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WCDT 22-26 August 2011 (1996-2000)

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gangler:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 28 Aug 2011, 21:02 ---If your computer is sentient, and can be damaged by sketchy web sites, is it domestic violence to expose it to them?

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It occurs to me to wonder exactly how far this goes in explaining Pintsize.

Arancaytar:

--- Quote from: Carl-E on 28 Aug 2011, 21:31 ---Why was she using Momo for that, anyway?  She has the other computer, with a monitor, so she can see the pretty pictures...

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As Momo pointed out when she was introduced, she has data-trawling capabilities that make her an autonomous personal search engine. (Pintsize seems to have the same, but he only ever uses it to search for porn).

So that raises the question of why they don't use Google.

Maybe Google left the search business? Or maybe it expanded the logging and surveillance of its free services to the point where nobody wants to use them. Or maybe the information on the net increased exponentially in the time leading up to the singularity, to the point where no central search engine can cope. Or Google was taken over by its AIs (who pooled their stock options) and now focuses on some other business entirely. (That last one would be my favorite theory.)

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 28 Aug 2011, 18:27 ---It's not that virus doesn't have a plural, it's that it's a fourth declension noun.
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This is disputed


--- Quote ---The Roman grammarian Priscian (fl. 500 A.D.) states that some claim the word is indeclinable (i.e., has only one form for all the cases in the singular); others, apparently more accurately, that it is declined in the singular according to the second declension neuter and cite two passages from the poet Lucretius in substantiation. All of the ancient grammarians are in agreement, however, that the word is used in the singular only, which indeed appears to be true, for no plural forms are attested in extant Latin works.
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stoutfiles:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 28 Aug 2011, 21:49 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Aug 2011, 18:58 --- well beyond my capacity to evaluate properly

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I'd be stunned if there's anyone in the world who can evaluate them properly. The real killer in high-risk technical projects is finding out, the hard way, answers to the questions you didn't know you should ask. There is a lot of terra incognita in those designs.

Which, maybe, are in use in the QC world? Hannerdad's space station is big enough to spin for 1-g without making everyone sick, and big enough that they use golf carts to get around (based on Hannelore's Formspring). That's a lot of material to lift if all you have are chemical rockets. Maybe there's a space elevator? They do seem to have made more progress than we have on carbon nanotubes.

(Or maybe it's all a joke by a webcomic author, but that hypothesis is no fun).



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If I had to guess, they use dimensional portals like the ones Raven is learning about and successfully duplicated. 

Is it cold in here?:
Pintsize used Google to look up Gina Riversmith for Faye, and Dora found Vespavenger on Google.

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