7 Jan
2013
7 Jan
'13
4:09 p.m.
Looks like thinkgeek made replicas
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f29d/#tabs
7 Jan
7 Jan
4:23 p.m.
On 1/7/2013 1:09 PM, Christian Liendo wrote:
Looks like thinkgeek made replicas
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f29d/#tabs
Neat but, $500 ? Besides it bugs me they keep calling it a life size
replica of HAL9000. Sort like calling the operators panel of a PDP-10 a
life sized replica of a PDP-10. Maybe it is even more like calling a
intercom on the operators desk a life size replica of a PDP-10.
4:59 p.m.
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Looks like thinkgeek made replicas
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f29d/#tabs
It looks exceedingly boring and expensive.
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5:19 p.m.
I might pay $4.99 but not $499.00.
On 7 January 2013 21:59, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
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What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into
the head? Down into the heart? Does a ... scanner like they use these
days... see into me?into us?clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he
thought, see clearly, because I can?t any longer these days see into
myself.... if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then
we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and
we?ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that
little fragment wrong too.
- A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
Looks like thinkgeek made replicas
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f29d/#tabs
It looks exceedingly boring and expensive.
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5:33 p.m.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, John Many Jars wrote:
I might pay $4.99 but not $499.00.
I suspect there's $40 in parts, the rest is licensing fees to whatever law
office happens to own the rights to 2001 these days.
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6:10 p.m.
You'll need one of these...
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/8mm-f8.htm
They are kind of expensive.
On 7 January 2013 22:33, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, John Many Jars wrote:
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What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into
the head? Down into the heart? Does a ... scanner like they use these
days... see into me?into us?clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he
thought, see clearly, because I can?t any longer these days see into
myself.... if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then
we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and
we?ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that
little fragment wrong too.
- A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
I might pay $4.99 but not $499.00.
I suspect there's $40 in parts, the rest is licensing fees to whatever law
office happens to own the rights to 2001 these days.
g.
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ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
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7:52 p.m.
Mine won't be going into a $500 Hal 9000 any time soon.
There are plenty of fisheye adapters that should turn up a cheaper
alternative. Probably cheaper than their "custom" version.
I suspect I could turn out a model like this a lot cheaper. What I want
is a functional wall of clear memory cells to play with and Keir
Dullea's fancy key to eject them.
Jim
On 1/7/2013 3:10 PM, John Many Jars wrote:
You'll need one of these...
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/8mm-f8.htm
They are kind of expensive.
8 Jan
8 Jan
2:26 a.m.
Build a very large tower, several thousand feet. Put brain room in
box in tower, and drop.
A breaking system would be a good idea...
On 8 January 2013 04:50, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
And a zero-gravity environment to access it.
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What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into
the head? Down into the heart? Does a ... scanner like they use these
days... see into me?into us?clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he
thought, see clearly, because I can?t any longer these days see into
myself.... if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then
we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and
we?ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that
little fragment wrong too.
- A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
On 2013 Jan 7, at 4:52 PM, jim s wrote:
.. What I want is a functional wall of clear memory cells to play with
and Keir Dullea's fancy key to eject them. 
4:10 p.m.
On 1/7/13 8:50 PM, "Brent Hilpert" <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
And a zero-gravity environment to access it.
NOW you're talking!
On 2013 Jan 7, at 4:52 PM, jim s wrote:
.. What I want is a functional wall of clear memory cells to play
with and Keir Dullea's fancy key to eject them. 
5:48 p.m.
On 2013 Jan 8, at 1:10 PM, Ian King wrote:
On 1/7/13 8:50 PM, "Brent Hilpert"
<hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
And a zero-gravity environment to access it.
NOW you're talking!
If you like to see behind-the-scenes of movies and don't mind having
the cinematic fantasy tainted a little, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1r5dOwUS6Y
Go to 7:20. That's Kubrick and another fellow standing inside HAL.
(I'm not convinced by the guy's argument about IBM and HAL. The
connections he makes are a little pained and presumptive.)
On 2013 Jan 7, at 4:52 PM, jim s wrote:
.. What I want is a functional wall of clear memory cells to play
with and Keir Dullea's fancy key to eject them. 
8:30 p.m.
On 1/8/2013 2:48 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
If you like to see behind-the-scenes of movies and
don't mind having
the cinematic fantasy tainted a little, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1r5dOwUS6Y
Go to 7:20. That's Kubrick and another fellow standing inside HAL.
(I'm not convinced by the guy's argument about IBM and HAL. The
connections he makes are a little pained and presumptive.)
I totally agree. The
production musical score for instance was an
accident, though later the use of all the classical music in the sound
track was claimed to be visionary by those around the film. In truth the
composer was having a hard time with his task, and didn't deliver in
time to get the music recorded and added to the film, so they recorded
and left in the tracks used for editing and timing.
I suspect also that there were deals in place with IBM as well as
obviously with ATT / Bell (honestly don't recall what it was then) and
IBM found out that it's big scene was that its sponsored character was
to murder the crew and pulled out. Too much primary photography would
have had to be reshot to pull that.
Hopefully someone will eventually complete the archival and organization
of what Kubrick left behind and can study that. He was a huge packrat
like a lot of us are, and hopefully didn't succeed in purging all traces
of what went on from his boxes of stuff.
