Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03508
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 00:26:40 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Evolution Comparison
At 5:23 AM -0000 5/22/99, Hendrickson wrote:
:...Robotic dogs and vacuums are cool to some of us, but mainstream
:society won't be flocking to by them when they come out.
Speaking of robotic vacuums, if I remember correctly, Mr. Tilden's two
major complaints about the one he built were (a) his cat could make it
think that the entire world was about 2 square feet (sounds like a
programming problem to me) and -- more importantly -- (b) it picked up
things it shouldn't have.
BEAM technology, as such, has been in existence for quite a few years now.
Precisely how has it improved the automagic vacuum cleaner problem?
It hasn't? Didn't think so. When is BEAM going to solve some of the
-real- problems then?
:I doubt many people will spend $375 for a vacuum when a $150 one will do.
$375??? Give me a break!!! You
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