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...ique stores of information in the form of databases, articles, discussion threads, and links to other web sites. Consider "Central Europe Review". It... ...ng since 1999 have changed dramatically since April 2006. The only common thread in all these upheavals is one: the more incoming links from MySpace... ...t with pinpoint accuracy." It places dozens of queries, in dozens of threads simultaneously and spiders the results (rather as a "first generat... ...(replete with clickable web sites), capture Usenet and chat interactions (threads), plot search results (though Alta Vista discontinued its mapping ... ...ence and other e-books, monographs, articles and minutes of discussions ("threads"), among other types of material. Publishing an e-zine has a few ... ...c and rigid statuettes spinning up over the lid. In the XIXth century the automaton is the glorified steam motor, that burns combustible fuel instea... ... combustible fuel instead the glycogen of human muscles. The contemporary automaton opens doors with photoelectric cells, points nuclear weapons or ... ...circumstances). To me, this sounds much more dangerous than any recursive automaton which will NOT include the famous Three Laws. Moreover, what, ... ...It carries out instructions, reads and writes, counts and so on. It is an automaton designed to implement an effective or mechanical method of solvi...

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...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce... ... another. Water can be either toxic or indispensable, depending on the animal, the automaton, or the system. Scorching temperatures, sulfur emissio... ...vices), reference material, e-books, monographs, articles, minutes of discussions ("threads"), conference proceedings, and much more besides. The I... ...To me, such a "robot" sounds much more dangerous (and humanoid) than any recursive automaton which does NOT include the famous Three Laws. Moreove... ...inology. It carries out instructions, reads and writes, counts and so on. It is an automaton designed to implement an effective or mechanical metho... ...tions). If the transition from input to output is deterministic we have a classical automaton – if it is determined by a table of probabilities – we... ...omaton – if it is determined by a table of probabilities – we have a probabilistic automaton. With time and hype, the limitations of TMs were forg... ...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce...

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...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce... ... another. Water can be either toxic or indispensable, depending on the animal, the automaton, or the system. Scorching temperatures, sulfur emissio... ...vices), reference material, e-books, monographs, articles, minutes of discussions ("threads"), conference proceedings, and much more besides. The I... ...To me, such a "robot" sounds much more dangerous (and humanoid) than any recursive automaton which does NOT include the famous Three Laws. Moreove... ...inology. It carries out instructions, reads and writes, counts and so on. It is an automaton designed to implement an effective or mechanical metho... ...tions). If the transition from input to output is deterministic we have a classical automaton – if it is determined by a table of probabilities – we... ...omaton – if it is determined by a table of probabilities – we have a probabilistic automaton. With time and hype, the limitations of TMs were forg... ...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce...

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...ly from the workmen of the estab- lishment at their labour with needle and thread. Growing cognizant of the infamy of his posture, the Countess begged... ...now how it is—but Louisa, you lose your head, you’re in a whirl, you’re an automaton, a teetotum! I haven’t a notion of what I’ve been doing or saying... ... London. The Countess turned her head round to Caroline like an astonished automaton. ‘Given orders!’ she interjected. ‘I have very little to get read... ... with his legs crossed and doubled under him, cheerfully plying needle and thread; and that, with- out this probation, to undergo which the son resolu... ...heir lives with some girls. After that they go wondering they can’t see to thread a needle! The neighbours, I suppose. I should like to lift the top o...

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...ent to a table covered with a green cloth so worn that you could count the threads. A huge toad sat dozing there beside a cage inhabited by a black di... ...d’s name is Fraisier. He is lodged as I am, and he is even leaner and more threadbare. He took refuge in our arrondissement, and is reduced to appear ... ... the skirts of his dress- ing-gown over a pair of angular knees encased in threadbare felt. The robe was an ancient printed cotton garment, lined with... ...r things? —I have been pawning our silver spoons and forks, eight of them, thread pattern. Pooh, Cibot can eat his victuals with Ger- man silver; it i... ...aintily neat, from the stopper covered with white kid to the label and the thread. His peremptory manner, the eruption on his blotched countenance, th... ...long way.” By this time it was eleven o’clock. The old German went like an automaton down the road along which Pons and he had so often walked togethe...

