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max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 08:28:20 CST 2007
Oh year, what a good idea. WOPR all over again...Play "Global Thermonuclear War" Wikepeida says:- WOPR is a form of artificial intelligence, programmed to play numerous strategy and war games, including one called Global Thermonuclear War, the purpose being to enable itself to optimally respond to any possible enemy nuclear attack. WarGames In WarGames, David Lightman (Matthew Broderick), a teenage computer hacker unwittingly makes contact with WOPR by dialing random phone numbers (known as Wardialing). Believing he has discovered a backdoor to the mainframe at a computer game development company, he hacks into WOPR, finds a list of games and gives the command to play the Global Thermonuclear War scenario. In the process, WOPR begins running the simulation on the main screen at NORAD, making the staff there think the Soviet Union is readying their missiles for a first strike. Max -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:09 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Friday (weekend) fun: Erlang What I find amusing is that the current 4 core desktop computer is more that a supercomputer from 1980. Why aren't we able to run all of the oh so cool things that ran on the supercomputers 30 years ago. We could simulate a nuclear bomb or the weather if we were willing to allow our computers to run uninterrupted for a couple of months. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:45 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] OT: Friday (weekend) fun: Erlang Hi all Everyone seems so busy, so here's something for a relaxing weekend. Predicting that in 2019 we will have the million core processor, you need to use a language capable of parallel processing. Erlang is one. And it is free and open-source: http://www.erlang.org Note chapter 3, Concurrent Programming, here: http://www.erlang.org/doc/getting_started/part_frame.html Also, a community exists: http://www.trapexit.org/ Have fun! /gustav -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com