check out this news story. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6425927.stmFiction always seems to be the most accurate indicator of the future. I wonder if Gunnerkrigg Court has civil rights for robots? |
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Post by greist on Mar 7, 2007 19:20:27 GMT
Maybe the robots inside know she's a human (with funny headgear), and asume she's authorised. Or assume she's a robot because she got inside, and only robots are allowed in.
I love the idea that South Korea's government is budgetting for robots. There's some politicians I'd vote for. Would we invade a country (or school) to liberate its robots? Only if the robots were clever enough?
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Post by owl on Mar 8, 2007 1:27:52 GMT
Nah, he'sgoing to see the world this way. Paperclips go everywhere!
RECYCLE! Don't let your paperclips languish in a dull, stinky landfill! Melt them down, let them change! Let them become new things. This has been a paid advertisement for the Paperclip Tourism Board of America (PTBA).
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Post by rastarogue on Mar 8, 2007 2:03:07 GMT
RECYCLE! Don't let your paperclips languish in a dull, stinky landfill! Melt them down, let them change! Let them become new things. This has been a paid advertisement for the Paperclip Tourism Board of America (PTBA).Would you want to spend all of your life living in a landfill, NO! so why should paperclips be forced to live in such squalor? YOU can make a difference, recycle them and let them tour the world in all sorts of marvelous shapes and forms. We must unite to save the paperclips from eternal boredom! |
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Post by aidan on Mar 8, 2007 6:27:07 GMT
I expect Kat would have been aghast that Annie didn't know what a CPU is. aghast that Annie didn't know that. Putting Robot together in the first place must have been like Legos or something. She really did grow up in total isolation, I guess! It is fairly astonishing, but Annie lives very much in the past in many ways. She's much more familiar with ancient worlds than the modern one. She knows robots more as mythic beasts, than as machines. |
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Post by todd on Mar 8, 2007 11:37:19 GMT
Not too surprising, given who were her closest childhood friends at Good Hope.
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Post by mrw on Mar 8, 2007 17:37:26 GMT
"Criminal behavior is to be studied." Hmmm... what's Annie doing? Gaining access to areas off-limits to humans? Impersonating a robot? Conspiring with felons (Robot)? Not to mention all the criminal mischief she's already partaken in... Maybe Adminbot figures it's easiest to send her to Research by her own free will - where her brain will be studied.  |
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Post by owl on Mar 8, 2007 23:11:16 GMT
If they think she's a robot and they try for some brain-studyin', there in for a surprise. Either way, they'd probably get all judo-death-ray-knocking-over...'ed.
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Post by bulwersator on Mar 9, 2012 20:39:58 GMT
I decided to stop lurking and register to ask question - why CPU? CPU is "central processing unit", it is unreasonable to expect that memory/personality is stored on CPU - it should be something like HDD, SSD, flash memory, punchcards or other thing designed to store information.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 9, 2012 21:20:51 GMT
I decided to stop lurking and register to ask question - why CPU? CPU is "central processing unit", it is unreasonable to expect that memory/personality is stored on CPU - it should be something like HDD, SSD, flash memory, punchcards or other thing designed to store information. Back then, including Chapter 12, it was kind of implied that they are something much trickier than usual Harvard/von Neumann variations, and not only because it's a strong AI stored in a chip looking much like a typical small UV-EPROM. These were even nicknamed EPU (Etheric...) on a wild guess. Now after Chapter 33 we know they are, indeed, tricky and just how much. There was a look at the "printed" fragment of their code and all that.  |
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