In Terminator 2: Judgement day, Cyberdyne made the robot that became the terminators with a chip from a terminator from the future (from the first terminator)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7095344.stm

Latest UK military comm satellite has been launched, named "Skynet." Really.

Article is also enjoyable for this graphic:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44230000/gif/_44230106_skynet3_416in.gif

In which the officer there looks a bit glum and not all that impressed that he's hooked into such an impressive communication array.

1. Skynet 5 overhauls satellite communications for UK forces
2. The largely autonomous satellites talk to two UK ground stations
3. Skynet 5 supports high-bandwidth applications, such as UAV video
4. Antennas and terminals are upgraded to make best use of Skynet
5. New battlefield networks, such as Cormorant, feed into the system
6. System gives commanders access to more information, faster
7. Skynet begins learning at a geometric rate
8. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29.

lol

McG is directing the next Terminator flick

the terminator films have slowly and inexorably become my least favorite machine revolt movies ever

You're fucking kidding

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Oh you're not

shit

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even less than the matrix?

i don't think even t3 was as retarded and near-unwatchable as matrix revolutions

a McG-directed T4 might be though

T2>M1>T1>>T3>>>>M2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>M3

ok a few more >s between T1 and T3

I haven't seen the 3rd terminator flick. I've heard that it's half good, just for the ahnuld = old jokes.

I understand the tools of mankind becoming self-aware and taking control so as to prevent humans from getting out of hand, but genocide makes no sense.

the matrix films are better based on the ludicrous gnostic myth minefield that is Reloaded

what other machine revolt franchises are there

Short Circuit II >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> M3

ha

I dunno about franchises
but COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT surely tramples a few of these
WarGames & TRON also generally accepted as being fuckin sweet

the first matrix is great, the second one has good parts surrounded by bullshit, the third is one of the worst movies i've ever seen. i don't know why the bit of dialogue i remember most from all the films is "and the little one behind you is called mouse" though.

haha, does STEALTH count as a "machine revolt"?

i think it does!

the first matrix is great, the second one has good parts surrounded by bullshit, the third is one of the worst movies i've ever seen. i don't know why the bit of dialogue i remember most from all the films is "and the little one behind you is called mouse" though.

-- omar little, Monday, November 19, 2007 6:56 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

otm

omg I have still not seen stealth
netflix queue corrected

i need to re-watch it myself. i got off on the wrong foot with that movie.

let's see, what others:

Superman 3
2001

and apparently, Demon Seed

Westworld
Futureworld

and for some reason, imdb lists "Red Sonja" in its "Killer Robot" section: http://imdb.com/keyword/killer-robot/

http://www.wired.com/news/images/full/screen_three_f.jpg
http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/_quickdead_images_tv_battlestar_galactica8.jpg

That graphic shows that the machines are making us work for them.

rofl. It's a paradox, just like in 12 Monkeys...time is a looooooooop

oh and T3 ruled. except for the corny jokes like the gay glasses and "I am not sheeting you"

matrix 2 will always be worse than 3 for me because i was prepared for how bad 3 was gonna be and 2 just blindsided me with its pure fuckin pathetic shittiness

see, I think 2 is the most honest of the bunch
a welcome respite from the po-faced intensity of 1 and 3

T3 was great, but nu-battlestar and matrix 1 are my all time fave roborevolution movies

i thought t3 was great when i saw it

then i saw it again last month

NOT GREAT :(

I'MAFRIENDOFSARAHCONNERIWASTOLDSHEWASHERECANISEEHERPLEASE?

Wargames=Tron=T1>>>>> any others

Saturn 5 ?
(with kirk douglas, was that the name?)

Saturn 3 - also with Farah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel!

Saturn 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> M3

I saw Saturn 3 as a kid on a double bill with Hawk the Slayer and it had the most gore I had ever seen in my 12 year-old life.

colossus: the forbin project dvd not widescreen = grrr

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/colossus08.jpg

also, ron howard to remake c: tfp

http://www.technoccult.com/archives/2008/06/05/open-source-personal-fabrication-device-creates-first-copy-of-itself/

lol i love all those singularity guys

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5993

The IEEE Spectrum "special report" on The Singularity makes for interesting reading, but I’d like you to try something as you click through it. When you read these essays and interviews, every time you see the word "Singularity," I want you to replace it in your head with the term "Flying Spaghetti Monster."

did this really need three revives? anyway i see it (obviously) can't replicate the crucial motors or circuit boards, or assemble the parts. that stage seems pretty far off to me, if and when they reach that stage i will be impressed (and terrified).

even ignoring the von neumann aspects though, a low-cost fabber is pretty cool, and who knows, maybe it could change the world economy...

</faux-naif>

anyway i see it (obviously) can't replicate the crucial motors or circuit boards, or assemble the parts

really? so how are they claiming it's 'replicated' itself.

Tosh?

the claims are overblown but it's an important concept using stock parts and having the custom parts assembled by another machine of the same type.

where does the bouncy elastic bassline in Fingers 'Can U Feel It', 'Washing Machine' etc. come from? just an SH-101 tone or similar? such a great sound

ok this is why tabbed browsing is bad

hahahaha

THE BASSLINES ARE CONSTRUCTING THEMSELVES

cosmic

they didn't invent themselves, they were ~always there~

Very late to this thread but it's called a bootstrap paradox. Doctor Who did it with a fez.

The thing with the arm that rob bolton mentioned 18 years ago is something that's always bugged me. It seemed like a clear setup for a sequel, but none of the sequels ever used it.