So this is another list than the one from the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/featuredgames/
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These were rather on the cool side:
The only computer I ever saw that, when opened for debugging, shows a Jeffreys-tube like interior with yellow post-it notes everywhere (think code comments). Upon which the chief scientist (the designer's daughter) proceeds to open a brain-like module with a circular saw.
Compare "The General" to Wheatley:
GLaDOS in a surprise attack moment: Hey, Moron!
Wheatley: Oh, Hello.
GLaDOS: All right, Paradox time!!. THIS. SENTENCE. IS. FALSE!!
GLaDOS to herself: Don't think about it, don't think about it!
Wheatley: Um, true. I'll go with true. There, that was easy. To be honest, I might have heard that one before.
GLaDOS (Uncredulous): It's a paradox! There IS no answer.
There is another one which comes to mind - The General in "The Prisoner". Not really badass and of unsecured sentience. Also probably the only machine ever that blows up when you show it a picture of Tony Kornheiser.
He didn't want to hijack the world's nukes.
He was just running the Mutual Assured Destruction game. In Hollywood logic, this meant actually launching the actual US missiles for real in the end, so he wanted the launch codes. Gimme the launch codes, you cheating fucks!
During the show, the guys in the control room didn't exactly suss out that all was just simulation. Comes from trying to look at reality through computer-controlled screens (a theme quite well explored in Oshii's Patlabor 2. Note the similitudes between this scene from War Games and this scene from Patlabor 2)
Also .. Jennifer Katherine Mack .. awww ♥
I guess because not in a movie ... yet!
Gendo Pose: GET ME UWE BOLL ON THE BLOWER!
Anyways, check out this CNET stuff. No reference to Black Hole's Max or SHODAN or the Harlan Ellison Superevil Supercomputer though:
Poor HAL 9000. Rating: Mwahahaha!
Proteus IV. Rating: Mwahahahaha!
Star Trek's Nomad. Rating: Mwahahahaha!
Superman 3: The Ultimate Computer. Rating: Mwahahaha!
Max from "The Thirteenth Floor". Rating: Mwahaha!
Mother from hell category: GlaDOS from "Portal". Rating: Mwaha!
WTF category: MODOK from Marvel Comics. Rating: Mwahahahaha!
Queeg500 from Red Dwarf. Rating: Mwaha!
Skynet from the Terminator Franchise. Rating: Mwahahahaha!
The Green Death from Dr. Who. Rating: Mwahahahahaha!
Why?? Regulators should just make sure that MySQL Free cannot be hindered via patents or other shenanigans (in other words: patent lawyers and EPO employees should be made unemployed and "respect mah IP" should be a demand emitted only by backward rednecks).
Then let CAPITALISM reign.
"17 billion times the size of Sun" should evidently read "17 billion times the mass of Sun".
The SIZE of black hole can be conveniently (but only approximately) described with the Schwarzschild radius (which, amazingly, depends linearly on the mass, instead of, you know, only on the cube root of the mass).
We have:
3.38147 × 10^40 kilograms x 1.485 x 10^-27 m/kg ~ 5 x 10^13 m ~ 333 Astronomical Units.
That's about 12 times the orbit of Pluto. Damn.
No, no, no. I think that's the anecdote about Bjoerken who was out mountaineering while Feynman was in town and thus missed the opportunity to look at a plot and deduce that quarks are for real.
Actually, I hear the Higgs Boson is not such a big deal as it's an immediate consequence of weak symmetry breaking. It's just that its presence indicates that the math looks good.
"to help ensure that no further information is vulnerable"
Except the one about the location of Iranian engineers that are routinely interviewed under the umbrella of IAEA control activities and that can then be bampfed off by mysterious gunmen on motorcyles that have nothing at all to do with Israel.
HOLY SHIT!
Somebody is MAKING MONEY and is NOT PAYING THE KING'S MEN!
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE I DON'T EVEN KNOW!
Related:
Of course this is all PROOF POSITIVE that Iran is just WEEKS AWAY from a RED LINE beyond which it will cause the SECOND HOLOCAUST by WIPING ISRAEL OFF THE MAP using NUKES manually made by PERSIAN CHILDREN exploited in UNDERGROUND CAVES covered by 7 (SEVEN) METER OF REINFORCED CONCRETE, thus RUNNING RINGS AROUND THE IAEA INSPECTIONS.
We must ACT NOW, demand that the USA do not allow any DAYLIGHT TO BE CREATED BETWEEN IT AND ISRAEL and hope that ISRAEL NAZIFIES ITSELF AT THE NEXT ELECTIONS into the IRON WILL OF MANLY DEFIANCE.
Send PANIC REMINDERS to your friends and whitehouse.gov!
Math is out of bounds for anyone here.
There are some weak attempts at simulation on classical computers. I would like to have the brain and time to study this. No such luck.
Well, their probability density wavefunction has extension, so that one gets flattened (the peak is compressed, their location in 3-space is less fuzzy).
Same with photons - a gamma quantum of the photon field has a very short probability density function wavelength. Gamma radiation also has short wavelength in the classical Maxwell equation description, but that's something else gain.
That must be impressive from close up, to see a solid tsunami of gluons coming at you at close to the speed of light. Or not see it, as the case may be.