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...That depends, I should say, on his trade. A shoemaker begins by waxing his thread. ’ ‘And Mr Harold Smith—?’ ‘By counting up his yesterday’s figures, ... ... like such a girl as Griselda Grantly. He ought to know that she is a mere automaton, cold, lifeless, spiritless, and even vapid. There is, I believe,...

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...ir use. The older strategy of intellectual property law was a “braided” one: thread a thin layer of intellectual property rights around a commons of m... ...cientists describe their task in terms that should be familiar. “A molecular automaton is an engineered molecular system coupled to a (bio)molecular e... ...d nonexcludable, 2–4, 39, 47, 48, 49, 60, 187, 215, 264; problem as com- mon thread linking different areas of intellectual property, 5–8; reality di-...

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... a cadaverous looking personage, near the foot of the table, taking up the thread of the conversation where it had been broken off,—“and then, among o... ...lf, who do not think yourself called upon at every period to interrupt the thread of a gentleman’s discourse. Interruptions are annoying and should un... ...d dis- criminative understanding, who make no scruple in pronounc- ing the Automaton a pure machine, unconnected with human agency in its movements, a... ...e highest skill. Every bone in the real duck had its representative In the automaton, and its wings were anatomically exact. Every cavity, apophysis, ... .... Now even granting (what should not be granted) that the movements of the Automaton Chess-Player were in themselves determinate, they would be necess... ...s to dwell upon this point. It is quite certain that the operations of the Automaton are regulated by mind, and by nothing else. Indeed this matter is... ...ever have had an opportu- nity of witnessing Mr. Maelzel’s exhibition. The Automaton Chess-Player was invented in 1769, by Baron Kempelen, a nobleman ...

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...u don’t doubt my word?” said my uncle. “Well, follow me.” I obeyed like an automaton. Coming out from the priest’s house, the Professor took a straigh... ...s of schist, coloured with delicate shades of green, ran in winding course threads of copper and man- ganese, with traces of platinum and gold. I thou...

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...in the parlour. Emma, bring out the cherry brandy; now, Jane, a needle and thread here; towels and water, Mary. Come, girls, bustle about.’ Three or f... ...ct upon the perfidy of our species; and we will not, therefore, pursue the thread of Mr. Jingle’s medi tations, as he wended his way to Doctors’ Comm... ...readful thing!’ ‘Hem!’ said the lady; and in went Mr. Pickwick’s head with automaton like rapidity. ‘I never met with anything so awful as this,’ thou... ...f the fireplace, sitting bolt upright in a high backed chair, was a man in threadbare black clothes, with a back almost as long and stiff as that of t... ...titu dinous demands for hot water, such repeated outcries for needles and thread, and so many half suppressed entreaties of ‘Oh, do come and tie me, ...

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...d, for he would not believe it could live; and, indeed, its life hung on a thread. I remember my brother telling me how he went to Moorworth to see it... ...men presided over the cricket, and the ladies over ‘blind man’s buff’ and ‘thread my needle;’ but perhaps Mary was a little disappointed that, though ... ... know what to think of anybody.’ ‘We always knew Laura to be his slave and automaton. He is so infallible in her eyes, that no doubt she thought her s...

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...read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of... ...m of Allermuir, and is fed from Halkerside with a perennial teacupful, and threads the moss under the Shearer’s Knowe, and makes one pool there, overh... ...res, and sometimes met them well. And away in the still cloudier past, the threads that make me up can be traced by fancy into the bosoms of thousands... ...o resuscitate the theory of animal machines. The “dog’s instinct” and the “automaton-dog,” in this age of psy- chology and science, sound like strange... ... this age of psy- chology and science, sound like strange anachronisms. An automaton he certainly is; a machine working independently of his control, ... ...ing the view out of the window and shaken by the thunder of the stones; an automaton in one corner of which a living spirit is confined: an automaton ... ...d with memorable faces, and sounding with delightful speech. I carried the thread of that epic into my slumbers, I woke with it unbroken, I rejoiced t... ...the circumstances in a tale answer one to another like notes in music. The threads of a story come from time to time together and make a picture in th...