This guy is clearly looking for mystical connections that might exists
in other parts of the movie, but probably has a simpler explanation.
It is more probably that the IBM that is claimed to possibly claimed to
be projected onto the face of one of the astronauts when he is trying to
raise HAL from the pod is actually more of an early version of something
like the tricks that the Disney people used to jazz up some frames of
Jessica Rabbit than a vailed reference to IBM for some plot effect.
jim
9:09 p.m.
From: Jim Stephens
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:31 PM
It is more probably that the IBM that is claimed to
possibly claimed
to be projected onto the face of one of the astronauts when he is
trying to raise HAL from the pod is actually more of an early version
of something like the tricks that the Disney people used to jazz up
some frames of Jessica Rabbit than a vailed reference to IBM for some
plot effect.
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9:30 p.m.
It is more
probably that the IBM that is claimed to possibly claimed
to be projected onto the face of one of the astronauts when he is
trying to raise HAL from the pod is actually more of an early version
of something like the tricks that the Disney people used to jazz up
some frames of Jessica Rabbit than a vailed reference to IBM for some
plot effect.
ITYM Betty Boop. When she says "I still got it, Eddie!",
OrSoI'veHeard(TM).
9 Jan
9 Jan
12:12 a.m.
On 1/8/2013 6:30 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
No, he's talking about this:
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/jessica.asp
Yep, in that day's production environment you couldn't undo such things
once shot. Only thing maybe doable would have been the IBM button on
the space suit, which I found interesting. Not sure what that button
would be expected to do when pressed.
I prefer the "don't panic" Doug Adams button myself.
It is more probably that the IBM that is claimed to
possibly claimed
to be projected onto the face of one of the astronauts when he is
trying to raise HAL from the pod is actually more of an early version
of something like the tricks that the Disney people used to jazz up
some frames of Jessica Rabbit than a vailed reference to IBM for some
plot effect.
ITYM Betty Boop. When she says "I still got it, Eddie!",
OrSoI'veHeard(TM). 
12 Jan
12 Jan
12:22 p.m.
On 9 January 2013 05:12, jim s <jwsmail at jwsss.com> wrote:
I prefer the "don't panic" Doug Adams
button myself.
(?) Do tell...
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13 Jan
13 Jan
9:20 p.m.
I think it's rather nifty. If it *is* designed to the original spec, it
probably took a lot of work. It also seems fairly sturdily made - two
pounds at 13"x5"x1". Look up Adam Savage's work trying to make a
perfect
replica of the Maltese Falcon from the film. It took him years to even get
close, and he's a professional model maker with connections in Hollywood.
9:30 p.m.
On 01/13/2013 09:20 PM, Jason McBrien wrote:
I think it's rather nifty. If it *is* designed to
the original spec, it
probably took a lot of work. It also seems fairly sturdily made - two
pounds at 13"x5"x1". Look up Adam Savage's work trying to make a
perfect
replica of the Maltese Falcon from the film. It took him years to even get
close, and he's a professional model maker with connections in Hollywood.
Sounds to me like people gettin' paid by the hour.
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7 Jan
7 Jan
6:12 p.m.
On 2013 Jan 7, at 2:19 PM, John Many Jars wrote:
Patience. The 10$ chinese knock-off will be available shortly.
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<1357592958.86751.YahooMailNeo at web124901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>,
Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com> writes:
> Looks like thinkgeek made replicas
>
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f29d/#tabs
>
I might pay $4.99 but not $499.00. 
6:12 p.m.
Can you change the eye color to blue and replace Douglas Rain with
Candace Bergan?
On 1/7/13, Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote:
Looks like thinkgeek made replicas
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f29d/#tabs
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7:10 p.m.
You also have to replace the 'H' with an 'S' as well.
On 7 January 2013 18:12, Joe Giliberti <starbase89 at gmail.com> wrote:
Can you change the eye color to blue and replace
Douglas Rain with
Candace Bergan?
On 1/7/13, Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote:
Looks like thinkgeek made replicas
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f29d/#tabs
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8 Jan
8 Jan
2:47 a.m.
Can I order them with IBM instead of HAL? :)
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You also have to replace the 'H' with an
'S' as well.
On 7 January 2013 18:12, Joe Giliberti <starbase89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you change the eye color to blue and replace Douglas Rain with
> Candace Bergan?
>
> On 1/7/13, Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Looks like thinkgeek made replicas
>>
>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f29d/#tabs
>>
>
>
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> Get more information at http://www.infoage.org
11:24 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Alexandre Souza - Listas
<pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com> wrote:
Can I order them with IBM instead of HAL? :)
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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone want to buy a Hal 9000?
> You also have to replace the 'H' with an 'S' as well.
>
> On 7 January 2013 18:12, Joe Giliberti <starbase89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can you change the eye color to blue and replace Douglas Rain with
>> Candace Bergan?
>>
>> On 1/7/13, Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks like thinkgeek made replicas
>>>
>>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f29d/#tabs
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Get more information at http://www.infoage.org
Well, it looks really good, but in the little video they have on their
site, the sound quality seems to be utter crap. It would be nice as an
interface for Siri, but it's in no way customizable.
And paying for a novelty item 500 USD, and then having to mod it, is ridiculous.
It needs an interface so it can work with Siri and a wide-band speaker
(like the ones on portable iPod speakers, etc), so the sound quality
would be better.
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