ebon3

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  1. Ohhh... PepsiCo, the Haliburtan of the food industry. I'll never forgive them for what they did to Pizza Hut
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper View Post
    That. Is. AWESOME.
    Agreed, it could only be made AWESOMER with a full team of nrg/nrg blasters all doped up on reds jumping in an simultaneously nuking every last one of them steam leaking brass bastages.
  3. Screw it, if the movie rocks, it rocks! I have to live knowing Iron Man's movie armor could probably be cut in half by a drunk taking a hot wiz with its titanium-gold alloy but hell I enjoyed both movies so much I can overlook that silly detail.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    I'm sensing an emotion...
  5. I've played my L50 almost exclusively so no pressure here.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    Maybe they'll actually make Blade Runner good this time around...
    Heretic!
  7. Damnit, I was torn between Byrne with X-Men or Byrne on Alpha Flight. In the end I went with the pure Byrne Alpha Flight run.
  8. Increase the dose of internet pron I recieve.... but seriously, I'd probably pick playing one of the other MMO's I only occassionaly reactivate.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm View Post
    Another reason why blue-side is largely a bunch of idiots. Good game.
    I find with the modern polymer sole its best to use a gentle emollient that doesn't create to much stress for the bowls after chewing on them for a bit.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5 View Post
    I present to you a new Claws/Invuln brute, A BadlyDressed Tiger!!!



    Battlecry: "Hey, I'm colorblind, alright?!"

    I've already come up with easily 25 ideas for new animal-themed toons, most of which will never see the time of day because I already have too many. This guy might not even last, but the couple of levels I ust snagged for him were fun.
    To bad they dont have an option to rotate the hands, you could have also made a badly dressed rakshasa
  11. I dig SGU, but if this is the big send off for the show, I'd really dig a final episode that ended very badly, like 300 badly.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aquila_NA View Post
    Did it...once...before there WERE merits...yay me...
    Your not alone, IIRC 8 hours to do the TF, started late friday night and ended around noon saturday, during the course of the run, we had people dropping and coming back on - I even fell asleep during a battle as I recall.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aura_Familia View Post
    But every tf will be getting its time in the sun, so not much complaint from me.
    Hmmmm.... I might have to skip out on the Dr. Quartfield TF unless the prize is really really really good (did I say really).
  14. If you dont know now, you'll never know!
  15. ebon3

    Watson wins!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Starjammer View Post
    Really, that's not the cool possibility. Here's the cool possibility:

    A Watson-like computer can solve word problems.

    Think about it. Pure math is no problem for computers, provided you tell it what equation you want to solve, what the values/ranges are and so forth. Knowing how to set up the problem becomes the hardest part and the one that people most commonly screw up. Garbage in, garbage out.

    With a Watson-like system, you can simply describe the problem you need solved and it will interpret your request, look up the appropriate equations and data and then do the math. Then it can provide the answer in colloquial language and elaborate the parts you may not understand.

    With enough "experience" it can even anticipate the misconceptions of the person asking the question and avoid any errors inherent in the query. Or it might ask for or even offer clarification.

    Next likely goal: See if Watson 2.0 (or whatever the next generation is) can "earn" an advanced degree through standard education and testing.
    That is pretty lofty and would be neat indeed, I think I still would settle for Watson 1.01 if it allowed me to communicate with any sort of device easily.

    As a problem solving tool, Watson 2 would be awesome though.
  16. ebon3

    Watson wins!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Starjammer View Post
    Apply a few iterations of Moore's Law to Watson and before too long you'll have everyday-use computer interfaces that respond to natural language instructions in conversational form.
    Sweet, I'll be ready to buy a new Mustang in a few years and hopefully Ford's SYNC will be filled with this goodness.

    Not that I care for distracted driving, but the Mini brand is set to introduce an option where you can tweet from your car.

    Combine these technologies though and I will finally be able to realize a dream (provided the car ahead of me can do the same) of mine - the ability to tell the person riding along in the left lane 15 miles under the speed limit how I really feel in real time.

    "Car please contact liscence plate ST XXX-XXXX, I have something I really want to tell them"
  17. ebon3

    Watson wins!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen View Post
    I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords...
    Go ahead and suck up meat bag, just like the rest of us, they will decide your fate in an instant too!
  18. ebon3

    Thor: Trailer 2

    was that the Fenrir Wolf, I wonder?
  19. Pfffttt... easy enough to fix; /info_self is your friend and I need to log all my toons on anyways. Thanks for the heads up
  20. ebon3

    Apex SF sucks!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Charcoal_EU View Post
    What we need is Westin Phipps (co-op) Strike force where everybody gets to team up and go to Praetoria to kick their puppies, paint crude pictures on their clockwork and grab anything not nailed down (with a "crowbar" temp power for the items that are nailed down). All to support the war effort of course.
    I'd sign up for that, especially if it also involved shaking down old ladies for thier SS checks as one of the missions!
  21. Hopefully the Omega slot will mean the return of City of Blasters and all you other ATs can wither and blow away! Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!... Well a Blaster can hope can't he
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Crazy1van View Post
    I'd love to get Robert Downey Jr to play Kavik the Wolf Boy... but more than likely I'd get stuck with (and settle for) Luke Wilson.
    In other news, Luke Wilson is caught crying as he cancels his sub to his favorite MMO
  23. Start chugging the beer Adrianne, can't be Wonder Woman without a set of Wonders! Otherwise she seems like a good choice, dont know about the premise of the show though? Seems destined for a short life.