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Message #13528
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Don Papp donp@diehumans.anubis.ab.ca
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:32:47 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: You guys disappoint me
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, sebastiaan van Vliet wrote:
> I am a little disappointed in Beam community. I just cant stand people are
> calling a few blinking LED's a bot. Even a solaroller doesn't seem very
> "bot" to me.
Though it's technically true that something like a solaroller is
not a robot (since it has no sensors), it doesn't end there. For example,
it is probably easier to think of a walker with no sensors as a robot (as
opposed to a solaroller) despite the fact that there is no "technical"
difference between the two in the sensor department.
> Maybe we should make some rules what is a bot and what not or even make
> categories ranging from blinking LED's to 134562 motor walkers with
> 76437tons of electronics and are superior to humans.
Ah, but who would come up with these rules? Who would listen to
them? Questions, questions...
> I don't want to be a pain in the ass, but just want some quality in the
> community.
Would making the rules you outlined above help this happen? If
you think so, how? By far the best way to put quality in the community is
to set an example. Talk is cheap, truly.
> I hope you all agree with me and forgive me if I made a fool out of you
> because you just finished your garden blinking LED's
You can't make a fool of someone unless they let you, Sebastiaan.
But people making blinking LEDs doesn't seem to me to be what's really
upsetting you.
Anyway, it's curious that a comment like this would pretty much
ostracize you in 'real life', but here it just sparks commentary.
DonP
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